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Between repurposed technologies, digital avatars and everyday objects, this triptych explores the many faces of contemporary sound. Daniel Zea offers a performance for facial recognition in which the digital avatar reveals the tensions between human expression and algorithm. Nicole Lizée, meanwhile, brings the machines of the past back to life in a quadraphonic creation in which glitch becomes poetic material. Finally, Alexandre Babel overturns sound hierarchies by sculpting the raw beauty of ‘poor’ sounds, derived from found objects and simple gestures. Three works that, each in their own way, question our relationship with technology, memory and imperfection — and redefine the boundary between human, machine and matter. Fascinated by obsolete technologies, Nicole Lizée explores malfunction and the aesthetics of imperfection to “go beneath the surface of things.” She incorporates atypical instruments into her works—Atari 2600, omnichords, stylophones, Simon™ games, or karaoke tracks—as well as a video device and quadraphonic sound in her new creation for Contrechamps. Daniel Zea stages the contrast between a computer-analyzed face and its digital avatar. Through a score for face and facial recognition, his movements animate the avatar and trigger the electronics, while the instrumentalists …
Event Artists
Architek Percussion, ContrechampsLe Vivier: Architek Percussion & Contrechamps-Kino-sonique
Date/Time
Sunday, March 1, 2026
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
Édifice Wilder
1435 rue De Bleury
Montréal, Québec
Canada, H3A 2H7
Price
$25-45
Phone
514-903-7794
Website
https://levivier.ca/fr/concert/saison-2025-26/architek-percussion-contrechamps-kino-sonique-semaine-du-neuf
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