espaceSONO audio :: SAT [GALERIE] :: 1201 St. Laurent, Montréal :: September 5 – October 5, 2007.

The espaceSONO audio.listening.lab is a global curatorial project that reflects the diversity of approaches and practices in sound-art today. Some forty artists from ten countries are represented, each offering a unique foray into sound. The works are designed to be heard in a focused listening environment over headphones. Two installations open new ways of containing sound-art while a series of performances demonstrate the versatility of artists engaged in sound exploration as they shift from composition to performance.

Many of the artists are affiliated with a local node of the international Upgrade network, an organisation of artists and practitioners in the technology and media arts. As a global curatorial project, the audio.lab reflects the themes of self-organisation and DiY (Do-It-Yourself) that drives the Upgrade network.

As a collection of sound works, the audio.lab enters into a world of challenging listening that touches upon a multiplicity of practices, from electro-acoustic to field recordings and microsound, contact microphones to remixes, sine waves to granular synthesis, home-built turntables to circuit-bending, customized software patches to noise, explorations of the body to abstract principles, found sounds to interventions in video gaming and the political sphere….

Four Performances: The exhibition features a series of four performances, from the free events of the opening vernissage and a dedicated, deep.listening.session featuring international guests to a free soundwalk and an intimate gallery performance.

espaceSONO vernissage:
september 5th 2007. 5@7 w/ music @ 8pm.
SAT Café, FREE.
Jim Bell & Katherine Liberovskaya (NYC/Montreal)
Celine Beyond & Scant Intone (Montreal)
Esther Bourdages (Montreal)
FISHEAD (Montreal)
tobias.dj (Montreal)

deep.listening.session
september 14 th 2007, 8pm.
SAT MAIN ROOM, $10 @ door.
Martijn Tellinga / BOCA RATON (Netherlands)
o.blaat (NYC)
Mike Hansen (Toronto) & Martin Tétreault (Montreal)
Nathan McNinch (Montreal)
tobias.dj (Montreal)

sound.walk with Andra McCartney (Montreal)
20th September, 2007, 6:30pm. FREE.
rendez-vous @ SAT

gallery.performance
September 27 th , 2007, 6:30pm.
SAT [GALERIE], $5 @ door.
Anna Friz (Toronto)
Mankind (Alexis O’Hara & D. Kimm)(Montreal)
Kathy Kennedy (Montreal)