Collaborators
Sound environment
Monique Jean
Electroacoustician and sound artist Monique Jean is particularly interested in creating organic ensembles torn between abstraction and matter, stasis and motion, body and space, sound representation and listening. Aside from her acousmatic pieces in stereo or in multichannel , she explores mixed music and improvisation with Theresa Transistor, a group of electroacoustic composers/improvisers (winner of the 9th Opus prizes, in the category “Concert of the year – actuelle and electroacoustic musics” in Québec, Canada.). Her work is also regularly associated with dance, documentary, and sound installation (Connection points or rotary infidelities).
Finalist at Ciber@art , Musica Nova and Bourges (France, 2002), her works have been played and broadcasted on several occasions during numerous national and international concerts and festivals. Her critically acclaimed CD L’Adieu au S.O.S. (Empreintes Digitales label) was nominated for an Opus Award in 2003.
France Jobin
France Jobin (b. 1958) is a sound / installation / web artist residing in Montreal, Canada. i8u’s audio art can be qualified as “sound-sculpture”. It reveals powerful, opaque and complex sound environments where analog and digital meet. Her installation/web art can be said to follow a parallel path, incorporating both musical and visual elements.
i8u has created recordings for bake/staalplaat (Netherlands), ROOM40 (Australia), nvo (Austria), Mutek (Canada), bremsstrahlung (USA). She has collaborated with Goem, Martin Tétreault, David Kristian and recently, her work with Tomas Phillips “ligne”, was released on ATAK in Japan. She has participated in various music and new technology festivals in Canada, Europe and the United States, notably Mutek (Montreal), Ver Uit de Maat (Rotterdam), Club Transmediale (Berlin), Shut up and Listen (Vienna), Restless Brilliance and the LISTEN/VISION series (Los Angeles + San Francisco)
i8u’s web work/installations have been shown at Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Toronto’s Images film festival and at MIVEAM 06. The AIR program in Krems Austria enabled her to create “und transit”, a sound installation set in the cloister of MinoritenKirche in Stein, Austria.
Her work continues to evolve as technologies enable her to create in new environments.
Lighting
Yan Lee Chan
For the past 5 years, Yan Lee Chan has been creating cutting-edge lighting designs for dance and theatre. Based in Montreal, Canada, Yan Lee Chan has collaborated with numerous directors and choreographers including Sonya Biernath, Paula Vasconcelos, Andrew harwood, Nicole Mion, Daved Flewelling, Jenn Goodwin, Pamela Newell, Denise Filiatraut, Jean Frédéric Messier, Sylvie Moreau, Hélène Langevin and Tedi Tafel. This year he designed for different projects such as Impact! choregraphed by Marc Boivin, Corps noir, a piece by Stéphan Gladyszewsky and the recent work of Rubberbandancegroup, Punto ciego, choreographed and directed by Victor Quijada.