The AV performance Sustained Light Chain is a digital environment of complexity fusing textures of morphing light, signal networks, chain reactions and virtual botany into a real time audiovisual instrument.

The technique behind the work was inspired by ecosystem activity, exponentiality, mycelium, permaculture, bio-design and the ways we are navigating contemporary choices in a context of climate change. It also stems from the efforts of creating a virtual environment and its rules with a conscious effort to move the use of game engines beyond adversity, conflict, attack, evaluation and reward, and towards care, reflection, attention and perception.

The work embraces fluidity between virtual and real, and between human technicality and nature.

Commissioned by PARADISE ART SPACE, Co-produced by ELEKTRA MONTREAL. Producer and Curator Jay Bang, Co-producer Alain Thibault

Additional Unity programming by Victor Ivanov

Research funded by the Canada Council for the Arts

Born from a desire to reunite, both musically and in person after a year of lockdowns, Lucas Paris and Alexis Langevin-Tétrault return to the core of their collaboration with square one, a streamlined audiovisual performance. With modular synthesizers, the duo simultaneously projects audio and light on a simple square, immersing spectators in a sensory experience assembled from sound and light abstractions.

The approach aims to reconnect with the origins of electronic music, recontextualized through a contemporary approach and tools.

Emotional Synthesis is a form of perceptual and emotional manipulation.
It manifests as the omnipresent power of publicity and graphic design in contemporary marketing, hijacking our attention as much as possible.

For this performance the concept is explored by imitating commercial styling and coming up with derived audiovisual forms. This act of inversion and reappropriation manifests as a non-corporate enchantement, speaking to a common vocabulary we’ve had no choice to assimilate.

This concept is coded into the core of realtime generative networks, synthesizing morphing textures of light and sound from a common DNA and fine tuned according to perceptual mechanics.

This performance was created in residency at Recto-Verso Québec (CA), Gnration Braga (PT) and with the support of L.E.V. festival at Laboral Centro de Arte Gijon (ES)

AntiVolume is an immersion in a synesthetic space of timbre and colour. This version, IN/EXT, explores movements and dynamics between interior and exterior.

In this series of performances, the audience is in the presence of a volatile and energetic sculpture, made of sound and light. Resulting from an algorithmic research, it is sculpted in realtime by the artist’s improvisation. Three columns of light occupy the performance space. The audience is immersed in this work and perceives it as a physical and textural experience.

This work is in constant evolution. In part improvised, each performance is unique and reflects the venue and the audience. Lucas Paris draws inspiration from the vast vocabulary of electronic music: noise, ambient, IDM, EDM… These references are reinterpreted through a strong musical character and personal fantasy.

AntiVolume is an immersion in a synesthetic space of timbre and colour.

In this series of performances, the audience is in the presence of a volatile and energetic sculpture, made of sound and light. Resulting from an algorithmic research, it is sculpted in realtime by the artist’s improvisation. Multiple columns of light occupy the performance space. The audience is immersed in this work and perceives it as a physical and textural experience.

This work is in constant evolution. In part improvised, each performance is unique and reflects the venue, the audience and the sociopolitical context. Lucas Paris draws inspiration from the vast vocabulary of electronic music: noise, ambient, IDM, EDM… These references are reinterpreted through a strong musical character and personal fantasy.

QUADr is an electroacoustic quartet for audiovisual performance and composition, comprised of Pierre-Luc Lecours, Myriam Boucher, Lucas Paris and Alexis Langevin-Tétrault. Using foley techniques, modular synthesizers, a graphics tablet and visual projections, they build an abstract audiovisual narrative and a performance focused on the musical interaction between performers.

Immersed in audio-reactive visual projections, the musicians play on modified bicycle wheels with which they create a large variety of electronic sounds, from deep impacts to bowed strings harmonies, interpreting the electroacoustic composition /cYcle written by the ensemble. The artists take up different roles, constantly changing the stage dynamic and revealing new instruments and new musical interactions throughout the show.

Lecours, Boucher, Paris and Langevin-Tétrault, composers and performers of post-rock, acousmatic and electronic music, bring you a unique creation: dark and at the forefront of technological experimentations and musical innovations.