Ana Dall’Ara‑Majek
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Vous avez dit acousmatique? Semaine du Neuf - 09-03-2025 - Montreal
Ce 9 mars 2025 à la MMR (Montréal): une plongée de trois heures dans l’univers de la musique acousmatique, immersive et spatialisée en temps réel, avec le résultat de plusieurs décennies de collaboration entre la Belgique et le Québec.
Julien Guillamat et Annette Vande Gorne présentent des œuvres imaginées au sein des studios multiphoniques de Musiques & Recherches en Belgique. En première partie, Annette Vande Gorne, figure emblématique de la musique acousmatique, présente Vox Alia, un cycle de cinq pièces autour de la voix, premier vecteur émotionnel et musical, support ancestral de toute communication. En deuxième partie, Julien Guillamat interprète sa dernière composition, Altitudes, puis un extrait de sa Symphonie de l'étang, une œuvre sonore immersive basée sur le paysage sonore de l’étang de Thau. Les œuvres de Francis Dhomont, Piazza, Ana Dall’Ara-Majek et Robert Normandeau témoignent également des échanges entre Montréal et Musiques et Recherches.
Diffusion Le Vivier, avec le soutien de Wallonie Bruxelles International
Visuel: Luc Beauchemin, «Skrikch Skrakch» (2022-23)
Émanants : ILÉA & Bakarlari à la Chapelle de la Cité-des-Hospitalières - Montréal 2024
I am delighted to play the theremin with ILÉA & Bakarlari !
Émanants : ILÉA & Bakarlari à la Chapelle de la Cité-des-Hospitalières from November 29th to December 1st.
A concert offered by Bakarlari and ILÉA and presented by Innovations en concert !
Concert Collectif Radiance : blablaTrains, Kimihiro Yasaka - Montréal 2024
blablaTrains is coming back! We are happy to play at the Concert of Collectif Radiance!
Le Collectif RADIANCE invites you to the 2nd concert of the season, where delicate gestures bring out the rich colors of sound.
This Friday November 15th, 8pm at La Cenne (7755 bd. Saint-Laurent, suite 300), Montreal.
Playing at Akousma Festival 2024, Québec
This October 16th to 18th sees the start of the Akousma festival 2024 with its crazy line-up!
On Wednesday, October 16, I'll have the great pleasure of playing Mare Buchlae from the album Radiolaria,
released by empreintes DIGITALes. It's a piece whose sounds were generated using the Buchla 200 modular synthesizer
(from Elektronmusikstudion EMS Stockholm). For the occasion, these sounds will be spatialized at Usine C on thirty loudspeakers.
In short: Buchla in the space!
Grande Rencontre des Arts Médiatiques - Les Percéides 2024
Takuto Fukuda and myself as blablaTrains, we are delighted to announce that we will perform an extended version of our Pythagorean Domino at the Grande Rencontre des Arts Médiatiques 2024 in Percé, Quebec on September 1st! Our newly updated instruments now feature an absolute orientation sensor and a more powerful voltage adaptor, allowing us to perform with higher accuracy and dynamics. We can not wait to blast our instruments to blow you away! Looking forward to seeing you there!
New album release 2024: Radiolaria
I am delighted to announce the release of my new album Radiolaria edited by Empreintes DIGITALes!
This album features the sounds of the Buchla 200, the iconic synthesizer from the 70s, which I had the chance
to explore from top to bottom during a residency at EMS Stockholm in the summer of 2022.
Inspired by the idea of plankton, I had a great time imagining sounds of underwater species and whimsical,
abstract abyssal landscapes as I improvised with the synthesizer.
The title Radiolaria refers to a species of plankton, represented on the album cover by an original 3D image
created by the talented artist Véro Marengère!
For further information:
visit the website of Empreintes DIGITALes.
blablaTrains' last tour date : Akousma/CAM en tournée
May 16th, 2024 - Montréal (CA)
Don't miss our last concert this May 16th, presented by Akousma and CAM en tournée!
MORE INFO HERE
Akheta's Blues at BRRRZK! 2024
March 3rd, 2024 - Bremen (Germany)
I am very pleased to have my work Akheta's blues performed at BRRRZK! 2024 this March 3rd at Bremen!
Nouvelle Sortie: Circuit 33.3 Migrations composées
J’aimerais vous partager l’annonce de la sortie du nouveau numéro de la Revue Circuit, musiques contemporaines, que j’ai eu l’immense plaisir de co-diriger avec Maxime McKinley:
L’angle de ce numéro de Circuit consiste à aborder, dans le monde d’aujourd’hui, les liens entre création musicale et migration, ceci avec la scène québécoise comme pivot d’arrivées (immigration) et de départs (émigration). L’approche consiste principalement à se mettre en position d’écoute de quelques personnes professionnellement actives et ayant un riche vécu à partager au regard d’un certain nomadisme et de sa répercussion sur leur créativité musicale. Ce dossier fait, ainsi, la part belle à la proximité du terrain et aux témoignages de première main. Celles et ceux qui ont quitté la scène québécoise la font rayonner ailleurs et génèrent de nouvelles découvertes et collaborations internationales. À l’inverse, les musicien·ne·s venu·e·s s’établir au Québec sont les vecteur·rice·s d’un enrichissement considérable pour cette scène, y multipliant les couleurs et les points de vue.
Ensemble ILÉA is nominee at Prix Opus Edition 27 !
We are extremely proud to be finalist for the Edition 27's OPUS prize for the best concert of the year in the category: "musiques actuelle et électroacoustique",
for our concert: ILÉA plays Treatise by Cornelius Cardew at Nuit Blanche 2023!
Thanks to Nuit blanche à Montréal, Le Vivier and the Canada Council for the Arts | Canada Arts Council for the support!
MORE INFO HERE
Playing Theremin with blablaTrains on a tour with : Akousma en tournée!
Oct 21th, 2023 to May 17th, 2024 - Montréal (CA)
Akheta's Blues at Habitat Sonore
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Semana de la Música Contemporánea 2° Edición
Sep 28th, 2023 - Buenos Aires (Argentina)
For the second edition of contemporary music week in Buenos Aires (Argentina), I would have the pleasure of having my work from the Nano-Cosmos on its multichannel version presented at Espacio Colectivo de Experiencias Musicales this September 28th. Lots of thanks to Elsa Justel and all the team of the Conservatorio de Música Luis Gianneo for all the organization! Link to the event.
Playing Tenney's In A Large, Open Space with Tempo Reale
March 14th, 2023 - Montreal (Canada)
This March 14th, 2023 at 6 p.m. I will be playing Theremin at the Concert by the Florentine group Tempo Reale Electroacoustic Ensemble, organized by the Italian Institute of Culture. Featured: 12 musicians joined by Luzio Altobelli on the organ. More info on the website of the Italian Institute of Culture.
Playing Cardew's Treatise with ILÉA at Nuit Blanche Montréal
February 25th, 2023 - Montreal (Canada)
I think this will be the first time in Montreal that a musical ensemble
is playing the integrality of Treatise, Cornelius Cardew's emblematic graphic score composed
between 1963 and 1967.
The ensemble ILÉA and guests will perform Treatise as part
of the Nuit Blanche
Montreal, next February 25th, 2023.
Guest: Daniel Añez (Ondes Martenot), Marilène Provencher-Leduc (flute), Geneviève Liboiron (violin)
and Noam Bierstone (percussion).
This Project is produced by Le Vivier and supported by Conseil des Arts du Canada.
Bacillus Chorus at Sonic Matter Festival 2022
December 2 > 4th, 2022
Zurich (Switzerland)
I am very happy to have my piece Bacillus Chorus selected
for the Listening Lounge of
Sonic Matter Festival 2022. Suitable for all who like to relax and listen for a while!
In the cold season the listening lounge WEICHEKISSENHEISSEOHREN
(soft pillows, burning ears) offers a space to cosy up in the warmth of
a bed of pillows and to listen to current electroacoustic music.
The works presented range from delicately produced sonic textures to forceful
sonic bodies and field recordings.
Residency Émanants at Cité des Hospitalières
November 12 > 22nd, 2022
Montreal (Canada)
Right now I am doing experiments with my Theremin and a bunch of 12 amazing acoustic and electronic musicians from Ensemble ILÉA and Bakarlari. We are in residency as part of the projet Émanants at Cité des Hospitalières, Montreal. Stay tuned for a possible concert next March !
Symon Henry: Le Désert Mauve
October 15-16th, 2022
Montreal (Canada)
I will be playing the Theremin for Symon Henry's Opera Le Désert mauve ! Very exciting!
This October 15th and 16th 2022, at Ausgang Plaza (Montreal).
Get tickets HERE !
Voices : Virginie Mongeau, Talia Fuchs, Elizabeth Lima
Ensemble : Benoît Fortier (horn), Dju Houle (tuba), Émilie Mouchous (Korg), Alex Tibbitts (harp), Rémy Bélanger de Beauport (cello), Ana Dall'Ara-Majek (Theremin & electronics)
Symon Henry : musical and artistic direction ; remix of graphic scores in real time
Line Nault : artistic codirection
David Savoy and Vanessa Blais-Tremblay : coordination, project DIG!
Guillaume Barrette : sound, sonorisation, and technical direction
Alex Burton : digital lutherie
A coproduction of project DIG! (Différences et inégalités de genre dans la musique au Québec) and Symon Henry/Ensemble Ad Lib
PhotoTable Performance at Interzone
August 20th, 2022
Montreal (Canada)
I will be playing again with my PhotoTable at Interzone! This August 20th at Sala Rossa (Montreal).
Interzone presents: Fragile Opening with live music by: Orchestroll, Amselysen + Racine, Myriam Bleau, Ana DM and Worm Quartet.
Artwork by Jules Galbraith. Click here for more info.
PhotoTable Performance at Norberg Festival
July 9th, 2022
Norberg (Sweden)
I am very excited to play at the Norberg Festival 2022!
I will be doing an improvisation with the prototype n2 of my PhotoTable, a DIY instrument which makes sound with light and modulates it with variations
of lights and shadows.
The PhotoTable:
This instrument works with photoresistors, Arduino and Max, its official name hasn't be decided yet. You are welcome to share your suggestions!
In residency at EMS Stockholm
June 27th > July 10th, 2022
Stockholm (Sweden)
This summer is time to compose new projects! I will be doing a residency at EMS Stockholm to get along with the modular synth Buchla 200 and a litte bit of Serge too, and make a ton of sounds for a new electroacoustic cycle. More about this coming soon!
Cuchabata Records present: 60x44
June 19th, 2022
Montreal (Canada)
I am pleased to share this project in which I participated:
In September 2017, David Dugas Dion (Cuchabata Records) contacted around sixty musicians
to invite them to take part in a gigantic compilation project on vinyl which he wanted to
produce on his independent, non-profit label. Almost five years later (early 2022),
the project is finally coming to fruition! Cuchabata Records will release 60x44
on June 19th during a BBQ organized by the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival.
During the launch, several participants who have contributed their musical
pieces to the compilation will take the stage by storm, in the form of "non-existent" quartets (until then),
giving into free improvisation and other abstract music (or not).
The musicians participating will have their names drawn a few days before the event,
thus not knowing who they will play with. Cuchabata Records presents 60x44,
a vinyl compilation of 60 44-second tracks, from 60 solo artists from Montreal and elsewhere.
Cuchabata Records present: 60x44
Entrepôt 77
17h30 | FREE
About Cuchabata Records
Suoni Per Il Popolo would like to acknowledge that the land on which we gather
is the unceded territory of the kanien'keha:ka (Mohawk), a place which has long served
as a site of meeting and exchange amongst nations.
Badminton Bis performed at Fantasía y Abstracción
April 22-23, 2022
Buenos Aires (Argentina)
My electroacoustic work Badminton Bis will be performed by composer Simón Pérez
at Fantasía y Abstracción, a cycle of concerts of acousmatic and experimental music programmed
by Simón Pérez and Miguel Garutti, with watercolors by Andrés Gorzycki and cushions by Estudio Ricas.
This April 22 and 23, 2022 at Sala CETC, Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Click here for more information.
New Publication at Editions Henri Lemoine, Paris
April 23rd, 2022
My new work Petits Insectes Mécaniques for harpischord 4 hands is now published at Clavecin 20 21 collection directed by Laure Morabito at Éditions Henri Lemoine, Paris. With works by TON-THAT Tiêt, CALI Fabien and ISAKSSON Madeleine. Click here for more information.
Xylocopa Ransbecka performed at MUTEK CONNECT
March 23th, 2022
Montreal (Canada)
A pioneer of innovative multimedia performances, Morton Subotnick will take to the stage
to perform his latest project As I Live & Breathe with live visuals from
renowned artist Lillevan Recherche on March 23 at CIRMMT as part of MUTEK series
in collaboration with Akousma and CIRMMT.
Opening concerts from Ana Dall'Ara-Majek and Louis Dufort.
I will present my work Xylocopa Ransbecka composed
during a residency at Musiques & Recherches in 2017 and dedicated to Annette Vande Gorne.
Bacillus Chorus: Radio broadcast
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Archikube at Live@CIRMMT
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blablaTrains at Akousma
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Concert Le Vivier
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ILÉA@Suoni
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Le Cristal de l'oreille at FIMAV 2021
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AuXauralities at Congrès de l'ACFAS
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Bacillus Chorus at C-Lab
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Bacillus Chorus at Montréal en lumière
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Participation at Grande Nuit Blanche, Festival MNM
February 27th, 2021
Montreal, Canada
It is with great enthusiasm that I invite you to the Grande Nuit Blanche of the MNM Festival around the theme of "Beyond Notation" which will take place this Saturday February 27th between 7:00 pm and 3:00 am!
La Grande Nuit, it's not far from about fifty local and international artists who offer you a exceptional program of electroacoustic and electronic music.
I would be pleased to present my piece Bacillus Chorus, a tribute to bacteria, and which will be shown in "Bloc 2 - Beyond the sound object, space" alongside two premieres by Roxanne Turcotte
and works by Christian Calon, Stéphane Roy and Gilles Gobeil.
Later in the night at "Bloc 5 - Beyond the senses", AuXauralities team with Philippe-Aubert Gauthier and Georges Roussel,
we will present the creation of Vers le cristal, a soundscape that retraces
the stages of our research using sounds treated only with metamaterials.
Looking forward meeting you on this virtual event!
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AuXauralities projet is on residency at Hexagram-UQAM from February 1st to 11th, 2021. We will be working on our second sound installation: Le Cristal de l'Oreille. AuXauralities project is a collaboration between artists and researchers in acoustics, where each brings its know-how in a perspective of hybridization of expertise to develop prototype works at the crossroads between arts and sciences. Members of the project: Ana Dall'Ara-Majek, Georges Roussel, Philippe-Aubert Gauthier, François Proulx, Nicolas Bernier and Julien Sylvestre. This project is made possible thanks to a grant from the FRQ's intersectoral AUDACE program and to the collaboration between the Groupe d'Acoustique de l'Université de Sherbrooke (GAUS) of the Université de Sherbrooke's Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of Arts of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and Sporobole. |
Anatomies Auditives at Sprobole BetaLab
December 3-19, Sherbrooke, Canada
I am pleased to present the first results of AuXauralities project with our installation: Anatomies Auditives.
Anatomies Auditives is a sound installation that addresses the notion of augmented listening by exploiting the very particular acoustic properties of meta-materials. Developed by 3D printing technology, the metamaterials reproduce digital synthesis processes by materializing them in the form of physical objects. Inspired by structures from the world of insects, these objects, halfway between artifact, animal form and architectural structure, sculpt a new sound environment within which listeners constitute a specific acoustic community.
Anatomies Auditives was presented at the Sporobole BetaLab (December 3-19, 2020) and a 3D version that can be visited by the public is currently under development.
AuXauralities project is a collaboration between artists and researchers in acoustics, where each brings its know-how in a perspective of hybridization of expertise to develop prototype works at the crossroads between arts and sciences. Members of the project: Ana Dall'Ara-Majek, Georges Roussel, Philippe-Aubert Gauthier, François Proulx, Nicolas Bernier and Julien Sylvestre. This project is made possible thanks to a grant from the FRQ's intersectoral AUDACE program and to the collaboration between the Groupe d'Acoustique de l'Université de Sherbrooke (GAUS) of the Université de Sherbrooke's Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of Arts of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and Sporobole.
Nominee at Prix Opus 24
Québec
A lot of good nows lately! I am really happy and honoured to be nominee
for Prix Opus "Paper of the Year" attributed by CQM - Conseil Québécois de la Musique
with my paper
René Lussier’s Le trésor de la langue: Documentation of a Journey,
from Linguistic Quest to Political Debate published by
Revue Circuit, musiques contemporaines.
Many thanks to René Lussier and all the team of Revue Circuit!
A virtual Gala will follow next February 7th to announce the winners. More info coming soon. Congratulations to all the finalists!
blablaTrains won 2nd Prize at IEMC 2020
Shanghai, China
I am delighted to announce that the duo blablaTrains has won a award!
blablaTrains
is a gestural controllers duo formed
by Takuto Fukuda
playing a DIY sensor
instrument, and myself playing an augmented Theremin.
We composed in 2019 the piece Pythagorean Domino. This piece won the 2nd Prize at the
International Electronic Music Competition
(IEMC 2020) in the category
New Instruments Creative Design.
We are very grateful to CIRMMT’s general
support for the gestural controller performance practice research.
We also want to thanks all of the researchers, musicians, composers and friends who
inspired us and supported our work!
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Pythagorean Domino finalist at IEMC 2020
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AuXauralités at Sporobole, July 28th >> December 18th, 2020
I am very happy to be in residence at Sporobole Art Actuels for the participation to AuXauralités, a project mixing acoustic research and sound creation in which we use metamaterials to shape sound environments. AuXauralités is an intersectorial project with Georges Roussel, François Proulx, Philippe-Aubert Gauthier, Nicolas Bernier, Julien Sylvestre and supported by FRQ Audace program.
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Talk at Filarmonia 102.7 FM,
October 18th, 2021
Broadcast online from Peru
I am delighted to be invited by Juan Arroyo next to amazing composers Víctor Ibarra from Mexico and Mirtru Escalona-Mijares from Venezuela for a presentation of our latest works and a talk about the music and composition in Latinoamerica. Thanks to Juanjo Otayza and Filarmonia 102.7 FM for the great support!
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Playing at L'OFF Jazz Festival
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Digital release of
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Nano-Cosmos at Embarque! Festival
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Digital release of
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Homeplaying with ILÉA at Tempo Reale
Nano-Cosmos at EAR
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Lux Operon at Monterrey
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Conference at CIRMMT
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Conference at CIRMMT
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Live@CIRMMT
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