Donnerstag, 24. Juni 2010

*** MOVIE ONLINE *** Montreal 'Time Drifts' Video Mapping & Light Installation by Philipp Geist at MUTEK FESTIVAL 2010 (HD Long)

Montreal 'Time Drifts' Video Mapping & Light Installation by Philipp Geist at MUTEK FESTIVAL 2010 (HD Long)




'Time Drifts' Media Installation by Philipp Geist
02. - 06. June 2010

Montreal 2010 (MUTEK Festival 2010)
at Place Des Festival

Artist Website ( videogeist.de | p-geist.de)

The Berlin-based artist Philipp Geist has developed his video installation 'Time Drifts' for the square Place Des Festival next to the Contemporary Art Museum in Montreal. In his installation Geist interprets the themes of space and time. He avoids using canvases and projects directly on parts of the facade, on the ground of the whole square, on stairs, and on fog streaming into the square.

The result is an interplay between the concrete, tangible wall/square and the transparent, dissolving projection ground. Words are projected onto the ground, and they are reflected into the fog. Fog is, similar to time, always in a flux, you cannot hold or keep it. This concept refers to the characteristics of museums and to their function as a place for conservation and for providing the visitor with both facts and imaginations: The dissolving projection ground symbolizes the fragmentary knowledge and understanding of life in the past and present, but knowledge is also secured and preserved in the form of text, clearly visible on the concrete. The people become part of the projected images while walking around the square and entering the building. Thus, Geist develops a dialogue with the location, his artistic work and the visitors.

This methodical approach to the theme 'time' is supported by the projected images themselves. Words that relate to the topic both directly and indirectly cover the whole ground of the square. Some terms and sentences are obvious references, some invite the visitor to think about the phenomenon of time and its historical and cultural connotations. This cultural consideration will be enhanced by the fact that the texts will be in the two official languages of Québec, English and French, and additionally in German, which is the artist's mother tongue. There will be single words, quotations and proverbs by various authors. The installation invites the visitors to stay and contemplate, to detect meanings in the thick carpet of partly overlapping words. The carpet's threads of words are woven chaotically, and it takes time and movements across the square to see and decipher them. It is the poetry of the texts and the dream-like atmosphere that will transform the location.

In the images which are projected onto the facade, Geist creates a pictorial, abstract imagery at the computer which also refers to time. Geometrical, spatial forms like squares, cubes, perforated planes, lines and rays, overlay each other in an on-going process and build up a complete picture in order to dissolve it right away. The various elements create a complex architecture of images which is always in a state of flux. By displaying depth and three-dimensionality, the work symbolises the constantly developing, enlarging space of continuing time lines, and represents the complex networks emerging from different spatial components spreading in the course of time.

MUTEK the EXTRA_MUROS program of outdoor media art and installations by PHILIPP GEIST, MELISSA MONGIAT and MOUNA ANDRAOS was frequented by more than 40,000 people. With all its different initiatives in outdoor programming, MUTEK demonstrated that it could leave its special fingerprint on the Quartier des Spectacles by putting digital creativity on the centre stage.

Thank you Montreal :-) Thank you MUTEK Montreal for a great festival!! Thanks for the support Goethe-Institut Montréal, Quartier des spectacles, Montréal , Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Thank you Hugues Monfroy, Alain Mongeau, Olivier Ouellet, Antoine Lortie-Ouellet, Viola, Elian, H.G.Geist and Nicole Gingras.

Philipp Geist works internationally as a light and multi-media artist in the mediums of video, performance, photography and painting. The Berlin artist Philipp Geist (1976) showed a 4D mapping installation on the facade of the royal throne in Bangkok on the occasion of king Bhumibol's 82nd birthday in December 2009. The one-hour-show was the central part of the celebrations and was seen by 2-3 million of visitors. In 2008, during the 'Long Night of the Museums', he showed his video installation 'time fades' at the Kulturforum. In this installation Geist interprets the themes of space and time. He avoids using canvasses and projects directly on parts of the façade of the architecture and on transparent grounds like sheets of gauze and fog.In September 2007, he realized the video installation 'Time Lines' on the entire front of the Palazzo delle Espozioni in Rome at its re-opening after it had been closed for five years. The installation was opened by the mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, and was seen by approx. 20.000 visitors. In 2005, he realized the large project 'Winterzauber' ('Winter Magic') for the Lake Side Restaurant in Zurich and in 2006, he opened the Salon Noir within the context of the exhibition 'Melancholie, Genie und Wahnsinn' ('Melancholy, Genius and Insanity') in the Berlin Neuen National Galerie. Together with the symphony orchestra OBC Barcelona and the Finnish sound ensemble Pan Sonic, Geist opened in 2004 the Sonar Festival in Barcelona. His works were shown at the Dissonanze Festival in Rome, at Clubtransmediale in Berlin and at the Mutek Festival in Montreal which is renowned for new media. He has exhibited his live video performances internationally at the Central House of Artists (CHA) in Moscow, the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in London, the National Gallery in Warsaw (Zacheta) and at the opening of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.Further projects are characterized by their complexity and the integration of the location, the sound and moving images.

Freitag, 18. Juni 2010

NOCCI | GEIST Milano 2010 *** MOVIE ONLINE ***



Italy, Milano
16. June 2010

Teatro Franco Parenti
via Pier Lombardo, 14 - Milano

PHILIPP GEIST + FABRIZIO NOCCI (DE/IT)
live media performance

composer fabrizio nocci (rome/ italy)
myspace.com/ncco1

visual artist philipp geist (berlin/ germany)
videogeist.de

Sonntag, 13. Juni 2010

NEWSLETTER June 2010

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Montreal/ MUTEK 2010 Festival

TIME DRIFTS by Philipp Geist

Video Mapping & Light Installation June 2th - 6th 2010
Place des Arts (Place des Festivals)

Installation Views/ Review

http://www.flickriver.com/photos/pgeist/tags/timedrifts/
http://www.videogeist.de/GeistMutek2010.html
http://beta.mutek.org/festivals/montreal/2010/artists/455-philipp-geist
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgeist/sets/72157624201623490/
http://bit.ly/dqrhXF


MUTEK the EXTRA_MUROS program of outdoor media art and installations by PHILIPP GEIST, MELISSA MONGIAT and MOUNA ANDRAOS was frequented by more than 40,000 people. With all its different initiatives in outdoor programming, MUTEK demonstrated that it could leave its special fingerprint on the Quartier des Spectacles by putting digital creativity on the centre stage.

Thank you Montreal :-) Thank you MUTEK Montreal for a great festival!! Thanks for the support Goethe-Institut Montréal, Quartier des spectacles, Montréal , Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Thank you Hugues Monfroy, Alain Mongeau, Olivier Ouellet, Antoine Lortie-Ouellet, Viola, Elian, H.G.Geist and Nicole Gingras.


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Watch Interview Philipp Geist (English)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trYuHIXmJ84&feature=related


LienMultimedia -- 8. Juni 2010 -- L'artiste berlinois Philipp Geist présentait sa dernière composition, Time Drifts, une oeuvre publique composée de projections lumineuses sur la façade d'un édifice, le sol et du brouillard à la place des festivals lors de MUTEK. « Je projette des mots qui font référence au temps en trois langues, allemande, française et anglaise, explique-t-il. Pour moi, c'est important que les gens soient dans l'installation, c'est une caractéristique de ces oeuvres. Aussi j'utilise le sol, les murs et la fumée comme toile. Dans le brouillard, il est possible de voir les mots de façon très éphémère et je trouve que c'est une belle métaphore pour représenter le temps qui passe


The Berlin artist Philipp Geist presented his latest work, Time Drifts, a work composed of public light projections on the facade of a building, the ground and fog instead of festivals during MUTEK.

"I plan to words that refer to time in three languages, German, French and English, says
it. For me, it's important that people are in the facility, a characteristic of these works.
So I use the floor, walls and smoke as canvas. In the fog, it is possible to see the words
very fleeting and I think it's a beautiful metaphor for the passage of time


http://www.lienmultimedia.com/



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Milano (Italy)

16 giugno 2010
Teatro Franco Parenti
via Pier Lombardo, 14 - Milano

GiovaMi members 2010: free admission
Membership 2010: 15?

http://primavera.giovami.org/main.php?t=prima

h. 19.00 - SPECIAL PREVIEW (guests only)
h. 21.00 - OPENING

main floor
h. 21:30 MUSETTA (IT) live

h. 22:30 PHILIPP GEIST + FABRIZIO NOCCI (DE/IT) live media performance
composer fabrizio nocci (rome/ italy)
http://www.myspace.com/ncco1
visual artist philipp geist (berlin/ germany)
http://www.videogeist.de

h. 23:30 BERKANA (IT) vs, ATC (IT) live set
Visual by GOTHAM TV (IT)

first floor
eco art by ALESSANDRO ACERRA (IT)
photography by PIETRO LUCERNI (IT)
paintings by TOM PORTA (IT)
multimedia by MINIMUM (IT)
VideoArt.EXE Experimental Emerging VideoArt by MUSAE
Special Art Selection by MUSAE



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Facebook Page Videogeist/ Philipp Geist
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Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgeist/

Blogs
http://videogeist.blogspot.com
http://riverinezones.blogspot.com
http://videogeist.tumblr.com/

Youtube
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Twitter
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Myspace
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Freitag, 11. Juni 2010

Interview (English) Philipp Geist et le temps qui passe

Philipp Geist et le temps qui passe
L’artiste berlinois Philipp Geist présentait sa dernière composition, Time Drifts, une oeuvre publique composée de projections lumineuses sur la façade d’un édifice, le sol et du brouillard à la Place des festivals lors de MUTEK. « Je projette des mots qui font référence au temps en trois langues : allemande, française et anglaise, explique-t-il. Pour moi, c’est important que les gens soient dans l’installation, c’est une caractéristique de ces oeuvres. Aussi j’utilise le sol, les murs et la fumée comme toile. Dans le brouillard, il est possible de voir les mots de façon très éphémère et je trouve que c’est une belle métaphore pour représenter le temps qui


Mutek - A STANDING OVATION FOR THE MUTEK 2010 PUBLIC!

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A STANDING OVATION FOR THE MUTEK 2010 PUBLIC
OTHER FESTIVAL NEWS
ICAS NEWS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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A STANDING OVATION FOR THE MUTEK 2010 PUBLIC!

With the 11th edition coming to a close, we are particularly proud of how the festival was received this year. All told, MUTEK 2010 tick-tocked through its five days as cleanly as a Swiss watch, with a revolving line-up of high-calibre international talent filling diverse and quality showcases attended by consistently attentive and enthusiastic audiences.

From our vantage point, after last year's landmark 10th anniversary, going into an 11th edition was a bit of a risk in how to move forward. So we're incredibly satisfied to see that MUTEK 2010 will be remembered most as a theatre of superb musical discoveries. That's how the festival started many years ago, and those are the principles for success that we still abide by today.

Among the many surprises that played the stages this year were German live-electronics trio BRANDT BRAUER FRICK, who delivered a blistering Sunday night set that managed to rekindle the energy levels of every one in the room; GUILLAUME COUTU DUMONT & THE SIDE EFFECTS, who set the Metropolis on fire during Saturday's jam-packed all-nighter; and young newcomers like the charming NICOLAS JAAR, the melancholic, surreal JON HOPKINS, and Savoy room discoveries like WOO + INCREDIBLE BOB and CHRIS HRENO.

Meanwhile MORITZ VON OSWALD, NURSE WITH WOUND, MINILOGUE and MOVE D stood out brightest amidst a strong showing by veteran artists, delivering sets that managed to put their long and illustrious careers into new perspective. For sheet amiability, MATMOS ravished the festival with an opening night performance that was at once refreshing and inspiring. TIM HECKER and BEN FROST showed that noise and experimental rock were by no means incompatible bedfellows, while KING MIDAS SOUND, DEMDIKE STARE and IKONIKA demonstrated the many faces and facets of bass music to completely captivated audiences. Sunday's Piknic, moved to the Metropolis on account of rain, saw PÉPÉ BRADOCK erase the memories of everyone there and hypnotize audiences into forgetting where they were for three hours straight.

The 2010 edition featured a particularly impressive showing by local Canadian artists. Stephen Beaupré's GEMMIFORM, THIERRY GAUTHIER's NORD/SUD and AUN's BLACK PYRAMID, all world premieres, stood out for their stunning visuals and haunting soundtracks. Equally inspiring was NICOLAS BERNIER and MARTIN MESSIER's LA CHAMBRE DES MACHINES. The sheer energy and physicality of their performance on custom-made sound boxes set the festival's A/Visions series to a blistering start. Late-night Ectoplasmes3 performances by Montrealers HERMAN KOLGEN and JEAN-PIERRE AUBÉ stood on par with ELEH's explorations of composition and sound, while the Metropolis' Savoy room was bursting at the seams from memorable sets by BOWLY, KRESSEL, SNORK, XAVIER LEBUIS and SPOOLOOPS. The artistic success and large following of the Expérience and Ectoplasmes series, as well as the positive echoes surrounding performances by locals throughout the five days, enriched the festival and confirmed its place as a leader in promoting Canadian talent and artists working on the cutting edge of exploration and creativity.

Despite a capricious weather forecast, MUTEK's first major outdoor concert was an undeniable success, attracting a wide-ranging 10,000 spectators to the Place des Festivals in the heart of the Quartier des Spectacles. Everyone there agreed: the performance by SEÑOR COCONUT & HIS ORCHESTRA, featuring the suave vocals of Argenis Brito, was a stellar first volley in planting MUTEK's flag right in the center of the city for all to see. Special mentions go out to LE GOLDEN for the assured performance that opened the night. Meanwhile, the EXTRA_MUROS program of outdoor media art and installations by PHILIPP GEIST, MELISSA MONGIAT and MOUNA ANDRAOS was frequented by more than 40,000 people. With all its different initiatives in outdoor programming, MUTEK demonstrated that it could leave its special fingerprint on the Quartier des Spectacles by putting digital creativity on the centre stage.

We would like to thank all of the artists, partners, volunteers and friends that supported this 11th edition. Above all, the MUTEK team thanks its core public, who have invited the festival into their way of life and who adhere and trust the vision of its programmers. A standing ovation for MUTEK 2010's public!

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OTHER FESTIVAL NEWS

POLL: THE BEST OF MUTEK 2010

While the MUTEK staff has its definite favourites of 2010, we would love to hear what performances made your top five list for this 11th edition. Follow this link to vote!Results in the next newsletter.


MUTEK 2010 PHOTOS, REVIEWS AND MORE

Don't forget to check our photo gallery, on the 2010 festival homepage, for a stream of festival moments and memories.

You'll also notice that we've been tagging reviews and articles about the festival all week long; these are available on the festival homepage as well. For a complete day-by day review, don't miss the URB MUTEK coverage. Headphone Commute offers a quick weekend roundup, while the Andy Battaglia provides a thoughtful piece on the many moods of MUTEK on Artforum.

Finally, don't forget to check out a series of MUTEK 2010 videos recorded by our MUTEK.MX team, as well as the video clips captured by our MUTEK.AR guests!
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Freitag, 4. Juni 2010

TIME DRIFTS by PHILIPP GEIST Installations Views Montreal 2010 (MUTEK Festival 2010) at Place Des Festival (Places des Arts)

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Montreal 2010 (MUTEK Festival 2010)

at Place Des Festival




Artist Website (www.videogeist.de | www.p-geist.de)



'Time Drifts' Media Installation by Philipp Geist

02. - 06. June 2010



The Berlin-based artist Philipp Geist has developed his video installation 'Time Drifts' for the square Place Des Festival next to the Contemporary Art Museum in Montreal. In his installation Geist interprets the themes of space and time. He avoids using canvases and projects directly on parts of the facade, on the ground of the whole square, on stairs, and on fog streaming into the square.



The result is an interplay between the concrete, tangible wall/square and the transparent, dissolving projection ground. Words are projected onto the ground, and they are reflected into the fog. Fog is, similar to time, always in a flux, you cannot hold or keep it. This concept refers to the characteristics of museums and to their function as a place for conservation and for providing the visitor with both facts and imaginations: The dissolving projection ground symbolizes the fragmentary knowledge and understanding of life in the past and present, but knowledge is also secured and preserved in the form of text, clearly visible on the concrete. The people become part of the projected images while walking around the square and entering the building. Thus, Geist develops a dialogue with the location, his artistic work and the visitors.



This methodical approach to the theme 'time' is supported by the projected images themselves. Words that relate to the topic both directly and indirectly cover the whole ground of the square. Some terms and sentences are obvious references, some invite the visitor to think about the phenomenon of time and its historical and cultural connotations. This cultural consideration will be enhanced by the fact that the texts will be in the two official languages of Québec, English and French, and additionally in German, which is the artist's mother tongue. There will be single words, quotations and proverbs by various authors. The installation invites the visitors to stay and contemplate, to detect meanings in the thick carpet of partly overlapping words. The carpet's threads of words are woven chaotically, and it takes time and movements across the square to see and decipher them. It is the poetry of the texts and the dream-like atmosphere that will transform the location.



In the images which are projected onto the facade, Geist creates a pictorial, abstract imagery at the computer which also refers to time. Geometrical, spatial forms like squares, cubes, perforated planes, lines and rays, overlay each other in an on-going process and build up a complete picture in order to dissolve it right away. The various elements create a complex architecture of images which is always in a state of flux. By displaying depth and three-dimensionality, the work symbolises the constantly developing, enlarging space of continuing time lines, and represents the complex networks emerging from different spatial components spreading in the course of time.



Philipp Geist works internationally as a light and multi-media artist in the mediums of video, performance, photography and painting. The Berlin artist Philipp Geist (1976) showed a 4D mapping installation on the facade of the royal throne in Bangkok on the occasion of king Bhumibol's 82nd birthday in December 2009. The one-hour-show was the central part of the celebrations and was seen by 2-3 million of visitors. In 2008, during the 'Long Night of the Museums', he showed his video installation 'time fades' at the Kulturforum. In this installation Geist interprets the themes of space and time. He avoids using canvasses and projects directly on parts of the façade of the architecture and on transparent grounds like sheets of gauze and fog.In September 2007, he realized the video installation 'Time Lines' on the entire front of the Palazzo delle Espozioni in Rome at its re-opening after it had been closed for five years. The installation was opened by the mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, and was seen by approx. 20.000 visitors. In 2005, he realized the large project 'Winterzauber' ('Winter Magic') for the Lake Side Restaurant in Zurich and in 2006, he opened the Salon Noir within the context of the exhibition 'Melancholie, Genie und Wahnsinn' ('Melancholy, Genius and Insanity') in the Berlin Neuen National Galerie. Together with the symphony orchestra OBC Barcelona and the Finnish sound ensemble Pan Sonic, Geist opened in 2004 the Sonar Festival in Barcelona. His works were shown at the Dissonanze Festival in Rome, at Clubtransmediale in Berlin and at the Mutek Festival in Montreal which is renowned for new media. He has exhibited his live video performances internationally at the Central House of Artists (CHA) in Moscow, the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in London, the National Gallery in Warsaw (Zacheta) and at the opening of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.Further projects are characterized by their complexity and the integration of the location, the sound and moving images.



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Montreal 2010 (MUTEK Festival 2010)

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'Time Drifts' Media Installation by Philipp Geist

02. - 06. June 2010




Montreal Installation Time Drifts (Mutek Festival 2010)









Mittwoch, 2. Juni 2010

MUTEK 2010 NEWS MUTEK TAKES OVER MONTREAL TILL SUNDAY!

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MUTEK 2010 NEWS
OTHER FESTIVAL NEWS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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MUTEK 2010 NEWS

MUTEK TAKES OVER MONTREAL TILL SUNDAY!


MUTEK 2010 is finally here! The festivities get underway at 5pm this evening with a last-minute addition to the line-up, the roving Funambus of transportable music, featuring a surprise artist playing an exclusive set live for only those lucky enough to be wearing special headphone sets onsite. An hour later, the night kick's off with the world premiere of STEPHEN BEAUPRÉ's new audio-visual venture "GEMMIFORM" and continue through the next five days with one of the widest-ranging programs this festival has ever assembled under one umbrella.

Each night of the festival, two dazzling expressions of public art presented as part of the Extra_Muros series - PHILIPP GEIST's "TIME DRIFTS" and MELISSA MONGIAT & MOUNA ANDRAOS' "BLOC JAM" - take over central locations of the downtown core at the onset of night, so make sure to drop by the Place des Festivals and UQAM's President Kennedy Pavilion to catch them.

And don't forget that to keep up with all the events, showtimes, and updates, and surprises, download the new MUTEK app onto your iPhone and carry the festival around in the palm of your hand. Here's what you can look forward to over the next 48 hours.

*Please note that all MUTEK 2010 pass-holders must also claim individual tickets for A/Visions showcases the day of the performance, if they wish to attend. Box office will be open as of 11am at the Monument-National.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2ND

Funambus 1 with The Mole
4:30pm - Place de la Paix - Free
Situated opposite the Monument-National, at Place de la Paix, the Funambus will host free performances by international artists, delivered directly to your headsets onsite.This evening's performance features MUTEK veteran, The Mole.

Experience 1
6pm - Monument-National Theatre - Free

Montreal's GEMMIFORM and VIDEOVOCE comprise the first Experience showcase, which features new audio-visual projects that seek out connections between the intimate and the organic, as well as found sound and visual samples to provoke poetic connections.


A/Visions 1 - Pandora's Music Box
8pm - Monument-National Theatre - $25 (+tx & sc)

Montreal's [THE USER] presents a symphony of dot-matrix printers, NICOLAS BERNIER and MARTIN MESSIER present LA CHAMBRE DES MACHINES, a performance piece inspired by the intonarumori, noise-intoning analogue boxes, and field-recording conceptualists MATMOS co-opt the sonics from an array of early electronic sound-machines.

Nocturne 1 - ¡Fiesta Espontanea!
10pm - SAT - $25 (+tx & sc)

Kompakt's MATIAS AGUAYO leads a fun-filled and fiery night of contemporary Latin American electronic music. Ostensibly a showcase for his new CÒMEME collective and label, Aguayo holds centre court with his new live band. At the bookends, Chile's DIEGORS and Mexico's REBOLLEDO hold down the decks late into the night.

Ectoplasmes³ 1
10:30pm - Monument-National Theatre - Free

A creative laboratory of exploratory sounds, former Les Georges Leningrad DOMINIQUE PÉTRIN improvs with independent artist and hypnotist GEORGES REBBOH. ALEXANDRE ST. ONGE meets spontaneously with 2 IMPATIENTS and thereminist FRANK MARTEL. Percussionist PIERRE TANGUAY confronts the electronic gadgery of FILTEAU and the media sound art of CHRISTIAN RICHER. Topping it all off, veteran American tape-looper JASON LESCALLEET.

THURSDAY, JUNE 3RD

Digi_Section 1
11am - Monument-National Theatre - Free

A full day of panels, Q&A's, and workshops gets rolling in the late morning, featuring in-depth interviews with MATMOS and KEVIN MARTIN (King Midas Sound, The Bug, Techno Animal), and many other free events. Details here.

Funambus 2
5pm - Place de la Paix - Free

Situated opposite the Monument-National, at Place de la Paix, the Funambus will host free performances by international artists, delivered directly to your headsets onsite. Thursday's guest artist will be announced the morning of, stay tuned!

Experience 2
6pm - Monument-National Theatre - Free

Featuring the ambient loops of IF THEN DO, the laptop glitch of SÉBASTIAN CLICHE, and the sloping drones of Alien8/Oral's AUN, Experience 2 unites homegrown digital experimentation through abstract explorations of improbable relationships between sound, image and movement.

A/Visions 2 - The Cult of Longer Memories
8pm - Monument-National Theatre - $25 (+tx & sc)

In collaboration with influential music monthly The Wire, this showcase brings together Montreal's FREIDA ABTAN, UK hauntology figurehead THE CARETAKER, and dark-ambient legends NURSE WITH WOUND for an exclusive Canadian engagement.

Nocturne 2 - Radical Connectors
10pm - Metropolis - $30 (+tx & sc)

Radically connecting disparate points of musical discourse, Wagon Repair's HRDVSION, the UK's JON HOPKINS, veteran Cologne post-everything duo MOUSE ON MARS and Norfolk's NATHAN FAKE surfs the crowd across choppy melodic waves of intelligent technicoloured maximalism. The Savoy room will be twitching and turning with performances by a contingent of homegrown, tech and house producers: MOSSA, CHRIS HRENO, and BOWLY.

Ectoplasmes³ 2
10:30pm - Monument-National Theatre - Free

Focusing on the spectrum of fragile music and the art of active listening, combinations of regional experimental artists come together to evolve the theme of quiet music. Combos include BERNARDINO FEMMINIELLI, RANDOM TRANSFER, and JOSHUA BONNETTA; ÆLAB's STePHANE CLAUDE, acoustics-theoretician PHILIPPE-AUBERT GAUTHIER, and percussionist DEBASHIS SINHA; JEAN-PIERRE AUBÉ and HERMAN KOLGEN; and finally, Touch/Important recording artist ELEH.

BOX OFFICE INFORMATION

MUTEK tickets and passes are
available online on the festival website and are also available at the following local outlets:

MUTEK BOX OFFICE
MONUMENT-NATIONAL
(open as of May 31)
1182 boulevard Saint-Laurent
514-621-6883

ATOM HEART
364-B Sherbrooke St East
514-843-8484

MOOG AUDIO
3828 Saint-Laurent Blvd
514-284-7434

PASSPORTS, PACKAGES AND DAY PASSES

MUTEK FESTIVAL PASSPORT | $210 + tx and s.c.
WEEKEND PASS | $130 + tx and s.c.
WEEKEND « LIGHT » PASS | $95 + tx and s.c.

A/VISIONS PASS | $75 + tx and s.c.
NOCTURNE TRIO | $75 + tx and s.c.

DAY PASS 1 (JUNE 2) | $40 + tx and s.c.
DAY PASS 2 (JUNE 3) | $45 + tx and s.c.
DAY PASS 3 (JUNE 4) | $50 + tx and s.c.
DAY PASS 4 (JUNE 5) | $55 + tx and s.c.
DAY PASS 5 (JUNE 6) | $27 + tx and s.c.

Individual tickets by event are also available.
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OTHER FESTIVAL NEWS

MUTEK 2010 @ AWDIO: JUNE 2 - 6
10pm to 3am - Live radio streaming

Can't make it down to Montreal for MUTEK this year? Then listen to several of the performances in real time, as they happen, courtesy of out friends at AWDIO.

AWDIO will be streaming live from NOCTURNES 1, 2, 3 & 4, making this the best way to experience MUTEK if you can't physically be here.

Go to awdio.com for more details.

MUTEK 2010 DIGITAL COMPILATION

The MUTEK 2010 compilation is back and ready to be your soundtrack to the festival and beyond.

Like the event it decorates, this year's set has been refined to a choice eleven tracks that take you on a wide-ranging journey, touching upon your every mood, just like a good mix tape from one of your best friends. We've gone ahead and provided you with almost entirely exclusive tracks, adding those minor touches of intimacy to your earbud experience, and all for under $10 CAD!

Fully digital and available on the MUTEK website, the MUTEK 2010 compliation features tracks by:

BEN FROST
NICOLAS JAAR
SMIRK
SAN PROPER
KONQUE
MOSSA
MINILOGUE
JACEK SIENKIEWICZ
BRANDT BRAUER FRICK
DJ KOZE
PIMMON

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
SUBMIT A WORK IN PROGRESS TO SHARE AT THE ABLETON WORKSHOP!

See Ableton Live in action at this interactive workshop, where Montreal mainstay PHEEK (Archipel) will present his methods for using the software and using your tracks as examples!

Bring your own Ableton project in process to share with PHEEK and other participants during the workshop (Live version 8, no effects, on USB key).

The workshop takes place on Friday June 4, 1pm, at the Monument-National. Entrance is first come first serve, so be sure to arrive early!

LIVE FROM MUTEK 2010

For those that couldn't join us this year, stay connected through our Flickr, Twitter andDel.icio.us updates on our festival site, as we journey through five days of unforgettable performances, countless exclusives, and plenty of other thrills along the way.

Just a reminder to those of you tweeting about your MUTEK experience to add a hashtag to your tweets (#mutek). This will help us group all MUTEK-related comments to better receive your comments and feedback.


MUTEK PODCASTS

Today we revert back to the MUTEKLIVE podcast series, digging up MOSSA's live set from his MUTEK 2008 appearance. Get a feel for what this artist is all about, and then hear his live performance at tomorrow's Nocturne 2, where he will undoubtedly treat you to a live set rife with material from his new album, Festine, released in March 2010.
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ACKGNOWLEDGEMENTS

A warm thank you to the following partners for their general and ongoing support: le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, le Ministère du Tourisme du Québec, le Ministère des Affaires Municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire du Québec, le Ministère de la Culture, des communications et de la condition féminine du Québec, le Partenariat du Quartier des Spectacles, le Conseil des arts de Montréal, the City of Montréal, the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canada Council for the Arts, Musicaction, Tourisme Montréal, the Goethe-Institut, the British Council, le Consulat général de France au Québec, Initiative Musik, MusicExport Cologne, Australian Council for the Arts and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.

The organization is particularly grateful to the media and private partners that support the MUTEK 2010 festival: Solotech, Ubisoft, la Société des alcools du Québec, la Société des transports de Montréal, Astral Media, Sidlee, Via Rail Canada, the Society for Arts and Technology, Bande à Part, Moog Audio, Serato, Roland, Ableton, Greencopper, Archambault, l'UQAM, le Monument National, le Club Soda, le Métropolis, Piknic Électronik, Ticketpro, le Laïka, le M!STO, Belle Gueule, Guru, atelier b., Resident Advisor, Dose.ca, The Wire, Fact, Exclaim!, NOW, Tsugi, XLR8R, Awdio, Cyberpresse, 33mag, Nightlife, Mirror, Midnight Poutine, Soundbeat mag, 101,5 Radio Montréal, CKUT, CISM.