Welcome to everyone with wide ears for this last concert in 2007 organized by ORAL records. This program intimate, but dense, consists of 4 individual performances; recent works, produced and played by 4 artists belonging to various musical and artistic circles. They are deeply implicated in the Montreal electronic scene and identified as exploratory or advanced, talented improvisers, visual artists, accomplishing significant and peculiar worlds. Linked to electronic arts, they, however, explore and exploit possibilities of analogical creation infinite. Their great availability and their opened mind gather them here.

Rare moment of immersion in exploration of sounds, this program is devoted to all curious and opened cerebrums.

AUN – http://www.myspace.com/martindumais
AUN is Martin Dumais, one of the figureheads of the Montreal electronic scene since its genesis. As a solo artist or with eclectic duo Les Jardiniers, he has performed over 500 live and dj gigs in Canada and worldwide, and is a key contributor to the development of electronic music in Montreal and its distribution internationally, while also working as a music producer for television and art exhibitions. The AUN project is a return to his first love: deep, melodic lush drones and sometimes harsh angular electro-ambient textures. While in its own personal space, AUN's music sits at the side of the tonal work of american minimalists, with an imbedded penchant for the early industrialists with echoes ofexperimental avant-metal, juxtaposed to melodic timbres; chiming beauty and desolation. Aun is produced with both digital and analog hardware, guitars and acoustic recordings; this is rich and provocative music, delicate and strong

Three CDs (mule, ORAL15, blackhorse, ORAL 18, whitehorse, ORAL 19) are available on ORAL_records (www.oral.qc.ca). And New ones are not far from being out.

Review by: Andrea Vercesi (CHAIN DLK) :

With "Blackhorse" Martin Dumais aka AUN shifts into a more dreamy and less experimental form of music. The overall feel is that the composition is more relaxed and AUN varies in its subtle attack with many different strategies ranging from simple but effective lushy drone pieces to more structured tracks with strings and other instruments always flexing and changing. Dumais wrestles with loops and keeps the listener focused for the whole 55 minutes of "Blackhorse". His tunes evoke both post-industrial revolutionaries and modern artists dealing with experimental music. It's not too far-fetched to think of AUN as the modern Canadian equivalent of projects like Zoviet France or Cranioclast. My highest recommendation for this one.

Abtan, Freida  – http://www.myspace.com/freidaabtan
From Brainwashed:

"Abtan's sounds are magical and transportive; their vivid fidelity and unequivocal crispness weave particular narratives with no small degree of confidence. From the beginning her work is organic, sounding less like music and more like the recorded adventures of an entrepreneurial and esoteric detective probing the deepest recesses of haunted caverns and finding hidden worlds tucked away there. In this way the title of her album reflects its content; that which is hidden, unnoticed, or too subtle is brought to the fore by Abtan's careful arrangements and given a detailed survey. An entire spectrum of insectoid percussion and globular synthetics are revealed in her compositions, their microscopic lives brought to life by gusts of electricity and storming spirits trapped behind a veil of static and other interference. What Abtan does best on Subtle Movements is construct a believable world of sounds, each unique and absorbing in their various depictions. She's captured the megalomaniacal rituals of a modern electrical shaman on tape, teased from the air the tortured confessions of a now reformed specter, and ploughed the ether in order to return a report of all its miniscule interactions."

From Rough Trade:

"Based in providence, rhode island abtan's subtle movements is possibly the most apt title for a record we have stumbled across this year. it is a fantastic record that showcases an artist who is totally on top of her game. her electro-acoustic, laptop based experiments are probably most closely akin to the work of maja ratke's solo work for rune grammafon. cd only on united diaries."

Turner of Wheels – http://www.myspace.com/turnerofwheels
Sounds and music.. whatever comes to mind... the listener's gestalt is the inevitable censor. ...exploring texture and timbre and techniques for creation of timbre and rhythm above other elements.. occasionally melodic, sometimes not...Shane Turner records and jams as part of Argon Floozy (experimental improv group), and The Fold (more dance/groove oriented electronic project)...

d.e.i.t.e  – http://www.myspace.com/deite73
Dangerously attracted by machines and research. Multidisciplinary artist creating in as many types of art as there is, I just let go... In each room of d.e.i.t.e creative world, there are windows opening. Electronic art, experimental music and video. Objects or samples of objects, improvisation and manipulation, discoveries and pleasure

EPOXY 3 - May 02 - Sala Rossa, Montreal
Freida Abtan, Joda Clément, Erin Sexton, Alexandre St-Onge

EPOXY 4 - May 23 - Sala Rossa, Montreal
Magali Babin, Nicolas Bernier, Chantal Dumas, Jérôme Minière + Special Guest
+ + CD Launch: Sonde, En Ondes, oral CD 16

EPOXY 5 -June 13 - Festival Suoni del Popolo, Sala Rossa, Montreal - 8:00 pm - 10$
Steve Bates (vs Gordon Matta-Clark) - Vromb (vs. Al Feldstein) - Scant Intone (vs Yasunao Tone) - Julien Roy (vs Carlo Scarpa) + Special Guest

RASTER_NOTON@Montreal - June 23 - SAT, Montreal - 8:00 pm - TBC$
Olaf Bender (byetone) - Frank Bretschneider - Senking

RASTER_NOTON@Montreal - EXHIBITION - June 23...August 30 - SAT Gallery, Montreal - FREE - Raster Noton exhibits art works, light and sounds from former members...
A North American Premiere, curated by Eric Mattson