Edition 2015

WELCOME TO MUTEK 2015

MUTEK launches into its 16^th edition with 5 nonstop days of internationally recognized artistic excellence, running from May 27 to 31 at Montréal's Musée d'art contemporain (MAC) and various other venues in the heart of the city. Expect another year of mind and body bending artistry operating at the leading edge of technology, music, digital creativity and live performance.

As digital and electronic culture has matured and evolved, MUTEK is proud to maintain its unique position and reputation for emphasizing live performance in this ever-mutating realm. A core value since its inception, MUTEK seeks out and promotes original creations that unfurl in real time, underlining the immediacy and sense of happening that the whole festival thrives on, for both performers and audiences alike.

With Montréal as its backdrop, MUTEK has always played on the special character and convivial spirit the city is famous for. Visitors enter a sophisticated urban setting filled with multi sensory adventures that include the Quartier des spectacles, world famous restaurant culture and the high spring energy that fills the streets. The second edition of the city-wide Digital Spring, bringing together practitioners and institutions who elaborate the digital arts, promises an even richer encounter for tourists, as well as locals, who use MUTEK and its context as a vehicle to rediscover their own hometown.

The complete festival program has now been announced, including numerous headliners, our exceptional A/Visions performers as well as our generous free activities and performances.

Download the program

Adrian Sherwood ^UK / Andy Stott ^UK / Anthony Naples ^US / Atom™ & Robin Fox ^CL/AU / Atom™ & Tobias ^CL/DE / Bangkok Loops ^CA / Basic House ^UK / Bassilus C ^CA / Billy Dalessandro & Ombossa ^CA / Boundary ^CA / Braxton ^US / Cabaal ^CA / CMD ^CA / Cobblestone Jazz ^CA / Dasha Rush ^RU / DBX ^US / Daniel Bell ^US / Débruit ^BE / Dewalta & Shannon ^DE/CA / Drew Gragg ^CA / DROL. ^FR / Different Fountains ^BE / Fumiya Tanaka ^JP / Gunnar Haslam ^US / Herman Kolgen ^CA / Hiroaki Umeda ^JP / Hugues Clément ^CA / James Holden ^UK / John Tejada ^US / Jonathan Scherk ^CA / Kara-Lis Coverdale ^CA / Karen Gwyer ^UK / Khotin ^CA / Kiasmos ^I^S / Kode9 ^UK / Lucy ^IT / Lumisokea ^BE/IT / Lunate ^CO / Lvis Mejía ^MX / Maotik & Metametric ^FR/CA / Martin Messier ^CA / Mathew Jonson ^CA / Mika Vainio ^FI / Millie & Andrea ^UK / Mini & Nellyeve Rajotte ^CA / Moon Buggy ^CA / Music For Lamps ^CA / Neu Balance ^CA / Nortec Collective ^MX / OJPB ^CA / Patricia ^US / Perfume Advert ^UK / Pheek ^CA / Pole ^DE / Project Pablo ^CA / P.Trafford ^CA / Racine ^CA / Réservoir ^CA / Richard Devine ^US / Rival Consoles ^UK / Rrose ^US / Ramzi ^CA / Seekersinternational ^CA / Session Victim ^DE / Sherwood & Pinch ^UK / Squeaky Lobster ^BE / Stärker ^CA / Steffi ^NL / Strategy ^US / Svengalisghost ^US / Takami Nakamoto & Sebastien Benoits ^FR / Trojan Horse Of Meaning ^CA / Waveshaper ^CA / Wiklow ^CA / Woulg ^CA / /||\||\ ^CA / and more…

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Special projects

DIGITAL DELICACIES

Phi Centre
Monday, May 25 - 6:00pm

To further our work as curators and purveyors of leading edge electronic and digital artistry at home and around the world, MUTEK is hosting Digital Delicacies, a benefit event mixing fine cuisine and an exceptional digital mise en scene. These vivid facets of Montréal’s identity come together in a convivial environment that encourages rewarding exchanges and makes new connections.

AUDINT: DELUSIONS OF THE LIVING DEAD / DRNE CARTOGRAPHY

Phi Centre
Opening reception on Tuesday, May 26 at 5:30pm.
Exhibition May 27 to June 11 (Monday to Saturday, noon - 5:00pm)
FREE

Presented by DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art and MUTEK in association with the Phi Centre

Steve Goodman (KODE9) and Toby Heys open their experiential sonic installation Delusions of the Living Dead / DRNE Cartography, a new iteration of their ongoing research as AUDINT. Featuring bespoke subwoofers, directional ultrasonic speakers, and wearable SubPacs, the work investigates the ways in which the military-industrial and military-entertainment complex of the 20th and 21st centuries have used sound, silence, and noise to influence, manipulate, and torture the human body, with the ultimate goal to chart and narrate the evolution of sonic weaponry.

Delusions of the Living Dead / DRNE Cartography includes two multi-sensory environments in the same space: One part film, one part sensory experience, each element of the installation pertains to one side of the vinyl record, Martial Hauntology (a book/print/record) released in late 2014.
Both components run successively every day during MUTEK beginning at 1:00 PM and again at 3:00 PM.

There will also be a panel with the artists on Friday, May 29 at 2:15pm. See the Phi Centre web site for more information.

MUTEK AT FESTIVAL TRANSAMÉRIQUES

Coeur des Sciences of UQAM
Friday, May 29 - 5:00pm
FREE

MUTEK is pleased to unite with the FTA for a free 5 à 7 highlighting two eccentric talents from the local Montréal scene.

YLANGYLANG (CA)
FDG - presents IRRADIANCE (CA) - World premiere

More info on the FTA website.

MINOTAUR - DOME VERSION

Société des arts technologiques (SAT)
Saturday, May 30 - noon to 3:00pm
$20 (not included in MUTEK PASSPORTS or PASSES)

Presented by National Film Board of Canada and SAT

The dome version of MUNRO FERGUSON’s seven minute 3D animation inspired by the mythical Greek half man, half bull, MINOTAUR, is accompanied by a session of KID KOALA’s Music To Draw To. Enjoy an immersive and musical brunch and bring your sketchbooks!

Find more information here