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For the XVIth edition of Totem Électrique, Productions Totem Contemporain invites u in co-production with Le Vivier to an original and magical musical experience around five new works commissioned to talented female composers: Erin Gee (CA), Julie Delisle (CA), Audréanne Filion (CA), Sara Magnan (CA) and Sophie Delafontaine (BE).

These original and unique compositions for Babel Table are played by experienced performers Jean-François Laporte and Francis Leduc. The sublime and captivating lighting by Marguerite Hudon provides an immersive and unforgettable musical experience.

It is also an opportunity to celebrate together the 20th anniversary of Productions Totem Contemporain. 

This concert is part of the Totem Électrique series launched in 2009. It has resulted in the creation of more than ninety outstanding mixed musical works specially composed for Jean-François Laporte's invented instruments, which are combined with an electric or electronic component (soundtrack, real-time digital processing, electronics, amplification, etc.).

WITH THE CREATIONS OF :

Erin Gee (Ca), In Bloom (2023) - Bol, Voice, Tape and Electronics

Audréanne Filion (Ca), Seeking (2023) - Babel Table and Tape

Sophie Delafontaine (Be), Bouffé (2023) - Babel Table and Tape

Julie Delisle (Ca), Monolithe (2023) - Babel Table and Tape

Pauline Patie (Fr), Run (2022) - Tu-Yo and Electronics

INTERPRETATION BY :

Jean-François Laporte - Babel Table

Francis Leduc - Babel Table

in co-production with  Le Vivier

For the XVIth edition of Totem Électrique, Productions Totem Contemporain invites you in collaboration with Le Vivier to an original and magical musical experience around five new works commissioned to talented composers: Simon Chioini (CA), Dominic Walter-Batista (CA), Xavier Ménard (CA),  Pablo Geeraert (BE), Andrea Laudante (IT) and Martin Parker (Uk). 
 
These original and unique compositions for Babal Table and Siren Organ are performed by seasoned performers Jean-François Laporte and Francis Leduc. The sublime and captivating lighting by Marguerite Hudon allows for an immersive and unforgettable musical experience.

It is also an opportunity to celebrate together the 20th anniversary of Productions Totem Contemporain. 

This concert is part of the Totem Électrique series launched in 2009. It has resulted in the creation of more than ninety outstanding mixed musical works specially composed for Jean-François Laporte's invented instruments, which are combined with an electric or electronic component (soundtrack, real-time digital processing, electronics, amplification, etc.).

WITH THE CREATIONS OF :

Martin Parker (Uk), Unfinished swan (2023) - Babel Table and Electronics

Dominic Walter Batista (Ca), Hammer! (2023) - Babel Table and Electronics

Xavier Ménard (Ca), Insufflations (2023) - Babel Table and Electronics

Andrea Laudante (It), 13 perception of Prakriti (2023) - Babel Table and Tape

Simon Chioni (Ca), Aquifère 2 (2023) - Babel Table and Tape

Pablo Geeraert (Be), HE_Xis (2023) - Siren Organ and Electronics

INTERPRETATION BY :

Jean-François Laporte - Babel Table

Francis Leduc - Babel Table

Event presented in collaboration with Le Vivier

With the contribution of the Istituto italiano di cultura of Montreal

Our performer and artist director Jean-François Laporte will be touring Europe from November to December, presenting Totem Électrique concerts and workshops. Totem Électrique concert series presents new musical works composed specifically for one of our invented instruments, combined with an electronic or electroacoustic element.

The special feature of this concert is the meeting of three different musicians: Algorithms play a decisive role in the work of composer Michael Edwards (UK), composer and sound artist Jean-François Laporte (CA) plays on his own invented instrumentarium (Babel Table) and cellist Martha Bijlsma (NL) came to new music through her long experience as a chamber musician. After solo pieces for Babel Table and cello, a new Edwards duet will be created for Bijlsma and Laporte.

Michael Edwards : Naked empty silence for Babel Table, Cello and electronics

Jean-François Laporte : Désert de poussières for Cello and Tape

Martin Parker : Unfinished Swan for Babel Table and electronics

Interprêtes : Jean-François Laporte Babel Table

                    Martha Bijlsma Cello

Moderation : Raoul Moerchen

The Rust duo (Jean-François Laport and Benjamin Thigpen) will present a performance at Espace C12 in Brussels for the C12 x Accousmonium Influx event on November 22, 2023. Artist LUCIE GRÉSIL will also be on hand!

The Rust duo (Jean-François Laport and Benjamin Thigpen) will be performing at the Audio Art Festival in Krakow on November 25!

Our performer and artist director Jean-François Laporte will be touring Europe from November to December, presenting Totem Électrique concerts and workshops. The Totem Électrique concert series presents new musical works composed specifically for one of our invented instruments, combined with an electronic or electroacoustic element.

Following the FEEDBACK AND RESONANT SPACES workshop, participants and our performer and artistic director Jean-François Laporte will present a concert based on their explorations of feedback with a wide range of objects!

An event not to be missed!

Our performers Francis Leduc, Audréanne Filion and Jean-François Laporte will be on hand for the Festin Magnétique evening for a performance of composer Jean Derome's Onze Super (petits) Totems.

Our performer Francis Leduc will have the pleasure of interpreting Erin Gee's In Bloom with our instrument the Bol during this special event for Sporobole's 50th anniversary. This concert also features performances by Pierre-Luc Senecal and Nelly Eve-Rajote.

Don't miss it!

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Dimensions is a performative work that immerses spectators in the heart of nature through an immersive audiovisual performance at the crossroads of visual art, mixed music (electronic and acoustic), science and interactive experimental violin making.

On stage, two performers engage in a musical and visual dialogue in total fusion with nature, accompanied by a third protagonist, a microscope, who becomes a true creative force. This microscope, in addition to its physical transformations which allow it to be autonomous in its movements, captures microscopic elements and microorganisms, thus contributing to the visual composition.

Cristo Riffo is a Chilean artist who explores concepts of memory, light, politics and biology through the creation of kinetic installations and audiovisual performances, hacking and modifying technological devices through the use of electronics, robotics and biology.

Diego Bermudez Chamberland is a Latin-Quebec artist who navigates several mediums related to sound and audiovisual creation, such as composition, live musical performance, audiovisual performance and sound design. For this performance he will use the instrument the Bol

Totem Électrique Ukraine closing concert of the Babel Table composition workshop with Ukrainian composers and composition students from the Haute école de musique de Fribourg.

Music by Dmytro Fedorenko, Giannis Giannopoulos, Tetiana Khoroshun, Valeriia Vynohradova, Doyoon Yoon and Alla Zagaykevych.

Our artistic director Jean-François Laporte will present his new installation Spirituel at the Fimav festival from May 13 to 19 in downtown Victoriaville.

The work features twelve mechanical devices made up of stainless steel bowls, small motorized propellers, light effects and microphone tripods. Centered on the idea of circular movement, everything is in rotation. From its circular layout to its use of propellers whirling around the bowls, the installation converges on cyclicity. It also reuses commonplace everyday objects to reveal their aesthetic, even hypnotic, properties.

The result is an immersive space of sound and light, where the public is free to move around, guided by their senses. All evocations are permitted in this abstract exploration of spirituality. Without referring to a specific religion or cult, the work's shifting harmonies can be reminiscent of church bells or Tibetan singing bowls. It thus invites the imagination and introspection into our individual relationship with spirituality. 

After a workshop with the Cassidy/Williamson composition class at Hannover University of Music in November 2023, Jean-François Laporte returns to Hannover in May. At a concert on May 27 at the Kestner Gesellschaft, he will present to the public for the first time works newly composed by the students for the Babel Table instrument.

Naples Total Electronics 3
guest Jean Françoise Laporte
Napoli Totale Elettronica returns with a third major event.
On June 3 at L'Asilo, over 15 electroacoustic musicians will come together for an uninterrupted session of total improvisation from 7pm to 10pm. The only rule is to listen.
The evening's guest will be Jean François Laporte, a Canadian musician and composer based in Montreal.
June 3, 2024
L'Asile
19.00 / 22.00

_WORKSHOP.
From June 7 to 9 at Opificio Puca in Sant'Arpino, the unprecedented workshop led by Canadian musician, performer, inventor of musical instruments Jean-François Laporte will be presented. Through his personal research journey, we will be guided in the construction of one of the instruments that have made him world famous, the Tu-Yo. 
The practical component of the workshop will be complemented by insights about the nature of sound, active listening practices and timbral explorations of these new musical instruments.
+CONCERT.
On June 9-after the workshop closes-participants will be engaged in a return concert, together with Jean-François Laporte, where they will have the opportunity to present the instruments they have built together and engage in a performance of three pieces by the Canadian composer.