OK LÀ x Fondation Guido Molinari present: Sonic Quantifier Vol. 5
Featuring performances by Annea Lockwood and projections by Charline Dally
September 2nd, 2026, 8 PM
Doors at 7 PM
Tickets: $20 via the following link https://www.zeffy.com/fr-CA/ticketing/quantificateur-sonique-vol-5-charline-dally-ou-nate-wooley-annea-lockwood
For this fifth edition of the concert series titled Sonic Quantifier, OK LÀ and the Guido Molinari Foundation are delighted to welcome New Zealand-born composer Annea Lockwood, a leading figure in experimental and electroacoustic music.
The evening’s program will feature three landmark works by this pioneer: On Fractured Ground (2023), a piece composed using recordings of the peace walls in Belfast (Northern Ireland); Becoming Air (2017), a trumpet solo performed by Nate Wooley; and Spirit Catchers (1974), an amplified participatory work generated from the memories and emotions of four invited participants.
We will also have the privilege of presenting two videos by Charline Dally, a multidisciplinary artist based in Montreal: dickinsonia (2022) and blue vessel (2025). Through luminous vibrations and ethereal forms, these works explore memory, its erasures, and its dissociations.
A rare opportunity to see a pioneer of electroacoustic music, alongside one of our own local talent. An evening not to be missed!
Annea Lockwood is known for her explorations of natural acoustic sounds and environments, in works ranging from installations to concert music. A Sound Map of the Columbia River, the most recent work in a continuing collaboration with composer, writer and trumpet virtuoso Nate Wooley,will premiere early next year in New York. Becoming Air, 2017, initiated this partnership.Lockwood’s sound maps of the Hudson River, the Danube and the Housatonic River have been widely presented in Europe, the U.K., the United States and Australia, as have her instrumental works. Elwha!, co-composed in 2025 with Claire Chase, for flutes and field recordings of the Elwha River, received a commission from the Fromm Music Foundation, and recently premiered at the Kitchen, New York. She is a recipient of the 2020 SEAMUS Award and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Hailed as making “the most progressive campfire music ever” by The New York Times, trumpeter, composer, and writer Nate Wooley has been a quiet force in reshaping contemporary American music. As a trumpet player, he has been an important interpreter of experimental composition, making his premiere as a soloist with The New York Philharmonic in 2019. As an improviser, he has been a part of a movement to redefine the technical possibilities of the instrument, his solo performances being called “exquisitely hostile” by Massimo Ricci of Touching Extremes. His compositions are evolving amalgams of improvisation, folk music, text, and immersive experiences that communicate an arc of human experience from the fragility of being alone to the ecstasy of collectivity. He is also a writer of essays on new music published in The New York Review of Books, The Nation, and E-Flux Journal among others. He founded and was the editor-in-chief of Sound American, a print and online music journal making space for musicians to speak in their own words, for ten years.
charline dally lives and works in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. A graduate of Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, their practice employs image alteration processes in video installation works in which they explore the folds of memory – both intimate and geological – and question representations of reality. Drawing on techniques specific to video art from the 1970s to the 1990s, they modulate the video signals generated by an electrical current to transform archival images. Their research, guided by exchanges with researchers and personal experiences, takes shape in a variety of artistic forms aimed at making visible what has disappeared and fostering a state of listening and attentiveness toward these traces. Their work has been presented at the Musée d’Art de Joliette, Museum of Contemporary Art (Toronto), the PHI Foundation (Montréal), as well as at Images Festival (Toronto), CTM Festival (Berlin), Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Montréal), and Ann Arbor Film Festival (MI). Recent solo exhibitions include Chapelle XIV, Paris (dreamachine, 2026), Diagonale, Montréal (this womb of things to be, 2024), and Caravansérail, Rimouski (blue vessel, 2025). In 2025, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal invited them to create a new audiovisual performance with their duo, le désert mauve. Their films are part of Vtape and Vidéographe collections.
