As part of Nuit blanche à Montréal, the Guido Molinari Foundation invites you to an evening of electroacoustic music performances in the exhibition hall. Our evening invites you to celebrate Montreal culture by bringing together the visual arts and electroacoustic music in a special exhibition of Molinari’s works, selected especially for the occasion.
With:
Gambletron – http://www.gambletron.ca/
Ianna Book – https://www.iannabook.com/
Enfant magique – https://enfantmagique.bandcamp.com/album/le-temps-lent
Music programming curated by Samuel Bobony (Black Givre).
Doors 8 pm | Performances 9 pm
Free
Bar $, payment by card preferred
Gambletron is a queer, non-binary sound artist/ musician known for their improvisational electronic noise and work with radio transmission. Their practice includes numerous radio sound sculptures, multi-channel radio compositions, transmitted “field trips,” experimental karaoke, and their “multi-tonal AM Radio Theremin.”
Often performing amid large piles of boomboxes, they explore reconfigured radio and live transmission as sculptural platforms for performance and environmental exploration. Gambletron’s music and artworks frequently function as pirate radio stations, evoking subtle methods of resistance in regards to the corporate and state control of communications technology.
Gambletron can often be found collaborating with media/ performance artist Johnny Forever, exploring themes of “breaking the internet” feeding virtual worlds and social platforms through hybrid portals of digital and analog technology. Gambletron is a multi-instrumentalist playing in many projects including Orkestar Kriminal, Carla Bozulich’s Evangelista, Hrsta, Clues and Matana Robert’s Coin Coin.
Ianna Book is a multidisciplinary artist based in Montreal, whose practice spans photography, performance and audio art. Nurtured by a vision of counterculture, she boldly questions established norms and invites us to rethink social, aesthetic and political frameworks. Her work, deeply rooted in a quest for social justice, explores notions of identity and emancipation, contributing to the emergence of new cultural narratives.
After studying fine arts at Cégep du Vieux-Montréal, then visual and media arts at Université du Québec à Montréal, Ianna Book exhibited her work in renowned institutions, including New York’s Leslie & Lohman Museum. Highlights include the photo essay Trans Avenue (2013), which combines transsexuality and urbanity, and LGBTQ+ Heritage at ACCA Gallery in Beverly Hills. Her performances, including Eros Circuitry (2023) and Untitled questions (2020), question the relationship between the body, technology and identity, while challenging norms of gender and sexuality.
Enfant magique (Éric Gingras). Before he was an adult, Eric was a child. Now he draws his inspiration from his daughters, who, like him, are human beings. Each of his albums is a musical universe independent of the physical world. But there are certain things you can do to bridge the gap between his heart, his mind and yours. With sublimation, he composes atmospheric songs with variable skies, autobiographical songs that disturb, that breathe the cosmos, in a fragile universe. How do you compose a tree trunk with a toothpick?
Eric Gingras has been active in numerous projects, including Avec le soleil sortant de sa bouche, Fly Pan Am, Pas Chic Chic, Cian Ethrie, Panopticon Eyelids and Ensemble Kesdjan.
His most recent album, Le temps lent, was released on cassette (Ur Audio Visual) and vinyl (Trésor National).
