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Digital Musics & Sound Art Anerkennung - Honorary Mention 2021

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Maxime Corbeil-Perron
An audiovisual media-archeological work, whose aesthetics propose an abstract compositional approach that tends towards naturalism, in the form of a return to nature as a source of abstraction. Akin to the sounds in this work, the light waves of analogue video synthesis mix with abstract and dreamlike synthetic landscapes, enhanced by an obsolete optical technology: anaglyph stereoscopy. The 3D viewing apparatus is here used to experience abstract and surreal spaces, colour modulation, and stereoscopic optical textures. 

This piece was composed using various experimental techniques such as no-input, generative sound algorithms, live-sound processing and improvisation with both analogue and digital synthesis. Sonically, I was interested in creating a work that blurred boundaries in terms of aesthetic codes, borrowing elements from minimalist contemporary electronic music, ambient, noise, musique concrète, and various electronic sub-genres.  

This work was created though a collaboration with the Ensemble d'Oscillateurs, a 10-piece vintage monophonic analogue oscillator ensemble based at the University of Montreal.

Links: https://vimeo.com/510824442
Audiovisual composition, stereoscopic image, analog video, live-processing and additional synths: Maxime Corbeil-Perron 
The Ensemble d’Oscillateurs is directed by Nicolas Bernier  
Thanks to the Ensemble d’oscillateurs, Ira Lacdao, Stephanie Castonguay, Akousma and Mutek 
With support from E.M.S. Stockholm
Maxime Corbeil-Perron (CA) is a Tio'tia:ke/Montreal-based composer, director, musician and audiovisual performer whose work has been highlighted by numerous international competitions, media, and festivals. His artistic practice unfolds in a multiplicity of media: audiovisual performance, experimental cinema, electroacoustic composition, improvisation, sound art, and installation. His current works present an approach related to media archaeology, in which he seeks to establish relationships between obsolete media and contemporary technologies, in search of new aesthetic possibilities.  www.maximecorbeilperron.com