Myriam Bleau & Audreanne Filion

Photo by Rebeca Figueiredo (left) and Augustina Isidori (right)

Audréanne Filion

Audréanne Filion is a Montreal-based cellist, composer, and improviser. Active in
contemporary and experimental music, she has premiered works by numerous composers including Sarah Davachi, Martin Arnold, Keiko Devaux, and Simon Martin. She is a member of Quatuor Mémoire, Ensemble Éclat, and Ensemble SuperMusique, and collaborates with various collectives such as No Hay Banda, collectif9, and Projections Libérantes.

Her solo project for cello and electronics combines improvisation, real-time processing, and composition, exploring the hybridization of acoustic and electronic, ambient, noise and contemporary classical aesthetics. She has performed at festivals and series including Gaudeamus Music Week (Netherlands), Festival CHIII (Brazil), Darmstädter Ferienkurse (Germany), FMC (Chicoutimi), Osheaga, Semaine du Neuf, M/NM, Totem Électrique, Codes d’accès, Interzone Editions, and many others.

Also active in experimental pop, she has collaborated with Everly Lux, Xela Edna, YlangYlang, Jessica Moss, and Erika Angell.

Audréanne studied at Conservatoire de musique de Montréal under Denis Brott and Elizabeth Dolin for cello, and Louis Dufort and Martin Bédard for electroacoustic composition.

Myriam Bleau

Myriam Bleau is a composer, digital artist and performer based in Montréal. Using music and sound as a point of departure, she creates audiovisual performances, video works, installations and interactive interfaces that articulate sound, light and movement. Her work is mainly channeled through performance, embracing ephemeral and elusive contexts.

From code and machine learning to physical computing and devices, she considers technology as another agency that co-creates the output. Her hybrid practice explores porous spaces between the physical and the virtual world, between the natural and the synthetic.

Her work has been recognized and presented internationally in festivals and events such as Prix Ars Electronica (AT), Sónar (ES, HK), Transmediale (DE), Sonic Arts Award (IT), Elektra (CA), Mutek (MX, CA, JP, AR), ISEA (CA, KR), ACT (KR), L.E.V (ES), Scopitone (FR), Café Oto (UK).