The next edition of La Grande Écoute by UQAM’s Groupe de Recherche sur la Médiatisation du Son (GRMS) and La Grande Nuit will showcase the musical connections that have been established between Quebec and Austria. Last fall, Hexagram coinvestigators working within the GRMS successfully presented their works in Austria. They will welcome their Austrian counterparts for a series of concerts and a conference.
An Interinstitutional Contingent in Vienna and Linz
From October 17 to 21, 2024, GRMS members gave four concerts in two cities and conducted a master class. In Vienna, they were hosted by the Vienna Acousmatic Project, which promotes acousmatic music. As part of the Echoes Around Me 2024 festival, they presented their creations supported by the Vienna Acousmonium, a sophisticated orchestra of loudspeakers.
In Linz, they collaborated with the Institute for Composition, Conducting, and Computer Music (IKD) at the Anton Bruckner University, strengthening interinstitutional ties around contemporary composition.
Professors Philippe-Aubert Gauthier, Simon-Pierre Gourd, and Éric Létourneau, along with student members and colleagues from Concordia University and partner CMMAS Centro Mexicano para la Musica y las Artes Sonoras (CMMAS), formed a contingent of 10 people to present their sound research.
Austria Honoured at La Grande Écoute
To follow up on this Quebec presence, Austrian composers Martina Claussen, Katharina Klement, Enrique Mendoza, Jakob Schauer, Thomas Gorbach, and Volkmar Klien will participate in the GRMS series La Grande Écoute. This series is organized as part of the Festival Montréal/Nouvelles Musiques by the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ) and supported by Hexagram-UQAM. It will take place from February 21 to March 1, 2025.
The international guests will contribute to the conference Images of Music and offer performances during La Grande Nuit on March 1, 2025, as part of Montreal’s Nuit blanche. A sound and visual installation by Katharina Klement will also be presented at the Chaufferie of the Agora du Cœur des sciences at UQAM.
The GRMS
Members of the Groupe de recherche sur la médiatisation du son (GRMS), affiliated with the School of Media at the Université du Québec à Montréal, explore the relationships between the production, transmission, and phenomenologies of sound. They aim to comprehensively understand the reality of sound in its various aspects.
Their mission is to study the heuristic value and functions of sound in different contexts, including social, media, artistic, and utilitarian manifestations. They explore the relationships between sound production, the context of its transmission, and its phenomenological aspects.
Published on Wednesday January 29, 2025.
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