Montréal-based composer, digital artist, and performer Myriam Bleau uses music and sound as a point of departure to create audiovisual performances, installations, and interactive interfaces that articulate light, sound, and movement. Embracing ephemeral and elusive contexts, her hybrid practice explores the porous boundaries between the physical and virtual realms, as well as the natural and the synthetic. Treating technology—from code and machine learning to physical computing—as an active co-creator rather than a mere tool, her work has been recognized internationally at major festivals and events such as Prix Ars Electronica, Sónar, MUTEK, Transmediale, and L.E.V.
Soft Revolvers is an audiovisual performance for 4 spinning tops built with clear acrylic by the artist. Each top is associated with an ‘instrument’ in an electronic music composition and the motion data collected by sensors – placed inside the tops – informs musical algorithms. With their large circular spinning bodies and their role as music playing devices,the interfaces strongly evoke turntables and DJ culture, hip hop and dance music. LEDs placed inside the tops illuminate the body of the objects in a precise counterpoint to the music,
creating spinning halos.
This performance is co-presented by MUTEK, with the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
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