The Canadian artists – the interdisciplinary Langevin-Tétrault and sound artist Côté – present the world premiere of their new audiovisual work, a 25-minute piece featuring 4k projection, enhanced with a lighting system, and live performance on modular synthesizers and computers.

Dawn (aube in French) is a natural and universal phenomenon of transition, from one state to another, night to day. Light is revealed little by little, abstract shapes and silhouettes stand out, color gradually comes back to life, meaning emerges from the night. Moving lighting changes the appearance of the surroundings, nature gradually awakens, light reflects and refracts. Dawn is both mysterious and a bearer of hope, a potential that is revealed and actualized daily.

As a composition, Aubes consists of exuberant, dynamic, and varied sound synthesis, while the visual is created using only evolving and unpredictable noise generators. The result is colorful, rich, and dense, in perpetual evolution and renewal, playing with the effects of retinal persistence and the critical threshold of perception. 

This project is supported by Canada Council for the Arts and Quebec Council for the Arts, artist-run centres Avatar and Daïmôn in Canada, and Elektron Musik Studion (EMS) in Stockholm.

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