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LÉA BOUDREAULT & SIMON CHIOINI

Québec | World Premiere
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This site-specific installation and performance explores and adapts to the specific location where it is presented. It playfully investigates the material, as well as the environmental and architectural particularities, of the site using DIY electronics, sound, and other unusual found objects. Amplifying and highlighting a variety of noises and sounds often inaudible to humans or easily missed, the project foregrounds the unique and living character of each place through attention to detail and active listening.

About the Artist

The duo of Léa Boudreau and Simon Chioini formed in 2024 for the exploration of sound, material, and the phenomenology of place. Considering a site as a more-than-human being, the artists create works with and within specific locations, paying particular attention to notions of coexistence, shared knowledge, and active listening. Combining their respective skills, moving from electronic design to audio art and performance, their duo practice unfolds through installation, performance, and site-specific forms. Their collaboration emerged from studio meetings organised by Chioini in 2023-24 where they explored sound and place through spontaneous site-specific performances, as well as from their participation in the roundtable, “What is the future of electroacoustics?,” organised as part of a research day for the 75th anniversary of musique concrète at the Université de Montréal.

  

Individually, both Boudreau and Chioini have presented their work internationally. They have received numerous professional and academic recognitions in recent years, including scholarships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and prizes in the Canadian Electroacoustic Community’s Jeu de temps competition (Boudreau, 2019-20; Chioini, 2020). Boudreau holds a bachelor’s degree in Digital Music from Université de Montréal and a master’s degree in StudioArts (Intermedia) from Concordia University. She will be the artist-in-residence at the Insectarium de Montréal through July 2025, where she is creating a work inspired by the rich and surprising world of insects. Chioini is a doctoral student in composition and sound creation at the Université de Montréal, where his research explores the relationship between sound, the environment, and social dynamics.