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SINCITY OF
MONTREALS MUTEK FESTIVAL
SOUNDAND
not tropical summer, Montrals plazas echo with
music, its terrasses overflowing with revellers and its
venues choked with nightlife. The vibrant and diverse
metropolis has crowned itself City of Festivals
though with its neon strip joints and laissez-faire
attitudes towards drinking and debauchery, City ofSin remains apt and over the course of three
months from June through August, over 100 festivals
storm the streets, from the internationally recognized
Festival du Jazz, and its large-scale, free urban concerts
to the equally impressive for my tastes Montreal
Beer Fest, which kicks off four days of taste bud
titillation. And this is but a sampling of Montrals
endless stream of day-and-night events dedicated to
world theatre, film, music, dance, and opera and
joyous celebrations of culture, circus and comedy.
One week before the infamous F1 Grand Prix, I
was in town for the 15th anniversaries of the MUTEK
and Elektra festivals of electronic music and digital
arts (now known as EM15). Back in 2002, MUTEK
drew me to Montral, serving as a focal point for
experimentalists of strange and minimalist sound,
post-raver turntablists and tattooed techno-heads.
Now that Canadian electronic producers such as
Richie Hawtin are world-recognized for their talents
in composition, performance, and installation
though embarassingly, all but ignored by the likes ofCBCs Q, even as they grace major media elsewhere
MUTEK has become an international destination for
dedicated techno-head travellers as one of the worlds
premiere boutique electronic music festivals.
MUTEKs success is thanks to a community that
values its arts. The Society for Art and Technology
(SAT) a 30,000-square-foot media arts venue in a
former downtown warehouse has been building
upon a Printemps Numeriques showcase of technology
arts for the past decade. At the same time, the city has
been developing what is known as the Quartiers des
Spectacles. The Opra de Montral and Muse dart
Contemporain (MAC) are now the institutional
centrepieces to modern galleries and performance
venues on surrounding streets. The Quartier is not
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ontral, however, has a few things on West Coast living. It
is the place where hang-ups go to die. English coldness rots
away during the vicious winters. Friendships are fast and
run deep. And with the sudden onset of an often humid if
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Canada isnt so much of a tale of two cultures
as it is torn between two styles of city: for thosedouble-dosha types who embrace mountains but
also music, alpinism but also art, culture but also
climbing, then it is between Vancouver and Montralthat one is tugged to and fro, in the endless quest
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only in name, but place: the St. Catherines
thoroughfare and side streets are closed to
traffic during summer, creating a massive
people plaza that extends east through the
LGBT Village.
This year, EM15 occupied the MACs
illustrious galleries a first for the festival
and a nod to the institutionalization of the
former dregs of rave culture. But rather than
stifle the fests minor bohemia, the MACprovided thunderous sound in a minimalist
setting that was rapidly dismantled of its
pretensions by the late-night antics of
festival-goers. The six days and nights of
performance were near overwhelming,
with conferences on music software and
technology during the day at Centre Phi,
and music thumping and squelching until 6
a.m. most nights in multiple venues hosting
simultaneous showcases. Nearly all modern
electronic artists incorporate immersive
takes on audio-visual performance, and
EM features both club-style concerts in the
two-level Mtropolis venue that featured
the latest in LED projections and object
mapping, as well as more thankfully restfulaffairs in the beautifully renovated art deco
Thatre Imprial, where artists utilised the
film screen and stage space to play live
amongst image and objects.
The heart of EM is its live performances
of enveloping sonics whether vibrating
bodies with slamming techno, such as
Frances Kangding Ray, who melted
the opening Tuesday night, or losing
spectators in a literal fog of noise and
disorientating darkness, as did local
luminary Tim Hecker. Other highlights
included Audion (a.k.a. Matthew Dear),
who ran raw techno from a space ship
suspended above the stage at Metropolis;
the deep sea subsonics of Greeces dub
techno master and Basic Channel pioneer,
Fluxion; and the always rambunctious,
and this year utterly rammed showcase
at Piknic Electronik, an outdoor Sunday
shindig of epic proportions held under
LHomme, the giant, metallic Alexander
Calderstabile in Parc Jean Drapeau, where
Move D and Donato Dozzy held court
until well past sunset.My main transport for Montreal events
that tax mind and body is a BIXI and a
metro pass. With no mandatory helmet
laws and plenty of protected bike lanes,
two wheels gets you near anywhere.
Plenty of convenient lodging is within a
few walking blocks of the Quartier des
Spectacles, including the boutique and trs
modern Hotel 10.
After six days of dawn crashes, it was
time to escape town. With luxury wheels
from Enterprise, I gunned out to the Eastern
Townships, devouring delicacies at Bromonts
Muse du Chocolat off Autoroute 10 before
making my way to the picturesque, brick
town of Sherbrooke. A day spent at the SpaAlgua-Sulis for multiple rounds of hot saunas
and massages had me ready to collapse with
drink in hand in Qubecs cottage country. A
cute little chalet fulfilled the needs of my lazy
bones on Petit lac Brompton, where only the
storms and sun provided the soundtrack for
the next few days of solitude.
MUTEK/E lektra (EM15.ca) takes place
yearly on the first weekend of June. For
more on Montrals numerous festivals, see
Tourisme-montreal.org. For Hotel 10, see
Hotel10montreal.com. Sherbrookes Spa Algua-
Sulis is at Spaalguasulis.com and the Muse du
Chocolat at Museeduchocolatebromont.ca.
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