Venue: Sala Rossa (4848 St Laurent Blvd, Montreal, Quebec H2T 1R5) Date: September 29, 2025 Doors: 7:30 PM Music: 8:00 PM
Tickets: $15 or $20.00 (purchaser’s choice) plus taxes and fees in advance / $20.00 or $30.00 at the door NOTAFLOF
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Co-presented with Canadian New Music Network, daphne, EAF, Innovations en Concert, International Institute for the Critical Studies in Improvisation, Interzone, Le Vivier, Mardi Spaghetti, McGill University’s Laboratory of Urban Culture and Québec Musiques Parallèles.
Making their Canadian debut, BEAM SPLITTER is a duo for amplified voice, trombone, and analog electronics formed by vocalist Audrey Chen and trombonist Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø. BEAM SPLITTER’s ecstatic personal language combines highly-amplified and extended vocal and instrumental techniques with analog electronics, crafting raw and visceral physical play that stretches the corporeal limits of the voice and trombone. Sharing a common sense of pulse and an innate understanding of how they confront and abandon each consecutive moment, the duo strikes a captivating balance between fragility, intimacy, ecstasy and measured control. BEAM SPLITTER have been touring globally since 2015, playing over two hundred concerts in a wide variety of spaces and contexts on five continents, bringing their own brand of highly amplified dialog, which is as intimate as it is equal amounts raw and entirely exposed.
A performance by two imaginative sound artists. Anne-F Jacques is an artist based in Montreal, interested in amplification, erratic devices and trivial objects. Ryoko Akama is a Japanese-Korean artist working with installation, performance and composition, residing in Huddersfield (UK). Anne-F and Ryoko have been working together since 2016, an ongoing collaboration that involves sharing ridiculous ideas, failed or dangerous experiments, and occasional performances and releases.