Play
Experimental Listening
August 29 & 30, from 2pm | Atrium et Studio-Théâtre des Grands Ballets
The Play series returns to MUTEK Festival with a program of audiovisual performances presented in the afternoon. Conceived as a space where sound, image, and technological staging converge, it brings together projects that center the visual and musical experience in equal measure.
Between analog experimentation, DIY interfaces, and digital environments, Play explores different ways of creating images and narratives through live performance, exploring accessible and spectacular formats rooted in contemporary audiovisual practices.
Play 1
Saturday, August 29, 2026, 2pm
Play 1 brings together three audiovisual performances that explore different ways of looking, perceiving, and letting oneself be absorbed by image.
Between live-manipulated video, feedback systems, analog projections, and lasers, the evening moves from contemplative states to more tense and hypnotic forms. Trains filmed and transformed into shifting landscapes, an eye caught in a feedback loop of sound and image, black-and-white compositions that play with light and perception: each project develops its own relationship with time, attention, and immersion.
The whole program builds a progression between drift, fixation, and suspension, in an approach where the visual setup remains firmly at the center of the experience.
Info
Estelle Schorpp & charline dally — dreamachine
JS Baillat & Mateo Murphy — Dissemblance
pliq — Fixate
Play 2
Sunday, August 30, 2026, 2pm
Play 2 brings together three audiovisual performances centered on repurposed devices and live-built systems.
A piano becomes a control cockpit, lasers generate their own sonic material, and moving dioramas filmed in real time imagine post-human landscapes. Between IDM, glitch, light experimentation, and low-tech science fiction, the performances explore the relationships between image, sound, and interface.
This program highlights accessible, playful, and immersive approaches, where machines, light, and mechanical objects remain visible and participate fully in the construction of audiovisual environments.
Jenn Mong & Trevor Van de Velde — COCKPIT
Paul Vivien — L'Harmonie De Notre Absence
Super Galaxy Meow Meow — Reciprocity
