magali babin + I8U
Magali Babin
A rather small electrical object : touching, rubbing, nearly eroding another one from daily life. Wherever there’s a cavity and game, something is generated. Wiredrawn, enamelled voices are born. Rustling, hissing, shining, screeching, tinting, trembling, growling alloys…One might say: chisel and mineral. But not strictly, because despite the presence of matter and mineral, they “have more than one way to them. Out of inertia they yield but appearances and false testimonies…All that is infinite between sound and ideas (…)’’ [Daniel Oster, In l’intervalle, P.O.L 1987]
I8U
I8U's musical path is rather special. From classical music to the blues, it took only one chance meeting with David Kristian to get her involved in electronic music. I8U has participated in various music and new technology festivals across Canada, Europe and the US, such as Silophone (Montréal, 2000), Mutek (Montréal, 2001), Le Festival de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (2002), Ver Uit de Maat (Rotterdam, 2002), and a soundtrack by Bubblyfish and I8U for the movie Swordswoman of Huangjiang / Huangjiang Nuxia presented at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater Festival : Heroic Grace : The Chinese Martial Arts Film in New York.
Her CDs have been released on Canadian and European labels,( bake / staalplaat, Oral, Piehead Records ) including a collaborative piece with Goem (Amsterdam). She regularly presents solo performances and often collaborates with Martin Tétreault, David Kristian and Magali Babin. I8U's particular interest in music, sound and Web art allowed her to produce her first Web art project, Obstacle, which was presented as part of Périphérique, a laboratory curated by Nicole Gingras and created in collaboration with the Groupe Intervention Vidéo (Montréal, 2001). A second Web art project, _ S Ü was presented at the Musée du Québec in the fall of 2002 in the context of the Web art exhibit " Ellipse ", curated by Valérie Lamontagne and included 5 other Canadian artists.Her latest project Median, is an interactive piece created in the context of a Web art residency at LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE.