The MUTEK festival returns in fine form for a 6th edition more coherent and diversified than ever. Exploring a new configuration of venues, MUTEK 2005 invites more than a hundred artists originating from 15 countries, to share their most recent creations. A fusion of genres, cosmopolitan backgrounds, harmonious vistas, original and unrestricted experimentations: version 2005 is a veritable invitation to an audio and visual voyage.

Thanks to a dozen or so programs of performances, conferences, workshops, and numerous surprises, MUTEK offers you the chance to take advantage of the treasures recently collected from its many explorations.

From original presentations to exceptional experiences, to playful productions, the multidimensional itinerary exists for the pleasure of the eyes and the ears.

Let yourself be captivated by today’s most current and cutting edge digital sound, music, and audiovisual creation.

ASKAA is a performative installation by Dominique T. Skoltz and Herman W. Kolgen, two Montréal multidisciplinary artists who draw their inspiration from organic images and microtonal sounds. The public can move in and around the piece, made up of translucent giant video screens which launch, at random, computer-generated images coupled with sound particles. ASKAA is presented in collaboration with MUTEK from June 1 to 5. With its program of new media performances, contemporary music, theatre and experimental cinema, the Musée introduces visitors to innovative practices in contemporary art.

ASKAA is an interactive ecosystem inspired by vegetation. With this project, Skoltz_holgen have developed an evolving sound/image platform that reacts in real time to sonic influxes. Displayed on the gigantic projection screens, virtual plants can be seen in perpetual evolution, while simple impulses of sound will randomly modify their developmental process as well as their environment.

In performance mode, the installation will be amplified by the addition of guest artists. These artists, once immersed in the illuminated botanically settings, will assume the capacity to stimulate the evolving vegetation pattern with their particular styof of sonic influxes. See the website for a list of all the guest artists as well as the scedule of their performance.