—THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2007 AT 8 pm

Jackie Gallant is a Montréal-based percussionist composer and performer who is active in the dance and video world. She has worked with LaLaLa Human Steps, Sarah Williams, Nelson Henricks and Dayna McLeod, among others. Drummer for the electro-rock band The Lesbians On Ecstasy and soundtrack designer, Jackie Gallant uses these experiences to develop a new approach to percussion using an Octopad (electronic drums consisting of 8 "drums" that trigger samples and sequences via a MIDI system). The Octopad becomes a real music box filled with surprising sounds. These samples, which come from a collection of vinyl or field recording, form a very syncopated soundscape that begins with a simple rhythm to gradually increase in intensity and complexity as and when the layers of sound are superimposed. For this evening, she will perform with her Octopad and improvise two pieces for percussion:Silt and Fleethead. Nancy Tobin is a sound artist and a designer of sound environments and broadcast systems for performing arts. She works the sound as a sculptor shapes the matter. Over the last fifteen years, she has developed an innovative approach in integrating sound for theatre and dance. She considers the speaker as an instrument in itself and uses it in an unusual way to transform the sound qualities of her works. Her design for multimedia installations have been presented at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and at the Festival international du nouveau cinéma et des nouveaux médias. She is currently finishing a series of thematic compositions on memory, playfulness, silence and contemplation. At Galerie B-312, she will offer us a special creation of sound architecture to experiment labyrinthine spaces and lose us along the way.