Audio Screening | I8u (France Jobin)

Event information

Hlysnan is SoundFjord’s monthly deep listening event. Bring your ears to the gallery to explore the world of sound is all its facets, guises and surprises! Experience new works from renowned and experienced artists as well as new blood. (Hear their works contextualised next to the sound art work and experimenta that informed their practice). An intense session of listening with the chance for questions and answers afterwards.

SoundFjord.Hlysnan: i8u
Audio Screening
Date: Sunday 13 February 2011 | 6-8pm
Doors: 5:40pm
Entry: £2

During the two-hour screening, the playlist you will hear is the result of four-month’s research through the i8u musical archive. The purpose of the research was simply to weave together a series of tracks to create a fitting atmosphere for immerson*: “two “consuming” evenings of minimal sound art… in which both artists and audience are mutually drawn into the same heights and depths of the sonic/emotional spectrum.” as i8u eloquently states.

The works you will hear are to be felt as well as heard.

The criteria for i8u’s choices are based on the sensitivity of the music, the unique identity of each artist and the immersion quality of each track. The order is designed to set the stage - sounds utilised as an introduction to the event that follow – whilst the conclusion to the evening is faded out elegantly, leaving room for the heart and mind to drift and dream into infinity.

By preparing the piece – stitching together works by various artists – i8u has discovered that although each work selected for her list may be appreciated independently, the entirety of the lengthy piece may be considered a work in its own right!

Along with the conceptual rigour and fine ear i8u has honed over the years, not only does she wish to stimulate the mind, the emotions and the body, she simply hopes you enjoy the work!

*immerson, is a concert event and philosophy initiated by France Jobin (i8u) which proposes to create a dedicated listening environment by focusing on the physical comfort of the audience through a specifically designed space. The premise for immerson is to seek out and explore new perceptions and experiences within the listening process by pushing the notion of “immersion” to its possible limits.

www.immerson.org (Francais) | www.immersound.org (English)

France Jobin aka i8u is a sound / installation / web artist and curator residing in Montreal, Canada. i8u’s audio art can be qualified as “sound-sculpture”. It reveals powerful, opaque and complex sound environments where analog and digital meet. Her installation/web art can be said to follow a parallel path, incorporating both musical and visual elements.

i8u has created solo recordings for ROOM40 (AUS), bake/staalplaat (NL), nvo (AT), DER (USA) as well as many collaborations notably with Goem, Martin Tétreault, David Kristian and the album “ligne” with Tomas Phillips, on the Japanese label, ATAK. She produced compilations tracks for ATAK (JP), bremsstrahlung (USA), Mutek (CA), and/oar (USA), tsuku boshi (FR), Extract,Portraits of Soundartists (book/cd) on the label nonvisualobjects (AUS).

She has participated in various music and new technology festivals Canada, Europe and the United States such as such as Silophone (Montréal, 2000), Mutek (Montréal, 2001, 2004-05, 2007-09), Le Festival de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (2002), Ver Uit de Maat (Rotterdam, 2002), SEND + RECEIVE (Winnipeg, 2003, 2005), Les Digitales (Bruxelles, 2004 ), Club Transmediale (Berlin, 2004), V’elak (Vienna, 2008), Shut up and Listen (Vienna 2009), ISEA RUHR 2010 (DE), Immersound (UK) as well as 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.

She collaborates with New York visual artist CHiKA, “Infinity”, an audio/visual piece was performed live at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and a screening was shown at the San Francisco Art Institute Lecture Hall, both events were curated by VOLUME. A recent new collaboration with artist and musician Cédrick Eymenier (France), has produced the work “EVENT HORIZON”, an audio/video piece which has been screened in Paris, at the Venezuela Biennale in Merida state and was performed live in LA as well as ISEA RUHR in 2010.

i8u’s web work/installations have been shown at Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Toronto’s Images independent film festival at MIVEAM 06. The AIR Artist-In-Residence program in Krems Austria enabled her to create “und transit”, a sound installation set in the cloister of MinoritenKirche in Stein, Austria

Her work continues to evolve as technologies enable her to create in new environments.