Free improvisation duet composed of saxophonist Antonin Bourgault and cellist Audréanne Filion, both composers and improvisers.  Based in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke.

Artiste du son (composition, art sonore, paysage sonore, artvideo)

Ensemble AKA explores the boundaries and relationships between written and improvised music.
L'Ensemble AKA explore les frontières et les relations entre musique écrite et musique improvisée.

Olivier Alary is a Montreal-based musician and composer who has released his own recordings, as well as composing for film and exhibitions. Since 2000, he has collaborated with Björk, Nick Knight, Doug Aitken, Monia Chokri, Maxime Giroux, Yung Chang, the NFB and the Centre Pompidou amongst others. 
For the past ten years, he has also provided soundtrack for several feature-length fiction films and documentaries, some of which have received prestigious awards and screenings in Europe, the US and China.

Selected Discography

'u,i' collaborative project with Johannes Malfatti on 130701
'Fiction / Non-Fiction' on 130701
'Pieces for Sine Wave Oscillators' on LINE
'Excerpts', 3rd album with FatCat Records
'Ensemble', 2nd album with FatCat Records
'Disown, delete', e.p on Fat Cat Records
'Sketch Proposals', debut album on Rephlex records
'Sun in my mouth recomposed by Ensemble', Ensemble's 1st Björk remix (Vespertine)
'Cocoon retangled by Ensemble', Ensemble's 2nd Björk remix (Vespertine)
‘Mouth's Cradle recomposed by Ensemble’, Ensemble's 3rd Björk remix (Medúlla)
‘Desired Constellation’ on Björk’s album (Medúlla)


Selected film music:

'La nuit des rois', fiction film directed by Philippe Lacôte
'La femme de mon frère', fiction film directed by Monia Chokri
'The Great Darkened Days', fiction film directed by Maxime Giroux
'First Match', fiction film directed by Olivia Newman
 'Allure', fiction film directed by Carlos and Jason Sanchez
 'Resurrecting Hassan', documentary directed by Carlo Guillermo Proto
 'Oh What a Wonderful Feeling', short fiction film directed by François Jaros
 'Ville-Marie', fiction film directed by Guy Édoin
 'Felix and Meira', fiction film directed by Maxime Giroux
 'Corbo', fiction film directed by Mathieu Denis
 'Yo', fiction film directed by Matias Meyer
 'China Heavyweight', documentary directed by Yung Chang
 'Jo pour Jonathan', fiction film directed by Maxime Giroux
 'Last Train Home', documentary directed by Lixin Fan
 'The Dreaming', short fiction film directed by Anthony Green
 'Up the Yangtze', documentary directed by Yung Chang

Pedram Diba is an Iranian-American composer whose work investigates how sound, space, light, and gesture function as interrelated compositional materials. He approaches these elements as dynamic agents within a unified expressive system, crafting works that unfold across multiple sensory dimensions. His music has been praised for its “powerful interaction and striking richness of components” (ResMusica, France) and for its “deep sense of musical energy and great attention to the organicity and morphological profiles of sound” (Pierre Jodlowski).

His works have been presented at international festivals including SEAMUS, IRCAM Forum, ICMC, Splice, SICMF, and New Music Gathering, and performed at venues such as the DiMenna Center (New York), Le CENTQUATRE (Paris), CKL Stage (Seoul), Constellation (Chicago), and Le Gesù (Montreal). Upcoming projects include a new work for TAK Ensemble and a multimedia work for Duo Riso, both scheduled for premiere in 2026.

He is the recipient of the Residency Prix CIME (International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music, 2025), the William T. Faricy Award for Outstanding Composition (Northwestern University, 2025), a Research-Creation Grant from the ACTOR Project (2021–2022), the Max Stern Fellowship in Music (McGill University, 2018–2020), First Place in the Ensemble Ibis Composition Competition (2017), and the Outstanding Scholar in Composition Award (University of Oregon, 2017).

Diba earned a B.M. in composition from the University of Oregon, an M.M. from McGill University (with Philippe Leroux), and completed the IRCAM Cursus in Paris (with Pierre Jodlowski and Claudia Scroccaro). He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in composition and music technology at Northwestern University (with Alex Mincek, Hans Thomalla, and Jay Alan Yim). His works are published by BabelScores.
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Please feel free to contact me via email:
pedram.diba@gmail.com

Official Website:
www.pedramdiba.com

Babel Scores:
https://www.babelscores.com/PedramDiba

IRCAM:
https://www.ircam.fr/person/pedram-diba

ACTOR Project:
https://www.actorproject.org/profiles/pedram-diba

Experimental saxophonist and composer based in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke

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