CONTACT | smallscalemusic@gmail.com

Hailing from Montreal, Small Scale Music is an independently run music label interested in releasing challenging music (Free Improvisation, Noise, Free Jazz…) primarily on small runs of tapes, cds and digitally. Artists are given total freedom on what appears on their albums (music and visual). Small Scale Music aspires to offer beautiful music to curious listeners and to treat the artists with respect and integrity.

Small Scale Music est une maison de disque indépendante montréalaise intéressée à faire paraître de la musique différente (Improvisation, Jazz Libre, Noise) en petits tirages sur cassettes, cd et numériquement. Les artistes ont plein contrôle de ce qui se retrouve sur leurs albums (musique et visuel). Small Scale Music aspire à partager de la musique passionnante aux oreilles aventureuses et à traiter les artistes avec respect et intégrité.

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cinéma-tek / camératroniques

formally known as johnny_ripper

also:
• Jean Néant
• Être Ensemble
• Loud Life
• La Poisse

• Page Vide
(with @sarahpageharp ) 
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radio, free improvisation, diy electronics

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This page is predominantly live recordings - please check out studio recordings here:
https://bekahsimms.bandcamp.com/
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Composer Bekah Simms hails from St. John's, Newfoundland and is currently based in Glasgow after nine years living and working in Toronto. Her varied musical output has been heralded as “cacophonous, jarring, oppressive — and totally engrossing!” (CBC Music), “tough, even gutsy...with a sure sense of original and vibrant colours” (Vancouver Sun), and lauded for its "sheer range of ingenious material, expressive range and sonic complexity" (The Journal of Music.) Propelled equally by fascination and terror toward the universe, her work is often filtered through the personal lens of her anxiety, resulting in nervous, messy, and frequently heavy electroacoustic musical landscapes. Recent interests in just intonation and virtual instruments have resulted in increasingly lush and strange harmonic environments.

Bekah's music has been widely performed across North America and Europe. She has worked with some of the top interpreters of contemporary music internationally, including Crash Ensemble - with whom she is currently an artist-in-residence - Riot Ensemble, Eighth Blackbird, and l’Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal. Bekah has also been the recipient of over 35 awards, competitive selections, nominations, and prizes, including the 2019 Barlow Prize and the 2023 JUNO Award for Classical Composition of the Year. The resulting work from the Barlow Prize, "metamold," was nominated for the 2022 Gaudeamus Award. Works from her debut album “impurity chains” were nominated in both 2019 and 2020 for the JUNO Award for Classical Composition of the Year. Her music has thrice been included in the Canadian Section's official submission to World Music Days (2016, 2019, & 2021), and in 2016 the CBC included her among their annual 30 hot classical musicians under 30.

Bekah is a Lecturer at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, following previous academic positions at the University of Toronto and University of Western Ontario.  Her principal teachers during academic studies were Gary Kulesha and Andrew Staniland, alongside significant private study with Clara Iannotta and Martin Bédard.

Vous écoutez "La voix des Beaux-Arts", webradio de l'EBABX Ecole supérieure des Beaux-arts de Bordeaux.
Archives, pièces, conversations, créations, conférences : ces rendez-vous constituent une fenêtre ouverte sur l’école ainsi qu’une archive progressive de la diversité de ses travaux.

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Gabrielle Godbout est artiste interdisciplinaire qui vit et travaille à Montréal/Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang. Suite à des études en arts visuels et médiatiques à l’Université du Québec à Montréal, elle dédie sa pratique artistique à explorer les points de liaisons entre les arts visuels, le design et l’art sonore. Récemment elle produit une série d’œuvres pour les albums de la maison de disque Mikroclimat. Elle est également active sur la scène locale en tant qu’artiste sonore avec son projet solo Anette Zénith ainsi que les groupes Moshi Moshi, Guiom & Anette et Maison rêve. Elle est directrice artistique de l’événement Filles-troniques.

L’ensemble du travail de Gabrielle Godbout explore les thèmes de l’imaginaire et du temps. Sa pratique aborde l’idée des cycles de naissance, de vie et de mort, de construction et déconstruction à travers une vision surréaliste et hypnotique. Son travail sonore se décrit comme un voyage atmosphérique et vocal traversant des nappes de brouillards éthérées, des ondulations et des boucles méditatives. Son intention est de répondre artistiquement au enjeux actuels par la contemplation et l’écoute attentive. Son travail a été  présenté au Japon à Bruxelles et à travers le Canada dans nombreux festivals (Pop Montréal, Suoni Per Il Popolo, Eastern Bloc, MEG, MAI).

Rehab Hazgui is a Tunisian modular synthesis performer and composer. Her work explores the endless movement of sound, repetition, and the use of silence as a third space to navigate between different forms of listening. 
At the heart of her sonic research is the concept of achieving a synergetic cognitive interaction, which involves the seamless collaboration between human and machine to create an integrated and boundary-pushing musical performance. 
Her music is a unique and innovative experience that transcends traditional notions of music and technology, offering an unparalleled sonic journey for the listener. Her sonic creations challenge the listener's perception of time and space, showcasing her distinct approach to sonic exploration.

Montreal based experimental electronic artist, negotiating music that is both noisy and melodic and can be made on synthesizers. Adds on eastern vibes of  her Ukrainian roots to electronic music and invites in post punk and dance influences as well.

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