Every year, during the festival, we record the performances to let you relive those unique moments shared on the dancefloor.

MUTEK 2023 Live Recording - Édition 24

MUTEK Montréal is a multi-venue celebration of digital creativity held in the city’s cultural heart. 

Each year, the festival devotes itself platforming artists and thinkers working across electronic music, sound and visual arts, and invites them to come together in Canada’s second largest city for a sprawling six days of events.

Today, we’re presenting a two-part live mix series, recorded at the festival’s 24th edition earlier this year. This set from E-Saggila is a tantalising sneak peek of new material from the Iraq-born, Toronto-based DJ and producer, slated for release next year. A deliciously intense listen.

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Live from MUTEK Montréal: E-Saggila

MUTEK Montréal is a multi-venue celebration of digital creativity held in the city’s cultural heart. 

Each year, the festival devotes itself to platforming artists and thinkers working across electronic music, sound and visual arts, and invites them to come together in Canada’s second largest city for a sprawling six days of events.

Today, we’re presenting a two-part live mix series, recorded at the festival’s 24th edition earlier this year. Every bit of bright and vibrant as its accompanying artwork, this recording from scene staple Jennifer Cardini harnesses the energy of festival season and transports it direct to your speakers. 

"MUTEK was the highlight of my summer, the energy in that beautiful room was amazing and it was an absolute honour to be invited to share the stage with so many artists I love," says Cardini. "Hope you can feel that in this mix." Serious fun guaranteed.

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Live from MUTEK Montréal: Jennifer Cardini

MUTEK présente la performance live de l’artiste canadienne Carmen Jaci, enregistrée lors de la 24e édition du festival à Montréal en août dernier.

La performance de Carmen Jaci explore l'impact de la technologie sur nos identités à travers la visualisation de ses données personnelles collectées au fil des ans. Cette composition musicale hétéroclite et fantaisiste se tenant à la lisière du surréel a eu lieu en première canadienne au festival MUTEK le 23 août 2023. Initialement, c’est une performance qui combine le son avec les éléments visuels avec l'artiste Matthew Schoen.

Productrice et compositrice canadienne basée aux Pays-Bas, Carmen Jaci conçoit des univers fantaisistes où des sons caractéristiques de l’enfance s’enchevêtrent à ceux de la musique populaire et des compositions symphoniques. Exploitant les contrastes entre organicité et électronique, elle propose des assemblages hybrides où convergent instruments acoustiques, synthétiseurs et enregistrements vocaux. Ses projets récents s’inspirent des techniques de production en studio et des codes propres à la musique de danse que l’artiste déconstruit, donnant libre cours à son imagination.

MUTEK invite CARMEN JACI - 22 Novembre 2023

Alexis Langevin-Tétrault & Guillaume Côté (CA/QC) @alexis-langevin-t-trault & @guillaumecote 
North America Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 24
A/Visions 1 on August 25, 2023
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This is one of Alexis Langevin-Tétrault and Guillaume Côté's most unique audiovisual creations, both dazzling and accessible. It is an open door to their imagination, from which emerges a certain exalted euphoria.

MUTEKLIVE299 - Alexis Langevin Tétrault & Guillaume Côté

Ale Hop (PE/DE) @alehophop2 
Canadian Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 24
Play 3 on August 26, 2023
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By avoiding overbearing postures or gestures while playing her guitar, Ale Hop adopts a position of vulnerability in front of her audience to encourage visceral experiences and emotions.

MUTEKLIVE298 - Ale Hop

AAAA (MX) @gabobarranco 
North American Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 24
Expérience 4 on August 25, 2023
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With the performance Xtasy_Core, Gabo Barranco (also known as AAAA) is exploring the boundaries of melodic analog assaults, reaching the limits of trance state melodies and techno rumble rhythms embellished with glitches and post-IDM motives.

Presented as part of @zzkrecords 15 year anniversary

MUTEKLIVE297 - AAAA

Amselysen & Racine (CA/QC) @amselysen & @julienracine
World Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 24
Nocturne 2 on August 24, 2023
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For their first stint at MUTEK as a duo, the two artists, who had collaborated in various ways before, showcased a convergence of their respective practices: Amselysen, known for their chaotic and iconoclastic interventions and a unique sense of subversion; Racine, renowned for his mastery of spatial and temporal gesturality, often accompanied by a lush sonic vocabulary.

MUTEKLIVE300 - Amselysen & Racine

Anatohl (FR/QC) @anatohl
World Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 24
Expérience 4 on August 25, 2023
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Drawing inspiration from 90s-2000s Deep house, Dub techno, Electro, Minimal and Ambient, Anatohl proposes a dynamic and visceral musical patchwork; groovy and at times bittersweet, melancholic and ethereal, filled with cavernous bass, sparkling percussion and stellar layers.

MUTEKLIVE301 - Anatohl

Atamone (CA/QC) @atamone
World Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 24
Expérience 6 on August 27, 2023
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Want to lounge and forget all your worries? Like lo fi hip hop beats to relax to? Montreal-born Inuk beatmaker Atamone's got you covered. His shimmering sunshine beats and effortless breezy melodies are automatic good vibes.

MUTEKLIVE302 - Atamone

Brett Bolton (US) @kitzestuff
Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 24
Nocturne 1 on August 23, 2023
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Brett Bolton explores the various phases of matter by gradually transforming the surface of a custom-made drum projection instrument into its solid, gaseous, liquid and plasma states.

MUTEKLIVE304 - Brett Bolton

AUX 88 (US) @aux88
Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 24
Nocturne 1 on August 23, 2023
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Aux 88’s live performances very much feel like a rousing old-school Hip-hop show. Though the latter certainly has legitimate claims on Aux 88’s sound, so do Techno, Miami Bass, Trip-hop and Funk. Still, the Detroit-based pair never aims to fit a narrow definition, but rather strives to make people dance, by any means necessary.

MUTEKLIVE303 - AUX 88

Cinthie (DE) @cinthie
DJ set at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 24
Expérience 6 on August 27, 2023
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Berlin’s Cinthie has grown to become one of the most prominent figures in the contemporary house scene in recent years.

MUTEKLIVE305 - Cinthie

DATUM CUT (CA/QC)
North America Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 24
A/Visions 2 on August 26, 2023
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Post-digital and analog meet in this performance by DATUM CUT, where creative methods associated with experimental cinema and video art merge with those of digital technologies.

MUTEKLIVE306 - DATUM CUT

Deabeat présente Ark Welder Guild (CA/DE) @ark-welders-guild
North America Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 24
Nocturne 4 on August 26, 2023
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Ark Welders Guild is a new audiovisual project created by Scott Monteith, best known by his stage name Deadbeat, in collaboration with Italian singer Letizia Trussi

MUTEKLIVE307 - Deadbeat présente Ark Welders Guild

Deena Abelwahed (TN/FR) @deenaabdelwahed
North America Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 24
Nocturne 5 on August 27, 2023
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Merging techno, Arab musical frameworks and hypnotic vocal harmonies, Deena Abdelwahed’s music doesn’t soothe; the sounds she crafts unambiguously reflect the frustrations and violence of the modern world, yet unleash a torrent of life-saving energy and rhythms intended to induce meaningful change.

MUTEKLIVE308 - Deena Abdelwahed

MUTEK présente la performance live de l’artiste canadien Emissive, enregistrée lors de la 24e édition du festival à Montréal en août dernier.

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MUTEK invite EMISSIVE - 27 Décembre 2023

Efe Ce Ele (CO/ES) @efeceele
World Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 24
Nocturne 2 on August 24, 2023
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Others is an A/V live set in which Efe Ce Ele creates immersive, real-time environments where the audience is immersed in an impactful audiovisual show spanning from ambient sounds to experimental dance music. The performance explores the intersection of living creatures and virtual synthetic entities, showcasing their coexistence.

MUTEKLIVE309 - Efe Ce Ele

Airhaert (CA/QC) @airhaert
Canadian Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 24
Expérience 2 on August 23, 2023
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This sonic exploration of healing musical instruments and traditional structures of electronic dance music production invites listeners to meditate while sitting, standing or dancing, as they embark on a journey through entrancing rhythms and vocal soundscapes.

MUTEKLIVE311 - Airhaert

Eƨƨe Ran (CA/QC) @esse-ran
World Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 24
Nocturne 2 on August 24, 2023
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Eƨƨe Ran presented a fluid experimental techno, combining various musical elements on different machines—no computer, featuring noise beats, post-rave sounds, with a touch of dark ambient tinged with industrial vibes.

MUTEKLIVE310 - Eƨƨe Ran

Halina Rice (UK) @halinarice
World Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 24
Nocturne 3 on August 25, 2023
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Halina Rice brings her unique immersive A/V live set to MUTEK in a show described as part rave, part art-happening. Blending emotionally evocative electronic music with impactful visuals and bespoke lightshow, the performance unites art, music and tech to deliver a mesmerizing experience. With a keen focus in her work on immersive sound, the show will be delivered in spatial audio to enhance the experience.

MUTEKLIVE312 - Halina Rice

Next Edition: 19_24.08.25 | International Festival of Digital Creativity & Electronic Music