Synth Society Montréal is an informal collective of amateur and professional musicians, composers synth designers and DIY enthusiasts who want to share and learn from each other. Anyone is welcome to attend and listen, play and chat about modular synthesizers and music.

Synth Society est un collectif informel de compositeurs.trices, de concepteurs.trices de synthés et de bricoleurs qui souhaitent partager et apprendre les uns des autres. Tout le monde est le bienvenu pour assister et écouter, jouer et discuter des synthétiseurs modulaires et de la musique.

His music has been played internationally by several ensembles and soloists, including: The Riot Ensemble (UK), Quartetto Prometeo (Italy),  Latvian Radio Choir, Zeitfluss Ensemble (Austria), Platypus Ensemble (Austria), Ensemble Aleph (France), Ensemble Aventure (Germany), Ensemble Chromoson (Austria/Italia), Ensemble XX Jahrhundert (Austria), East Coast Contemporary Ensemble (USA), Duo Dillon-Torquati (Italy), Divertimento Ensemble (Italy), Rhythm Method Quartet (USA), Mise-En Ensemble (USA), L’arsenale Ensemble (Italy), Ensemble Reconsil (Austria), Antico Moderno Ensemble (USA), Richard Craig (UK), Haydée Schvartz (Argentina), Satoko Inoue (Japan), Nuntempe Ensamble (Argentina) and Ensamble Tropi (Argentina).
Also his music has been played at international music series and festivals like Tage für Neue Musik (Zürich, 2012); Wiener Konzerthaus (2017); MATA Festival (NYC, 2016), Spoleto Festival USA (Charleston, 2017); Gustav Mahler Music Weeks (Dobbiaco, 2018); New Directions Festival (Sweden, 2014); Dark Music Days (Iceland, 2018); music@villaromana (Firenze, 2018); Musica in Prossimità (Pinerolo, 2022); Mise-en Festival (NYC, 2018); Forum Wallis (Switzerland, 2019); “XXIII Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea de la Habana” (Cuba, 2009); musica aperta series (Winterthur, 2011); L’Imaginaire Festival (Strasbourg, 2013); Music Current (Ireland, 2021); Teatro Argentino de La Plata (2012); Bahia Actual (Argentina, 2016); Pu Joa Jornadas de Música Nueva (Paraguay, 2017); Teatro SODRE concert series (Montevideo, 2009);  Mínimo un Lunes (Buenos Aires, 2022); Festival Guitarras del Mundo (Argentina, 2017), among others.
Selected ‘Composer in Residence’ at the Artists in Residence Programm organized by the Austrian Federal Chancellery (Bundeskanzleramt Österreich) in cooperation with the KKA (Kultur Kontakt Austria) for 2016.

Awarded with the Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship (for 2022, Italy) and the Fromm Foundation Composers Fellowship (USA, 2020).

He was selected Composer in Residence by The Riot Ensemble (UK) for the year 2015.

From 2007 to 2014 he worked as Assistant in Composition with Mariano Etkin at the National University of La Plata.

He received the “Diploma di Merito“ at Accademia Musicale Chigiana in 2014, award given by Salvatore Sciarrino.

Invited as guest professor and composer at the festival Pu Joa (Paraguay) on years 2016 and 2017.

Born in Argentina, growing up in Choele Choel.
Composition studies with Mariano Etkin, María Cecilia Villanueva and Salvatore Sciarrino. 

In the framework of different workshops, fellowships, residences and festivals for composers he attended classes with Salvatore Sciarrino, Georg Friedrich Haas, Linda Catlin Smith, Stefano Gervasoni, Tristan Murail, Michael Jarrell, David Lang, Joshua Fineberg, Lee Hyla, Michaël Lévinas, -and Toivo Tulev, among others.

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

Modular Mondays.
Weekly modular synth and electronic music performances.
With performance, discussion, critique, and DIY advice.
Sessions are each up to twenty minutes in length.
There are usually five sessions per event.
We've seen Buchla, Serge, and Eurorack systems as well as software synthesizers, lasers and video synths.

All sessions are recorded.

You're welcomed to join. Held weekly in Montreal. Please visit: modularmondays.com for the most up-to-date location and time.

Las Micro-Jornadas de Composición y Música Contemporánea, nacen el año 2010 y continúan hasta la fecha. Este espacio tiene como propósito dos cuestiones importantes: estimular la producción musical de Córdoba y el país (esto no excluye la realización de obras de compositores de otras latitudes), y generar conocimientos teórico-prácticos. 

soundcloud 2: https://soundcloud.com/microjornadas2
contacto: microjornadas@gmail.com

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