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Cette recherche examine comment des pratiques artistiques influencées par la culture Hip Hop se déroulant dans un studio d’enregistrement communautaire participent au développement personnel et social de jeunes Montréalais·e·s racialisé·e·s. Il est soutenu qu’en incarnant des principes et valeurs associées au Hip Hop, le studio canalise et stimule un cadre permettant aux jeunes l’exploration de leurs identités multiples et marginalisées ce qui s’accompagne d’une part, d’une prise de conscience et d’émancipation en mobilisant des éléments de la culture Hip Hop pour stimuler une croissance personnelle reposant sur la liberté créatrice. D’une autre part, cette communauté ouvre la porte à la création du sentiment d’appartenance pour les jeunes Montréalais·e·s racialisé·e·s reposant sur la constitution de fondations et réseaux alternatifs au sein de la communauté du studio, de la scène locale et mondiale du Hip Hop. Ce faisant, le studio engendre l’émergence de solidarités affinitaires lui conférant un rôle de carrefour et de point d’ancrage pour cette communauté.

“Deaf music?” Faced with this question, many people think about the attempts to give Deaf people "access" to music, used here in its normative hearing form (eg a musical soundtrack). Translation of vocal songs in various sign languages, transformation of sound tracks into vibratory experience, musical rhythms broadcast by visual speakers... accessibility initiatives are numerous, but more often than not unidirectional: they aim to make hearing music accessible to Deaf people, reputed to live in a "world of silence". Our vibrant hands aim to deconstruct this concept of accessibility: what if hearing people had access to signed music? You can’t sign? Enjoy these creation by letting yourself be captivated by the vibrations. Inspired by the Deaf artist Christine Sun Kim who reclaims sound, Our vibrant hands is a research-creation carried out thanks to the collaboration of four Quebec Deaf artists of various origins. Four workshops held in 2018 allowed us to explore signed music, using (Quebec and American) sign languages, gestures and vibrations. Screened for the first time at the VIBE symposium: Challenging ableism and audism through the arts, it is here the subject of an eight- handed reflexion, produced in 2019. What attachment do we have with music? How is signed music different from hearing music? What does it mean for us to deconstruct audism in music? These are the questions that guided this multilingual exchange in Quebec sign language, French and English.

Flamboyante et indépendante, Alys Robi a marqué le Québec en étant sa première star internationale puis en voyant sa carrière s’interrompre brutalement, à vingt-cinq ans à peine, lorsqu’elle est internée contre son gré. Mais au-delà de ces deux grands axes à partir desquels on la raconte toujours, qui était-elle ? Pourquoi a-t-elle été internée ? Pourquoi, surtout, a-t-on oublié à quel point elle a été formidable ?Chantal Ringuet a plongé dans les archives de cette femme qui était sa grand-tante afin d’en brosser enfin un portrait exhaustif et de réhabiliter la mémoire d’une artiste exceptionnelle. Dans cette émouvante biographie qui flirte avec l’essai littéraire, elle nous entraîne dans l’envers du décor, sur les traces de cette diva qui a été tour à tour reine de la chanson, féministe avant l’heure, traductrice littéraire, porte-parole pour la santé mentale, incarnation du kitsch et égérie de la communauté gaie. Une femme qui, malgré les épreuves inouïes qu’elle a affrontées, a poursuivi son chemin la tête haute.

This article examines the deviated modes of seeing in the work of Canadian electro-pop band Purity Ring. Bringing their recent music into conversation with the theory of Tim Ingold and Eugenie Brinkema, I suggest that Megan James and Corin Roddick perform seeing as a granular, augmented act that continually shapes the boundaries between our bodies and the world around us. Particular attention is paid to James and Roddick’s creative engagement with optical touch and the formal capability of music to engage affectively with the act of seeing.By integrating musical examples, Tallulah Fontaine’s artwork for the band and the poetry of Kiran Millwood Hargrave, this article offers an expanded reading experience that spans the textual, the aural and the visual. I argue that the political crux of Purity Ring’s performance of perception lies in them moving beyond a reactionary response to patriarchal objectivity and towards a creative refiguration of perception as a form of subjectivation. The eyes that Purity Ring instantiate do not passively observe the world; they change it, both consoled and engulfed by the vicissitudes of perception.

Quebec-born playwright Chantal Bilodeau has been responding to the challenges of dramatizing anthropogenic climate change by developing an eight-part Arctic Cycle, each play of which is set in one of the nations that claims Arctic territory. Sila (2014) immerses audiences into a complex network of humans, animals, and mythical beings crisscrossing the Canadian Arctic. These movements circle around the Inuit concept of sila, which is the life-giving force of breath and voice. Thus, the sonic world of Sila focuses on voices speaking words, on performance poetry, and on the sounds of breath and wind. Bilodeau’ s second Arctic Cycle play, Forward (2016), addresses the long-term impact of Fridtjof Nansen’s polar exploration of the 1890s on Norway’s economy and society. In terms of sound, Forward features multiple musical performances rangingfrom traditional songs to European opera arias and Lieder to contemporary Norwegian electro-pop. The sonic features of both plays stress interdependence across time, space, as well as (non-)human, earthly, and metaphysical realms. Sila and Forward address climate change in a non-universalizing manner which promotes a heterarchical (rather than hierarchical) aesthetic fit for a growing awareness of planetary relationality.

"This thesis explores embodiment and gender within the contemporary Montreal swing dance community. Drawing on scholarship in musicology, dance studies, jazz studies, and gender studies, I investigate the relationship between dancers and musicians/DJs. I explore the many facets of this choreomusical conversation and trace this dialogic and collaborative relationship on the social dance floor. The contemporary community is a product of the swing revival and navigating issues of authenticity thus becomes an important consideration for dancers, musicians, and DJs alike. One product of this revival is the set of heteronormative values that underpin the contemporary community. I investigate to what extent these values are reified, challenged, or altogether subverted by participants through musical and choreomusical choices. To this end I conducted interviews with six informants, each of whom has experience as both a dancer and musician and/or DJ. Their privileged position arising from their dual experience affords them insight on the ways in which dancers and musicians/DJs function within the community. This thesis builds on existing scholarship by situating the voices of individuals with choreomusical experience in dialogue with existing scholarship, and ultimately revalues the importance of both embodied knowledge and gender within the swing community"-- Author's abstract

TAGS by Joane Hétu and TanGRAM by Danielle Palardy Roger are two written works that showcase graphic scores in improvised music. TAGS creates an encounter between Ensemble SuperMusique, the saxophone quartet Quasar, and the Bozzini Quartet. The musicians make “sound graffiti” on an imaginary wall represented by a sequence of timed sections on a descriptive score where the composer uses different instrumental combinations. Using an aesthetic of articulated gestures, the work is made through these multiple signatures. TanGRAM brings together twenty instrumentalists from Ensemble SuperMusique. The game of Tangram is represented in the form of a graphic score where each piece has specific musical properties to be interpreted by the musicians. Rich in combinatorial and symmetrical games, the work presents Orion: a continuous figure, a slowly moving flow where each musician seeks their own way in a global sound.

La parolière d’Ordinaire et du Mur du son, c’est elle. La muse du jeune Charlebois, c’est encore elle. La metteure en scène de spectacles mythiques (Magie rose, J’ai vu le loup, le renard, le lion) et d’innombrables galas, c’est toujours elle. « Elle », c’est Mouffe, figure légendaire du Québec en marche, née Claudine Monfette, alouette ! Diplômée de l’École nationale de théâtre, interprète de chansons en duo et de rôles d’ingénue, éternelle tête chercheuse, semeuse de bonnes idées et mentore de la relève, elle a contribué à faire de notre milieu artistique ce qu’il est. Journaux personnels de Mouffe, entrevues avec celle-ci mais aussi avec sa famille, ses amis, ses collègues : Carmel Dumas a remonté pendant plus de dix ans le fil de cette vie palpitante et trace ici le portrait d’une femme omniprésente et effacée, fantaisiste et sage. Une vieille âme enveloppée de candeur, extraordinaire survivante.

This document explores sacred music by women composers for the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) of the Catholic and Christian churches. The study researches exclusively choral and vocal solo music by women composers for the church season of Lent. Other primary limitations include music in English, and music from the nineteenth century to the present. The main question answered in this document is: what sacred music has been published by women composers that may be programmed in church services? This question is answered in the included appendices. These appendices list the music by women composers appropriate for the specific RCL readings for each Sunday of Lent, as well as the holidays of Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, and Good Friday. There are also appendices of choral and solo vocal pieces that are generally appropriate for the Lenten season. Every attempt was made to be as thorough as possible in identifying this music, with the understanding that no one compilation of this kind can ever be complete. Additionally, selected works by six composers are explored in this document: Emma Lou Diemer (b. 1927), Arletta O’Hearn (b. ca 1928), Jane M. Marshall (1924 – 2019), Rebecca Clarke (1886 – 1979), Violet Archer (1913 – 2000), and Undine Smith Moore (1904 – 1989). These composers are representative of the variety of styles, diversity, history, and levels of musical complexity within this body of music.