Join us on Nuit Blanche for a free, fully outdoor concert of experimental electronic music in Winnipeg’s Exchange District, featuring Sote, OLVRA, and Mutable Body, and a special presentation of original radio work by Ardor.

Ata Ebtekar, better known as Sote, is an electronic music composer and sound artist based in Tehran, Iran. His wide-ranging love of rich sounds and textures is embodied in diverse paths such as hardcore club sounds, collaborations that straddle (traditional) acoustic and electronic instrumentation, and solo experimental electronics – making Ebtekar equally at home in concert halls, galleries, or clubs. Over the last two decades, he has released on labels such as Warp, Sub Rosa, Morphine, Diagonal, and Opal Tapes.

Pedro Oliveira (OLVRA) is a researcher, sound artist, and educator interested in the articulations of colonial (sonic) violence at the borders of the EU. Currently he is a fellow of the Junge Akademie der Künste Berlin under the program ‘AI Anarchies’. He holds a PhD from the Universität der Künste Berlin.

Mutable Body constructs hyper-real soundscapes from synthesized and sampled sources, orchestrating worlds at once familiar and alien. It is the solo project of Winnipeg, MB based composer Alison Hain. Building on over a decade of electroacoustic improvisation, performance, and experimental composition, Mutable Body’s current work distills genre-agnostic compositional forms into imagined scores for the minds eye and the stage. Her latest work, a full length album titled Nowhere, merges glitched braindance rhythms, prog rock, highly curated samples, and orchestral instrumentation into diverse and highly stimulating soundscapes. Moving from a long standing DIY background into the academic field, Alison’s works and skillset are rapidly evolving through Undergraduate Composition studies at the University of Manitoba. In addition to studying classical theory and compositional form, she is also training as a professional sound engineer for both live and studio contexts, while still producing her own work. With a prior background in film studies and directing, Alison specializes in composition for many forms of media, as well as video editing, production, and narrative development. 

From 7-8pm, we will be listening to Our Place in the Cosmos, a new commission for UMFM and CKUW, also broadcasting on 95.9 FM and 101.5 FM, by ambient duo Ardor. Live performances start at 8pm sharp.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION: The show is entirely free of charge and outdoors. 

We’re in a large surface lot at 416 Main Street, or behind 201 Portage Ave, with level entrance points at Main Street and from the alley behind Albert Street; the lot is gravel, but there are concrete surfaces near the stage where the alley is closed. 

The show is standing room but we have a limited number of chairs, including some reserved for those who need. Feel free to bring your own seating.