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Magali Babin is a musician, composer and sound artist based primarily in Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

, Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

, Canada

Canada

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. Active since the mid-1980s, she received several commissions from many prestigious new music festivals and organisations.

«Chemin de Fer» (2000) was commissioned for performances produced by the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...

, under a program developed and curated by Mario Gauthier. Her works were also made possible with grants from the Inter-Arts Program of the Canada Council for the Arts and from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

The Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec is a public agency founded in 1994 by the government of Quebec .- Mission :The Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec offers support and funding for art projects that exhibit artistic excellence...

Music

Magali Babin's musical work occurs through the massive amplification of tiny resonances in different objects. In her solo work, she usually produces dense and brooding soundscapes from a collection of recordings and live actions. Famous for the use of her custom made musical instruments and for the non-standard use of musical instruments, Babins music works are based on indeterminacy in music

Indeterminacy in music

Indeterminacy in music, which began early in the twentieth century in the music of Charles Ives, and was continued in the 1930s by Henry Cowell and carried on by his student, the experimental music composer John Cage beginning in 1951 , came to refer to the movement which grew up around Cage...

, tape music

Tape Music

Tape Music is an experimental 10" vinyl release by Jack Dangers. The vinyl release was coupled with the album Sounds Of The 20th Century No2 when released as a flexi disc vinyl....

and improvisation

Improvisation

Improvisation is the practice of acting, singing, talking and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment and inner feelings. This can result in the invention of new thought patterns, new practices, new structures or symbols, and/or...

. She is also part of the music performance trio mineminemine

Mineminemine

Mineminemine are an eclectic Canadian experimental music and performance art group, working since the late 1990s in conceptual-based musical forms. The band was founded in 1999 by the three interdisciplinary artists Magali Babin, André Éric Létourneau and Alexandre Saint-Onge with the support of...

along with André Éric Létourneau

André Éric Létourneau

André Éric Létourneau is a French Canadian media and transmedia artist, author, musician, composer and curator based primarily in Montreal, Canada. He uses several pseudonyms, most notably François Quoirez and algojo)André Éric Létourneau (born September 25, 1967) is a French Canadian media and...

and Alexandre Saint-Onge.
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Collaborations

From 1983 to 1988, Magali Babin have been part of the Montreal based experimental music girl group Nitroglycérine. Since the 1990s, Magali Babin collaborated frequently with worked with many performance artists to create performances, video and installations, among them ; John Berndt

John Berndt

John Berndt is a musician and organizer based in Baltimore, Maryland who is best known as an extended-technique experimental saxophonist and electronic musician. He participated in the second wave of the neoism cultural movement, the first wave having consisted of Monty Cantsin, Istvan Kantor, and...

, Christof Migone

Christof Migone

Christof Migone is an experimental sound artist and writer, formerly based in Montreal, now living in Toronto.He is the Director/Curator of the Blackwood Gallery and is a lecturer at the Centre for Visual and Media Culture at The University of Toronto's Mississauga campus.Migone's solo recordings...

, Jocelyn Robert, André Éric Létourneau

André Éric Létourneau

, Martin Tétreault

Martin Tétreault

Martin Tétreault is a free improvisation musician and visual artist. Often using the turntable as the basis for his experimental music, he has released many collaborative records with people such as Kevin Drumm and Otomo Yoshihide, as well as his own solo work.-External links:* at Discogs...

and Istvan Kantor

Istvan Kantor

Istvan Kantor is a Hungarian born Canadian performance and video artist, industrial music and electropop singer, and founder of Neoism....

External links

Discography

- Twenty-three, Intransitive (2004) INT 023

- Magali Babin, i8u, Peak independent (2003) BI 01

- Chemin de fer, No Type (2002) IMNT 0203

- The Freest of Radicals, No Type (2002) IMNT 0201/02

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