(3) The third Périphérique took place on October 25th 2003, in an industrial space undergoing transformations, on Holt street in Montreal. Performances gravitated around a core of spectators moving about in the space filled with scaffholdings and construction materials.
Dominique Sirois + David Jacques improvised using various motorized and transformed elements, self-made wave generators, contact and electromagnetic mics, pedals. This resulted in a dense sound ambient of electric impulses, continuously evolving with various delay set-ups.
Sébastien Lapointe interacted with a custom-designed video interface, specifically programmed for exploring issues of hearing and perceiving one's own (and the other's) voice. Recorded voices from video interviews with four persons on the matter were controlled through real time manipulation. Looking at video sequences projected on a screen, the relation to our perception of these recorded voices appropriated by the programmed apparatus became gradually unsettling. Rythmic intervals and fragmented loops were generated by this device of repetition and differenciation.
Aimé Dontigny gave a rare performance involving personal writings and sound manipulations. Cut-ups mixed with traficated sound experiments, unveiling states of desire and illusions, contexts of oppression and resistance.
