Louis-Olivier Desmarais
Based in Montreal, sound artist Louis-Olivier Desmarais navigates between radio, music, documentary, music to image and electroacoustic composition. Throughout his career, he developed an interest in immersion by creating his works on spatialized sound systems such as the speaker dome, octophony and binaural. His work has been recognized both in Quebec and internationally, where he was the recipient of the Pierre Schaeffer Discovery Prize awarded by Phonurgia Nova (France, 2017), the Gulliver scholarship (RTBF, SADC Belgium / France, 2017) in addition to be broadcast in numerous festivals and radio stations on the European continent. He has also worked as a composer and sound designer for Moment Factory productions.
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Abbaye
On the shores of Lake Memphremagog, in Quebec, stands the Abbey of Saint-Benoît-du-Lac. 27 monks live there, according to the precepts of the Rule of Saint Benedict. \*Abbaye\* proposes to meet them, though sound. A contrasting universe where sound and poetic encounters are staged between the microscopic and the immense, the prosaic and the spiritual, the anecdotal and the imaginary, the ancien...
Abbaye
On the shores of Lake Memphremagog, in Quebec, stands the Abbey of Saint-Benoît-du-Lac. 27 monks live there, according to the precepts of the Rule of Saint Benedict. \*Abbaye\* proposes to meet them, though sound. A contrasting universe where sound and poetic encounters are staged between the microscopic and the immense, the prosaic and the spiritual, the anecdotal and the imaginary, the ancien...
