Residencia: Simon-Pierre Gourd [Canadá]. 25-29/05/2026
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RESIDENCY PROGRAM
The project Canciones pays tribute to the universal concept of song (Canciones) in Latin America and the guitar in all its forms. The residency also offers a wonderful opportunity for "comprovisation" with collaborator Pablo Garibay, the internationally renowned guitarist from Morelia. Thank you, Pablo, for your generous contribution.
More broadly, the project Canciones explores the idiomatic and idiosyncratic elements of the guitar in the world of song by identifying and utilizing the granularity of the small, defining elements of this music to gradually lay out and construct the traces of the Time—Memory.
Although the sources will be the guitar in dynamic conversation with the sung and spoken voices, the piece use electroacoustic language techniques and different deconstruction and reconstruction approaches using a generative AI system applied to notes, transformation and immersive spatial coordinates.
From a more sociological perspective, unscripted interviews about the idea of canción and the memories associated with it, conducted in Morelia and within Montreal’s Latin community, will also contribute to the project.
BIOGRAPHY
Simon-Pierre Gourd is a composer and professor of “sound creation and experimental media” at UQAM’s School of Media. A founding member of the University Institute of New Media, now known as the Hexagram Research-Creation in Arts, Culture and Technology network, his research focuses on developing interactive systems for new media, as well as studying sound-related issues in the context of interactivity and the use of new technologies. He is particularly interested in the perception of sonic language and the phenomena of representation emerging from current practices, especially immersive audio art. He is a research member of the GRMS (Research-Creation Group on Sound and Media). Gourd has created works across various fields: acousmatic music, immersive music, sound creations for new media, film, radio, television, theater, visual arts, and dance. His works have been disseminated in Europe, the United States, Mexico and Canada.
Research and Interests: Media creation, interactive media and immersive sound; experimental music and new technology issues; sound applied to multimedia; musical aesthetics and sonic language reception; preservation of works and technological artifacts from artistic practices; Research-creation methodology.
