Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and Paul Clipson + Le Révélateur

Montreal, June 3, 2013 — On Friday, June 7, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal’s Nocturne will comprise two musical performances. The first, by the duo Le Révélateur (Roger Tellier-Craig and Sabrina Ratté), will offer a unique electronic audiovisual experience. The next performance, by San-Francisco-based artists Jefre Cantu Ledesma and Paul Clipson, will provide an amazing feast for the eyes and ears. The regular cost of admission is $12 or on presentation of the new MACarte ($35 per year), which includes a host of privileges in addition to free admission to all exhibitions and to the MAC’s Nocturnes. No reservations are required.

This Friday Nocturne is presented in partnership with the Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival and CKUT.

Le Révélateur started in 2008 as a solo venture for Montreal-based electronic musician Roger Tellier-Craig. It has since expanded into an audiovisual duo with the inclusion of video artist Sabrina Ratté in 2010. Together they explore a common fascination with the combination of electronic image and sound, using a varying array of digital and analogue technologies. They have performed together in many different cities including San Francisco (On Land Festival), Paris, Brooklyn, Mexico City (Mutek.Mx), Ottawa (Electric Fields Festival), Barcelona (Micro Mutek), Lyon and Montreal (Mutek, Suoni Per Il Popolo).

Le Révélateur has released recordings on Root Strata (Motion Flares, 2010), Emeralds’ member Steve Hauschildt’s own Gneiss Things (Fictions, 2011) and NNA Tapes (Horizon Fears, 2012). Root Strata have also recently published a DVD entitled Fictions, a collection of all the videos created by Sabrina Ratté for each composition featured on the LP of the same name.

Multi-instrumentalist Jefre Cantu Ledesma is a member of several bands including Tarentel, The Alps, The Holy See, Two Suns. He got his start in Tarentel as one of the founding members, and is still a primary figure in the band’s line-up. In addition, Cantu-Ledesma is and has been involved in a slew of other musical projects. His label, Root Strata, is highly regarded by the drone/ambient music community and has an extensive catalogue that includes artists such as Tarentel, Grouper, Ilyas Ahmed, The North Sea, Starving Weirdos and Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood. He has been releasing music under his own name since 2005, and before that as Colophon.

Paul Clipson is a San Francisco-based filmmaker and experimental film artist whose work involves projected installations and live collaborative performances with sound artists and musicians. His largely improvised, in-camera-edited films bring to light subconscious preoccupations and unexpected visual forms. His works have been exhibited and performed both nationally and internationally at such festivals as the New York Film Festival, the Edinburgh Film Festival and the Rotterdam International Film Festival.

Acknowledgments

The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal is a provincially owned corporation funded by the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec. It receives additional funding from the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Canada Council for the Arts. The museum gratefully acknowledges their support and that of Collection Loto-Québec, the MAC’s principal partner.