Month: June 2023

Kicking off Friday with another artist feature, we’re pleased to highlight JUTE and MS – two talented locals performing at Initial Shock on July 1.

Sam Risser is an artist and researcher who currently resides in Montréal, Québec. His work is primarily concerned with the relationships between art, technology, power and the lived environment. Under the moniker JUTE, he uses repurposed electronics and other everyday objects in conjunction with his body to generate cascades of harsh electroacoustic sound that is rich with hidden information. He does not believe that computers will save us from ourselves.

Matthew Stinis is a sound artist from Montréal, QC, who has been working within the realm of ambient, post-industrial, and noise music since 2009. Performing under the moniker MS for the festival, he has also worked under various aliases such as Naegleria, Slugbait, and Trophozoite, and the bands Pelvic Floor and U.E.

Tickets are on sale now. Advanced ticket sales include 1 entry into a raffle draw to win one of several prizes the night of the fest and a Scream & Writhe tote bag (while supplies last).

Other artists we’re stoked to present are FORM HUNTER and ORCHID LODGE, both performing at the fest on July 1 (one month away!).

Form Hunter is Stefan Aune and Weston Czerkies. They are known for their high-energy live performances that involve large amounts of scrap metal, broken tape machines, and belligerent volume. Their most recent album, 2021’s “Violent Adaptation” on Troniks / Helicopter, offered up an “inhuman blast of sanity-shattering harsh head euphoria.” They are excited to return to Montreal for the first time since 2019.

A study in ecological decimation and emotional violence, Orchid Lodge is a project of multi-instrumentalist and field recordist Fae Sirois. A humid marshland of analog electronics fill the air and are are scattered with swarms of concréte. Orchid Lodge is “poacher’s electronics,” and more broadly, an exploration of spiritual annihilation.

Tickets are on sale now. Advanced ticket sales include 1 entry into a raffle draw to win one of several prizes the night of the fest and a Scream & Writhe tote bag (while supplies last).