Month: April 2025

Anne-F Jacques and Lyndsie Alguire at Initial Shock III

Anne-F Jacques is a sound artist based in Montreal. She is interested in amplification, oblique interactions between materials and construction of various contraptions and idiosyncratic systems. Her particular focus is on low technology, trivial objects and unpolished sounds. Also a member of a.hop and involved with presses précaires.

Lyndsie Alguire is a Tiohtià:ke-based artist who likes things bittersweet.

Her work contains through-lines of stillness, vulnerability, and longing. Using piano, synthesizer, field recordings, and voice, her work evokes images and textures that are both ethereal and broken. Live performances incorporate improvisation that strives towards “pretty speaker abuse”.

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Mass Marriage and Eunuch God at Initial Shock III

The first of many artist profiles in anticipation of the third Initial Shock noise festival on July 5-6, 2026 in Montreal

MASS MARRIAGE is the sound project of Mel Paget. Working within the Power Electronics/Noise genre, texture, samples, loops and synthesizers are explored and distorted into original compositions and often accompanied by vocals (live and recorded) and spoken word.

EUNUCH GOD is a viscous compound of grinding noise, sci-fi soundscapes, strident shrieks and pummeling percussion. The project takes inspiration from every facet of human neglect, indifference and oppression. It crawled out of the muck and mire of Ottawa from sheer absence of human contact during the 2020 lockdown, and has now found its home in Montreal. Over five years and numerous self-released titles since its inception, Initial Shock will be the site of creator Louis Cyr’s first ever live performance under the Eunuch God banner.

Advanced tickets now available!