Monique Jean

Monique Jean’s works are out there! They have been performed in concert in Arc-et-Senans, Aveiro, Belfast, Berkeley, Berlin, Blacksburg, Brussels, Cagliari, Cardiff, Crest, Edinburgh, Fullerton, Kitchener, Le Havre, Lethbridge, London, Lyon, Madrid, Manchester, Moncton, Mons, Montpellier, Montréal, New York City, Oslo, Paris, Quebec City, San Francisco, Santiago, Toronto, Valdivia, Victoria, Victoriaville and Winnipeg…

Be it electroacoustic music, mixed music, sound installations or improvisations, the music of Monique Jean is engaging a present that happens now. She focuses on the tensions, fractures, and shocks of sound materials to transmute reality into poetry. She works on sound materials as if they were complex organisms animated by forces that keep them in constant evolution.

Since 2012, in search of a harsh, raw sound, she has been integrating analogue and no-input elements to her set-up as sources of instability and unpredictability. This approach spawned the Volt series (started in 2015) and Dancing on the Edge of Darkness (2012), accompanied by a five-screen video by Monique Bertrand.

Her works have been selected by several competitions and performed and broadcast in several national and international concerts and festivals, including Multiphonies (Paris, France), Akousma (Montréal), Sonorities (Belfast, Northern Ireland), NYCEMF (New York, USA), The San Francisco Tape Music Festival (USA), Ai-maako (Santiago, Chile), and Elektra (Montréal). In 2012, she was invited for a residency at Fondation Civitella Ranieri in Umbertide (Italy).

Her recent album Greffes won the 2012-13 Prix Opus for Best Album — Musique Actuelle & Electroacoustic Music awarded by the Conseil québécois de la musique (CQM). A year later, her piece T.A.G. was nominated for the 2013-14 Prix Opus for Premiere of the Year.

[English translation: François Couture, viii-18]

Monique Jean

Caraquet (New Brunswick, Canada), 1960

Residence: Montréal (Québec)

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Monique Jean (with the quartet Theresa Transistor during the performance of the work Espèces d’espaces) at the Mois Multi festival [Photo: Monique Bertrand, Quebec City (Québec), February 12, 2009]
Monique Jean (with the quartet Theresa Transistor during the performance of the work Espèces d’espaces) at the Mois Multi festival [Photo: Monique Bertrand, Quebec City (Québec), February 12, 2009]

Calendar

Broadcasts

Date Work Program
September 4, 2022 Monique Jean, Danse de l’enfant esseulée (1999), 10:08 Episode 1120 / Martian Gardens Podcast (USA)
October 26, 2020 Monique Jean, IF (1995), 2:06 Acoustic Frontiers / CKCU 93.1 FM (Canada)
January 11, 2020 Monique Jean, Givre (2011), 17:24 Radio Horizon 93.9 FM (South Africa)
October 31, 2019 Monique Jean, T.A.G. (2013), 24:44 [Excerpt] Martian Gardens #996 / Global Community Radio Channel 2 (USA)
August 29, 2019 Monique Jean, T.A.G. (2013), 24:44 [Excerpt] Martian Gardens #988 / Global Community Radio Channel 2 (USA)
June 10, 2019 Monique Jean, Out of Joint (2009, 11), 19:04 Acoustic Frontiers / CKCU 93.1 FM (Canada)
May 17, 2019 Monique Jean, T.A.G. (2013), 24:44 Generation Bip Hop / Jet FM 91.2 (France)
May 16, 2019 Monique Jean, T.A.G. (2013), 24:44 Radio FMR 89.1 Toulouse (France)
May 16, 2019 Monique Jean, T.A.G. (2013), 24:44 Indie Drome / Campus Grenoble 90.8 (France)
May 16, 2019 Monique Jean, T.A.G. (2013), 24:44 Indie_drome / Éko des Garrigues 88.5 (France)
May 15, 2019 Monique Jean, T.A.G. (2013), 24:44 Radio Dijon Campus 92.2 (France)
May 14, 2019 Monique Jean, T.A.G. (2013), 24:44 Indiedrome / Radio Panik 105.4 (Belgium)