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Emmanuel Madan is a composer, sound artist, and curator based in Montréal. He studied electro-acoustic composition in the early 1990s under the direction of Francis Dhomont. He then spent five years working in community radio broadcasting as an engineer, journalist, and producer. Since 1998, Madan’s main focus has been an artistic collaboration with architect Thomas McIntosh known by the name [The User]. To date, this duo has produced three major projects: Symphony for dot matrix printers, Silophone, and Coincidence Engines.

Madan’s solo practice currently includes a strong focus on radio and transmission art with works such as the talk radio remix performance Freedom Highway and the science fiction multi-channel transmission work The Joy Channel, (with Anna Friz). Madan has worked with Thomas McIntosh and Finnish artist Mikko Hynninen on Ondulation,, a synaesthetic composition for water, sound, and light. He has also collaborated with musician/composer Alexander MacSween and scenographer Simon Guilbault on Ground, an installation and performance based on the inductive properties of audio cables. Madan’s solo works include Final Vinyl, a performance for turntables and live signal processing.

Madan began an independent curatorial practice in 1998 with Incredibly Soft Sounds, a group exhibition of sound art created at the invitation of Gallery 101 in Ottawa. He was co-artistic director of the Silophone concert series (2000-2001), commissioning works from 25 Québec and international sound artists and musicians. Since 2007, he has directed the curatorial project Simulcast in collaboration with PAVED Art + new media (Saskatoon) and Struts Gallery / Faucet Media arts Centre (Sackville, NB).

Madan’s work has received many distinctions, including two awards from the FCMM Festival in Montréal (1998, 2001), an honourable mention from Ars Electronica (1999), and nominations to the Nam June Paik prize (2004), the Transmediale award (2010) and the Qwartz award (2010).

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04/30/2010
From May 1 to May 31, 2010, Emmanuel Madan has been invited by Toronto organization New Adventures in Sound Art as SOCAN artist in residence. Featured works include Ground and Freedom Highway.
03/02/2010
[The User] was nominated in the New Media Art category of the sixth Qwartz edition. Qwartz supports and promotes independent artistic creation. Today Qwartz has assembled 3,000 labels and 10,000 artists. The awards honor all aspects of contemporary artistic creation: music, audiovisual and graphics, instruments, technological innovation and new media art. The Prize ceremony was held on April 2 in Paris at the Palais Brongniart. Congratulations to Kurt Hentschlager who won the the New Media Art category Award.
02/28/2010
The Coincidence Engines series was nominated to the 2010 Transmediale Award. The Transmediale Award seeks to honour outstanding experimental artworks that embrace, question and enrich our understanding of our immersed media and technologically driven society. Out of more than 1,500 submissions, nine art projects have been retained as Transmediale Award nominees this year.

Emmanuel Madan

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Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers

Silophone

Coincidence Engines

A.S.O.B.A.L.O.T.

FREEDOM HIGHWAY

The Joy Channel

Final Vinyl

Simulcast

Ondulation

Ground

Portrait Landscape

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