present form(s)
Echönymphia / IRL / Audréanne Filion
09/05/2026 • 8:00pm
As part of HTMlles 2026, World Creation Studio presents a live electronic music showcase featuring Echönymphia, IRL, and Audréanne Filion.
The evening brings together three distinct practices working across ambient, experimental, and electroacoustic music. Echönymphia’s performance moves between harp, piano, synthesis, and field recordings, shaping slow-evolving sound environments guided by structured improvisation. IRL works with modular and hardware-based systems, building compositions shifting between drone and ambient, grounded in repetition, texture, and physical resonance. Audréanne Filion works with cello and live electronics, combining improvisation and electroacoustic composition.
The program reflects the festival’s theme On a Human Scale, foregrounding listening, presence, and shared attention. The concert is presented as part of present form(s), a new series curated by Maxime Gordon and Milo Reinhardt, set within an intimate environment designed for focused listening and sonic experimentation.
Echönymphia
Photo Credit: Alex Apostolidis
Echönymphia is a project by pianist Vivian Li and harpist Coralie Gauthier. It began in the summer of 2019, on a blanket strewn with fresh fruit beneath a tree in Montreal’s Champs des Possibles. From this encounter emerged a shared listening experience: that of sounds too often forgotten, discreet melodies, subtle nuances.
Navigating between ambient, minimalist, Japanese new age music and field recordings, Echönymphia paints soundscapes of shimmering textures and ethereal colors. The harp and synthesizer, modified with a range of effects pedals, blend the tone and sensitive playing of an acoustic instrument with live electronic sound processing. Guided by structured improvisation, their music evolves intuitively, seeking to reflect natural rhythms, drawing parallels between digital sounds and those that might be heard in a forest, the whistling of the wind, the lingering echo on a lake, or the beating of wings. Each performance thus becomes an attentive drift, a suspended moment where listening opens a portal to the ephemeral world of an augmented nature.
IRL
Photo Credit: Frédérique Ménard-Aubin
IRL is a composer, artist, and dj using sound to explore memory, body, and space. Working with hardware and modular synthesis, they make music that balances raw texture with emotional depth. Their trance-inducing sets weave ambient drone, big bass, and looping melodies into immersive soundscapes that invite reflection and transformation.
Beyond performance, they’ve co-produced two seasons of the podcast A Kind of Harmony and hosts Heart Full, a monthly radio show on n10.as. Their releases span labels including SURF (LX), Psychic Liberation (BE), Kapha Selections (NYC), Personal Records (MTL), and Interzone (MTL).
Audréanne Filion
Photo Credit: Emmanuel Bernier
Audréanne Filion is a Montreal-based cellist, composer, and improviser. Active in contemporary and experimental music, she has premiered works by numerous composers from the Canadian scene, including Sarah Davachi, Martin Arnold, Keiko Devaux, Myriam Bleau, and Simon Martin. She is a member of Ensemble Éclat, Quatuor Mémoire, Ensemble Tesse, and Ensemble SuperMusique, and collaborates with various collectives such as No Hay Banda, collectif9, and Projections Libérantes.
Her solo project for cello and electronics combines improvisation, real-time processing, and composition, exploring the hybridization of classical and experimental, ambient, and noise aesthetics. She has performed at festivals and series including Gaudeamus Music Week (Netherlands), Festival CHIII (Brazil), Darmstädter Ferienkurse (Germany), FMC (Chicoutimi), Osheaga, Semaine du Neuf, M/NM, Totem Électrique, Codes d’accès, Interzone Editions, and many others.
Also active in experimental pop, she has collaborated with Everly Lux, Xela Edna, YlangYlang, Jessica Moss, and Erika Angell.
