Growlers Choir

Growlers Choir – Pierre-Luc Senécal

Growlers Choir – Pierre-Luc Senécal
Inside the Roar

Quebec | North American Premiere
free admission
1- Bibliothèque Charles-Édouard-Mailhot

This immersive sound installation features 15 speakers, each playing the voice of a single heavy metal singer, known as a growler. Visitors are invited to wander between the speakers and continuously explore each of the fantastic voices of the 15 growlers. They can venture into the heart of the sound of this fifteen-headed hydra.

Composition and mixing : Pierre-Luc Senécal (Dremeka)

Recording : Rob Heaney (Studio Fast Forward)

Mastering : Larry O’Malley (Audiobec)

About the artists

Pierre-Luc Senécal

With a master’s degree in music (University of Montreal), Pierre-Luc Senécal has flourished in the fertile field of electroacoustics. Deeply inspired by rock, pop, and metal, he infuses his electronic works with his sensitivity, lyricism, and energy. His music has been performed in Germany, Canada, South Korea, the United States, Italy, Monaco, Russia, and Sweden. Among other notable achievements, he founded the vociferous and media-savvy Growlers Choir, a unique vocal ensemble comprising metal singers.

Composed solely of metal singers, known as growlers, Growlers Choir blends metal and experimental music in a revolutionary way. Composer Pierre-Luc Senécal founded the choir in 2018 in Montreal, one of the world’s metal music capitals. Fascinated by extreme metal music and the incredible richness of throat singing, Senécal and Growlers Choir demonstrate the acoustic potential of the voice and its extraordinary properties, both sensual and monstrous.

Growlers Choir performed at the FIMAV in 2021 where the album «LIVE AU FIMAV» has been released under LES DISQUES VICTO. It also presented in 2024 the Basileus project, winner of the OPUS Price « Musical Event of the Year »

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