FIMAV 42 | 14 May Programming

THURSDAY | 7:30 p.m.

Salle les-frères-Lemaire | Carré 150 | only $10

Amirtha Kidambi is a New York composer, improviser, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist who hears experimental song as a vehicle for protest. Elder Ones brilliantly combines electronic music, punk, jazz, and South Asian devotional traditions to showcase her incredible voice, amid the sounds of some of the finest improvisers of her generation.

THURSDAY | 9:30 p.m.

DARIUS JONES TRIO
LEGEND OF E’BOI (THE HYPERVIGILENT EYE)

Cabaret Guy-Aubert | Carré 150 | 30 $

Legend of e’Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) is the latest chapter in the Man’ish Boy series by composer Darius Jones, a visionary outlet for his astonishing saxophone sound. The series manifests Jones’s highly personal aesthetic and cosmology, and this instalment is a profound meditation on African American mental health and healing.

THURSDAY | 11 p.m.

JOHN OSWALD PLUNDERPHONICOVERALLS

Quartier général FIMAV | Carré 150 | free

Limited capacity; first come first served.
Festival passeports do not guarantee access.

L’artiste polymathe torontois John Oswald a été un pionnier des plunderphonics, un type de composition qui vise à rendre méconnaissables des musiques familières par un processus radical de « recréation ». Coveralls est une adaptation en concert de ce concept. John sélectionnera trois groupes de musiciennes et musiciens participant au festival (un groupe par soirée) pour improviser d’étranges accompagnements pour les voix isolées de chanteuses et chanteurs connus.

Artistic Vision 2026

“At FIMAV 42 you can hear world-class artists from Quebec, Canada, and abroad in formal settings with which long-time festival audiences will be familiar. Darius Jones, Pat Thomas, Rafael Toral, Amirtha Kidambi, and Eric Chenaux, for example, have never played FIMAV before. With our additional series of free informal concerts and satellite event, audiences will have different kinds of access to many of them as well. This edition will be ‘up close and personal’ and we think it will be more festive because of it!”

-Scott Thomson, Artistic Director