FIMAV 42 | 16 May Schedule

SATURDAY | 11 a.m.

CINEMA PROGRAM 1 : Graver l’homme : arrêt sur Pierre Hébert

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

2024, 1 h 17 min, Documentary

Conçu telle une classe de maître sur l’art de la gravure sur pellicule, Graver l’homme : arrêt sur Pierre Hébert rend hommage à un cinéaste iconoclaste et à sa quête artistique inlassable. Le réalisateur Loïc Darses retrace le parcours d’Hébert, de ses premières œuvres abstraites à l’ONF jusqu’à ses récentes expérimentations entre documentaire et animation, révélant un artiste qui n’a de cesse d’explorer et de réinventer son langage visuel.

SATURDAY | 1 p.m.

PABLO JIMÉNEZ & ADRIANNE MUNDEN-DIXON

Église St-Christophe d’Arthabaska
$25

Récemment arrivés à Montréal, Jiménez (originaire de Bogotá, en Colombie) et Munden-Dixon (de Savannah, en Géorgie, en passant par New York) sont en train de transformer la scène des musiques contemporaines et improvisées de la métropole en jouant partout et avec tout le monde. Ces jeunes virtuoses ultra-sympathiques tissent des fils mélodiques l’un autour de l’autre avec une adresse sans commune mesure.

SATURDAY | 3 p.m.

RAFAEL TORAL Guitar Concert

Cabaret Guy-Aubert | Carré 150 | $25

Rafael Toral’s Spectral Evolution was widely hailed as one of 2024’s best records, a dreamlike wash of sumptuous chord progressions paired with ethereal synthesised sounds, often evoking birdsong. Guitar Concert draws on the latest chapter of Toral’s work, presenting material from the brand-new Traveling Light (Drag City), comparably rich treatments of timeless jazz ballads.

SATURDAY | 5 p.m.

YVES CHARUEST, JOHN EDWARDS & MARK SANDERS

Centre des Congrès | Hôtel le Victorin | $25

John Edwards and Mark Sanders are arguably the most in-demand bass-drums pairing in contemporary music, sought in trios formed by FIMAV legends Evan Parker and John Butcher. Here, they re-join Yves Charuest, one of Canada’s consummate improvisers, who connected with them during a six-month residency in London, laying the groundwork for this first Canadian performance.

SATURDAY | 6 p.m.

INFORMAL CONCERT IN THE Q.G.

Quartier général FIMAV | Carré 150 | free

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

Visit the brand-new FIMAV Quartier général –– the Festival Hub –– in the Studio Monique-Bourgeois, Carré 150! There, between afternoon and evening concerts, festival artists will have the time and space to play informal concerts of freely improvised music. Grab a drink, grab a sandwich, and hear FIMAV artists up close in first-time musical encounters, all for free!

SAMEDI | 7:30 p.m.

PAT THOMAS Solo Piano

Salle les-frères-Lemaire | Carré 150 | $30

With growing international attention from his work with أحمد [Ahmed] plus a recent sequence of exceptional solo releases, pianist Pat Thomas is ‘having a moment.’ It’s a moment, however, that’s unfolded over decades of dedicated work as a composer, improviser, thinker, and collaborator with most of the major figures in contemporary creative music. This will be his first solo concert in Canada.

SATURDAY | 9:30 p.m.

DARIUS JONES fLuXkit Vancouver ~~(its~~ suite but sacred)

Cabaret Guy-Aubert | Carré 150 | $30

Featuring members of the Darius Jones Trio and Josh Zubot Strings, fLuXkit Vancouver is rich testimony to Jones’s brilliance as a composer. Originally commissioned by the Western Front artist-run-centre, Jones developed the work during residencies in Vancouver 2019-22, activating the immeasurable talents of this astonishing group.

SATURDAY | 11 p.m.

JOHN OSWALD PLUNDERPHONICOVERALLS

Quartier général FIMAV | Carré 150 | free

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

Toronto polymath artist John Oswald pioneered the compositional approach, Plunderphonics, primarily as a recorded project making familiar music unfamiliar through radical re-creation –– Michael Jackson is an infamous example. Coveralls is a live version of the concept that he sums up as “karaoke in reverse”; he will play the isolated vocal tracks of known singers – while three groups of festival musicians, each on a different night and hand-picked by Oswald, will improvise strange and wonderful accompaniments.

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