Hugo Lapointe

Opening of the 41st FIMAV

Opening of the 41st FIMAV The entire team at FIMAV honours the enormous contributions that our friend Michel Fordin made both to the festival and to our lives, following the announcement of his death on Thursday, 8 May. As we open this year’s edition today, we invite everyone to gather at FIMAV to celebrate the Opening of the 41st FIMAV

Graphic Scores

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING [Carré noir] – Performance of Graphic Scores by MMV2005 TUESDAY 13 MAY | 1 PM– FREE – Atoll Art Actuel [Carré noir] is an interdisciplinary outreach activity by Claude G. Olivier and Pierre-Luc Simon (MIELA). In advance of the Festival de musique actuelle de Victoriaville, fine arts studens of Collège Clarétain have been Graphic Scores

Instruments of Temperament

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING Instruments of Temperament FRIDAY 16 MAY | 3:30-7:30 PM– FREE ADMISSION –Atoll Art Actuel (entrance from the bicycle path) As part of the final project of the Connected Objects 2 course, 3rd-year students in the Computer Science Techniques college program at CÉGEP de Victoriaville invite you to see and interact with their musical Instruments of Temperament

MATS GUSTAFSSON « 1+1+1+1 »

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING MATS GUSTAFSSON « 1+1+1+1 » FRIDAY 16 MAY | 9 PM– FREE, OPEN TO ALL –CARRÉ 150 (CABARET GUY-AUBERT)  Mats’s concept is simple: an audience member is led into the Cabaret while, from backstage, Mats leads a fellow musician to the same spot. That one musician proceeds to play one minute of music MATS GUSTAFSSON « 1+1+1+1 »

MEET FIMAV’S DIRECTOR, SCOTT THOMSON, PLUS INFORMAL CONCERT

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING MEET FIMAV’S DIRECTOR, SCOTT THOMSON, PLUS INFORMAL CONCERT THURSDAY 15 MAY | 7 PM– FREE –LEWIS CAFÉ   Meet Scott Thomson, FIMAV’s new Artistic Director, in a conversation moderated by festival collaborator, Ariane Plante. To be followed by two sets of improvised music: • Jean Derome (flute, saxes, objects) & Joshua Zubot (violin)   MEET FIMAV’S DIRECTOR, SCOTT THOMSON, PLUS INFORMAL CONCERT