I8U

I8U can be an electronica musician from Montreal (Canada). Like David Kristian, she tests mainly with analog synthesizers. Her primary objective is to make physical sound conditions where the music sets off reactions in the listeners’ systems. Her work is normally comparable to Ryoji Ikeda and Carsten Nicolai (although both use digital equipment), but also to Pauline Oliveros’ digital music from the 1960s and — somewhat — Francisco López and John Hudak. She’s collaborated on-stage and in the studio room with Kristian, Martin Tétreault, Goem, and video musician Gigimatique. I8U (blessed France Jobin) shown an early curiosity about music and got traditional training over the piano. She performed skillfully for a short while and later turned towards the blues. Her profession being a blueswoman had taken her around Montreal associated local statistics and included an appearance on the Montreal Jazz Celebration. By the past due ’90s, over time of professional function, the blues keyboardist was starting to experience restless. An encounter with Montreal’s digital wizard David Kristian offered being a catalyst and acquired the impact of the epiphany. Kristian trained her how exactly to create her very own sounds, a totally new region for the girl who utilized her key pad piano and body organ factory presets. A complete world exposed before her. After satisfying her last professional engagements, she remaining the “traditional” music business entirely, fired up the experimental change, and followed her amazingly antagonistic moniker. Unlearning her traditional and blues schooling, I8U began anew, exploring the energy of drones as well as the richness of field recordings. Her initial self-titled album arrived in 2000. With Kristian’s help, she quickly produced her way in to the Montreal and Toronto underground, showing up at electronica celebrations (Mutek in 2001), taking part in Internet jams, and collaborating with video performers. She fulfilled experimental turntablist Martin Tétreault in Oct 2000 when both had been performing single in the User’s Silophone task. They have sometimes played being a duo since that time and released the Compact disc I8U Vs. Martin Tétreault in-may 2001. I8U’s second single CD, entitled B, premiered a couple of months later with the Netherlander label Bake. IN-MAY, she appeared on the Celebration International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville within a mixed media functionality involving video musician Gigimatique (AE Lab’s Gisèle Trudel). The Toronto label Piehead released Grasshopper Morphine, her most powerful album to time.