MUTEK's A/VISIONS program is conceived as a showcase of immersive works for artists who explore the essential relationship between image and sound. One of the festival's longest-running series, the A/VISIONS series regroup some of MUTEK's most avant-garde and memorable performances to date.

From antique to cutting-edge technologies, richly-textured soundscapes to fiery visual experimentation, this mix gives a sneak peak at what this year's A/VISIONS series has to offer.

Track list

1. Messier + Bernier - excerpt from (La Chambre des Machines)

2. Matmos - Exciter Lamp And The Variable Band (Supreme Balloon)

3. Nurse With Wound - Registered Nurse Second Coming (The Ladies Home Tickler)

4. Pimmon - Evil Household Ceremony (Smudge Another Yesterday)

5. Marsen Jules  - It's Only Castle Burning (Pop Ambient 2009)

6. CM Von Hauswolff - Flooded Lampshun Temple And Confused Hawks (The Wonderful World Of Male Intuition)

7. Thierry Gauthier - DEV2 (Chantier libre [Live])

8. [The User]  -  +}}}}}}} (Symphony #2 For Dot Matrix Printers)

9. Vladislav Delay - Mustelmia (Tummaa)

10. Freida Abtan - The Waters of Lethe (The Hands of the Dancer/The Temple of the Dreamer)

11. Ben Frost - Killshot (By The Throat)

12. Tim Hecker - Where Shadows Make Shadows (An Imaginary Country)

13. The Caretaker - Long Term (remote) (Persistent Repetition Of Phrases)

Feature articles about some of the artists above:

>> [THE USER] FEATURE ARTICLE ON MUTEKMAG <<

>> FREIDA ABTAN FEATURE ARTICLE ON MUTEKMAG <<

Photo: The Fun Years @ MUTEK A/Visions 2009, by Caroline Hayeur, Agence Stock Photo.