The PHI team has selected three well-known artists from the Montreal scene to begin the first music-focused artistic residency of 2021. At three different times during the year, each artist will have the opportunity to go on a retreat in the Laurentians Mountains to begin, continue or complete their creative musical project.
Both in the applications received and in the artists selected, the result is a beautiful diversity of genre, representation, notoriety, and language: commitments at the heart of PHI's mission.
The three artists selected
Lunice: April 19 - March 3, 2021
Born and raised in the city of Montreal, Canadian artist, producer, and DJ, Lunice is a disciple of Hip Hop on the national and international scene;
He has been able to work with a wide range of artists from Kanye West, Lil Wayne and Madonna to Azealia Banks, Theophilus London, and Denzel Curry.;
Coming up on breakbeats and trying his hand at nearly all of the elements, from graffiti to breakdancing, Hip Hop has always been a part of his artistic expression.
Eve Parker Finley: May | June 2021
Montreal multi-instrumentalist artist who has been a mainstay in the Montreal independent scene for nearly a decade;
Invited artist at the 2020 edition of Pop Montreal;
Braiding a dense and deliberate web of string arrangements and classical naturalism into a former raver’s penchant for programmed beats and four on the floor grooves.
Gayance: September | October 2021
Emerging Montreal artist of Haitian roots;
She's been tearing down venues in Paris, Amsterdam, Brooklyn, Marrakech, Berlin, and more. She found her artistic family in Brussels. Since she's been doing the back & forth between the two continents.
She describes her musical style as Afrofuturism. Producer pushing further the textures and areas of uncommon rhythms, of samba and house.
ABOUT - RESIDENCIES
PHI North, a residency program for musicians and audio artists to produce works in an isolated studio retreat in the countryside, replete with a state-of-the-art recording studio.
A big thank you to the PHI selection committee and its external collaborators. They include Renelle Desjardins, Melissa Micelli, Dahlia Cheng, Éric Gingras, and Marika Shaw of PHI as well as Tao-Ming Lau, founder of the Blue Crane agency in Toronto, and Narcy, a Canadian-Iraqi artist, composer, and actor.
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