Line Katcho CA

Montréal-based audiovisual artist and electroacoustic composer

With meticulous attention to detail, Line Katcho hybridizes styles, genres and applied tech methods to craft prismatic, enveloping electroacoustic-techno compositions and visual landscapes. Her artistry spans minimalist acousmatic compositions, audiovisual creations (including mind-altering visuals under her VJ moniker LaHyèna) and film music, often approaching sound as kinetic matter. Her forceful sonics-in-motion whop a punch while feeding back synergistically into kaleidoscopic visuals. Katcho was the artistic director of Soundwich concerts, bringing together emerging electroacoustic artists in Montréal, and completed a degree in electroacoustic composition at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal. She’s presented her work internationally at festivals such as Sonorities and Elektramusic, and earned first prize in the 2014 electroacoustic contest Jeux de Temps/TimesPlay. As part of the Kohlenstoff Records collective, she released her first two albums Pulsions and Totem Electric II, and has also collaborated with choreographer and dancer James Viveiros, the Folksinstock collective with Félix-Antoine Morin, Jean-François Blouin, Guillaume Cliche, Maxime Corbeil-Perron and videographer Karl Lemieux.