Myriam Boucher CA

Montréal-based video artist, composer and sound artist

Inspired by natural phenomena, Myriam Boucher merges the organic and the synthetic in her mesmerizing videomusic installations, immersive projects and audiovisual performances. Her sensitive and polymorphic work explores the intimate dialogue between music, sound and image—transforming everyday objects into fantastical, living phenomena. Elements in her skin-tingling pieces can move in synchronization with waves of sound, and very fluidly shift from solid to liquid, fragment to flood, plastic to plasmic. A keyboardist turned visual artist working on the real-time dialogue between music and images, Boucher initially gravitated towards classical piano, jazz and then post-rock, before learning about, and then academically pursuing electroacoustics. Her current Ph.D. research in videomusic composition proposes a classification of image/sound relationships as a building block towards an eventual grammar of the genre. Boucher approaches video much in the same way as she did music composition, through a visual interface that sees her fleshing out digital timelines. Her work has won multiple prizes and in 2018 alone, she has already presented projects at France’s Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg, Edmonton’s Sea of Sound festival, London’s Sound / Image Colloquium, Germany’s Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival and the Centro Mexicano para la Musica y las Artes in Morelia.