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Des entretiens, avec des artistes, des musiciens, de même que des émissions réalisées par Mario Gauthier et Philémon Bézy ponctuent également notre programmation. Une émission d’André Éric Létourneau avec la participation occasionnelle d’Ana Tapia, Mario Gauthier, Éric Dorion, Catherine Lalonde Massecar, Jean-Luc Bonspiel, Marc-André Morin, Caroline Hébert, Alexandre Saint-Onge, Kristian Lehmann, François Létourneau Romain Gaudillière, Érika Dumaine and Benjamin Muon.

Every other Thursday 11pm - 1am (EST)

December 18, 2025: VOLKMAR KLIEN in conversation with Eric Létourneau + broadcasting of his collaborative projects « Capital Must Accumulate - It's a law of nature », « im Berg » both created with mahd and his solo work « Start–Ziel–Siege Aufstieg» .

Growing up in Vienna Volkmar Klien (*1971, Hollabrunn, A) spent his childhood engulfed in the city’s rich musical life with all its glorious traditions and engrained rituals. Working from this background Volkmar Klien today strives to extend traditional practices of composing, producing and listening far beyond the established settings of concert music. He works in various areas of the audible and occasionally inaudible arts navigating the manifold links in-between the different modes of human perception, the spheres of presentation and the roles these play in the communal generation of meaning. Mahd, the duo formed recently by veteran members of the Vienna music scene, Hannes Löschel and Volkmar Klien, engulfs its audiences in multichannel seas of sound from which, once in a while, melodies and patterns emerge to gently dissolve again. Hannes Löschel takes his seat at the electric piano and reed organ, Volkmar Klien at his computing devices. Freely, anchorless even, they progress to play; not forcing a thing. Still they reap in and find themselves generously rewarded. Serendipity as well as St. Cecily on their side they get carried away in the joyous moment and conquer the highest ground, Parnassus itself, the mythical place on the apex, where - for short periods only - gravity loses its iron grip on humanity. Paths appear out of nowhere and bridges form in mid-air, which is where mahd's rather delicate sounds stemming from truly diverse sources mix nicely. The electronic sounds prepare the field surrounded by speakers and lift the piano, all from sudden nearly weightless, into a bed of mud, descending happily into beauty ever deeper.

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