Émilie Payeur lives and works in Montreal, Canada. She is an interdisciplinary artist whose works often take the form of installations and is also an experimental musician and composer. She holds a master's degree in electroacoustic music composition from the University of Montreal, under the supervision of Robert Normandeau. She is now studying psychology at UQAM (Montréal). She has presented her work in various places including Eisode (Mtl), OBORO (Mtl), Titanik (Finland), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Spain), Shiro Oni (Japan), Nagi (Bali) and in various festivals such as FIKA(S) (Mtl), Akousma (Mtl), Sight and Sound (Mtl), Ok là (Mtl), FIMAV (Victoriaville), Radical dB (Spain) Videos Femmes dans le parc (Mtl), WUFF (Winnipeg) and Festival l'Oeil from Oodaaq (France). Her work has notably been rewarded by the Robert Fleming Prize (Canada Council for the Arts), the “OBORO New Media Creation Grant” (Mtl) and by the International Music Competitions of Bourges (France). We can hear her playing in Dokter Gig and the gamelan ensemble Giri Kedaton as well as in other collaborations. Her music has been released under different labels such as Kohlenstoff Records (Mtl), Jeunesse Cosmique (Mtl), Rara Avis (Mtl), Mikroclimat (Mtl), Paitapes (Finland) and Takkeherrie Recordings (Netherlands).
