Guillaume Coutu Dumont
Canadian composer, producer, and electronic music artist. Before focusing on electronic music, he played in funk and jazz bands and trained in electroacoustic composition and rhythm studies. In the early 2000s, he became actively involved in the Montreal and international electronic music scenes, including as a member of the duos EGG, Chic Miniature, and LUCI. After moving to Paris and later Berlin, he launched his solo project Guillaume & the Coutu Dumonts in 2006, blending house, jazz, gospel, techno, and afrobeat. At the same time, he developed a number of collaborative projects, including the experimental collective Museum, Guillaume & The Side Effects, and Flabbergast with Vincent Lemieux. Since 2016, he has been based in Montreal again. He runs Cagibi Studio, composes music for documentary films and series, and continues to develop the projects Vieux Renard and Auflassen. His body of work includes numerous albums, EPs, and singles released by international labels.
Line Katcho
A Montreal-based composer and new media artist working at the intersection of sound and image. Rather than treating one medium as an illustration of the other, she creates intense audiovisual experiences designed to move, provoke, and remain in memory. Her practice spans audiovisual performances, films, VR projects, and projection mapping, combining abstraction with narrative, experimentation with tradition, and raw emotionality with formal precision. Her works are both sensory and cinematic in character. Her projects have been presented at Ars Electronica, Sónar+D in Barcelona, and MUTEK, and have been included in the official selections of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. Katcho also composes music for contemporary dance and video games, including 1000xRESIST, which received a Peabody Award in 2024 in the Best Interactive Work category. Across different media, her practice is defined by a consistent pursuit of sensory, cathartic experiences shaped by a distinctive artistic language.