Celebrations in Sound: 40 Years of Productions SuperMusique as Heard By...
The 2020-2021 artistic season marks the 40th anniversary of Productions SuperMusique, an organization at the heart of musique actuelle in Montreal. Now 25 years after the “Définir la musique actuelle?” dossier was published in Circuit in 1995, four of the same pillars of improvised music—Michel F Côté, Jean Derome, Joane Hétu, and Danielle Palardy Roger, who are still very active today—take up the pen again to bear witness to where they stand now. Adding to these four voices is Scott Thomson, an Anglophone musician of the next generation who brings both an insider and outsider perspective to the evolution of SuperMusique. This collection of five texts is therefore a first-hand source of information on one of the beacons of the Montreal improvised music scene.