Line Katcho
- Medium Type
- 4-channel, digital audio
- Year
- 2018
- Genre
- Electroacoustic music
- Runtime
- 00:10:10
- Audio output
- Stereo
Sidereal time is a timekeeping system that astronomers use to locate celestial objects
Halfway between acousmatic music and «cinema for the ear», with its rugged and crystalline textures, this piece juxtaposes the earthy to the ethereal.
Biography
Line Katcho is a Montreal composer and audio-visual artist who is meticulous, rigorous and passionate. Primarily interested in sound and image as demonstrations of kinetic matter, gestures, forces or motion, she distinguishes herself by her experimental approach and affinity for perceptual games. She leans towards a mixing of styles, genres and applied methods and aims at creating a sensory, cathartic, whole experience rooted in expression.
Graduate of electroacoustic composition from the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, she works mainly in the fields of acousmatic music and audiovisual work, Her work has been presented internationally at festivals such as MUTEK (MTL–AR–MX-ES), Scopitone, Transart, Intonal, MA/IN Matera Intermedia, and Currents new media. She actively collaborates with contemporary choreographer and dancer James Viveiros and performs as a VJ under the moniker “La Hyèna”.