Market Artists
For the sixth consecutive year, MUTEK Market, a career acceleration and business development program for industry professionals, took place with an exciting selection of 13 Canadian projects. The mission of the Market is to provide essential support and tools to help artists develop their careers. This includes several months of training and the creation of customized electronic press kits (EPKs) for the participating artists.
More than just a support system, the Market serves as a bridge between buyers and artists, facilitating one-on-one meetings organized before the Festival. In 2024, the MUTEK Market facilitated over 650 meetings in two days, with an average of 46 connections per artist. In total, the event brought together 20 artists and 132 industry professionals.
Creating a negotiation space, establishing a solid foundation for sales, and initiating valuable connections are at the core of the Market’s objectives.
The 2025 Market artists
CLEO LEIGH
A rising voice in Canada’s underground, Cleo Leigh creates immersive live sets with modular synths and hardware, blending emotive minimalism and rave energy. Rooted in St. John’s, she helped build Newfoundland’s scene through events like LAVI SEKS and STÄMPT. Her sound draws from analog exploration and rhythmic tension.
Her productions appear on YUNGDUMB, Heistmode, and more, while her sets—driven by hardware improvisation—have reached stages across Canada and beyond, including FORMAT (Toronto), Vibrancy Fest, and a 2024 tour through Tbilisi, Istanbul, Santiago, Detroit, and Montréal. In 2021, she co-founded vinyl label SÉKS TAPES, pushing cutting-edge techno heard in clubs like Berghain.
GAYANCE
Haitian-Canadian artist Gayance (Aïsha Vertus), born in Montréal, blends jazzy house, Brazilian rhythms, and London’s broken beat tradition into emotionally charged, groove-heavy sets. Performing for over a decade, she lit up stages from Panorama Bar to Montreux Jazz Festival, with a sound shaped by LA’s beat scene and UK bruk. Drawing on Afro-diasporic heritage and electronic experimentation, her performances are both soulful and vibrant. Her name, taken from the Haitian Creole word for “joy,” captures the spirit she brings to dancefloors around the world.
GUILLAUME CÔTÉ
Guillaume Côté is a multidisciplinary artist based in Quebec City. His practice demonstrates a marked interest in contrasts between synthetic sounds and field recordings. He is co-founder of the Trames, Falaises and Aubes collectives. Since 2022, he has been developing a cycle of digital works linked to his hypersensitivity to light (of Light). Covering several media, this body of work invests sound art, robotics and audiovisual installation, with the aim of sublimating the senses and appropriating synesthesia. Resolutely minimalist, this body of work opens the way to a practice in which the notion of abstraction is at its height. His work has been presented in numerous festivals, including MUTEK Tokyo, Elektra, Stereolux, Intonal, LEV and Gnration.
Ida Toninato & Pierre-Luc Lecours
Montreal-based artists Ida Toninato and Pierre-Luc Lecours form a duo merging acoustic and electronic worlds through baritone sax, modular synth, and real-time video. Homeostasis explores balance, drawing from ecology, interdependence, and the Fibonacci sequence. On stage, sound and image recalibrate in a living system. In harmony or friction, their exchange invites reflection on the ties between body, tech, and nature.
LES EMPIRES (Guillaume Coutu Dumont & Line Katcho)
Les Empires is a synth-heavy audiovisual performance by Guillaume Coutu-Dumont & Line Katcho. Inspired by Krautrock and modern synth artists, it blends retro-futuristic ambient music with soft percussion and hypnotic melodies. Influenced by sci-fi and mythology, the piece explores cycles of power, decay, and rebirth through imagined empires. Katcho’s visuals mix abstraction, symbolism, and surreal imagery to evoke dreamlike ruins and shifting monuments. Together, sound and visuals offer a poetic reflection on time, memory, and transformation—immersing the audience in a world of forgotten pasts and speculative futures.
MARTYN BOOTYSPOON
Martyn “M.” Bootyspoon is the dancefloor alias of Montréal’s Jason Voltaire, known for his bold, humorous take on club music. Emerging from the Fractal Fantasy crew, he debuted with Silk Eternity in 2018. Mixing raunchy house, ghettotech, and digital club textures, he reimagines classic sounds with Internet-age flair and rhythmic precision.
His DJ sets are fast-paced and eclectic, blending grooves, tempo shifts, and nostalgic hooks with playful abandon. With mixes for NTS, FACT, and DJ Mag, he’s earned a spot in the global club scene. Also a motion designer and creative coder, Voltaire extends his irreverent style into visual work, fusing music and digital art seamlessly.
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MATTHEW BIEDERMAN
Matthew Biederman has been working across media and milieus, architectures and systems, communities and landscapes since 1990. He has served as artist-in-residence for a number of prestigious institutions, including the Center for Experimental Television, CMU’s CREATE lab, the Wave Farm and the Bioarts Society, among others. His work has been featured at the Biennale d’art contemporain in Lyon, the Istanbul Design Biennial, the Tokyo Museum of Photography, ELEKTRA, MUTEK, Ars Electronica, Montréal’s Biennale internationale d’art numérique (BIAN), Italy’s Artissima, New Zealand’s SCAPE Biennial, the Moscow Biennale and many, many other illustrious festivals.
PHÈDRE
Phèdre is the electronic duo of Daniel Lee and Apè Aliermo, based in Tkaronto/Toronto. From experimental pop roots, they’ve evolved into fast-paced, bass-heavy live sets blending club, jungle, breakbeat, and techno. Lee, also known as Lee Paradise, mixes post-punk energy with raw grooves and textured electronics, creating soundscapes that balance tension and release. Aliermo, a Filipinx-Canadian musician and sound artist, explores immersive, site-specific sound works and socio-political themes through deep listening and sonic experimentation. Their new album Liquid Constancy debuts in a semi-improvised, hardware-only set, fusing samples and synths into sharp, kinetic rhythms that pulse with intensity and disruption.
Raf Reza
Based in Toronto, Raf Reza is a DJ, producer, and curator connecting electronic rhythms with musical traditions from the Global South. A key figure in Toronto’s scene, he fuses Bengali folk, rave, and dub with a fluid, borderless approach. As founder of Orphic Apparition and former record store curator, he reshapes underground aesthetics through deep listening and diverse influences.His debut album Ekbar (Telephone Explosion Records) blends Bangladeshi traditions with UK hardcore and bass music, using instruments like the ektaar and bashi flute.
ReVerie: SENSE
ReVerie is a duo formed by Keon Ju Maverick Lee and Pinyao Liu, two artist-researchers exploring AI, sound art, and altered states of consciousness. Their project ReVerie: Sense is an interactive installation where whispered dream memories are transformed into floating 3D objects and evolving soundscapes using generative AI and emotion analysis. Visitors co-create a shared, immersive dreamscape that blurs the boundaries between memory and simulation. Drawing on the historical use of dreams as tools of power—from divine prophecy to algorithmic surveillance—the work invites audiences to reclaim their subconscious agency and contribute to a collective archive of dream fragments. It’s a poetic meditation on memory’s fragility in the digital age.
SIM
Montréal-based producer and researcher SIM stands out in club culture for fusing techno and dancehall into a unique sonic identity. Creator of the term Slow Tech, he treats sound as a gravitational field where genres stretch and merge—rooted in Caribbean rhythms and minimal electronic tension. Rising from the dubstep era, SIM engaged with Brooklyn’s FDM and UK club sounds, linking with artists like Epic B and TSVI. His debut EP Neural Gain introduced his bass-heavy aesthetic, followed by key releases like Pu$$ycat with Crimen Pasional, Oil Drum with Doctor Jeep, and Sulum on SPE:C.His SLOWTECHERS series and live acts remix dub, jungle, cumbiatón, and techno.
TUSH (Kamilah Apong & Jamie Kidd)
Toronto-based duo TUSH (Kamilah Apong and Jamie Kidd) blend raw disco emotion with underground house grit. Since their 2021 debut Fantast, they’ve earned global attention and collaborated with Matthew Herbert and Jazzanova. Their live shows blur the line between audience and performer.
Rooted in Black, queer, and women-led dance floor culture, their sound—spanning ‘70s disco to UK garage—champions vulnerability, groove, and resistance. Apong leads youth arts platform LIL SIS, while Kidd co-founded inclusive collective Box of Kittens.
Victor Drouin Trempe & Danny Perreault
The duo of Danny Perreault and Victor Drouin-Trempe creates immersive environments combining digital art, audiovisual performance, and light installation. Their new work, Espace Latent (working title), is an interactive cubic structure premiering at the 2025 Village Numérique presented by MUTEK and Xn Québec. Building on the research from their previous project Tréma, the installation blends projectors, lasers, and soundscapes in a generative scenography. An artificial intelligence system modulates the visuals in real time based on the environment and sound, generating unpredictable light compositions at the intersection of algorithmic abstraction and perceptual choreography.
Discover their performances at MUTEK Festival starting from August 19 to 24, 2025.
