Market Artists
MUTEK Market is proud to present its official 2026 selection: a cohort of 19 artists representing 14 outstanding projects from Québec and Canada.
Carefully selected by MUTEK’s curatorial team, these artists and projects reflect the diversity, creativity, and innovation that continue to shape contemporary electronic music and digital art practices. It is with great pride and enthusiasm that we present our 2026 cohort in the following pages.
We would like to sincerely thank all of our partners. Their continued support, trust, and flexibility have played an essential role in making this seventh edition of MUTEK Market possible.
The 2026 MUTEK Market Artists
Après Minuit
Après Minuit is a digital creation studio founded in 2023 by Charlie Leroy (he/him) and Sébastien Samyn (he/him). Specializing in immersive and interactive installations as well as visual experience design, the studio regularly collaborates with artists, cultural institutions, and events to create works that bring together art and technology. Often presented in public spaces, festivals, and temporary exhibition settings, their projects invite audiences to explore new visual and sensory worlds.
Photo credit: Frankie Ray O’Sullivan
ArtSaves
Residing between Vancouver and Tehran, ArtSaves is recognized for his obscure, experimental soundscapes that blend elements of ambient, noise, and dance music. His career began in his hometown of Tehran in 2012, where he first took to performing at underground gatherings due to the city's strict ban on nightclubs. Inspired by his Iranian heritage, he experiments with analog synthesizers and samplers, exploring themes of identity, authenticity, and belonging, moving fluidly from somber, delicate rhythms to intense beats that keep the dance floor pulsating. With an ever-evolving, process-driven sound, he evades strict sonic definition, yet remains grounded in a distinct style that resonates deeply with listeners. He consistently collaborates with artists and local communities, amplifying the voices of Iran's diaspora through his label, Kopi.
Photo credit: Maxime Cyr-Morton
chiquitamagic
Between Toronto and L.A., producer and artist chiquitamagic crafts experimental electronic music guided by movement, emotion, and a playful sense of identity. Working with drum machines and modular synthesizers, she blurs the contours between dancefloor energy and exploratory composition, melding together elements of drone, drum and bass, jazz, and jungle. Her musical language takes form through lived experiences, notably her years spent singing in choir rooms as a child. Intricate harmonies and stacked vocal layers unfold throughout her works, each piece becoming an invitation to move, to feel, and to embody curiosity and openness. Her latest album, the self-produced Matriarch, traces the monumental arc through pregnancy and birth, drifting through ambient-adjacent realms where vulnerability and strength coexist.
Photo credit: Claire Harvie
Cleo Leigh
A rising voice in Canada’s underground, Cleo Leigh creates immersive live sets with modular synths and hardware, blending emotive minimalism and raw energy. Active in St. John’s nightlife since 2018, she co-founded the clubs LAVI SEKS and STÄMPT, as well as the Selenium event series, projects that have been driving forces behind the rise of a vibrant local electronic music scene. Her sound is informed by years of crate-digging, analog experimentation, and a love for sonic tension, where minimalism meets complexity.
Photo credit: Maïka Hearson
ebb
Formed by Montréal-based musicians Nela Paki (laced) and Marilou Lyonnais Archambault, ebb crafts slow-burning compositions that drift between new age, downtempo, trip-hop, and experimental electronic music. Evolving from their earlier project, Saudade, the duo has expanded its practice toward a sonic space where deep bass, fragments of acoustic instruments like the harp, and ghostly layers of drones intersect. Through immersive sonic pieces, they invite listeners into emotionally charged landscapes shaped by meditative tension. The duo has shared the stage with artists such as Oliver Coates, Roedelius, and Nadah El Shazly, and has performed at festivals including MUTEK, Suoni Per Il Popolo, Piknic Électronik, and 24 Hours of Vinyl. They also host a monthly show on n10.as radio, dedicated to exploring the fringes of hazy, atmospheric sound.
Florence Delphine-Roux
Originally from Quebec City and now based in Montréal, multidisciplinary artist Florence-Delphine Roux bridges visual and sound art, science, and technology, with a strong focus on the radiophonic medium. A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts at Villa Arson in Nice, Roux crafts immersive sensory experiences through listening, drawing from extensive field recordings, often captured outdoors. She manipulates textures invisible to the naked eye, such as electromagnetic fields, creating subtle disturbances within reality that unfold as cinematic aural experiences where stories emerge through sound alone. Through this multidimensional approach, she invites audiences to rethink their relationship with sound, venturing into alternate realities where listening becomes an act of active perception.
Photo credit: Frankie Ray O’Sullivan
Honeydrip
One of Montréal’s most notable names, Honeydrip built her reputation in the burgeoning underground scene. Now a revered bass music producer, DJ, and sound system builder, she hybridizes genres like dub, reggae, and dancehall to create her idiosyncratic low-end-driven sound. In 2023, she premiered her debut audio-visual performance Psychotropical at MUTEK, a work that has since toured internationally. This year, she returns with v i b r a t i o n, a performance that honours sub-bass as an embodied experience, where sound and visuals emerge from movement and inner vocal resonance using contact microphones, sensors, and custom-designed systems. With releases on labels like Woozy and Banoffee Pies Records, Honeydrip continues to deepen her connection with electronic music and sound system culture.
Photo credit: Frankie Ray O’Sullivan
MOORE + SALAS
MOORE + SALAS is the audiovisual collaboration between Montréal-based new media artist Allison Moore and Mexico/Canada-based interdisciplinary artist Isabella Salas. Working primarily in immersive cinema, Moore’s recent projects involve thematic inspirations of storytelling narratives in digital arts, video-mapping landscapes and architecture. Across full dome, site-specific public art, and performance, she reinterprets and rebuilds the world as a metaphoric landscape in which sensitive beings are in synergy with their allegorical macrocosm. Salas, guided by a philosophy of care, approaches technology and collaboration as relational processes shaped by attention, ethics, and collective imagination. Through video installations, immersive dome performances, and biometric art, her work explores how generative systems and ecological signals can converge into shared perceptual spaces that remain responsive to living systems.
Photo credit: Frankie Ray O’Sullivan
Myriam Bleau
Myriam Bleau is a composer, digital artist and performer based in Montréal. Using music and sound as a point of departure, she has created gestural electronic music performances, audiovisual interfaces, installations and interactive devices that articulate sound, light, movement and symbols. Her work investigates performance, both as a codified cultural manifestation, and as an embodied (re)enactment of symbolic systems through human and non-human agencies. It has been recognized and presented internationally, in festivals such as Prix Ars Electronica (AT), Sónar (ES, HK), MUTEK (MX, CA, AR, JP), ISEA (CA, KR), Transmediale (DE) and Todays' Art (NL).
Photo credit: Agustina Isidori
Nelly-Eve Rajotte
A visual and media artist, Nelly-Eve Rajotte develops a practice rooted in immersive installation and performance that interrogates contemporary conditions of perceptual experience. Working with moving image and sound, her projects draw on technologies such as LiDAR, biosensors, artificial intelligence, and robotics. She explores the sensitive relationships between technology, the body, and the environment, proposing immersive dispositifs that displace anthropocentric perspectives in favour of perceptual alterities and non-human points of view. Her work has been presented in numerous institutional and curatorial contexts in Quebec and internationally, including the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée d’art de Joliette, Contemporary Calgary, Emerson Contemporary (US), and more.
Photo credit: Justine Latour
Pick a Piper
Pick a Piper, the duo of long-time Caribou touring drummer Brad Weber (He / him) and singer-songwriter Sophia Alexandra (she / her), pairs catchy, ethereal vocals with warm synths and upbeat percussion in their haunting yet distinctly human productions. At once hypnotic and danceable, their performances vibrate with physicality and immersive visuals that create a collective, release-seeking experience pulsing with momentum. Their latest album, Dandelion, explores how we exist in the space between opposing feelings, employing skippy beats, bass-heavy kicks, hearty subs, hyperactive percussion, and woozy synths, all within a lovingly curated feel. The pair has toured across Europe, the US, Canada, Guatemala, and Colombia, and has shared the bill with acts such as Bonobo, Gold Panda, Blue Hawaii, Do Make Say Think, Ghetto Kumbe, Rich Aucoin, Braids, and Factory Floor.
Photo credit: Claire Harvie
pliq
Based in Montréal, composer Alexandre Sasset-Blouin (he/him) and audiovisual artist Jean-Philippe Jullin (he/him) form pliq, an experimental sound and image project working with generative and real-time systems. Using DIY electronic devices combining analog and digital technologies with recycled materials, Sasset-Blouin’s works and installations explore acoustic and synthetic sounds transformed through transduction, amplification, and feedback. With a focus on interactive and generative systems in which sound and image modulate each other in real time, Jullin’s work combines performance, installation and research-creation, drawing on the use of sensors, programming, and machine learning. Together, the pair probe the transitions between the physical, electronic, and digital realms, delivering harsh, distorted sounds and intense visuals that investigate the nuances of perception.
Photo credit: Frankie Ray O’Sullivan
Quinn Hopkins
Quinn Hopkins (mixed Ojibwe, non-status) is an interdisciplinary artist blending urban Indigenous experiences with digital futurism. Influenced by Indigenous futurists like Cannupa Hanska Luger, Santiago X and Skawennati, Hopkins’s immersive installations and digital artworks explore ancestral storytelling, technological innovation and cultural resurgence. His work invites collaboration and imagines empowered Indigenous futures, fostering community engagement, reciprocity with the land and profound interconnections between traditional knowledge and visionary digital landscapes. Hopkins has exhibited across Turtle Island, including at venues like Evergreen Brick Works and the Thunder Bay Art Gallery, among others.
Photo credit: Claire Harvie
shn shn
Canadian experimental pop artist shn shn blends lush vocals, downtempo beats, and swelling pads into cinematic ambient works that explore identity, transformation, and what it means to belong. Over three EPs and her debut LP Serpent’s Skin, released in March 2025, she’s sharpened her production and composing skills, putting forth immersive narrative arcs of looping textures and meditative rhythms that gently whisk listeners through waves of emotion, dreams, and lived experiences. In addition to her solo work, shn shn composes music for film, dance, and theatre, including the score for the upcoming A24 horror film undertone, music for the dance theatre piece Kiss the Stormy Sky, performed across Canada, and co-writing Golden by Andrea Romolo, featured in the CBC Olympic 2024 opening broadcast.
Photo credit: Claire Harvie
