Eastern Bloc

Open to the public each third-Thursday of the month, the Eastern Bloc Lab allows community members and working artists engaged at Eastern Bloc to socialise and create new work. It is a place for design of music and electronics in Montreal, Quebec. On...

Eastern Bloc in collaboration with AKOUSMA present a hands on workshop with the modular synth designers Befaco!  In this DIY workshop all the necessary components will be provided (in kit format) to build a device from scratch. Each participant builds...

ModularMondays are weekly modular synthesizer performance sessions that, while not being limited to a given style, tend towards the West coast early experimental electronic music of the sixties and seventies. The instruments performed at these sessions are...

Any person interested in SuperCollider - whether they are an expert, a beginner or just curious - is welcome!   The Montrel SuperCollider** users meet at Eastern Bloc approximately once every month. Generally, they get...

Launch of "Book of Neoism?!" in the presence of Istvan Kantor BOOK LAUNCH + PERFORMANCE + FREE BRAINWASH + INDOCTRINATION  This bible size book reveals the insurgent anti-credo of Neoism?!: six volumes of unexpurgated decibels of...

"Charges" is an homage to the pioneer video artist Jean-Pierre Boyer. Freely inspired by Boyer’s videos made during the 1970’s with his "Boyétiseur" and his use of video feedbacks, "Charges" is the result of an...

"for MS" is an exploration of dimensionality, constraint, and projection in tribute to Michael Snow. Installation with paracord, knots, textiles, tape, tarpaulin, steel, brass, and oscillators. - Erin Sexton was inspired by the pioneer...

The laughter of this space is charged, political, infectious, complexly musical, and borne of the air that survivors still breathe. - Erin Gee was inspired by the pioneer canadian artist : Cheryl L'hirondelle -  «...

"DEEP SOLUTIONS" is an immersive environment that invites participants to take a virtual voyage into the dark and strange corners of the web. - Craig Fahner and Matthew Waddell were inspired by the pioneer Canadian artist Catherine...

"Shimmer Generator" is a photographic work that peers into the intricately hand-wired world inhabiting obsolete vacuum tube technology. - Darsha Hewitt was inspired by the pioneer canadian artist : Doug Back -  The site of this...

Jennifer Chan joins forces with Cat Bluemke, Jonathan Carroll, and Ben McCarthy to apply a user testing approach to creating a game for cats. - Jennifer Chan was inspired by the pioneering canadian artists : Emily Vey Duke and Cooper...

“The Sense of Neoism?! An Infinite Manifesto” is an attempt to transfer the spirit of Neoism?! into a machine that can indefinitely generate blurbs, reflexions, motos, and nonsense. Underlying the system is an artificial neural network machine...

Responding to the work of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, "Persistent Teenage Gestures" similarly foregrounds a sense of buried narrative, developing an ambiguous, almost noir-like sensibility. 2018. Electric guitar, amplifier, bowling...

Eastern Bloc is a decade old. Considering it is a space that celebrates both emerging practices and emerging artists, it is funny to imagine that it has itself moved firmly into the established category. Over the course of its ten-year history, Eastern Bloc...