Sylvain Pohu
For more than 20 years, Sylvain Pohu has been active on the Montreal and international music scene as a composer and guitarist. He obtained a Doctorate in composition at the Université de Montréal in 2014. His work as a composer reveals a strong attraction for distortion, saturation, chaos and noise. He practices improvisation as a soloist and as part of various ensembles of all kinds, notably with [iks] from 1999 to 2015. In parallel to his artistic activities, he is responsible for the production of the live@cirmmt concert series at the Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Musique, Médias et Technologie (CIRMMT) at McGill University.