Hubert Gendron-Blais is a musician, author and researcher based in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal, working at the confluence of philosophy, sound/music and politics, with a particular attention to the concepts of affect, community and ecology.  He recently curated the project Réverbérations d’une crise: une enquête sonore sur le logement à Montréal (Sounding the housing crisis) with a collective of tenants, supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. Gendron-Blais completed a postdoctoral fellowship in philosophy at McGill University and obtained a Ph.D. in humanities (research-creation) from Concordia University. His work has been published in Organised Sound, the Journal of Sonic Studies and ephemera, among others, and has been presented in conferences and festivals in various contexts in North America, Europe and Asia. In music, Gendron-Blais is the initiator of the Devenir-ensemble, a musical assemblage working in comprovisation from ambient sounds. He is also taken in a creative process with the experimental band ce qui nous traverse, while pursuing its own sound experimentations in “solo” (some of his pieces have figured on compilations by Jeunesse Cosmique, Mtl.Drone collective and the Dark Outside project). As a musician, Gendron-Blais has performed in festivals, conferences and concert series in various events across Canada, France, Belgium and the United States.

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