June, 2016

What Does it Take to be a God?

The genre of science fiction has always dabbled in technology of the future; from space and time travel, to parallel universes and extraterrestrial life, and now, to the creation of Artificially Intelligent machines. Ex Machina, a film directed by Alex Garland in 2015, explores various aspects of AI, and probes…

Voiceless: a Music Epidemic

Facebook, Twitter, Soundcloud, Instagram, Pandora, Spotify, Google Music, Apple Music… The new norm is to check all these pages on a daily basis. This has connected us more to the world, but disconnected us from quality. When quality is no longer required for quantity, we reach a wall where music…

The Lebanese Festival: A Gathering for Peace

For thousands of years, Lebanese culture has embraced the joys of life, usually in the form of immense get-togethers. Besides its good food and traditional Dabke dance, the Lebanese Festival has been a great influence on many other communities in Montreal. Here’s why: a while after the tragedy of 9/11,…

MUTEK 2016 : au coeur de la nouveauté

Résolument inscrit à l’avant-garde de la musique électronique et des arts visuels, la 17e édition montréalaise du Festival MUTEK, qui se déroulait du 1er au 5 juin, a habilement rempli son ambitieux mandat. Le festival s’est une fois de plus posé en plateforme d’initiation et de convergence entre le public et…

Monthly Mix 004 - Veggie Deejay

To ease you out of the 8-month hibernation period known as Montreal winter, Veggie Deejay aka Brice Huet brings you Graphite’s Monthly Mix 004. After studying in Montreal where he co-founded the event collective Limbo Productions, Huet is now based in Paris where he continues to DJ and produce soft and…

It Is Not Happening Anymore

It is not happening anymore. The moths in the lightcup are dusty. The buildings have ballooned from their puddles and stand in menace. The snowmelt is black and polluted and goods still truck into storefronts. They don’t want you to know. Your shoes won’t take you anywhere new. An odd…

Talking Sweet and Salty with Minneapolis Star-On-The-Rise Ness Nite

Once in a while, a voice emerges from the constant maelstrom of small-name music on the Internet that doesn’t just capture attention, but induces an instantaneous case of Stockholm syndrome that makes you want to ditch your commitments and stick around forever in rapture. Today, that voice belongs to Ness…

Chromatic 2016 en photos

Accueillie sous les hauts plafonds du Hangar 16, dans le Vieux-Port de Montréal, la 7ème édition du festival Chromatic a pris fin le 22 mai dernier. Talents montréalais, torontois et internationaux étaient rassemblés pour une exposition multidisciplinaire dans l’espace de 14 000 pieds carrés, situé aux abords du Saint-Laurent. La…