Olivier Alary is a French, Montréal-based composer with a background in architecture whose work spans experimental music, film scores, and sound art. He has developed a practice that moves fluidly between electronic and instrumental composition, often exploring themes of memory, perception, and materiality in sound. Alary’s work also extends into the field of visual art, with sound installations and collaborations presented in museums and institutions. In these contexts, he approaches sound as a spatial and material practice, developing projects that engage with memory, perception, and the physical presence of sound in space.
Vestiges is Alary’s five-movement, 43-minute composition for twelve amplified lap steel guitars and electronics (performed by Jonathan Barriault, Nicolas Caloia, Steve Cowan, Simon Duchesne, Ben Grossman, Marc-André Labelle, Dominic Marion, Pierre-Yves Martel,
