Stellaire is a Saguenean electro-folk duo born from the meeting between Sara Létourneau, multidisciplinary artist recognized in performance art, visual art and theatre, and Guillaume Thibert, sound designer and composer for theatre and cinema. Their music unfolds around poetic texts and Sara's voice, in minimalist arrangements combining samples, electric piano, arpeggiators, mesmerizing guitars, electro percussion, music boxes and other unusual gadgets.
With a wealth of experience and different practices, the musical and visual universe of Stellaire borrows without embarrassment from other disciplines while remaining anchored in a dreamlike and soaring French pop song. Always looking for a complex simplicity, they chain surprises by sometimes integrating incongruous performance elements into their services.
- Sara Létourneau
- Keyboards
- Guitar
- Machinery and electronics
- Sound objects
- Texts
- Voice
- Composition
- Guillaume Thibert
- Keyboards
- Electric guitar
- Machinery and electronics
- Composition
Sara Létourneau
A multidisciplinary artist, Sara Létourneau works in visual arts, music, performance art, video and theatre. Her practice is characterized by its hybridity as well as by her frequent collaborations with other artists.
She has completed several artist residencies in Canada and Europe. Her work in visual arts has been presented in several artist centers, museums, galleries, festivals and fairs in Quebec and Belgium. She has participated in many theatrical projects as an actress, set designer or performer. Her performative electro-folk music group, Stellaire, launched its first album in 2017. It has presented its performance art actions in more than forty events in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia and is co-curator for the performance art meeting of Saguenay Art Nomade. In recent years, she has worked extensively on collective multidisciplinary performative and sound projects such as "Ce qui reste quand la peau se détache du corps" (CEM, Festival des musiques de création, Festival Open Waters Halifax), "Exuvie" (CEM, Le Lobe , Langage Plus, Le Lieu, Sporobole), "Le poids du souffle" (Language Plus, Salle Murdock) and "Collision, un opéra pour demi sous-sol" (Le Lobe).
Guillaume Thibert
Composer and sound designer, Guillaume Thibert is General and Artistic Director of the Centre d'Expérimentation Musicale, a new music production society founded in 1981. He was, from 2010 to 2018, research professional for the Chaire de recherche en dramaturgie sonore of the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC), directed by Jean-Paul Quéinnec.
Trained in jazz-pop piano and a graduate in sound design, he worked early on in several studios such as Radio-Canada and Astral Media, before opening his personal recording studio. He then became an active member and was elected president of TouTTouT - centre de production en art actuel - where he set up his studio and devotes himself to creation. He composes, records and produces several music and sound environments for the cinema (Immortalité : dernière frontière on Radio-Canada/ARTE, La Fumée sans Feu, Univers Intimes, Jours blancs, Jogging), signs some twenty sound designs for the theatre (Saint-André-de-l’Épouvante – Théâtre PaP/La Rubrique, Carton Rouge sur Carré Vert, Rosépine – les Amis de Chiffon, le Grand Œuvre, Daidalos, Le petit cercle de craie – La Tortue Noire, Les mains de Jonathan, La Liberté – La Rubrique) and composes for the stage (Alcan Quartet, l’Ensemble Contemporain du CEM, le Gros Groupe).
His musical approach favors interaction with artists, integrating them directly into the creative process. The works he creates combine musicality and sound narrativity while making intensive use of digital audio technologies, particularly in spatialization and sound processing. Expert and passionate about sound technologies, he is a consultant for several cultural organizations and for the UQAC, where he set up infrastructures and equipment specialized in digital audio.
