Kinetik Festival
"Montreal again sets the stage for a stunning musical event"
Bobby Mozumder , FutureClaw Magazine Vol. II 2009

Machines overrun Montreal
‘’Hard electronic music as a kind of metaphysical kinetic mysticism’’
Lucinda Catchlove, Nightlife Magazine May 2008

The kinetic energy (also called in the old writings live viva, or sharp force) is the energy which a body because of its movement has. The kinetic energy of a body is equal to work necessary to make pass says it body of the rest to its current rotation and translatory movement.

It is Guillaume d' Ockham (1280-1349) who introduced, in 1323, the difference between what is called the dynamic movement (that we generate) and the kinetic movement (generated by interactions, of which collisions).*

* Definition supplements via wikipedia

According to this idea, the Kinetik festival want to be a response to this reality, that any body has an internal energy when put moving by releases, in this case, the interaction between energy (sound, light, images) and a body (assistance) placed in an environment or all these directions is put in request.

Fallowing the evolution of electronic music, including its obscure branches, and to its more known branches, this inner force, reflected in electronic music will be reflected during five nights, from Electro, to Old School Industrial, to Harsh Industrial, to Rythmic Noise and finally to EBM (Electronic Body Music), to lead to the maximum of senses towards new horizons. The Festival Kinetik on is third edition will be a reflection of electronic music and its evolution during the last 25 years from May 12 to May 16 2010. Once again, It will touches more than one style of music and it will bring a lot of attention to the Canadian scene, with many internationals acts and a special place for Canadians bands.

To allow a complete immersion via the inner force of electronics, the festival wants to touch to all media's to bring an additional support to the music. Live projections during all the shows by recognized VJ's, interactive expositions of various artists (painting, drawing, construction multimedia) with live performances during the shows and more…

To touch the wider public possible, the Kinetik festival wants to be as accessible as possible. The electro-industrial music influenced a lot of music styles during the last 25 years. With a place for the big names of the scene and an important place for new talents, helped by different media's to give the best penetration to this inner force.

The team of the Festival Kinetik is made up of two of the three original producers of the C.O.M.A Festival ; KAO Production and I Prod with the addition of Android Productions to form a partnership in Kinetik Productions. Fallowing the success of 2007 edition of C.O.M.A (more than 1400 people during the week end) and the succes of the first and second edition of the Festival Kinetik with sold out nights and a total of more than 2800 entries during the festival, the team wants to push even further the idea, in the ideas of the great electro-industrial Europeans festivals like Wave Gotik Treffen and M'era Me Luna.

Kinetik Productions

A nonprofit institution, founded in 2007 by a partnership between KAO Production, Android Productions & [i] Prod to promote the Montreal Electro-Industrial scene, with the help of different events. With it's annual event, the Festival Kinetik, this team want to help the cultural exchanges between countries, with the help of Electro-Industrial music, with the elaboration of one of the biggest north american festival.

KAO Production

KAO Production was founded in 2002 by Jean-François Fortin. What started at the beginning with a simple industrial evening (Replikant/Electric Foufounes) was quickly modified with production of music events. KAO Production, composed of a strong team, helped to put Montreal among the principal markets in North America for the industrial/EBM/Noise performances.

Producing more than 35 concerts with more than 70 groups coming from everywhere throughout the world during the last 7 years, working in collaboration with various well established production teams of Montreal (Gillett Group, Greenland, Spectra, Lotto-Quebec,…) KAO Production was able to take his place in the Montreal scene and get international recognition from electro-industrial labels.

Website : www.kao-production.com

Android Productions 

Part of the electronic Montreal Scene since 2000, Kyo Lelievre decided to found in 2006 her own company to promote this style of music.

Android Prod was launches with the Neurotoxik event in 2006, surrounded by DJ' S and international bands (Manu the Malin, Sulphuric Saliva, Iszoloscope…). Incorporating dynamic concepts, mixing live prestations with live vjing, this party was a new step for Montreal.

I Prod

Founded in 2006, [i] Prod is a response to works already started in the electro-industrial scene of Montreal during ten last years: club Sapphir, co-production with KAO Production. I Prod was part of lots of events during the last 5 years (C.O.M.A., Neurotoxik, Collide…)

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- 2010 official press release [490 KB]
- 2010 Kinetik Festival presentation [3.10 MB]

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Accessory [DE] / Ad-ver-sary [CA] / Aesthetic Perfection [US] / Amduscia [MX] / Architect [DE] / Assemblage 23 [US] / Astyplaz [GR] / Ayria [CA] / Caustic [US] / Cenotype [us] Cervello Elettronico [US] / Corrupted Suburbs [CA] / Das Ich [DE] / DYM [CA] / FGFC820 [US] / God Module [US] / Grendel [NL] / Icon of Coil [NO] / Imminent [BE] / Interlace [SE] Iszoloscope [CA] / Left Side Neighbour [CA] / Life Cried [US] / Marching Dynamics [US] Memmaker [CA] / Mimetic [CH] / Necessary Response [US] / Noisex [DE] / Pride and Fall [NO] / Project Pitchfork [DE] / Reaper [DE] / Soman [DE] / Terrorfakt [US] / Winterkaelte [DE] / XP8 [IT]

Ascii_Disko [Madrid] / Cenotype [USA] / Displacer [Canada] Distorted Memory [Canada] The Dj Producer [UK]/ Dj Salt [Germany] Empusae [Belgium] / Feindflug [Germany] Funker Vogt [Germany] / Headscan [Canada] / Iszoloscope [Canada] Kiew [Germany] / Lenny Dee [USA] / Memmaker [Canada] Mono no Aware [Germany] / Nitzer Ebb [UK] / Noisuf-X [Germany] The Outside Agency [Netherlands] / PerfectionPlastic [Canada] Rabia Sorda [Mexico] / Satronica [USA] / Sonar [Belgium] / Sorehead [Canada] Synnack [USA] Terrorfakt [USA] / The Horrorist [USA] This Morn’ Omina [Belgium] / Tonikom [USA] Xotox [Germany]

Machines overrun Montreal, Lucinda Catchlove, Nightlife Magazine May 2008

Démystifier l'électro (french), Vanessa Guimond, Canoe May 12 2008

Living in the ’80s, Lorraine Carpenter, Mirror May 15 - May 21.2008 Vol. 23 No. 47


Kinetik (french), Jean-Nicolas Labrie, Bang Bang May 10 2008

Episode 37, Played in on Air Canada Planes, Tourisme Montreal May 2008

Kinetik Festival Preview. Matthew Johnson, ReGen Magazine April 27 2008

Kinetik Festival Preview, Germaniac dot com online magazine May 2008

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