Solar Year is one of the bands that continues to support the claim that Montreal is one of the most up-and-coming creative hubs in North America. Sunday night, the avant-pop duo made ofBen Borden andDavid Ertel will electrify the atmosphere of venue Metropolis with a spectacular audio-visual set.The two artists are already known for nuanced live experiences to complement their ethereal soundscapes. In 2012, they premiered their album Waverly underwater, literally submerging the audience in an ocean pool of sound using underwater speakers. Later that year, the group performed live in a church with the similarly-emotive musicians Julia Holter and Tim Hecker.This Sunday is no different, as Solar Year will experiment with a spatial dimension added to their set with help from design artist Alex Hercule, know for his collaborations with Arcade Fire and Jon Rafman. The performance includes a a structure made of Plexiglas with a secret lighting set-up to spark psychedelic video projection on to the duo as they perform:“We shot video of different spaces in Corpus Christi, TX. Part of the goal was to create a hyper-real, synthetic environment using only unfiltered footage,” said the group. “We've gone back and made a new virtual space on a webpage using that footage. There's something that we like about what's lost and gained in translation between these different media.”To give us a sneak peak of the visual content of the live show, they sent us a few of their web-based, interactive 3D cubes (see below). “We've always been exploring a kind of feedback loop between architecture, space and sound in our music,” the left field-pop artists explained. The multimedia experience will continue their ongoing skill at immersing audiences so they feel interconnected with the soundwaves and other sensory stimuli. We trust that the performance will be sonically gratifying, to say the least—especially as the set is followed by a performance by Moderat.“It's going to be 45 minutes of mostly new unreleased material," Solar Year told The Creators Project. It's going to sound HUGE. And terrifying.” We're ready… we think.Get tickets for the show here.Lead photo by Sarah OdriscollFor more on Solar Year, visit the group's Facebook page.Related:The Interactive Fog Illusions That Launched Moderat’s Hyper-Anticipated AlbumNorthern Lights: EM15 Festival Brings The World's Brightest Tech Artist Innovators To Montreal[Video] Matthew Dear's Alter Ego, Audion, Announces Multi-Sensory Tour, SUBVERTICUL
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