Habitat Sonore: Listening room
November 21 → January 19
Tune out outside noise and immerse yourself in one of Montreal's only spatial audio listening rooms
Experience
Music
EXPERIENCE
→ Habitat Sonore: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
- Experience
- Music
- Immersion
General admission:Â $20
Price including service fees, excluding taxes
All ages
Monday to Wednesday:
Closed
Thursday:
5:30 PM to 8:15 PM
Friday:
4 PM to 8:15 PM
Saturday &Â Sunday:
11:30 AM to 8:15 PM
Last entry:
6:45 PM
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PHI Centre
Listening room
407 Saint-Pierre St
Montreal, Quebec, H2Y 2M3
We invite you to remove your shoes before entering the listening room and ask that you please wear socks on the day.
To ensure the best possible experience for everyone, latecomers will not be admitted into the listening room.
The experience is offered to an audience of all ages. Upon arrival, we ask all visitors to remain silent throughout their experience, to ensure a pleasant experience for all.
Before visiting, please review some essential information about the visit, including details on accessibility at the Centre.
To plan a school, community or corporate visit, go to our Group Visits page.
A Dolby Atmos listening experience of the new album, Wild God.
What is Habitat Sonore? ↓
The listening experience program will begin with a series of carefully curated audio pieces featuring Nick Cave, drawn from his thoughtful Q&A exchanges and behind-the-scenes moments with the Bad Seeds. Presented in English, with French transcriptions available on-site, each piece invites listeners to a contemplative and immersive experience.
The short documentary revealing the behind-the-scenes of Wild God will be screened in the lobby, accessible to all visitors.
ABOUT WILD GOD
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are one of the world’s most exciting, influential, innovative and compelling bands. Driven by a continuous creative evolution, their music displays a diverse, often contradictory range of styles with Cave considering it their "solemn duty to turn against what has gone before”. Across 18 studio albums they have consistently reinvented their sound, and their latest, Wild God (2024), is no exception.
Moving away from the more interior quality of their recent output, Wild God bursts with life as it embraces the warmth of the full Bad Seeds reconnected. Across ten tracks, the band dance between convention and experimentation, taking left-turns and detours that heighten the rich imagery and emotion in Cave’s soul-stirring narratives.
Produced by Cave and Warren Ellis, and mixed by David Fridmann (Flaming Lips, MGMT), the album boasts additional performances from Colin Greenwood (bass) and Luis Almau (nylon string guitar) that add colour to an already abundant palette.
“Wild God…there’s no fu**ing around with this record. When it hits, it hits. It lifts you. It moves you. I love that about it.”
PRESENTED BY
IN COLLABORATION WITH
ABOUT HABITAT SONORE
Habitat Sonore is an intimate listening space designed to accommodate up to 10 people. This small capacity enhances total immersion into the sound world of artists from here and elsewhere. The experience unfolds in near darkness, which helps to emphasize the sound. We invite you to settle in comfortably, let your mind wander, close your eyes if you wish, and be carried away by a unique and captivating auditory journey.
Learn more about the listening room and its programming here ↓
Habitat Sonore: Listening room
November 21 → January 19
Tune out outside noise and immerse yourself in one of Montreal's only spatial audio listening rooms
Experience
Music
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