PHI Centre
Listening room
407 Saint-Pierre St
Montreal, Quebec, H2Y 2M3
Monday & Tuesday:
Closed
Wednesday:Â
3 PM to 7 PM
Thursday to Saturday:
12 PM to 8:30 PM
Sunday:
12 PM to 7 PM
→ Click here to see the schedule for each artist
Last entry:
1 hour before closing
All ages
General admission:
$10-$15
Price including service fees, excluding taxes
We invite you to remove your shoes before entering the listening room and ask that you please wear socks on the day.
Join the Habitat Sonore community to be the first to hear about upcoming programs and to receive exclusive offers and invites to special events.
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.
Tune out outside noise and immerse yourself in one of Montreal's only spatial audio listening rooms.
The artists:Â
Daft Punk
KALLITECHNIS
A playlist of local artists
See the complete schedule ↓
Discover the artists ↓
The experience inside Habitat Sonore: Listening room is in constant evolution. Please check back regularly to discover newly added artists and more time slot availability.
MAY 1 → AUGUST 11
Wednesday:Â 4:30Â PM, 6Â PM
Thursday:Â 1:30Â PM, 3Â PM, 4:30Â PM, 7:30 PM
Friday & Saturday:Â 1:30Â PM, 4:30Â PM, 6Â PM, 7:30 PM
Sunday: 1:30 PM, 3 PM, 4:30 PM
Duration: 66 min.
Tickets for Daft Punk ↗
MAY 8 → AUGUST 11
Wednesday:Â 3Â PM
Thursday &Â Sunday:Â 12Â PM, 6Â PM
Friday & Saturday:Â 12Â PM, 3Â PM
Duration: 51 min.
Tickets for this playlist ↗Â
JUNE 19 → JUNE 23
Wednesday:Â 3Â PM
Thursday &Â Sunday:Â 12Â PM, 6Â PM
Friday & Saturday:Â 12Â PM, 3Â PM
Duration: 30 min.
Tickets for KALLITECHNIS ↗
You can also see the KALLITECHNIS album launch show at the PHI Centre on June 16, 2024!
The story of a masterpiece of contemporary pop music. (Re)discover the album decrypted by its creators in all its immersive glory in our Habitat Sonore listening room, in relaxing conditions and ambiance for an exceptional listening experience.
For over 10 years, Daft Punk has placed the final piece in its discographic venture with Random Access Memories.
With 5 Grammy Awards and instant triumph, a worldwide hit (Get Lucky), incredibly precise production, and prestigious collaborations (Pharrell Williams, Julian Casablancas, Giorgio Moroder, etc.), this album has left a lasting impression and established the duo as a major figure in contemporary pop.
For the first time since their separation in 2021, Daft Punk themselves, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, tell the story of this album to Rebecca Manzoni.
A creation by Sonorium, in partnership with the PHI Centre and with the support of France inter.
[Master Recording/Composition] Courtesy of Daft Punk
Daft Punk is a French electronic music duo, originally from Paris. Composed of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, the group was active between 1993 and 2021 and played a key role in the creation and popularization of the electronic music movement known as French touch, through 4 studio albums: Homework (1997), Discovery (2001), Human After All (2005), and Random Access Memories (2013).
Sonorium designs and produces musical experiences centered around album listening: rediscovering mythical albums, exclusive previews... dissected by top specialists and/or the artists themselves, with high-quality sound, in unique locations.
Derived from the Radio France Podcast:
France Inter - Rebecca Manzoni - Totémic - "Daft Punk celebrates the tenth anniversary of 'Random Access Memories' with a few friends" - May 12, 2023.
*The podcast will be available exclusively in French.
With:
Gayance - Narcy - En Stéréo - KALLITECHNIS - The Bionic Harpist - Patrick Watson - Klô Pelgag - Daniel Bélanger - Bibi Club - Jean-Michel Blais - Waahli - Cosmic Cosmic - Malika Tirolien - Dominique Fils-Aimé - Karkwa
With Playlist, the music that moves Montreal comes alive in Habitat Sonore, our immersive listening space. A vibrant homage to established artists—and a playground for emerging talents. It's a small window into a colourful musical city tour, celebrating the unique talent of our local scene.
Explore the diverse sounds of our city through a musical journey filled with twists and turns, spanning from synth-pop to electro, and encompassing R&B, indie rock, and hip-hop along the way.
Jean-Michel Blais - "passepied"
The Bionic Harpist - "In Stillness"
Dominique Fils-Aimé - "Cheers to New Beginnings"
Patrick Watson - "Better in the Shade"
KlĂ´ Pelgag - "MĂ©lamine"
Daniel Bélanger - "J’entends tout ce qui joue"
Bibi Club - "Le feu"
Karkwa - "Gravité"
Waahli - "Te revoir"
Malika Tirolien - "A Love That Will Last"
KALLITECHNIS - "WOUND UP"
Gayance - "Lord Have Mercy"
En Stéréo - "Clair Obscur"
Narcy - "Journey"
Cosmic Cosmic - "Jupiter"
“I wanted MOOD RING to be an immersive portal into familiar scenes of love and romance. For the mix, it meant emphasizing the textures in the songs to create a depth that allows you to feel the music as a 3D experience. With eyes closed, I wanted the songs to feel like rooms that listeners could enter, just as if they could step into a time capsule and revisit similar snapshots from their own memories. The spatial mix made this sensation possible through the intentional placement of certain textures in space. I welcome you to MOOD RING and hope you meet a version of yourself in these colours.”
—KALLI
[Master Recording/Composition] Courtesy of Soul Over Ego & Cassandra Kouremenos;Â Mixed in Dolby Atmos by Philippe Rochefort; Dolby Atmos mastering by Justin Gray / [Photo] Lian Benoit
The Habitat Sonore community is a gathering of dedicated sound art enthusiasts. Through regular communications, community members receive exclusive offers, early releases, cocktail invitations, interviews with the artists and much more.
Let's celebrate the listening room together! Join the community and enjoy the benefits today.
Habitat Sonore offers a new way of appreciating the local and international musical landscape by proposing a different kind of auditory experience beyond stereo listening.Â
The albums and soundscapes proposed in Habitat Sonore are the result of a thorough reflection from the artists on how their work should be presented and experienced.Â
Tune out outside noise and immerse yourself in one of Montreal's only spatial audio listening rooms.
Habitat Sonore is an invitation to sound immersion. PHI welcomes you to an intimate and relaxing environment where you can discover sound in all its forms—from sound baths to short audio films and music albums to chromotherapy. Enjoy a wide variety of poetic, meditative, and performative content.
Habitat Sonore was designed to be as technically flexible as possible, prioritizing the utmost sound quality. The sound system consists of a 16 speaker multichannel array powered by a high-end JBL pre-processor. The space allows the playback of several commercial immersive formats and can also be used as an “instrument” for artists to explore spatialization possibilities. Habitat Sonore is a place that offers multiple creative opportunities for collaboration, mediation, and experimentation.
There are many different ways to experience sound, whether in a communal environment or for individual listening.
Habitat Sonore is a communal space that encourages shared listening with others. The listening room can seat a maximum of 10 people at a time. Invite your friends and loved ones to experience a riveting piece of sound together.
The space will feature a range of programming across different genres including: musical albums, sound art, live performances, sound baths, narrative pieces and sound installations.
Glossary
A sound bath is a deep, immersive, whole-body listening experience that intentionally uses sound to nourish therapeutic and restorative processes of the mind and body.
Deep listening explores the relationships between all sounds, whether natural or technological, intended or unintended, real, remembered or imagined. It's also a state of mind, similar to meditation, that allows for a deep appreciation of a work or sound environment.
A soundscape is the acoustic environment—the sounds we find in the natural environment, amongst flora and fauna, and the unintentional sounds found in man-made environments (technology, machines, cities). It can also refer to the intentional sounds found in music, generally referring to creations in ambient electronic or electroacoustic music.
An "immersive" experience completely envelopes the visitor or participant in another reality, sensory or narrative. In sound, it is a sonic representation of a virtual space.
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