Envision collaborates with artists and partners to develop, fund, create, and produce innovative, immersive, and genre-defying live shows and projects reaching a diversity of audiences.
What is it like to immigrate to North America as an Arab? Wake Island explores this question in a triptych featuring an immersive live performance with Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, a spatial audio listening experience and a role-playing video game.
Ascension is an immersive multisensory exhibit that features photographic lightboxes of serene natural environments paired with 3 musical movements composed by Rebecca Foon.
Create a mockumentary multi-media performance with Kid Koala! World of Bugs is an interactive collaborative event where participants create and film a live episode of ‘World of Bugs,’ a puppet based nature mockumentary.
The Quiet River of Dust is an immersive live concert and accompanying standalone film performed in a 360° dome, based on the namesake albums (Vols. 1 and 2) conceived by Richard Reed Parry, the polymath multi-instrumentalist at the heart of Arcade Fire.
Music to Draw to is a creative community event series hosted by Kid Koala since 2009. Kid Koala curates a 4-5 hour set of "quiet time" records from his collection and invites (quiet) participants to bring something to work on in this creative zone. People come to draw, sculpt, paint, knit, code… in a cozy environment conducive to working.
Music. Robots. Bleeps and blorps—it’s a robot dance party! Step one: build your cardboard robot costume (all materials provided). Step two: hit the dance floor and show off your robot moves as Kid Koala spins a set of his favorite electro-vocoder tracks.
Robot House Party is a virtual variation of the Robot Dance Party event. A family friendly online livestream event that transforms your living room into a robot costume workshop and a dance party.
Journey with Kid Koala into a delightful and disarming meld of music, storytelling, and performance art. The Space Cadet Headphone Concert is a one-of-a-kind live performance that immerses participants in the world of Kid Koala's Space Cadet graphic novel and soundtrack alongside an interactive art exhibit.
Create music with Kid Koala as part of an interactive turntable ambient vinyl orchestra! The Satellite Turntable Orchestra is a participatory show featuring an innovative collection of dreamy, atmospheric tracks composed especially for this event and featured on the Music To Draw To album series.
A jump up, high energy uptempo instant party set featuring Kid Koala and an amazing troupe of dancers and puppeteers!
Vinyl Vaudeville is a one-of-a-kind spectacle with singing puppets, mesmerizing fan dancers, life size robots, a giant cardboard gramophone, parlor games, featuring Kid Koala on the turntables.
Take a trip through Kid Koala’s record crates, always an audio adventure! His DJ set features 1 Koala, 3 turntables, and stacks of records that he manipulates in his signature style of cutting, scratching, and layering.
Hybrid party set! Half DJ set, half turntable, guitar, drum machine mayhem! Kid Koala on turntables and Lealani on vocals, guitar and mpc.
Kid Koala invites you to come and play the brand new Creatures of the Late Afternoon interactive vinyl board game with your family and friends!
Together with Kid Koala, participant teams take turns cueing up board game tracks from the album on a real turntable and scoring certain moments of the game. They travel around the game board, meet various music-playing creatures and collect their cards, find musical instruments and recording devices at the flea market, win studio time, gain life experience, collect enough cards to create a song and save the Natural History Museum through the power of music!
Floor Kids is a breakdance battle game featuring unique freestyle gameplay, rhythm challenges, and multiplayer sessions. Build up your crew of bboys and bgirls, unlocking new characters and locations as you cross the city, busting hundreds of different moves and countless combinations on your journey from the corner to the club.
The Storyville Mosquito is a live animated graphic novel that’s performed, filmed and scored in real time. A team of performers, musicians, foley artists and technicians cinematically bring the characters to life using miniature sets, puppets, multiple cameras, and screens. The puppets tell the story accompanied by an original music soundtrack featuring a trio of musicians and Kid Koala on turntables, keyboards and electronics.
The Storyville Mosquito speaks to the themes of honesty, improvisation, inner voice, style, and collaboration. It is the follow-up to Kid Koala’s hugely successful Nufonia Must Fall Live stage performance, further developing the emotion, the craft, the art and Kid Koala’s skills as a composer, writer, and in this case, director.
Montreal's fabled avant-garde outfit Bell Orchestre comes together to perform their immersive ecosystem of an album House Music (2021) with a full orchestral arrangement. The album unfolds as one long piece, a recorded-then-sculpted improvisation that coalesces classical and electronic instrumentation in the creation of genre-defying musical worlds.
Montreal's fabled avant-garde outfit Bell Orchestre comes together in the beautiful Canadian woodlands to create a unique performance film of their first album in a decade, House Music.
Equal parts cinema, theatre, musical concert - watch an amazing team of puppeteers bring the characters of Kid Koala's graphic novel Nufonia Must Fall to life in miniature sets built to recreate each scene from the book. Under the direction of renowned production designer KK Barrett (Her, Where the Wild Things Are, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich), the performance is cinematically lit, filmed, and projected on a large screen. Kid Koala, accompanied by Afiara Quartet, performs his original score on piano and turntable. All of these components come together in real-time thanks to a team of twelve talented performers and technicians.
Bring your loved ones -- or bring a stranger! Enjoy an evening of entertainment perfect for the whole family or even for a first date. Get comfy and enjoy director KK Barrett's live version of Kid Koala's Nufonia Must Fall.
Step into an imaginary house made of music and memory. The Bell Orchestre Sound House is a multi-participant, interactive audiovisual installation that summons the sounds of the band’s 2021 album, House Music, launching the music of Bell Orchestre into another dimension.
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Moondata LABprojects was an event series which invited musicians, visual artists and DJs to co-operate in special one-time, improvised performances that crossed traditional musical boundaries. Started by Matthew Lederman in Montreal, over the span of seven years (mostly between 2004-2007), they held 40 improvised shows that combined the talents of over 100 musicians, visual artists and DJs, all of them from Montreal. Some of these musicians were unknown, some of them were already famous, and some of them were on their way to greater heights. Sharing the stage were Patrick Watson, Land Of Talk, The Barr Brothers, members of Bell Orchestre & The Besnard Lakes, joined by Kid Koala, Amon Tobin, Jorane, and Lhasa De Sela, among others.
Lateef Martin is a multi-disciplinary artist and founder of Miscellaneum Studios with a background in illustration, dance and music production and beatboxing. Throughout the years, he has created various bike-based 'cyclepunk' works around a zombie apocalypse-plagued universe called Z’Isle. He along with a top production team of art direction and costume design created a show like no other: a live musical theatre performance exploring the mythology and history of Z’Isle.
The Season, The Season 2, and The Season 3 are hilarious, touching, and unparalleled puppet-heavy indie musicals conceived and composed by Montreal's Josh Dolgin aka Socalled. The producer, pianist, writer, rapper, magician and cartoonist has – in addition to releasing six solo albums and worldwide touring – collaborated with musicians as different as Chilly Gonzales, Wu-Tang Clan’s Killah Priest, Irving Fields or “the architect of funk music” Fred Wesley, famed for his work with James Brown, Susan Hoffman-Watts and Frank London.
In anticipation of the release of his latest album, Creatures of the Late Afternoon, Kid Koala hosted Creature Feature, a 30-minute, interactive romp presented alongside his XR video Four Stares. Presented by 4-VU, the event premiered live as an all ages, accessible as a pay-what-you-can stream in 2021.
Creature Feature was a needle drop through unreleased forthcoming tracks; an unveiling of Creature Corner puppet shorts with AMA (ask me anything) segments, with at least one of these emerging creature luminaries; an International Staring Contest (eye-sports) for those who tune in live, with unique prizes for winners—and the Four Stares XR video world premiere embedded in this cavorting cabaret of multimedia mayhem.