Winner of the Félix Awards for Female artist of the year and Quebec artist achieving the most success outside Quebec at the latest Gala de l'ADISQ
Alexandra Stréliski featured in Asteria and Oasis Immersion
Today Alexandra Stréliski unveils an immersive 3D video for Burnout Fugue, a track off her latest album, INSCAPE, which is certified platinum in Canada. For director Marcella Grimaux, creating the video was a major undertaking that took up more than six months. Marcella shares her creative process: Burnout Fugue begins in a dark hallway, with other passageways, other worlds in the distance. This journey inspired by Alexandra’s music is a metaphor for the maze that is our conscience, our emotions, our memories.
Alexandra adds: The Burnout Fugue video is an essay on confinement. A graphic journey inspired by the internal architecture of a piano, which also symbolically evokes introspection, the need to come out of your shell, to rebel, and to reach for the light during moments of inner darkness.
The pianist is also participating in two immersive projects this winter, Asteria and OASIS immersion. Asteria makes it possible to immerse yourself in the Burnout Fugue video via virtual reality. Asteria is a genuine virtual-reality musical journey into the world of Alexandra Stréliski, Vincent Vallières, Dominique Fils-Aimé, Daniel Bélanger and Fouki. It will be presented in several cities throughout Quebec as soon as the pandemic allows it, offering people a unique opportunity to discover the immersive, dazzling worlds of these artists via virtual reality headsets. Alexandra says: Virtual reality is not a new technology in the world, but it is still rarely used in music, even though it allows for a direct connection to the hearts of people when it is used well. There is an immediacy that is much greater than when we watch something on a screen. The idea is to do this with as much transparency as possible, in order for the technology to become a vector of emotion and, in spite of its modern nature, to simply allow us to get closer.
At the Palais des congrès de Montréal, OASIS immersion presents contactless walkthrough exhibitions driven by laser projectors and surround sound speakers. This immersive experience features Alexandra Stréliski and astronaut David Saint-Jacques.
INSCAPE has more than 110 million streams worldwide, and 110,000 albums were sold in Canada alone. Alexandra Stréliski has won five Félix at the Gala de l'ADISQ so far in her career, in addition to a JUNO award (Instrumental Album of the Year). INSCAPE is one of the three best-sellers of 2019 and 2020 in Quebec, it won Album of the Year at the Independent Music Awards, and it was nominated on the 2019 Polaris Music Prize Long List. Alexandra Stréliski's music was heard in Sharp Objects and the Big Little Lies Season 2 round-table, both on HBO, and at the Hugo Boss fashion show during the most recent edition of the New York Fashion Week. The album climbed the classical music charts in more than 20 countries worldwide. Pianoscope — Stréliski's first opus has nearly 30 million streams, and is close to being certified gold in Canada.
Billboard called Stréliski one of the foremost new stars in modern classical and Noisey stated that her music is a contrast of depth and fragility that uncannily resembles the human condition itself.
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