1. Personal profile :
Eric Boivin
5296 Chambord
Montréal, Québec
H2J 3N5
Tel : 514 488-8816
Mobile : 438 321-0860
Email :e_boivin@hotmail.com
Web : http://ericboivin.wordpress.com
http://soundcloud.com/eric-boivin
Education:
1995.1998 BFA with honours in studio Art , Major in Film
animation, Concordia University, Montréal, Qc
1987.1992 BFA in Studio Art, Major in Drawing and
Painting, Concordia University, Montreal, Qc
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Eric Boivin is a field recording and sound artist base in Montreal. His main
interests are in phonographic arts, sound manipulation, transmission and sound
art. He generally uses field recording tracks as base to create atmospheric sound
collages and transmission art pieces.
Eric is a regular contributor on the Montreal Sounds Map project and also airs
programming on different radio shows dedicated to field recording. His work has
been played in radio and sound art festivals around the world.
He is currently producing and co-hosting a weekly experimental music radio
show entitled Symbiose on CIBL 101. 5 FM in Montreal.

2. Joint Exhibition, Festival and collaboration
2015
The next Train: 3:17 minutes Field recording Experimental piece part of a
physical and digital installation – Cities and Memory: Quiet Street – The Fringe
Arts Festival – Bath, England, May / June 2015.
Ghost train : 3:00 minutes – Experimental piece – H E A R NOW H E R E –
New adventures in Sound Art: Deep Wireless compilation 11 – DEEP
WIRELESS festival of Radio & Transmission Art – Toronto, Canada , May 2015
Untitled : 30:00 minutes live experimental and video performance – with
fourthousandblackbirds and Guillaume Vallée – Fau Mardi present
ThisquietArmy, Éric Boivin & fourthousandblackbirds and H. de Heutz – Daïmôn
– Gatienau (Qc) Canada – April 23 2015.
F451: 25:00 minutes experimental transmission piece – Radiophrenia –
Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts – Glasgow, United Kingdom – April1
3th – 19th, 2015
Radio Waves : 1 minute transmission piece – 60×60 Wave Farm Mix – Wave
Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM – New York’s Greene and Columbia counties – New
York – United State – March 7, 2015.
Untitled: 20:00 minutes live performance – Evoked Response – La Nuit Noir –
La Passe, Montreal (Qc) Canada – February 28, 2015
Untitled: 20:00 minutes live streaming performance – with
fourthousandblackbirds – Audioblast #3, La Fabrique, Nantes, France – February
28, 2015
A stranger, A piano : 4:00 Field recording piece – The Stranger that is next to
me – Autonomous cultural center – Skopje, the Republic of Macedonia –
February 13, 2015
Life Revisited : 20:00 live experimental performance – with
fourthousandblackbirds and Concordia Laptop Orchestra (CLOrk) – The Waiting
room – Concordia University– Montreal (Qc) Canada – January 29, 2015

3. 2014
Life Revisited: 20:00 live experimental and video performance – with
fourthousandblackbirds and Dominic F Marceau – SOUNDplay Performance #2
– NAISA – Toronto (ON), Canada – October 18, 2014
Untitled: 20:00 minutes live experimental performance with Rachel Ni Chuinn –
Sonic Arts Waterford festival – Waterford, Ireland – September 28, 2014.
Route 6: 6:17 minutes field recording experimental piece – Sounds of
Savamala – Savamala soundwalk – Vreva festival of street art and public space
activism - Belgrade. Serbia -September 11, 2011
Route 6: 6:17 minutes field recording experimental piece – Sounds of
Savamala – Savamala soundwalk – Belgrade. Serbia – August 15, 2014
Untitled # 4: 16:00 minutes live experimental and video performance – with
fourthousandblackbirds and Dominic F Marceau – casa del popolo– Montreal,
Qc, Canada – August 14, 2014
Untitled # 3: 20:00 minutes live experimental and video performance – with
fourthousandblackbirds and Dominic F Marceau – BBam! Gallery – Montreal, Qc,
Canada – May 25, 2014
Untitled: 18:00 minutes live improvisation performance with Liz Pieries and
fouthousandblackbirds - Yodel – EA – OH! A 6-hour internet jam – DEEP
WIRELESS festival of Radio & Transmission Art – May 3, 2014.
F451: 25:00 minutes – Experimental piece – New adventures in Sound Art:
Deep Wireless compilation 10 – DEEP WIRELESS festival of Radio &
Transmission Art – May 2014
RadioSignal: 3:00 minutes – Experimental piece – Sonic Vigil 8 – Festival of
Improvised Music, sound art and performance – Cork, Ireland – May 3, 2014
F451 opus 1: 6:40 minutes – Experimental piece – Estman Radio – Marinella
Senatore’s Public Secret at the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen – Saint-Gallen
Switzerland – March 2014
Untitled # 2: 10:00 min. - Experimental video presentation with
fourthousandblackbirds, Rachel Ni Chuinn and Dominic F Marceau - Synthesis
III - Motion – Irish Film Institute – Dublin, Irealnd.- January 15, 2014.

4. 2013
Untitled # 2: 10:00 minutes live experimental and video performance -with
fourthousandblackbirds and Dominic F Marceau – La plante - Montreal, Qc,
Canada - October 18, 2013
Untitled: 10:00 minutes live experimental performance with Rachel Ni Chuinn –
L’oublique – Montreal,Qc Canada – September 1, 2013.
Early Birds: 5:00 - Field recording piece – Group exhibition - Hilltown New Music
Festival - Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath, Ireland – July 20-21, 2013
Distorted Memories: 28:00 minutes - Field recording piece – Osso Radio project
– Echo series: How to get loss and start listening – Portugal July 2013 -
Untitled #1: 13:00 minutes – live experimental and video performance with
fourthousandblackbirds and Dominic F Marceau – Laboratoire Phénomena-
Casa del Popolo – Montreal,Qc Canada – May 5, 2013
Radiosignal: 3:00 minutes - Experimental piece - Light works 2013 festival -
Grimsby Minister, Grimsby, UK – March 15, 2013
F451 opus 1: 6:40 minutes – Experimental piece – Sound Devices Dublin –
Dublin, Ireland, - January 28, 2013
2012
Station Central d’autobus de Montréal: 1:45 minutes – Field recording piece
– Urban Observation 2012 – Festival of Sound art – Torun, Poland – September
– September / October 2012
F451: 25:15 minutes – Experimental piece. - Radialx festival – Lisbon, Portugal –
June 27-30, 2012
Conet project live: 14:45 minutes – sound and music smashup mixed piece -
Neil Griffith & Eric Boivin (collaboration) – part of the Artists selection for May on
Basic.FM, a Pixel Palace project – May 2012
Sound map mix: 8:45 minutes – Field recording sound and music smashup
mixed piece - Neil Griffith & Eric Boivin (collaboration) – part of the Artists
selection for May on Basic. Fm, a Pixel Palace project – May 2012

5. Statikpanik: 1:20 minutes – Field recording based piece – Light works 2012
festival - Grimsby Minister, Grimsby, UK – March 16,2012
2011
Gastronomie Animé: 25:00 minutes – Field recording mix piece- Yul Collective-
Future places festival/ Radio Futura – Porto, Portugal – October 21, 2011
Ghost train: 1:00 minutes – Filed recording based piece - 60x60 Canada 2011 -
August 2011
Metallic Echo: 5:15 minutes - Field recording experimental piece- AIR / EAR -
Radial Installation - San Justo - Santa Fe - Argentina – June/July 2011
Radio Y lives on Resonance FM: 1 hours 30 live radio broadcast as part of
from Gone with the Wind at Raven Row gallery in London – Yul Collective-
Resonance FM and Raven Row gallery – London, UK, - June18, 2011
Sound map mix: 8:45 minutes – Field recording sound and music smashup
mixed piece - Neil Griffith & Eric Boivin (collaboration) - Yul collective's Radio live
broadcast on Resonance FM for Gone with the wind at Raven Row gallery –
London, UK – June 18, 2011
Gastronomie Animé: 25:00 minutes – Field recording mix piece – Yul Collective
- Radio phonic creation day festival 2011 – June 4, 2011
At the Tone: 0:58 minutes – Experimental piece – New adventures in Sound
Art: Deep Wireless 8 - DEEP WIRELESS festival of Radio & Transmission Art -
May 2011
Conet project live: 14:45 minutes – live sound and music smashup mixed
piece - Neil Griffith & Eric Boivin (collaboration) - ESL radio show on CKUT 90.3
Fm, Montreal, Canada. - May 10,2011
Early Birds: 5:00 - Field recording piece – Group exhibition - Good Morning
Sunshine – Stramash gallery – Glasgow, UK - April / May 2011
Final Journey: 4:00 minutes – Field recording based piece – Light works 2011
festival -Grimsby Minister, Grimsby, UK – March 16, 2011
FloatingCry: 4:00 minutes – Field recording based piece - Light works 2011
festival-Grimsby Minister, Grimsby, UK – March 16, 2011

6. Stairwell: Sounds installation - Yul Collective - Griffintown: Développement
culturel / Developing Culture 2011 / NUIT BLANCHE - Festival Montréal en
lumière 2011 – Montréal, Canada, February 26, 2011
Radio Y: 6 hours live web radio broadcast - Yul Collective- Griffintown:
Développement Culturel / Developing Culture 2011 / NUIT BLANCHE – Festival
Montréal en lumière 2010 - Montréal, Canada – February 26, 2011.
2010
Mons realis : 30:00 minutes - Yul Collective – Field recording piece - 24 heures
d’art audio et de nouvelles musiques, CKRL 89,1 FM et TARTARE – Québec,
Canada – Decembre 30, 2010
FloatingCry: 4:00 minutes – Field recording based piece - CFRC 101, 9 FM's
Hear in the dark concert – Kingston, Ont, Canada, - November 8, 2010
Distorted Memories: 28:00 minutes - Field recording based piece - Port2010
soundgate 2010 - Aalborg, Denmark - October/ November 2010
Mons realis: 30:00 minutes - Yul Collective – Field recording piece – Future
places festival/ radio futura – Porto, Portugal – October 12-16, 2010
Distorted Memories: 28:00 minutes - Field recording piece - Radialx festival –
Lisbon, Portugal - July 1, 2010
Ice: 8:00 minutes – experimetal piece – CKUT 90, 3 FM’s magic sound box /
Nuit Blanche Festival Montréal en lumière 2010 – Montréal, Qc, Canada –
February 27, 2010
2009
Red: 6:00 minutes - Radio art piece - CKUT 90, 3 FM’s magic sound box live
broadcasting – Montréal, Qc, Canada – November 17, 2009

7. Discography:
2014:
Untitled : 4:45 - live improvisation performance with Liz Pieries and
fouthousandblackbirds – various artists – Christmas is not your friend volume 4
– Culture is not your friend! - December 2014
Untitled/revisited : 20:00 - experimental piece with fourthousandblackbirds –
Eric Boivin + fourthousandblackbirds – walnut + locust – December 2014
Route 6: 6:17 – Experimental field recording piece - Various Artists –
ImprovE2.20 Sounds of Savamala – September 2014
Thunderstorm & heavy rain : 6:00 – field recording piece - Various Artists –
WLD 2014 – Entropy – Sonic Terrain Compilation – July 2014
F451: 25:00 – Experimental piece – New adventures in Sound Art: Deep
Wireless compilation 10 – DEEP WIRELESS festival of Radio & Transmission
Art – May 2014
Omnimous – Always Not There - Various Artists collaboration – Irregular
Crates label - Digital album - April 2014
2013
Stéphane X: 3 min. – experimental piece – various artists - Christmas is not your
friends volume 3 – Cultures is not your friend! – December 2013
Untitled # 1: 13:29 - experimental piece with fourthousandblackbirds –
fourthousandblackbirds – The Ghost army – Obselete records - Octobre 2013
Untitled # 2: 10:00 - experimental piece with with fourthousandblackbirds nad
Rachel Ni Chuinn – fourthousandblackbirds – The Ghost army – Obselete
records - Octobre 2013

8. Crossing Borders: 3:10 - experimental piece – various artists – Free kittens a
walnut-locust compilation for our cats -walnut + locust - October 2013
Noise Transmission: 9:40 minutes – experimental piece – various artists -
Necktar 2017 Volume 5 compilation – le Colibri Nécrophiles - January 2013
Radiosignal: 3:00 minutes - experimental piece – various artists – Ten- a
walnut-locust 10 year celebration -walnut + locust - January 2013
2012
Fading Beacon: 3:00 minutes – experimental piece – various artists – Christmas
is not your friend volume 2– Culture is not your friend! - December 2012
Statikpanik: 1:20 minutes – Field recording based piece – various artists
Boulevard Céline Dion – Obsolete records – April 2012
Christ cathedral: 5:00 minutes – Field recording piece - O Colecionador De
Sons: World Listening Day (2010/2011) – Greed field recording – January 2012
Electra – Fonderie Darling : 3:00 minutes - Field recording piece - O
Colecionador De Sons: World Listening Day (2010/2011) – Greed field recording
– January 2012
2011
Pleq & Spheruleus + various - A Silent Swaying Breath: Various Artists
collaboration - an album created by the people, for the people, to raise funds for
ravaged UK cities - Audio gourmet Net label - October 2011
09-19-1961 (Version): 0:58 minutes - Music/ Field recording pieces - Montreal
Nintendo Orkestar & Eric Boivin (collaboration) - Montreal Nintendo Orkestar
Angry teeth – walnut + locust - August 2011
Sound map mix: 8:45 minutes – field recording sound and music smashup
mixed piece- Neil Griffith & Eric Boivin (collaboration) - Montreal Nintendo
Orkestar Angry teeth – walnut + locust - August 2011
At the Tone: 0:58 minutes – Experimental piece – New adventures in Sound
Art: Deep Wireless 8 - DEEP WIRELESS festival of Radio & Transmission Art -
May 2011

9. 09-19-1961 (Version): 0:58 minutes -Music/ Field recording pieces - Montreal
Nintendo Orkestar & Eric Boivin (collaboration) - the International Email Audio Art
Project Volume 11 – Haltapes - March 2011
Living room with pc: 2:00 - Field recording – Various artists – Below 20db –-
Sound Museum of silence - January 2011
Final Journey: 4:00 minutes – Field recording based piece – Necktar 2017
Volume 3 compilation– le Colibri Nécrophiles - January 2011
2010
Howling secret: 1:00 minutes – Field recording based piece – International
Email audio art project volume 5 – Haltapes - December 2010
This is what we owned: 1:00 minutes - Filed recording based piece –
International Email audio art project volume 2 – Haltapes - November 2010
Professional organizations and associations
Member of the World listening project community
Member of the Canadian electroacoutic community
Member of the Canadian New Music network
Montreal sound Map: Internet database of sound recordings from all over the
city. Montreal Sound Map is an ongoing and continually evolving project
(Contributor) http://www.montrealsoundmap.com
Framework: Radio show consecrated to field-recording, and its use in
composition. (Contributor) http://www.frameworkradio.net
CIBL 101.5 FM: Producer, Studio Technician and co-host of weekly radio show
Symbiose since 2012 http://www.cibl1015.com/symbiose

10. 09-19-1961 (Version): 0:58 minutes -Music/ Field recording pieces - Montreal
Nintendo Orkestar & Eric Boivin (collaboration) - the International Email Audio Art
Project Volume 11 – Haltapes - March 2011
Living room with pc: 2:00 - Field recording – Various artists – Below 20db –-
Sound Museum of silence - January 2011
Final Journey: 4:00 minutes – Field recording based piece – Necktar 2017
Volume 3 compilation– le Colibri Nécrophiles - January 2011
2010
Howling secret: 1:00 minutes – Field recording based piece – International
Email audio art project volume 5 – Haltapes - December 2010
This is what we owned: 1:00 minutes - Filed recording based piece –
International Email audio art project volume 2 – Haltapes - November 2010
Professional organizations and associations
Member of the World listening project community
Member of the Canadian electroacoutic community
Member of the Canadian New Music network
Montreal sound Map: Internet database of sound recordings from all over the
city. Montreal Sound Map is an ongoing and continually evolving project
(Contributor) http://www.montrealsoundmap.com
Framework: Radio show consecrated to field-recording, and its use in
composition. (Contributor) http://www.frameworkradio.net
CIBL 101.5 FM: Producer, Studio Technician and co-host of weekly radio show
Symbiose since 2012 http://www.cibl1015.com/symbiose