Arts & Life, Music

MUTEK 2025 promises mesmerizing audio-visual experiences from Aug. 19 to 24

by Lorraine Carpenter

Montreal’s digital creativity and electronic music festival has dropped the first wave of its lineup for this summer’s 26th edition.

MUTEK has revealed the first wave of artists in its 2025 lineup, promising a mesmerizing audio-visual feast for this summer’s 26th edition, happening from Aug. 19 to 24.

Among MUTEK’s newly announced 2025 performers are British artist/composer Max Cooper (returning to Montreal with his new immersive experience Lattice 3D/AV), Detroit techno vet Kevin Saunderson (under the alias e-Dancer), Austrian house icon Cassy, Italian drummer and percussionist Valentina Magaletti (performing solo and with the group Holy Tongue), local producer Martyn Bootyspoon and former Montrealer Gayance (now based in Portugal).

Shows will take place at Esplanade Tranquille (site of the festival’s free outdoor programming), SAT, Place des Arts’s Théâtre Maisonneuve and MTELUS.

See the full first wave announcement for the MUTEK 2025 lineup in the embed below.

MUTEK 2025 promises mesmerizing audio-visual experiences from Aug. 19 to 24

For more on MUTEK 2025 and to buy tickets or festival passports, please visit their website.

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by Lorraine Carpenter

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Lorraine Carpenter was born in Montreal and studied communications and journalism at Concordia. She co-founded Cult MTL in 2012 following the closure of the alt weekly newspaper the Mirror, where she worked as a writer and editor for 12 years. She’s dedicated to supporting the cultural scene in Montreal and maintaining an independent voice in the Canadian media landscape.