Les Vespérales de l’orgue du Sacré-Cœur presents the “Ambient Organ Night.” Immerse yourself in a full sensory experience with an evening of ambient and experimental music for pipe organ and electronics at the église du Sacré-Cœur-de-Jésus.

Presented as part of Nuit blanche à Montréal 2026, in collaboration with Suoni per il popolo and the Canadian International Organ Competition, with the support of the Goethe-Institut and Festival MONTRÉAL EN LUMIÈRE.

Tickets

Free admission (voluntary contribution/suggested donation of $15)
Reservations suggested

Schedule:

8:30 p.m. – Doors open
9 p.m. – André Pappathomas (and guests)
10 p.m. – Annie Bloch (luvt)
11 p.m. – Earth World Collaborative (Real and Imagined Spaces, Vol. 2)
12 a.m. – Secondsight
1 a.m. – André Pappathomas (and guests)

Annie Bloch
“luvt”

With „luvt“, organist and songwriter Annie Bloch (Cologne, GER) presents a project that is dedicated to the sound realm of the chest organ. Limiting herself to just three stops of wooden pipes, Annie Bloch zooms into the details within the sound. “luvt” – derived from the German „luven” = “to turn to the wind” – takes us into a new imaginary space and shows a facet of the pipe organ that can be both powerful and delicate. Annie Bloch combines a precise use of the mechanical stop manipulation with electronic manipulation, aiming for a wholesome musical experience. Thereby, “luvt” lifts the chest organ out of its traditional context and opens a door to a new sensory and emotional experience of the organ.

The album “luvt” will be released on OOH-sounds (Florence, Italy) in fall 2026.

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Annie Bloch is an organist, composer and songwriter based in Cologne, Germany. As an organist she performs solo and in alternating ensemble configurations, mainly working within improvisation. In her composed improvisations Annie Bloch explores states of change. Searching for the ambivalences in a sound and lingering on them, her music resists singular truths. The musical material she draws from is informed by her engagement with the experimental music scene, but also by compositional styles of pop and ambient music.

In 2025 she released her chamber-orchestral pop album “I DEPEND” via Papercup Records (GER). Together with Emily Wittbrodt (cello), she realized „The Mendelssohn-Project“ of recompositions and improvisations based on Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s organ works for organ and cello, that was released on sts|sts records in 2025.

http://anniebloch.com/
Photo: Helga Articus

Earth World Collaborative
“Real and Imagined Spaces, Vol. 2”

Earth World Collaborative (featuring organists and composers Joel Peters and Adrian Foster and singer-songwriter Naghmeh Shafiei) explores the deep resonances of the pipe organ through sound transformations using dynamic wind and live electronic sound processing, with excerpts from their recent projects and new works. The result is an immersive sonic experience that blurs the boundary between the real and imagined worlds.

Earth World Collaborative is a creative force generating new works of music, art, film, and literature through collaboration. Founded in 2018 by composers and organists Joel Peters and Adrian Foster, Earth World’s activities are centred on immersive story concerts, which integrate electronics, original compositions, projection, lighting, and special effects.

www.earthworldcollaborative.com
Photo: Brandon Patitucci

Secondsight

Hajia Maa (Secondsight) is a multidisciplinary creative, singer, and a meditation teacher. In her current artistic universe, she mostly explores music, wellness, and fashion, intertwining meditative chant, experimental soul, and ambient soundscapes, sometimes accompanied by guided breathwork, along with a perspective on clothing in which garments are seen as wearable art and a ritual of care for the body and spirit. Her performances invite deep listening, rest, and embodied spiritual intimacy.

Photo: Vladim Vilain

André Pappathomas