INSTITUT 007 | live score | LES PASSAGERS x LA VIE HEUREUSE DE LEOPOLD Z

Set over the course of a single winter day in Montreal, La Vie Heureuse de Léopold Z follows a snow removal worker caught between routine, responsibility, and quiet personal urgency.
A portrait of labour, time, and the city under pressure — reimagined tonight through live score.

Vol 7: what it means to rescore a film in real time — not as accompaniment, but as interpretation.
A closer look at sound as translation, interference, and atmosphere.

This is VOLUME 7 of the INSTITUT experiment.
Every week, a different hypothesis.

Underground at 620 Spadina Ave — around the back, through the lot to the steel doors, down the stairs, past the mechanical room, through the swinging wood laminate door...

Stick around — the night moves between performance, cinema, and late-night listening.
Come early for the panel, stay through the scores, or drift in for vinyl.
RSVP even though it's PWYC so we know who to expect.

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5:30 PM | PANEL | TBA
7:30 PM | LIVE SCORE | ERIK LAAR x November (Rainer Sarnet, 2017)
9:30 PM | LIVE SCORE | LES PASSAGERS x La Vie Heureuse de Léopold Z
11:00 PM | VINTAGE VINYL | MIRA MELA

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LES PASSAGERS is a Montreal-based project working across world music, jazz, electronic, and psychedelic rock.

Their sound moves between groove and atmosphere — often described somewhere between Françoise Hardy, Herbie Hancock, and Tame Impala — but grounded in improvisation and collective interplay.

On stage, the project resists fixed form: compositions expand, dissolve, and reconfigure in real time, shaped by the dynamic between its members.

Their work spans multiple releases and international touring, with recent projects focusing on live interpretation and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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