William Jourdain has worked under the Automatisme moniker since 2011, as an electronic musician, audio-visual and digital artist. He explores various intersections of ambient music, clicks & cuts, dub techno, field recordings and glitch, as well as digital visual art in the abstract landscape and Op art styles. He has released albums with Constellation (CA), Force Inc / Mille Plateaux (Germany), Neologist Productions (US), Liberation Through Hearing (UK), Outlines (PL) and Diffuse Reality (ES) among many others, and alongside a steady stream of diverse audio research and self-released works. Notable live appearances include MUTEK, ELEKTRA, Suoni Per Il Popolo and Pop Montréal (CA), Le Guess Who? (NL), Sulfure and Octandre (FR), Generate and Knobs & Wires (DE), and the Basilica Hudson 24-Hour Drone series (US). Automatisme has performed on recordings and/or on stage with Byetone, Monolake, Seefeel, Thisquietarmy, Myriam Boucher and more. Jourdain completed a creative residency at Malmo’s EMS Elektronmusikstudion (the Swedish center for electroacoustic music and sound art) in 2019. He holds of a degree in art history from UQAM, with an emphasis on altermodernism, non-representation, and sound architecture. These themes are at the heart of Automatisme’s artistic approach and in the essays he writes for https://non.copyriot.com/