OrangeTone is the moniker of Montréal-based producer and sound designer Étienne Dubé. Inspired by an amalgam of club, experimental, and ambient music, Dubé imagines sounds as objects—often sturdy and metallic, yet just as frequently bendable and plasticine. OrangeTone’s compositions are both architectural and malleable; sounds and textures contort, interweave, and collide delightfully. Dubé’s first album Lightmixer, released on Noumenal Loom in 2023, is a collection of gossamer, fragmented tracks that balance the opposing philosophies of dance and avant-garde electronic music. His latest work, Portail Opaque, leans closer towards nocturnal club sounds and rhythms while remaining just as tactile and gestural. Within the sturdiness of OrangeTone’s world, glimpses of sounds appear like small openings or windows: a crystallized jingle or bubbled harpsichord emerge as happenstance glimmers and whimsical sonic cues. The result is off-kilter, abstract dance music that exists in its own original frame.