https://hakeemlapointe.co Hakeem Lapointe Tue, 06 Jan 2026 02:39:35 +0000 https://hakeemlapointe.co en https://hakeemlapointe.co/Onepage Tue, 06 Jan 2026 02:39:35 +0000 Hakeem Lapointe https://hakeemlapointe.co/Onepage HAKEEM LAPOINTE Under Amselysen, Montreal-based artist Hakeem Lapointe strips genres like experimental, ambient, techno, noise, punk, IDM, into confrontational leftfield electronic music. Their live shows are challenging audiences’ comfort; intense, unpredictable performances that force audiences out of passive listening. Amselysen’s sounds become fields of subversion, where conventions go to die. The project's uncompromising vision has earned recognition from the underground's most forward-thinking artists. Amselysen has shared the stage with an impressive roster, including Caterina Barbieri, Lorenzo Senni, Courtesy, Dreamcrusher, Marie Davidson, ABADIR, MESH/Hesaitix, Orchestroll, Myriam Bleau, and Racine, amongst others. Founder of the label and event series EAF (Electronic Assault Front), Lapointe has been stoking the flames of the alternative electronic scene in Montreal, welcoming new and established talents such as: Jan Jelinek, FOODMAN, Hesaitix, African-American Sound Recordings, Heith, Roméo Poirier, Orchestroll, Nadah El Shazly, Sisso and Maiko, CECILIA, VISIO, Sense Fracture, and more. The project has already earned the trust of MUTEK, SAT, Akousma, and Flux through its ambitious curation and strange conceptual approaches. Contact amselysen@gmail.com EPK available on request ︎ Spotify ︎ Bandcamp ︎ Soundcloud︎ Instagram ︎︎︎ Nina Protocol ︎ Facebook (depreciated) ︎︎︎ RA Selected Works Albums Organe Solaire, 2022, Genot Centre Hypnagogic Surge, 2020, Genot Centre Amselysen EP, 2019, Dream Disk Lab Singles / Compilation Embracing Darkness, Absorbing Light, 2023, Katharsis Larval Worlds, 2023, Interzone Deaccession Forms, 2022, formforum Epilogue, 2022, SBVRSV Press VA-002, 2021, Causal Chain Certified Reality, 2020, Non/Being Remixes Ecdysis, 2026, Faebi Axis & Sanea Ima On a Nimbus Remixes, 2020, naff Arrangement / Production2023 - Léolo - Mainland - Cliffhanger Consultancy2023 - Léolo - Mainland2021 - Racine - Amitiés (DN021)2021 - Seraphim - Parhelion  (ANBA) Commissions 2025 - Across the Dancefloor (dir. Aidan McMahon) - film score 2022 - Mycoaudio Showcase2022 - M.A.D Festival - M.A.D. Shoppe Promotional Video (dir. Dayana Matasheva)2019 - Mik'osi, Beric Manywounds, presented at Montreal Queer 2S - Kent Monkman, McCord Museum, Montreal2019 - For Luca, Jacqueline Beaumont, presented at Art Pop Mtl, Rialto Theater, Montreal2017 - Video Segment for Adolescent Magazine (dir. Laurence/Larry Philomene) Panels 2026 - Convergence: Michelle Erfer, CIEL/Cindy Li, Erika Sherman, Marie-Laure Saidani, Tasha Prentice 2025 - Slut Island (an. Odile Myrtil) Dates 2026.03.27 - Échos @ Atelier Belleville (MTL, CA) 2026.02.21 - Zoe Mc Pherson, Amselysen, CPR Annie @ SAT (MTL, CA)2025.10.17 - Paimonia @ C3 (Milan, IT) 2025.10.12 - Toumba, Rosa Pistola, ABADIR, Amselysen @ Kwia (Berlin, DE) 2025.09.27 - Musica festival @ Karmen Camina (Strasbourg, FR)2025.09.24 - Lunchmeat festival @ Ankali (Praha, CZ) 2025.05.31 - EAF: Hesaitix, laced, Amselysen @ SAT (MTL, CA) 2025.05.16 - Shift Radio x Exposé Noir @ Old Port (MTL, CA) 2024.06.07 - Humidex 5y: 2Lanes, Esse Ran, Pascale Project, Amselysen+Racine @ SAT (MTL, CA)2023.08.24 - MUTEK: Kyoka, Nadia Struigwhig, Esse Ran, Twin Rising, Amselysen+Racine @ SAT (MTL, CA) 2023.03.25 - Club SAT: Caterina Barbieri, Lorenzo Senni, Marie Davidson, Amselysen @ SAT (MTL, CA) 2023.02.08 - Exposé Noir: Courtesy, Shacke, Callum Magnum, Pulsum, Amselysen  @ Fonderie Darling (MTL, CA)2022.08.20 - Interzone: Orchestroll, Myriam Bleau, Ana DM, Worm Quartet, Amselysen+Racine @ Sala Rossa (MTL, CA) left on hehe. https://hakeemlapointe.co/Golf Sat, 13 Nov 2021 01:32:11 +0000 Hakeem Lapointe https://hakeemlapointe.co/Golf GOLF Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden is a misconception on the word golf that has been propagated for years, but so is the idea that biology equate to gender, an idea strongly promoted during 2nd wave feminism. This double intrusion of a trans woman as a cis woman as a sleazy, greasy business man golfer makes playful fun at "terf" art and reclaims that space in the art world as its own. https://hakeemlapointe.co/SBYU Sat, 13 Nov 2021 01:38:43 +0000 Hakeem Lapointe https://hakeemlapointe.co/SBYU (Stop) Beating Yourself Up (Stop) Beating Yourself Up is, fundamentally, a dismantling of pain, ego, disappointment, worries, and self-appreciation and it repackages this unfinished process into an emotional cinematic performance that challenges my own perception of my feelings, and how others perceive those feelings. https://hakeemlapointe.co/Landmarks Sat, 13 Nov 2021 01:42:53 +0000 Hakeem Lapointe https://hakeemlapointe.co/Landmarks Landmarks Reflecting on the theme of scale lead me to a few observations: I) Scale is inherently anthropocentric. II) Scale is a tool dedicated to expand, reduce, or adjust dimensions that do not relate to such anthropocentrism, III) Thus, without scale, our comprehension of the physical world is muddled and re-mystified.                             So, appealing to the concept of scaling down to human perception, geography came about as perhaps the most primordial and prominent topic.             Geographical data is expressed through mapping, and the input data is, in the traditional sense, landmarks:             they punctuate the space as to give measurements to the physical realm.             Now, shifting to the realm of abstraction, memory, thoughts, and language are mapped out through documentation, with the most common one being writing.             In that sense, sentences form the maps of once-abstract memory while words act as landmarks.             Therefore, in a playful reversal, Landmarks seeks to break the anthropocentric nature of writing as a scaling tool             and reinsert memory into abstraction by physically spacing out thought and challenging the formation of memory.