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Composer and video artist, Myriam Boucher merges the organic and the synthetic in her mesmerizing video-music installations, immersive projects, and audiovisual performances. Her sensitive and polymorphic work explores the intimate dialogue between music, sound and image, transforming everyday landscapes into fantastical, living phenomena. Elements in her skin-tingling pieces move in synchronization with waves of sound and fluidly shift from solid to liquid, fragment to flood, plastic to plasmic. A keyboardist turned visual artist working on the real-time dialogue between music and images, Boucher initially gravitated towards classical piano, jazz, and then post-rock, before learning about and then academically pursuing electroacoustics. Her research in video-music composition proposes a classification of image/sound relationships as a building block towards an eventual grammar of the genre. Boucher approaches video much in the same way as she did music composition, through a visual interface that sees her fleshing out digital timelines.

Her commission list is varied and distinguished and includes the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (OSM), Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal (ECM+), Ars Nova, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (NEM), Magnitude6, collectif9, and Architek Percussion. As a VJ, she performed with many artists and DJs such as Mind Against (IT), Medasin (US), Deadboy (GB), The Zenker Brothers (GE), Nina Las Vegas (AU), Automatisme (CA), Equiknoxx (JM), and DJ Lag (ZA). Her work has been presented at many international events and places, including Mutek (CA, AE, ES, JP), Kontakte (DE), Igloofest (CA), Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois (CA), Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg (FR), and Akousma (CA). Her research is published by Routledge (UK).

She is professor in composition and digital music at the Faculté de musique of Université de Montréal. Her research-creation activities integrate musical composition, improvisation, deep listening, sound ecology, site-specific creation, immersive technologies, and cross-disciplinary arts such as cinema, visual arts, poetry, and dance within interdisciplinary groups. Her research aims to understand and analyze the mechanisms of perception and representation in audiovisual works and multidisciplinary concerts integrating sound, music, image, and performers, with the perspective that art is a practice capable of transforming reality and generating new forms of sensitive representations.