[The User] – Instruments 1997-2008 is the first monograph dedicated to composer Emmanuel Madan and architect Thomas McIntosh. Between installation and performance, the works in [The User] emerge as actual instruments, playing on the ambiguous relationships between our presence, our machines and our music. Texts by Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow (NZ-AU), Daniel Canty (QC-CA), Tim Dallett (QC-CA), Nicole Gingras (QC-CA), Virginie Pringuet (FR) and Jonathan Sterne (US).