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Installations

Confidential Fern hortus ortus specialis Installation in Tropical Ravine of Belfast Botanic Gardens. Belfast, 2008

• result of three months of work towards final project of Master's degree

Mixed Company Belfast, 2008

• interactive sound installation dealing with personal space
• created motion capture software for installation

Sound Design

Sound Design Collaborator with Boca del Lupo

Sound Design, An Imaginary Look, currently

Sound Design, Hive 2, 2008

Foley Artist, My Dad, My Dog, 2007

Sound Design, The Suicide, 2004

Sound Designer assistant for Soulpepper production The Time of Your Life, Toronto, 2007

Sound Researcher and Designer for an installation project with Irene F. Whittome 2003-04

• Site recordings of various quarries in Magog region, Quebec.
• Used recordings for sound design of Ellipse 10/19 in Conversations Adru exhibition, Bishop's University May 2004

Sound Designer for Soulfishing Theatre production One Small Step Sideways, Montreal 2003

• Involved working with actors on voice work, site-recordings, recordings with musicians, composing, Foley, editing and mastering sound for performance

Performance

Collaborator in production of Cross Dream Traffic, SARC, Belfast, 2008

• collaborative creation of sound design, composition and performance of live music and vocal effects
• created performance software for 24-channel speaker system and improvisation

Artistic Producer, Composer, Sound Engineer, Performer for A Tree in the Middle: A contemporary outdoor multi-channel electro-chamber concert, 2006

• Involved securing a grant, managing a five-person ensemble, collective creation and all technical and production aspects.

Musician

• performed solo and with various musicians and poets
• mostly in Montreal, Toronto and Belfast
• performed in various theatrical productions
• Instruments include: computer, voice, trombone, guitar, didgereedoo, found instruments, midi instruments, improvisation, etc.

Compositions

It's Chilly in here is a 60 second algorithmic composition based on sounds from my mouth and hands. Released as part of the 60X60 Canada Mix, 2008

Opening Expectations four-channel piece exploring what might happen if we could not finish our opening phrases of conversation, March 2007

Sifted Mass explorations into the sound of a crowd, 2003

Sound Design Composition for Evanescent four channel sound design for two-channel video, 2002

Sound for Emporter du Naufrage four channel sound design for dance piece, 2001

• Collaboration with dancer on original dance piece

Curation

Curated concert of emerging Canadian electroacoustic composers: the top five winners of the JTTP competition 2008

• included diffusion of the pieces and live video effects

Teaching

Workshop Facilitator

• algorithmic methods for new media (practical) - No Repeat (an anti-looping workshop), InterAccess, 2008
• Introduction to Sound Art practices (history/theory) - Intro to Sound I, InterAccess, 2008
• Introduction to Sound Art methods (practical) - Intro to Sound II, InterAccess, 2008
• spatialization (practical), Governor Simcoe Secondary School students, 2006
• Introduction to electroacoustics (history/theory), Governor Simcoe Secondary School students, 2004
• various other topics such as music, poetry and peace for children aged 3 to 18

Choir Facilitator for disadvantaged youth at Sketch, 2007

Various Related Positions camp councillor, peer mentor, experience with non-violent crisis intervention, and working with youth with mental and physical disabilities

Programming, Consulting, Technologist

Highly skilled programmer in Max/MSP/Jitter software. Familiar with other musical and microprocessor programming languages such as, Javascript and Arduino. 2005 - present

• Familiar with computer networking on PC's and Mac platforms
• Troubleshooting a wide variety of computer issues such as networking, printing, internet, formatting (word processing, audio, video), interfacing (computer to projector, computer to audio, video to computer, audio to computer, etc.)
• Specialized knowledge of audio software

Programmer of live spatialization software Live Ambisonic Beta, released in August 2009

Programmer & Technologist for Sleeping Soldiers installation by Tim Hetherington, New York Photography Festival, 2009

Programmer for Primary Manifestos installation by Jason Baerg, 2009

Consultant Programmer for Symplay and other projects by Richard Armen, 2009

Publications and Papers

Live Ambisonic Beta (pdf) Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium, 2009

• presented at Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium
• published in eContact! 11.4

Confidential Fern hortus ortus specialis unpublished, 2008

• Master's dissertation documenting the making of a sound art installation in the Belfast Botanic Gardens. Also, situates work in Sound Art and Public Art practices.

• discusses the process of making the installation, Mixed Company

• presented at Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium
• published in eContact! 10.3

Education

Master of Sonic Arts, SARC, Queen's University Belfast, currently

• Studying various topics related to sonic arts
• innovative sound systems for theatrical performance and sound installation

• research into wide variety spatialization and multi-channel techniques

• 3-day intensive workshop on software and hardware used for capturing and mapping gestures for use in interactivity. iRCAM (Institute de Recherche et Création Musicale) Paris 2006

• Completion of degree included many recordings, compositions in analogue/digital/traditional music, technical practice, ear training etc.
• Included courses in electroacoustics, recording, music theory, ear training, music history, stage management and clown.

• Included training in physical theatre, voice, improvisation in theatre and dance, dance technique, technical theatre, etc.

Member Interaccess (new media gallery and studio), AngelusNovus, Canadian Electroacoustic Community, Sonic Arts Network, W2, various internet forums

Technical Experience

Technical Director for Boca del Lupo, currently

• includes consulting and technical services for Boca del Lupo as well as other companies and individuals including: Creative Mix Conference 2009, Bluemouth Inc., One Light Theatre

Casual Stage Crew Grand Opera House, Belfast, 2008

• working load in and load out of professional theatrical productions such as Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat

• responsible for lighting of the Sonic Lab

• responsible for running lighting and video
• created original live video effects for performance

• SoundPlay assembling installations, diffusing acousmatic music, performance technician (lights, sound, stage, etc.)
• Deep Wireless conference on radio art - responsible for smooth running of conference as well as technical setup and strike of installations, 8 to 12 channel system, running sound and lighting, etc.
• Sound Travels assisted sound artists and performers with assembling installations. 8 to 12 channel concert setup, indoor/outdoor sculpture, photography, etc.
• various other installations and peformances including Toronto's Nuit Blanche, 2008

Stage Manager for production of Love's Labour's Lost, Dawson College, January 2005

Sound Engineer and Technologist for Wire Ensemble, Montreal 2003-2004

• Commission to create a musical performance and a recording exploring new modes of musical performance

• Mediated organizational, technical, venue, budget, ideological, motivational and morale concerns with Art Matters committee. I was the volunteer coordinator and a venue coordinator for the same festival in 2000-2001

• recordings in a variety of spaces, studios and circumstances with various qualities of equipment

Grants, Residencies, Awards

*Awarded various grants, residencies and awards including:

Ontario Arts Council grant Integrated Arts project grant for individual artist. Awarded for the production of A Tree in the Middle: A contemporary outdoor multi-channel electro-chamber concert. Performance August 13th, 2006 in Sound Travels festival

Residency at SAT (Society of Arts and Technology), Montreal, 2003

• Resulted in creation of three software sound processing tools using Max/MSP