july 4: ds panelist at “composers and sound designers for the stage” // part of the meighen forum deep dive series @ Stratford Festival // link
aug 10-21: artist residency at université de montréal’s laboratoire formes·ondes with wilding AI collective //
aug 19: ds+wilding AI presents FERAL FREQUENCIES @ symposiumARTIA // residency in the month of august with the collective // world premieres from the year long wilding AI project // link //
sept 12-14: FERAL FREQUENCIES @ spatial festival 2025 // @ monom, berlin // info here //
oct 15: ds plays drums and computer with critical band @ XAVANTXX Night 1 // more info and tickets here //
nov 18: panel on international research impact // part of international education week // more info coming soon //
nov 21: toronto silent film fest performance w ensemble polaris // more info coming soon //
current news/view/read/listen
small gestures: generating radical sonic futures in an algorithmic world // new article in organised sound (cambridge university press) special issue “experimental sound in the Black and South Asian diaspora” // open access // read/download at https://doi.org/10.1017/S135577182500010X //
wilding AI site is now live //
ds working with media artist faisal anwar for a projection mapping work commissioned by art on the mart // also composing sound for a new generative real-time data work by anwar @ the south asia institute // september 2025 // chicago, usa
algorithmic mythologies: failure as a cultural tool // audio paper in press // to be published soon in seismograf peer //
book chapter in progress: “zehn tage im april: a conversation on listening through/to/with the environment” – with berlin musician robert lippok // to be published in an upcoming volume on mcgill-queen’s university press //
now: ds has been named as one of the four finalists for the siminovitch prize 2024, which recognizes theatre excellence in canada // read ds’ remarks here // watch the documentary on ds’ work by videocompany here
now: also part of the siminovitch prize, ds in conversation with playwright roland schimmelpfennig // watch
extended till nov 16: ds sound designed a new adaptation of anne of green gables for the stratford festival //
now: new double release on establishment records // brahmaputra here and adeva_v000_04 here //
now: ds featured on “the creative process: celebrating canadian live performance design” video series, alongside a canada-wide roster of designers // permalink to ds
now: MUTUALISMX feature in mixmag // buy the record (vinyl/digital) on other people records here
ds part of “anthology of exploratory music from india” on the unexplained sounds label //
now: ds launches the archive of silences // home for various research projects incl. sshrc-funded podcast ontologies of silence, a series of 1-on-1 conversations with a wide variety of researchers in the arts and sciences about the how silence – auditory, visual, political, social – manifests in their research
adeva (version000_01) // livestream machine learning-driven AV performance co-presented by new adventures in sound art, charles street video and toronto media arts centre // excerpts here // full concert documentation and post show discussion on NAISAtube here //
ds contributes to acoustic cameras // “cathedral” and the related webcam feed here //
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all releases at bandcamp //