may 26-oct 26: romeo and juliet at the stratford festival // original music and sound design by ds // directed by sam white // tickets here // see the blog for a show diary
oct 14-20: ds @ MUTEK.MX, mexico city // concert and participation in the wilding AI project presentations // artist page and concert info here // wilding AI info coming soon //
jan 14-feb 2: ds sound design and composition for the canadian stage production of winter solstice // dir by alan dilworth // tickets and info here //
current
now: ds has been named as one of the four finalists for the siminovitch prize, which recognizes theatre excellence in canada // read the press release here and view the beautiful documentaries about past finalists here //
now: new double release on establishment records // brahmaputra here and adeva_v000_04 here //
now: MUTUALISMX feature in mixmag // buy the record (vinyl/digital) on other people records 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: 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
now: field recording, autoethnography, and the entanglements of the heard // new audio essay in performance matters journal, vol 9, issue 1-2 // link to essay and author’s note // link to full issue //
news
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 //
ds is the 2023 louis applebaum composer’s award laureate //
now: what fools these mortals be // the circle project is a partnership between formerly incarcerated women and artists creating projects that incorporate indigenous modalities of community based justice // ds contributes music to the dreaming chapter
now: ds part of a mix of south asian ambient/drone/experimental artists, alongside an essay by shrey kathuria // listen and read here //
ds part of “anthology of exploratory music from india” on the unexplained sounds label //
“in the city the body rests” // article in “entanglements: experiments in multimodal ethnography” on sound and multimodal ethnographic practice //
ds feature article in johns hopkins university’s theatre journal special issue on AI and theatre // covering ds’ work with sound, storytelling, ethnographic practice and AI tools //
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 //
“rig_veda000_03” is a featured artwork at neurIPS 2020, the 34th conference on neural information processing systems // browse all artworks here //
ds contributes to acoustic cameras // “cathedral” and the related webcam feed here //
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