july 11-15: ds recently invited to the studio for electroacoustic music @ akademie der kuenste, berlin // july 11-15 // creation-research for a new sound work //
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
ds has been nominated for the 2022 louis applebaum composer’s award //
sept: ds sound design for death and the king’s horseman at the stratford festival // details here //
sept: ds sound design and composition for beautiful renegades, the final project of peggy baker dance projects // details tba // info here //
sept: ds one of the 20 artists in residence for a more beautif
ul journey // XR installation on the TTC, original music for TTC routes from toronto artists // part of intersection festival // concert performance sept 1 @ neville park loop // details tba
sept: ds one of a cohort of toronto artists presenting AR works at the ottawa animation festival // co-presentation of pix film gallery and artificial museum // ottawa details here // see ds’ piece “cosmos” in toronto or on the web here //
ONGOING / NEWS
ds now on faculty at toronto metropolitan university //
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 //
ds part of understory sound, showcasing improvising artists from across canada // presented the website and elsewhere online at toronto’s museum of contemporary art and the canadian music centre //
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 //
ongoing: ds sound design and mix for 3 films part of 21 black futures on cbc gem // jah and the everlasting song (dir by d’bi.young anitafrika) // special (dir by jay northcott) // cavities (dir by mumbi tindyebwa otu) //
ds contributes new video work for the resilience project, a audiovisual project by artists in response to these times // produced by necessary angel //
ds contributes to acoustic cameras // “cathedral” and the related webcam feed here //
new albums out in 2022 on establishment records // all music on bandcamp //
signup for the email list // infrequent updates on upcoming projects //
soundcloud is the new location to hear project music and other full tracks by ds not available elsewhere //