until july 31: ds one of the 20 artists in residence for a more beautiful journey // XR installation on the TTC, original music for TTC routes from toronto artists //
now: new double release on establishment records // brahmaputra here and adeva_v000_04 here //
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
may: ds gives a guest lecture for the canadian league of composers PIVOT program //
may 23: ds sound designs and composes music for casey and diana at the stratford festival // world premiere // andrew kushnir, director // opening june 1 // info and tickets here //
june 20: ds sound designs wedding band at the stratford festival // sam white, director // opening july 14 // info and tickets here //
july 8: ds sound designs and composes music for women of the fur trade at the stratford festival // yvette nolan, director // opening july 15 // info and tickets here //
ONGOING / NEWS
ds now on faculty at toronto metropolitan university //
ds is the 2023 louis applebaum composer’s award laureate //
new research project with visualcodepoetry exploring new technologies in playable object manufacture supported with a seed grant from tmu’s design and technology lab //
ds has been awarded the toronto metropolitan university dean’s scholarly research and creation award as a recognition for outstanding scholarly, research and creative activities //
ds has won a dora award for outstanding achievement in design // opera division for tapestry opera’s production of RUR a torrent of light // see all dora winners here //
book chapter in progress: “and the resplendent: uncovering new sound mythologies with messy machine learning”
ds part of “anthology of exploratory music from india” on the unexplained sounds label //
now: see ds’ AR piece “cosmos” in toronto or on the web here // thanks to pix film gallery and artificial museum for the artist residency where this work was created //
“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 //
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soundcloud is the new location to hear project music and other full tracks by ds not available elsewhere //