Upcoming Events
Performance: MANUAL, Gateshead International Festival of Theatre, UK, May 2/3/4 2024
Performance: MANUAL, Tour dates TBA, Canada, 2024
Workshop: Six Turntables, Presentation TBA, Toronto, Fall 2024
Performance: MANUAL, Tour dates TBA, Asia, 2025
Performance: MANUAL, Tour dates TBA, Scandinavia, 2025
Publication: Forthcoming work in collaboration with Germaine Liu, Publication Studio Guelph, Canada
2024
Workshop: What’s Collective?, with Public Recordings, Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal, March 18-21, 2024
Workshop: Asking Through Scores, Studio 303, Montreal, January 15-19, 2024
2023
Performance: MANUAL, YPAM Fringe, Yokohama, Japan, December 14 2023
Exhibition: Un·Tuning Together, Group Exhibition, Betonsalon, France, Sept 2 to Dec 2, 2023
Artist Talk: The Listening Effect, Brain Space Laboratory, Station 24, November 24/25 2023
Performance: MANUAL, Take Me Somewhere, Glasgow, UK, October 2023
Workshop: Six Turntables, The Music Gallery X-Avant Festival, Toronto 2023
Performance: RADIANCE, Musée d’art de Joliette, Quebec, August 6th, 2023
Exhibition: Dissolving your ear plugs, group exhibition, Musée d’art de Joliette, Quebec, June 11 to September 4 2023
Publication: Resonance Gathering, Art Metropole Editions, Toronto
Performances: Lay Hold To The Softest Throat [sound design], Ellen Furey, La Chapelle / Festival TransAmériques, Montréal
Residency: Artist-in-Residence, Toronto Public Library, Toronto 2023
Performances: MANUAL, PuSh Festival, Vancouver 2023
Performances: MANUAL, Living Things Festival, Kelowna 2023
2022
Workshop: What’s Collective?, with Public Recordings, Studio 303, Montréal
Workshop: What’s Collective?, with Public Recordings, Take Me Somewhere, Glasgow
Residency: Lay Hold To The Softest Throat [sound design], Ellen Furey, Usine-C, Montréal
Residency: Studio 303 (in partnership with Public Recordings), Montréal
Award: MANUAL receives a Commitment Award from OFFTA & PuSh Festival, Montréal
Performance: MANUAL, co-created with Adam Kinner, Premiered at OFFTA, Montréal
Performance: High Bed Lower Castle [sound design], Malik Nashad Sharpe and Ellen Furey, La Chapelle / Festival TransAmériques, Montréal
Residency: Le centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie, with Malik Nashad Sharpe and Ellen Furey, France
Exhibition: You Can’t Trust Music, Xenia Benivolski's digital exhibition, e-flux, online
Publication: impossible burger, Rat-drifting music, cassette tape with Karen Ng and Philippe Melanson
Residency: Lay Hold To The Softest Throat [sound design], Ellen Furey, L’ECART, Rouyn Noranda, Quebec
2021
Curatorial: Remote Readings, with Burcu Emeç, Studio 303, August 28 Montréal
Curatorial: Remote Readings, with Burcu Emeç, Studio 303, July 24 Montréal
Curatorial: Remote Readings, with Burcu Emeç, Studio 303, June 19 Montréal
Performance: Dog Rising, Clara Furey [dramaturgy], Festival Transamériques, Montreal
Workshop: Disrupting Legacies of White Supremacy in Music Schools, panel organized by Dylan Robinson and Jeremy Strachan, July 2020, Online
Workshop: Imageless, Studio 303, June 21-23 Montréal 2021
Workshop: Sound-Art with Germaine Liu, Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, Toronto
Workshop: What’s Collective?, Toronto Dance Community Love-In / Public Recordings, March/April Toronto
Residency: Curator-In-Residence, with Burcu Emeç, Studio 303, 2021
2020
Exhibition: Indoor Jogging, with Germaine Liu, Third Coast Audio Festival, Chicago USA
Workshop: Call and Response Youth Program, with Germaine Liu, Roy Thompson Hall, Toronto
Workshop: Imageless, Concordia University, Department of Contemporary Dance, Montreal
Digital Publication: Indoor Jogging, with Germaine Liu, Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, Toronto
Performance: Short and Screens, Toronto Dance Community Love-In, Toronto
Performance: Short and Sweet, CCOV, Montreal
Residency: La Serre, with Adam Kinner, Montrea
Workshop: Imageless, Toronto Dance Community Love-In, Toronto
Performance: Karen Ng / Phillipe Melanson / Christopher Willes, Rat Drifting, Array Music, Toronto
Workshop: What’s Collective?, with Public Recordings, Studio 303, Montreal
Workshop: There’s no such thing as a structureless group, with Public Recordings and Danielle St-Amour, LePARC Milieux Institute, Montreal
2019
Residency: Take Me Somewhere, with Adam Kinner, Glasgow, UK
Press: Radio program, Automatic Writing with Akash Bansal, n10as, Montreal
Press: Moving Forward, Two Curatorial Visions, Whole Note Magazine, Toronto
Artist Talk: Milieux Institute, Concordia University, Montreal
Artist Talk: Jumblies Theatre / Canada Music Centre, Creative Score Workshop, Toronto
Performance: Karen Ng / Phillipe Melanson / Christopher Willes, Tranzac, Toronto
Performance: Quiet Concerts, Toronto Public Library, Fall 2019
Workshop: Listening in the library, Toronto Public Library, Fall 2019
Residency: Toronto Public Library Fall 2019
Residency: L'Annexe-A, with Ellen Furey, Rouyn-Noranda
Residency: Centre for Expanded Poetics, with Public Recordings, Montreal
Residency: Small Arms Inspection Building, with Andrea Spaziani, Kate Nankervis, Linda Duvall, and Shan Turner Carroll
Residency: Le PARC, with Anni Spadafora, Montreal
Residency: Dazibao Gallery, with Adam Kinner, Montreal
Performance: lcr.i/2569/2015-2019, Simon Portigal, OFFTA, Montreal
Performance: Rather A Ditch, [dramaturgy] Clara Furey, Festival Transamériques/ La Chapelle, Montreal
Performance: Other Jesus, Public Recordings, Festival Transamériques, Montreal
Workshop: Imageless, Concordia University, Dance Department, Montreal
Press: The Aesthetics of Transparency, Sound It Out podcast, Guelph
Press: Documentary feature, CBCArts, Toronto
Press: NOW Magazine, Public Recordings: Oliveros Project, previewithfeature, Toronto
Press: Toronto Star, Public Recordings: Oliveros Project, previewithfeature, Toronto
Performance: To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation, with Public Recordings, Toronto City Hall, Music Gallery, Toronto
Workshop: FADO Performance Art, Daaimah Mubashshir / Public Recordings / Life of a Craphead, Toronto
2018
Residency: Milieux Institute at Concordia University, with Anni Spadafora, Montreal
Residency: Dazibao Gallery, with Adam Kinner, Montreal
Performance: Performance About a Women, [production assistance] Liz Peterson / Public Recordings, RUTAS, Toronto
Residency: MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels), research/creation residency, Montreal
Award: CQAM/Milieux Residency
Artist Talk: CNMN Forum, Quebec
Residency: Arraymusic Young Composer Workshop, Arraymusic, Toronto
Performance: Allison Cameron / Phillipe Melanson / Christopher Willes performance, Tranzac, Toronto
Workshop: Imageless, Concordia University, dance/choreography program, Montreal
Artist Talk: with Bambitchell, Gallery TPW, Toronto
Press: NOW Magazine, “Artists to watch in 2018”, Toronto
2017
Residency: Artist-In-Residence, Toronto Public Library
Performance: Cosmic Love, [dramaturgy] Clara Furey, Danse Danse, Montreal
Publication: Noises, printed by Vide Press distributed by Art Metropole, Toronto Public Library, Scarborough Civic Centre Branch, Toronto
Performance: Youth Experimental Music workshop, Toronto Public Library, Scarborough Civic Centre, Toronto
Performance: Listening Choir, Fierce Festival, Birmingham, UK
Workshop: Youth Experimental Music Workshop, Scarborough Civic Centre Library, Toronto
Workshop: Children’s Sound-Art Workshop, Scarborough Civic Centre Library, Toronto
Workshop: Experimental Music Workshop, with Anne Bourne, Axis Music Scarborough, Toronto
Curatorial: Quiet Concerts, Performance series at The Toronto Public Library, Toronto, Canada
Performance: Listening Choir, Waterfront Toronto, Toronto
Residency: Studio 303, Montreal
Performance: Sonic Meditations Performance, Public Recordings, curated by FAM, Gardiner Museum, Toronto
Award: My Entertainment Award, best audio / composition for theatre, Toronto
Performance: Other Jesus, [composer] Public Recordings, Toronto
Performance: Aatitled, [dramaturgy] Simon Portigal, Montréal, arts interculturels: MAI, Montreal
Workshop: Listening workshop, with Anne Bourne, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto
Residency: Gibraltar Point, Winter Artist-In-Residence, Toronto
Performance: Sand Body, [dramaturgy] Soft Matter / Meryem Alaoui, Tangente, Montreal
Performance: Concord Floral, [composer] Suburban Beast / Jordan Tannahill, PuSH Festival, Vancouver
Artist Talk and Workshop: Concordia University, dance/choreography program, Montreal
2016
Publication: start very quiet and get very loud, 8-11 publication with Christine Sun Kim, and Hildegard Westerkamp
Performance: Satellite, Performance with Anne Bourne, 8-11 Gallery, Toronto
Exhibition: every sound is a small action and broke world, solo exhibition, 811 Gallery, curated by Xenia Benivolski, Toronto
Press: Toronto Star, every sound is a small action and broke world, 8eleven gallery, Review
Reading: No Reading After The Internet, 811 Gallery, Toronto
Award: Fellowship, Macdowell, USA
Award: Chalmers Arts Fellowship, Ontario Arts Council, Canada
Teaching: Guest instructor, Contemporary Music Ensemble, University of Toronto Faculty of Music
Performance: Listening Choir, Open Ears Festival, Kitchener
Publication: Musicworks Magazine, Feature “What We Are Saying” Public Recordings / Ame Henderson
Publication: Musicworks Magazine, Review Bill Dietz “Tutorial Diversions”
Residency: PAF (performing arts forum), Summer University, St. Erme, France
Performance: Listening Choir, Art of the Danforth, Toronto
Performance: Atitled, Simon Portigal [dramaturgy], Summerworks festival, Toronto
Performance: Performing Performance, Ellen Furey [dramaturgy] , Summerworks Festival, Toronto
Performance: radios, Ame Henderson [dramaturgy and sound design] , Dancing on the edge, Vancouver
Performance: Car c’est par la fragilité que la révolution œuvre, Adam Kinner / Noémie Solomon [dramaturgy] , Premiere: Tangente, Montreal
Performance: Concord Floral, [composer] Suburban Beast / Jordan Tannahill,NAC, Ottawa
Performance: Ithaca, [sound-help] Evan Webber, Flowchart, Toronto
Performance: Artist Talk and Workshop, Concordia University, dance/choreography program, Montreal
2015
Performance: Listening Choir, Intersite Visual Arts Festival, Calgary
Performance: LEGS TOO, Fado Performance Art Centre, Toronto
Press: Ground Magazine, sound in public space interview, interview
Press: Mechanical Forest Sound, Listening Choir, Toronto
Performance: Listening Choir, Summerworks (Toronto)
Performance: Rosé Porn, Zoja Smutny [dramaturgy], Dancemakers
Performance: Fear Makes All The Difference, [dramaturgy] Julia Male, Flow Chart at Dancemakers, Toronto
Performance: HIT, Christof Migone, Nuit Blanche, Toronto
Publication: Musicworks Magazine, Feature “Silence Oblivious As Ever: Christine Sun Kim”
Performance: Sand Body, Meryem Alaoui [dramaturgy] , Summerworks performance festival, Toronto
Performance: Performing Performance, Ellen Furey [dramaturgy] , The Current Sessions, Wild Project, NYC
Workshop: Children’s Sound-Art Workshop, Evergreen Brickworks, Children’s Garden, Toronto
Performance: Solo, Ratio, Toronto
Performance: Reading Listening, with Adam Kinner, Bill Dietz, Noemie Solomon, Videofag, Toronto
Performance: Solo, Resonance, Toronto
Performance, solo, Cluster Festival, Winnipeg
Performance, First Thursdays, Art Gallery of Ontario
Curatorial: Geoff Mullen / Jonathan Adjemian, The Music Gallery, Toronto
Performance: GGS New Music Ensemble, Royal Conservatory Toronto
Performance: mOther + Dark. Meaningless. Touch, Ben Kamino [sound design and composition], Tangente, Montreal
Workshop: Sound-Art, Artscape Gibraltar Point, part of “Here Is How You Listen”, Toronto
2014
Performance: Antigone Dead People, Small wooden Shoe/ Dracom [sound design and composition], Sound Live Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Performance: Hammer, [artistic advice and sound] Cathy Gordon, Experimentica Festival, Cardiff, Whales
Performance: Rehearsal/performance, Ame Henderson/ Public Recordings, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Performance: Concord Floral, Suburban Beast / Jordan Tannahill [sound design and composition], Theatre Centre, Toronto
Performance: Around, Michael Trent / Dancemakers [sound design and composition], Toronto
Performance: Listening at the CLGA, Premiere: Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives, Rhubarb Festival, Toronto
Performance: Voyager, [artistic advice] Ame Henderson/Jennifer Castle, Toronto Dance Theatre, Toronto
Performance: Loveloss, [composer] Dancemakers / Micheal Trent, Canada Dance Festival, Ottawa
Performance: Loveloss, [composer] Dancemakers / Micheal Trent, Agora Danse, Montreal
Performance: Blow/Draw/Drift, The Music Gallery, Emergents II, Toronto
Studies: MFA Thesis exhibition, Bard College, NY
2013
Exhibition: Luff Art + Dialog (offsite project), Toronto
Performance: HiFi, Dancemakers, Toronto
Performance: Nightshift (Brendan Fernandez + Michael Trent) Premiere: Toronto Nuit Blanche Festival, Toronto
Performance: Loveloss, Michael Trent / Dancemakers [sound design and composition], Premiere: Dancemakers, Toronto
Performance: Large ensemble work, 80 Gladstone, Toronto, Canada
Performance: with Gust Burns, ibeam, Brooklyn, USA
2012
Performance: Solo music for bassoon, performed and commissioned by Nadina Mackie Jackson, Gallery 345, Toronto
Dance Premiere: Adaptation Project, Michael Trent [sound design and composition], Dancemakers, Toronto
Dance Premiere: RENVOI, Meryem Alaoui [dramaturgy], Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
2011
Performance: 918 Toronto, AIM Orchestra [with Evan Parker], Toronto
Performance: AIM Orchestra Recording, Toronto
Workshop: Contemporary Music Workshop: Intro to Audio Art, University of Toronto Faculty of Music, Toronto
Workshop: Music/Sound workshop: Intro to MAX/MSP, T.I.F.E.M School, Toronto
Group exhibition: In Memory, co-created with Julia Male, Labspace Gallery, Toronto
2007-10
Performance: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, with Contact Contemporary Music, England
Studies Dramaturgy Apprenticeship, Dancemakers and the Centre for Creation, Toronto
Curatorial: Guest Curator, AIM Toronto performance, Toronto
Group exhibition: Labspace Gallery, Toronto
Residency: STEIM electronic Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Solo exhibition: St. Michaels College, University of Toronto
Guest curator: Left Over Daylight Performance Series, Array Music, Toronto
Residency: Banff Centre residency, Creative Music Workshop, Banff, Canada