Media arts
Frost Gloam
Musical performance with synthesizer drones, percussion instruments, gamelon, landscape fabric, lumber, and video projection
Created in collaboration with Marti Hopson for The River Clyde Solstice Walk 2023
This piece was created for the River Clyde Solstice walk in collaboration with Marti Hopson. Hopson created three musical compositions and choreography for an ensemble of 5 people. Beneath this played a drone I composed on a synthesizer to compliment the compositions. A screen was constructed from landscaping fabric and lumber woven amongst the trees. Projected through the performers on the screen and is a video constructed from a single stock footage of a drone shot for a winter forest. The video was fed through multiple effects to create colourful, fractal shapes that move in and out of the shadows of the performers.
Route 11
Projection mapping onto objects made of plywood, latex paint & birch logs
Created in collaboration with Patrick Brunet and Kelly Caseley for Festival Route 11 in 2023
Patrick Brunet (Red Heart Birch Woodwork and Design) and Kelly Caseley (Bricolage Productions) invited me to contribute a projection mapping piece as part of their installations for Festival Route 11, a bilingual summer festival celebrating food, music, art, and Acadian Joie de Vivre at Union Corner Provincial Park in PEI. The sculptural elements were constructed by Brunet and Caseley while I created the animations and sequenced the video projection. The imagery of the piece was inspired by Post-Tropical Storm Fiona which devastated the island in 2022.
Echo/Refract/Reflect
Audio & Video Installation
Created with the support of The River Clyde Pageant for The River Clyde Solstice Walk in 2022
This piece is a sound collage that combines audio recorded at the Gardens of Hope in New Glasgow PEI with manipulations of that same audio through sampling and audio effects. The sounds were orchestrated in a Digital Audio Workstation in a way so that the faders of each track could be played like an instrument through a midi controller. On the evening of the Solstice Walk I installed multiple speakers in the trees along a path leading up into the forest in the gardens. As audience members walked along the path they were greeted by an evolving composition performed by myself while hiding in the trees with a laptop and midi controller. At the top of the hill a video created by layering multiple black and white videos of pine needles swaying in the wind was projected onto the trees, guiding the audience to a terminus where this piece ended and the rest of the walk continued.
Staging for Stations
HD Video, 2020
This experimental short film was created through a process of improvisation, exploring the narrative and emotive potential of objects by filming various still lifes set on a desk in the nook of my apartment. The film evolves over three acts where these objects become performers and an in-home work station a stage.
Pick-up performance
HD Video, electric guitar, amplifier, cellphone, 2020-21
“Performed” at:
Flourish Festival, Fredericton, NB 2021
Antigonight 2021, Antigonish, NS 2021
Definition: Pickup
1. An electromagnetic device which detects vibrations from a musical instrument.
2. An anacrusis, note or sequence of notes which precedes the first downbeat in a bar.
3. A musical ensemble brought together for only a few performances (pickup-band or group).
Pickup performance is a video installation which explores themes of human connection in the context of livestreamed digital performances. In this work a video of the artist performing an improvised guitar set is looped on a cellphone wedged between the strings of a guitar. The audio from the cellphone is transferred from the pickups of the guitar to the amplifier as if the guitar is “playing” itself. Each performance is built through a series of loops, turing the sound of a single guitar and musician into that of a larger ensemble.
How does the experience of watching a live performance in person or as it airs differ from watching the recording days after the fact? What does it mean to collectively, and individually experience a performance across the world at the same time? How does the mediation of performance through distance and technology impact our experience of them collectively and on an emotional level? Pickup Performance is an exploration of these questions. By humorously combining the pre-recorded video performance with the in person environment of the installation, this work investigates the differences between the physical, ephemeral presence of live performance and its intangible, yet more permanent digital opposite.
There is a light that never goes out
HD video, 2019
Created at Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre during a residency as part of their EASE ON DOWN THE ROAD program.
This film was created shortly after the passing of my grandmother. The piece centres around two bed sheets inherited after her passing and a cinema light borrowed from Faucet Media Arts Centre. Together they act as revealers, concealers, specters and props while exploring ideas of absence and presence through experimentation.
