Artists Bios

Aliyah Aziz stitches together sounds as the voices of the ghosts that live in our technology, tuning into their electromagnetic frequencies as a sonic friction between surface and depth. Using "Listening Gloves", which she designed to play audible EMF through touch, she weaves improvised compositions through the static into a sandpaper hammock of amplification.

Anju Singh

Dissecting, interrogating, and experimenting with sound is a core aspect of Anju Singh's practice as a media artist, builder, sound artist, experimental music composer and video artist. Using industrial materials, space, volume and texture as main tools in her palette, she pushes extreme dynamics and unconventional sonic applications to build installations and compositions for immersive sonic experiences.

She views her practices as a series of experiments concentrating on the exploration of texture through sonic, tactile, and visual materials. Starting her practice as a sound and media artist, she began with experimental and extended techniques as a mulit-instrumentalist to draw out potential sonic textures from guitars, violins, and percussion instruments. Shortly after this led her to test and interrogate non-musical objects such as typewriters, metal objects, water, and industrial machines to learn about their sonic potential.

Anju has been building instruments, sound sculptures, and installations since 2005 and her work ranges from repurposing machines and objects into sound sculptures to building self-designed and self-built instruments and sound sculptures. Her sculptures and instruments contribute to the sonic materials that she composes with, often using her own found and built sounds as source sounds for her compositions, albums, film scores, and theatre scores for projects with various collaborators.

Anju has presented and performed her work across Canada, in Europe, Brazil, Japan, Mexico, and the United States in underground spaces, art centres, and through venues and arts festivals such as Fylkingen in Stockholm, Sweden; Send + Receive Festival in Winnipeg; Vancouver Jazz Festival; Polygon Gallery; Suoni per il Popolo Festival in Montreal; New Forms Festival; Initial Shock Festival; Music on Main's Modulus Festival and more. She has worked with/has been commissioned by New Music Concerts Toronto, Vancouver New Music, re:Naissance Opera, Canadian League of Composers, Bard on the Beach, CEM in Saguenay, and Continuum Ensemble.