Artists Bios

Cristian Gabriele Argento Born in Catania in 1998, Cristian Gabriele Argento began making music at 14 as a self-taught artist. His passion for electronic music grew in high school through studies in electronics and computer science. He now attends the Master’s program in electronic music at the Palermo Conservatory under Giuseppe Rapisarda.

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.

Linda Rae Dornan is a visual artist creating video, performance and installation art, sound and writing. Her art practice is interdisciplinary exploring the body, language, performativity and embodied text about place, memory and being. Attachment to the landscape of the Tantramar region and the Bay of Fundy, the desire to communicate across communities, with respect, and to explore language in its multiple forms repeatedly surface in the work. She is the co-organizer of PERFform Biennale which has toured New Brunswick five times with multiple performance artists. She has won the Strathbutler Award, the Linda Joy Award, and her work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, artsnb, the Department of Tourism, Heritage & Culture, NB and the Sheila Hugh McKay Foundation. She has shown/screened her work across Canada, the United States, and in China and Europe. Raised in Montréal, Québec, she has lived in Sackville, New Brunswick for over thirty five years.

Haley Sheppard is a multi-disciplinary artist, musician, and researcher, descended from Welsh, Irish, and British settlers. Currently based on Block 2 of the Haldimand Tract in Kitchener ON, Haley investigates and practices making and unmaking in-relation: grounding her work in layers of place, lineage, magic, and learning the harp.

Marco Neri is a sound creator/producer, and mentor who is Mexico-born and based in Canada. He examines sound from an interdisciplinary perspective with the help of new technologies. Combining performance, staging, and sonic experimentation, he creates immersive experiences that reimagine concert formats and connect with curious audiences, interdisciplinary artists, and new generations of listeners.

Lotte Nijsten is a sound artist, field recordist, and radio producer. She holds a master’s degree in Language and Literature from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and graduated from the Radio department at RITCS in 2020. She also obtained a pedagogical degree (RITCS, 2022). Lotte works as an independent radio producer and is a board member of Klankverbond, the Flemish professional association for audio makers.

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.

Gillis Van der Wee is a foley artist, sound designer, and sound artist, with a particular focus on field recording. He holds a degree in Sociology from KULeuven and a qualification in Sound Design from RITCS. In addition to his personal artistic practice, Van der Wee works as a sound designer and foley artist for film, radio, and theatre.