Researchers
Unai Miquelajauregui | Research Associate
Unai Miquelajauregui was born in Mexico City where he completed his degrees in Theater and Sound Design. He is currently finishing an MFA in Film Production at Concordia University. Unai is interested in non-linear narrative, experimental and expanded film and interdisciplinary collaboration. His portfolio also includes work in Theatre, Photography and Sound Design. His film [...]
Navid Navab | Research Associate
Navid is a Montreal based media-artist, composer, interaction and sound designer. Navid studied music performance and composition for many years. Since 2005, he has been studying Electroacoustics and Computational Arts at Concordia University and Music Technology at McGill University. Currently he works as a sound designer and research assistant at both Topological Media Lab and [...]
Michal Seta | Research Associate
Michal is a composer/improviser who’s work gravitates around digital technology. Having crossed borders between art, music, architecture, electronics, poetry, software and Canadian winter he keeps busy with a spoken word and music duo UniSecs, collaborates with various people on various projects utilising sound and technology, teaches workshops on open source software applications in music and [...]
Julian Stein | Research Assistant
Julian Stein is a composer and sound artist currently residing in Montréal, QC. His work often explores musical applications of the everyday with a large focus on intuition and present-experience. Exploring both composed and realtime environments, his work has ranged from multichannel composition and theatre sound-design to collaborative performance and kinetic sound installation. In specific, [...]
Max Stein | Research Assistant
Max Stein is a sound artist based in Montréal. His work explores urban soundscapes through electroacoustic composition, online mapping, sound installations, and site-specific performances. Stein designed and runs the Montréal Sound Map (2008-present), an ongoing Google-maps based archive of sound recordings uploaded by inhabitants and visitors from various locations around the city. He has since [...]
Marie Hélène Bréault | Post-Doc Researcher
Native of Québec City, Marie-Hélène Breault holds the Prix avec Grande Distinction from the Québec Conservatory and the Artist Diploma from Yale University. Her main teachers have been Lise Daoust and Ransom Wilson and she also studied with Raymond Guiot, Alain Marion and Emmanuel Pahud at Domaine Forget, and with Philippe Bernold at Nice’s International Summer Academy. [...]
Otso Lähdeoja | Post-Doc Researcher
Otso Lähdeoja is a Finnish artist and a researcher working in the fields of sound and intermedia. Doctor of Philosophy in music as well as composer, performer and installation artist, his work combines research and creation into a mutually nourishing methodology. His artistic record includes seven albums, film and performance scores, collaborations with visual artists [...]
Chantale Laplante | PhD
Chantale Laplante a un parcours unique en musique où elle occupe une place originale dans la sphère de la composition et de l’improvisation. Son oeuvre musicale, intéressée par les couleurs furtives, dégage une atmosphère tout à la fois d’intimité, de souvenirs évanescents et de propositions discrètes. Sa formation en piano classique et jazz alliée à [...]
Devora Neumark | PhD
Devora Neumark has been a practicing interdisciplinary artist for more than twenty-five years. Her latest body of work Radical Beauty for Troubled Times includes the collaborative live art project (with Deborah Margo) entitled: Why Should We Cry? Lamentations in a Winter Garden and a series of dialogic performative events entitled The Jewish Home Beautiful – Revisited. Neumark’s most recent publications include: [...]
Tzu-En Ngiao | PhD
Tzu-En NGIAO (饒子恩) was originally trained as an engineer. After finishing his studies in Electronic Engineering at the University of Hull, he worked for 5 years in the semiconductor design industry in his hometown Penang, Malaysia. In 2011, he completed his graduate studies in music composition under the tutelage of Johan Othman at Universiti Sains [...]
Lenka Novakova | PhD
Lenka Novakova is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Montreal. Born in the Czech Republic, she received her undergraduate degree in sculpture from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and her masters in video installation and interdisciplinary practices from the Concordia University in Montreal. Currently, she is pursuing research/creation PhD in Humanities, positioning [...]
Uli Aumüller | Guest Lecturer
An education as a sound technician (for the psychological defence of the “old” Germany) and the studies of biology and new German literature (M.A. about the high baroque poet C.v. Lohenstein) led him to theatre (Munich, Landshut, Mülheim/Ruhr, Bruchsal) first and then to the radio play. Since the move to Berlin at the beginning of [...]
Christopher Butterfield | Guest Lecturer
Christopher Butterfield studied composition with Rudolf Komorous at the University of Victoria (B.Mus. 1975) and with Bülent Arel at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (M.A. 1977). He lived in Toronto between 1977 and 1992, where he was active as a performance artist, rock guitar player, and composer. In 1979/1980 he taught in [...]
Gyula Csapó | Guest Lecturer
Gyula Csapó is unique among Canadian University Composition Professors for his continued presence in the international avant-garde music scene for over two decades both in Europe and the United States. He has had intense formative professional contacts over the years with leading figures of new music (e.g., Cage, Feldman, Wolff, Ligeti, Kurtág, Eötvös, Barlow or [...]
Guy Livingston | Guest Lecturer
Born in Tennessee, with degrees from Yale, NEC, and the Royal Conservatory of the Netherlands, pianist Guy Livingston wowed critics and audiences with his successful “Don’t Panic” CD. Sixty composers each wrote one minute for Livingston, and the CD was featured on NPR, in The New York Times , Le Monde ,Sports Illustrated , and was praised by the Atlanta Constitution as the [...]
Nils Peters (jamoma) | Guest Lecturer
Jamoma is a real-time interactive media processing library for Max and Ruby. Nils Peters (Dipl.-Ing., PhD) is a researcher and educator in music technology, acoustics, and signal processing, currently located in San Diego, California. In 2010, while doing his PhD at McGill, Peters, a co-developer of Jamoma, led a workshop and demonstration of jamoma with Navid Navab at [...]
Stefan Römer | Guest Lecturer
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Alumni
Jerome Delapierre | Research Assistant
Jérôme Delapierre is a visual artist and interactive designer working in Montreal, studied Computation Arts and Interactive design at Concordia University as well as Contemporary Arts and new media at IMUS University in France. Currently the artistic director of Active media inc and Anartistic, and a freelance visual designer and researcher at Topological Media Lab [...]
Stephanie Bokenfohr | Research Assistant
Stephanie Bokenfohr is a freelance curator, consultant, creative producer, and art director. She holds a B.F.A. in Design for the Theatre from Concordia University. Her training is rooted in formal design principles from the 2D to the 3D, allowing for an intuitive process embodied in tangible and intangible media. Stephanie is interested in light, shadows, [...]
Nimalan Yoganathan | Research Assistant
Nimalan Yoganathan is a Montreal sound artist and musician. He holds a B.Eng in Electrical Engineering (McGill) and BFA in Electroacoutic Studies (Concordia University). He focuses on the sculpting of field recordings within his works from his travels through bustling cities, desolate landscapes, and spiritual sites. Nimalan often attempts to mimic the timbral and rhythmic [...]
Joel Corriveau | Research Assistant
I completed a BAH in Drama at Queen’s University (2004) and a BFA in Electroacoustics at Concordia University (2007). From 2007 – 2008, I assisted Sandeep Bhagwati, the Canada Research Chair of Inter-X Arts in the establishment of matralab. I am always seeking interesting opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration.
Ralph Denzer | Research Assistant
Ralph Denzer is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, musical director and music educator who has worked with numerous theater groups in the New York city area, including P.S.122/9th Street Theater, East Coast Artists, (directed by Richard Schechner), Great Small Works, NYU Graduate Acting Department, Ramapo College, etc. He has written and performed works in many different musical styles including opera, dance, musical theatre and [...]
D. Andrew Stewart | Post-Doc Researcher
D. Andrew Stewart has been working in the field of music composition since 1994. Stewart is a composer, trained pianist, clarinettist and music theorist, as well as digital musical instrumentalist. His educational background includes his time at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague, Holland. While in The Netherlands, he completed post-graduate studies in composition [...]
Nicolas Gilbert | Post-Doc Researcher
Nicolas Gilbert (*1979) studied composition and analysis at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal with composers Michel Gonneville and Serge Provost, and at McGill University, with composer John Rea. His catalogue comprises about 40 chamber, vocal and orchestral works that have been performed in concert series and festivals in Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, Mexico, Lima, Paris, [...]
Artists in Residence
Architek Percussion | Artist in Residence
Architek is a percussion group based in Montréal, Québec, with a performance focus on avant-garde, experimental, minimalist, and electroacoustic music. Architek is also dedicated to the development of new works by Canadian and American composers, reflecting the dual nationalities of the group’s membership. The group was formed in 2011 at McGill University (where its members [...]
Linda Bouchard | Artist in Residence
Linda Bouchard is a composer, arranger, conductor and producer. The French Canadian lived in Montréal until 1978 and then went to study composition with Henry Brant at Bennington College. She will keep a close contact with her mentor until his death in 2008. She did her graduate studies at the Manhattan School of Music in [...]
Bozzini Quartet | Artist in Residence
Since 1999, the Bozzini Quartet has been an original voice in new, contemporary, experimental and classical music. Their skew is radically contemporary, propelling the hyper-creative Montreal scene, and beyond. Not content to parlay received wisdom, the quartet cultivates an ethos of risk-taking, and boldly venture off the beaten track. With rigorous qualitative criteria, they have nurtured a [...]
Bye Bye Butterfly | Artist in Residence
Bye Bye Butterfly brings together female percussionists from varied backgrounds and traditions. What we share is the interest in broadening traditional practices into experimental ones by extending into improvisation, text, theatre, movement and technology in our collective work. In Alien Lands, the performers are Aiyun Huang, Sandra Joseph, Ayano Kataoka, and Corinne Réne. The name Bye Bye Butterfly is taken from Pauline Oliveros’ influential [...]
Sophie Castonguay | Artist in Residence
Sophie Castonguay studies the subjectivation of gazes and cultural conditioning. She creates devices using the voice of the artist as an outside voice for the piece. Using narrative modes she attempts to create interference in the reception of the work and forces the spectator to question their position. Her work has been shown in Europe [...]
Amelia Cuni | Artist in Residence
Amelia Cuni was born in Milan and lived in India for more than 10 years learning dhrupad singing from renowned masters (i.e. R. Fahimuddin Dagar and Bidur Mallik, Pt. Dilip Chandra Vedi). She also studied kathak dance and pakhawaj drumming. She received a three year scholarship from the Indian government. Since 1987, she performs internationally: [...]
Gabriel Dharmoo | Artist in Residence
Gabriel Dharmoo studied composition at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal with Serge Provost and finished his studies with a “Prix avec grande distinction”, the highest honor to be awarded, in both composition (2006) and analysis (2007). Having researched South Indian Carnatic music with 4 renowned masters in Chennai (India) in 2008, his recent work [...]
Ensemble SuperMusique | Artist in Residence
Founded in 1998, the ever-changing Ensemble SuperMusique is one of the few Canadian ensembles entirely devoted to “musique actuelle” and free improvisation. Different composers/musicians from the ensemble itself alternate as leader of the band, but very rarely conduct the ensemble orchestra-style. The repertoire of the Ensemble SuperMusique comprises works by leading “musique actuelle” and improv stalwart composers from both [...]
Lori Freedman | Artist in Residence
Lori Freedman is known internationally as one of the most provocative and creative performers in the field of contemporary music. Her work includes concert repertoire, improvised and electroacoustic music, and she frequently collaborates with dance, theatre and visual artists. Over 45 composers have written solo bass clarinet music for her, and since 1981 Freedman has [...]
Ying Gao | Artist in Residence
Designer de mode et professeure à l’UQAM, lauréate de la bourse Phyllis-Lambert Design Montréal, Ying Gao remet en question la notion de vêtement tel qu’on le connaît en alliant le design urbain, l’architecture et le multimédia. Elle s’inspire de la transformation de l’environnement social et urbain pour explorer la construction du vêtement. Grâce à ses [...]
Dhruba Ghosh | Artist in Residence
Dhruba Ghosh (Born in Bombay, 1957) teaches and lives in Bombay. He is the son of the great Tabla Legend Nikhil Ghosh, who, besides concerting, wrote also the book “Fundamental of raga, with a new system of notation” (Bombay 1968). Dhruba is also the nephew of the flute player Pannalall Ghosh. After having studied singing [...]
Vinny Golia | Artist in Residence
As a composer Vinny Golia fuses the rich heritage of Jazz, contemporary classical and world music into his own unique compositions. Also a bandleader, Golia has presented his music to concert audiences in Europe, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the United States in ensembles varying dramatically in size and instrumentation. Mr. Golia has [...]
Cristina Iovita | Artist in Residence
Director and Playwright, Artistic Director and Founder of Le Théâtre de l’Utopie, Montréal. Born in Romania in 1954. Master’s degree in Directing from the Theatre and Film Academy of Bucharest, Romania, 1984, Master of Arts from Emerson College, Boston, 1996. Rod Parker Award for Dramaturgy, 1994, Best One Act Play, New England One Act Plays [...]
Kathy Kennedy | Artist in Residence
Kathy Kennedy is a sound artist with a background in classical singing. Her art practise generally involves the voice and issues of interface with technology, often using telephony or radio. She is also involved in community art, and is a founder of the digital media center for women in Canada, Studio XX, as well as [...]
Jin Hi Kim | Artist in Residence
Jin Hi Kim is a Guggenheim Fellow in Music Composition and internationally acclaimed innovative komungo (Korean fourth century fretted board zither) virtuoso. Kim featured onVoice of America, PRI’s The World and BBC Global Hit has composed for the ancient instrument and Western orchestra and chamber music utilizing her own compositional method, Living Tones. Kim was [...]
Krista Martynes | Artist in Residence
An accomplished classical and contemporary clarinetist, Krista Martynes has performed with Orchestre des Régions Européennes, and the 19th International Sacred Music Festival at the Abbaye de Sylvanes. Krista has been a featured composer, performed the works of such composers as Georges Aperghis, Pascal Dusapin, Gerard Pesson, Wolfgang Rhim, and Jorg Widmann. Krista has premiered major [...]
Michael Montanero | Artist in Residence
Chair of the Department of Contemporary Dance Concordia University Graduate of Hartford Conservatory - former Assistant Artistic Director of le Groupe de la Place Royale - founder and choreographer of Montanaro Dance - has choreographed for a number of companies such as Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers, Danse Partout, the National Film Board of Canada, l’Opéra de Montréal - collaborated on video sensing systems to [...]
Farangis Nurulla | Artist in Residence
Farangis Nurulla-Khoja is a Tajik-Swedish-Canadian composer born in Dushanbe (Tajikistan) in the family of well-known Tajik composer, Ziyodullo Shahidi. She holds a Diploma of Fine Arts in Composition (University of Gothenburg, Sweden). Having also studied at the University of California in San Diego as well as at IRCAM, Farangis lives by the criteria of the [...]
David Rosenboom | Artist in Residence
David Rosenboom is a composer, performer, conductor, interdisciplinary artist, author and educator, known as a pioneer in American experimental music. He has explored ideas in his work about the spontaneous evolution of musical forms, languages for improvisation, new techniques in scoring for ensembles, cross-cultural collaborations, performance art, computer music systems, interactive multi-media, compositional algorithms and [...]
Julien-Robert Legault Salvail | Artist in Residence
Believing in the combination of instrumental and electroacoustic music, Julien-Robert composes mixed music. He uses the technology’s possibilities to integrate video to his mixed music. His pieces of music have been performed in England, France, Argentina, Kosovo, United States and Canada in various festivals like Sonoimagenes, Spark festival, SOUNDplay festival, Remusica Festival, ICMC, UVM, Studio [...]
Rohan de Saram | Artist in Residence
Rohan de Saram was born to Ceylonese parents in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. At age eleven he studied with Gaspar Cassadó in Siena and Florence. In 1955 at the age of 16 he was the first winner of the Guilhermina Suggia Award, enabling him to study in the UK with Sir John Barbirolli and in Puerto [...]
Roger Sinha | Artist in Residence
Born in London, England, of an Armenian mother and an Indian father. When he was 8 years old, his family moved to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. This newfound culture collided with the two others and this started his quest for his identity, the source of his work as an artist. Roger Sinha, artistic director, choreographer and dancer [...]
Mike Svoboda | Artist in Residence
The trombonist and composer Mike Svoboda was born 1960 on the island of Guam, grew up in Chicago and came to Germany with the help of a BMI Award to Young Composers in 1982. His eleven years as trombonist and assistant with Karlheinz Stockhausen during the 80s and 90s proved to be of eminent importance [...]
Wu Wei | Artist in Residence
WU Wei, born 1970 in P.R.China, studied the Sheng at the Shanghai Conservatory and was a soloist with the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra before studying at the Hanns Eisler Academy with a DAAD scholarship in Berlin, where he is now based. In addition to many prestigious national and international competitions for traditional Chinese music, he won [...]
Chi-wang Yang | Artist in Residence
Chi-wang Yang is a Los Angeles-based theater director and digital media artist. Committed to physical performance and interdisciplinary collaboration, his work synthesizes stage, media, and technology. His work has been featured at REDCAT, New York International Fringe Festival, the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe, Time-Based Arts Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, and the Platform International [...]
Zata Omm Dance Projects | Artist in Residence
William Yong founded Zata Omm in 2005 to create new experiences in dance under his artistic direction. In 2010, Zata Omm launched a three-year programme of multiple dance and new technology collaborative research projects supported by the George Cedric Metcalf Foundation. Yong’s recent choreographies include Frames, a Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee for Outstanding New [...]
Chris Ziegler | Artist in Residence
Chris Ziegler is a director and digitlal artist of numerous international interdisciplinary projects in the field of new media with the performing arts with an in Education Architecture, New Media Art and Acting. He is Visiting Assitant Professor at „Interface Cultures“ Department of the Art-University Linz, Austria, Associate Artist at ZKM Karlsruhe and Researcher in [...]
Guest Lecturers
Uli Aumüller | Guest Lecturer
An education as a sound technician (for the psychological defence of the “old” Germany) and the studies of biology and new German literature (M.A. about the high baroque poet C.v. Lohenstein) led him to theatre (Munich, Landshut, Mülheim/Ruhr, Bruchsal) first and then to the radio play. Since the move to Berlin at the beginning of [...]
Christopher Butterfield | Guest Lecturer
Christopher Butterfield studied composition with Rudolf Komorous at the University of Victoria (B.Mus. 1975) and with Bülent Arel at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (M.A. 1977). He lived in Toronto between 1977 and 1992, where he was active as a performance artist, rock guitar player, and composer. In 1979/1980 he taught in [...]
Gyula Csapó | Guest Lecturer
Gyula Csapó is unique among Canadian University Composition Professors for his continued presence in the international avant-garde music scene for over two decades both in Europe and the United States. He has had intense formative professional contacts over the years with leading figures of new music (e.g., Cage, Feldman, Wolff, Ligeti, Kurtág, Eötvös, Barlow or [...]
Guy Livingston | Guest Lecturer
Born in Tennessee, with degrees from Yale, NEC, and the Royal Conservatory of the Netherlands, pianist Guy Livingston wowed critics and audiences with his successful “Don’t Panic” CD. Sixty composers each wrote one minute for Livingston, and the CD was featured on NPR, in The New York Times , Le Monde ,Sports Illustrated , and was praised by the Atlanta Constitution as the [...]
Nils Peters (jamoma) | Guest Lecturer
Jamoma is a real-time interactive media processing library for Max and Ruby. Nils Peters (Dipl.-Ing., PhD) is a researcher and educator in music technology, acoustics, and signal processing, currently located in San Diego, California. In 2010, while doing his PhD at McGill, Peters, a co-developer of Jamoma, led a workshop and demonstration of jamoma with Navid Navab at [...]
Stefan Römer | Guest Lecturer
http://www.conceptual-paradise.com/film/english/index.htm