The process that my audio pieces usually take is in steps.  I start creating sounds with my guitar and once I find a sound that stimulates me, I record it. After I have collected many sounds, I start collaging them together.  I find that through the composition process, my work seems to take the form of a movie without any visuals.  There seems to be both the sounds of a musical score to enhance mood, some sort of abstract dialogue taking place, as well as the sounds that define a place (interior or exterior) even though all the sounds are created using the same instrument. I feel that this work began to be written once I stumbled upon a guitar sound referencing the sound of a violin.  This became the framework (or at least the stating point) that I knew I wanted this piece based around. Other than that initial spark of a violin sound, I let intuition and process guide the rest of the way, and once the piece is complete, there are always parts that I didn't initially forsee.

Bio:

I just recently graduated from UBC Okanagan where I was doing painting as well as sound art.  I won the CanWest Global Centre for Artist’s Video Award for the work that I did with sound this year.  Last year I was on a semester exchange program in Hamburg, Germany where I studied sound art with Asmus Tietchens.  However, my interest in sound art or experimental music started before my German exchange and before my BFA when I was primarily focused on playing music.