This time on The Title Block Live, we feature an incredible panel of Canadian sound designers. See the lineup below, with their bios and links to their work.
Bios
Jean-Sébastien Côté is a Canadian composer and sound designer based in Ottawa. Since 1999, he designed more than 15 productions of Canadian stage director Robert Lepage. He also had the privilege to work with some of Canada's best theatre directors and choreographers and he also composed and mixed the music of many documentaries, tv ads, multimedia shows, art installations and VR experiences.
Deanna H. Choi is a recovering violinist with a background in behavioural neuroscience. Her latest project is designing the sound of her kitchen production of Into the Woods, starring her KitchenAid stand mixer, Matilda.
Richard Feren has been composing music and sound designs for theatre, dance and film since 1992. He has won seven Dora Mavor Moore Awards, the 1999 Pauline McGibbon Award, and was the first-ever sound designer to be shortlisted for the Siminovitch Prize, in 2012.
John Gzowski is a sound designer based in Toronto.
With a multi-faceted and distinct visual style, jaymez has worked in the visual art, dance, theatre and music communities. His lighting, video and sound work has appeared in a number of international festivals, theatrical and dance productions and he has designed for a wide and diverse range of companies and choreographers. He holds a BFA in Video from the University of Manitoba.
David Mesiha is a composer/sound designer, projection designer and theatre deviser splitting his time between Toronto and Vancouver. He's currently an interactive experience co-designer for the Digital Storytelling project at The Cultch in Vancouver and technical producer with Theatre Conspiracy.
Debashis Sinha’s work in theatre is part of a rich and varied sound practice that spans the genres of audio art, radiophonic art, and music. He has composed for the country’s biggest - and smallest - stages.
Nancy Tam is a composer / sound-artist / performance artist whose work includes musical composition, multichannel sound installation for live and fixed media, audio walks, and sound design for site-responsive theatrical, and dance performances. She is an active and founding member of the Toronto based Toy Piano Composers composer collective, and the Vancouver based performance collective A Wake of Vultures. Nancy has been a core collaborator and devisor with Fight With A Stick since 2011 in creating contemporary performance works. In 2017, their show Revolutions won the Critics' Choice Award at the Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards. Nancy’s current research focuses on the triangulation of sound, body, and space, and continues to investigate the choreography of human mobilization through listening and walking in her work. Nancy holds a MFA from Simon Fraser University and a BMus from Wilfrid Laurier University. More info can be found at www.nantam.ca