Project :: Sound

Chris Dardick

Christopher Dardick est un artiste multidisciplinaire qui cherche les réponses aux énigmes ineffables et inexplicables de la conscience, de l'être et du temps. Son travail reflète une recherche sans fin à travers les décombres des expériences passées, présentes et futures du mystère évolutif et croissant de la réalité.

Patrick Harrop

Patrick Harrop is an electronic artist, licensed architect and a professor of architecture at Laurentian University | Université Laurentienne in Sudbury, Canada. Patrick Harrop’s artistic practice is a research / creation based exploration of perceptual and dynamic phenomena, informed and influenced by the philosophy of technology, the history of architecture and the early modern history of technology. His research specialty is in emerging technology and design with a particular emphasis in electromechanical hacking, digital fabrication and open-source maker culture. Both his artistic work has been shown in Montreal, Busan, Budapest, Shanghai, Berlin, London, Vancouver and Winnipeg.

Shawn Kosmerly

Shawn Kosmerly (they/them) is a freelance filmmaker born in Sudbury, ON, specializing in music video production. They founded Here Kitty Kitty Productions in 2012, and in that time, have produced over 90 music videos. In 2017, Kosmerly was awarded the Emerging Artist award in the Sudbury Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts for their video work, as well as their involvement in the arts community. Kosmerly graduated from the Film & Television Production program at Humber College in 2015, receiving an advanced diploma. Kosmerly is also a musician and lover of nature.

Polly Kultur

Influenced by changing times, shifts in consciousness, and really good beats, Polly Kultur emerged in 2018 as a project sparked by Fionna Tough, formerly of Toronto-based bands Mango Angle and Beetzzwaxx. With soul, R&B, dance & rock driving & influencing musical creations. ... Emilio Portal is a mixed transdisciplinary artist, maker, designer, musician, producer & sound engineer who was born in New Westminster, BC. In a sonic revolt against the hook, and any other abusive methodologies or schemes, Portal has adopted the perspective that sound isn’t just some thing that can be manipulated, but rather, sound is an entity itself.

Michelle Loubert

Michelle (Miche) Loubert identifies herself as a Franco-Ontarian artist/craftsperson/writer living in Sudbury. She takes these learnings and skills to craft narratives. During the development and shaping of her artistic endeavors, the thoughts and works of Lynda Barry, Wassily Kandinsky, Matisse and Danny Gregory have nurtured her and given her the courage to soar into the unknown of the known. She loves dancing, LEGOS and making book art.

April Martin

April Martin is a process-based sculptor working in ceramics, textiles and metal. For her, making is the gesture that most reflects the energy of living things; this includes weather, wind and water. In Martin’s work she makes material connections based on known and unknown histories, as well as perceived values, form, colour, and texture. Her work communicates a sense of wonder about the materials that make up our daily lives, and on a larger scale, the planet.

Ben McCarthy

Ben McCarthy’s compositional practice takes found sound as a source material. He is drawn to both the intuitive allure of a sonic texture, and the inherent rhythm and melody in the natural, machinic and synthetic sounds we find ourselves immersed in. Through experiments in signal processing and emerging technology he attempts to pull from the noise a sensual present that invites embodied attention. Sometimes using text or audio documentary underscored by synthesizers and voice, his compositions and installations raise questions about acoustic epistemologies specifically around the social and economical conditions that produce the listening subject. Together Martin + McCarthy centre process, their work finding form in the media they have to hand-- whether natural or digital, synthesized or elemental.

Emilio Portal

Emilio Portal is an interdisciplinary artist, craftsman, designer and musician. While working at McEwen School of Architecture, he works on several projects collaborating with local organisms in Sudbury where he lives. He has exhibited throughout Canada. In 2011, Emilio and Elyse Portal started making art together under the moniker eeportal. Their performances and installations address historic and contemporary environmental and spiritual issues.

Cecilia-Aurel Rodriguez-Beaudoin

Born into a multicultural family, Aurel (aka Cecilia-Aurel Rodriguez-Beaudoin) has always written songs in the three languages she grew up with: Spanish, French and English. Her style has also been influenced by Latin and North American artists such as Selena Quintanilla, Regina Spektor, Natalia Lafourcade and Klô Pelgag. Aurel marries piano and poetry to perfection on her first trilingual EP, Piano Sessions en el Naufragio, released on December 9, 2021. She is now working on a brand new project inspired by the Canadian city where she grew up: "Soundscape sudburois".

Pandora Topp

Pandora Topp is a certified artist-mentor and entrepreneur based in Sudbury and Mont St-Hilaire, Quebec. For thirty years she has worked in the fields of theater, television and film, and as an artist-entrepreneur Pandora has developed seventeen touring shows, including Le Café Piaf, her tribute to Édith Piaf, which she has offered since its premiere at the TNO in 1998. At the same time, since 2002, Pandora has been offering 'rigorous' training to teachers, students and artists in Manitoba, New Brunswick, Ontario and Germany. She has been a coach since 2011 with the Danis Bois Method, also known as Perceptive Pedagogy, which focuses on resilience and personal transformation through fascia. She has completed both training cycles, over 800 hours, and submitted her dissertation in March 2022. In addition, in August 2023 she received her 150-hour certification in Perceptive Coaching with Ève Berger of Via Corpo. She is working on her first solo show for 2024.

Joëlle Villeneuve

Originally from Sudbury, Joëlle Villeneuve holds a B.A. in Photography and Anthropology from Concordia University in Montreal, QC. Also working in the French-Canadian music industry, her images can be found on numerous album covers and promotional posters. Her practice focuses on our symbiotic inter-relationships with our surroundings, whether in the context of language, culture or geography. Using the photographic object, Joëlle questions how who we are and what we observe is based on the contexts that inform our surroundings.