Janine Island is a Montreal-based developer, composer and improvisor dedicated to exploring non-hierarchical systems offered through creative improvised music. Whether developing projects for indigenous sovereignty, or experimenting with acoustic phenomena, Island’s motive is to encourage individual autonomy and instigate discourse on de-colonizing artistic practices. She has worked with the Vancouver Soundwalk Collective, NOW Orchestra, Vancouver New Music, and Vancouver Electronic Ensemble. Having performed in groups of various styles including anarchist improvising quartet, Archipelago, Vancouver punk rock group Assertion, and the Montreal-based psychedelic rock band Odd Limbs, Janine is not adverse to percussing fences, local park benches, and other resonant objects of surrounding environments in guerilla-ensemble fashion.
