Ross Birdwise is a Vancouver-based musician and occasional visual artist. Much of his recent electronic music in various idioms is concerned with the deliberate manipulation of the listener’s sense of time and space and is concerned with disrupting, loosening or expanding the grid that underlies much electronic music to attempt to create musical space-times that can range from fluid, lurching, layered, grooving, malfunctioning, hypnotic, awkward, aggressive, soft, rigid or organic. As an improviser he has been using his voice and electronics to do explorations into non-idiomatic improvisation, structured improvisation, and lo-fi approaches to spatialized sound.
Ross has played music festivals such as Mutek (Montreal), Soundasaurus (Calgary), Electric Fields (Ottawa), Vancouver New Music and has presented visual art at centres such as VIVO Media Arts (Vancouver) and Gallery 101 (Ottawa). He holds an MAA in Media Arts from Emily Carr, and a BFA from Ottawa University.
