Stefan Smulovitz is a true innovator known for his creative use of technology and mastery of sound manipulation. His craft has been honed creating nearly 100 live film scores, innumerable dance and theatre scores, and hundreds of live performances with some of the top improvising musicians in the world. Stefan’s roots as an improviser allow him to skillfully use viola, electronics, and his game-changing software Kenaxis, to create vast sonic worlds. Always open to exploring new ideas he has collaborated with film, dance, theatre, poets, writers, visual artists, theoretical particle physicists, buffoon, circus, and now most excitingly crows!

He lives in Roberts Creek, BC where he is working on his most ambitious project yet…

prOphecy sun (Ph.D.) is an interdisciplinary performance artist, queer, movement, video, sound maker, and mother. Her practice celebrates both conscious and unconscious moments and the vulnerable spaces of the in-between in which art, performance, and life overlap. Her recent research has focused on ecofeminist perspectives, co-composing with voice, objects, surveillance technologies, and site-specific engagements along the Columbia Basin region and beyond. She hosts Tapes and Beyond on Kootenay Co-op Radio and is the Arts Editor for Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities. She performs and exhibits regularly in local, national, and international settings, music festivals, conferences, and galleries and has authored several peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and journal publications on sound, performance, and the entanglement of domestic spheres.

Matthew O'Donnell is a singer, multi-instrumentalist and performer of traditional Celtic music based in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, sharing songs and tunes for all people and all places.

Soressa Gardner is vocalist, laptop composer/improvisor, and sometimes songwriter. Her keen sense of mood, colour, humour and gravitas are expressed through extended vocals enhanced by electronic manipulations and sound-worlds carefully crafted from a variety of audio processing techniques. Soressa’s recent live performances include Victoria’s Neuztec Festival (2021) Wonderment Festival (2020), Vancouver New Music Festival: Resonances (2019, The Annex) and CoexistDance: Western Edition #2 (2019, ScotiaDance Centre). Her electronic compositions have garnered international recognition and airplay.

A Vancouverite by birth, Soressa holds a music degree from Vancouver Community College and currently resides in Victoria, BC, Canada.

Sam Meadahl (he/him) is a musician and composer based in Vancouver BC. As a recent graduate of Simon Fraser University, he obtained his Bachelor’s in Fine Arts with distinction in composition, primarily under Mauricio Pauly and Sabrina Schroeder. With a passion for instrument making and repurposing, Sam’s work breathes new life into broken instruments and obscure objects by modifying them into sound sculptures that act as a focal point for his pieces. This interest has expanded into the electronic world, predominantly through the transformation and circuit bending of kids toys and guitar pedals. Sam’s “do it yourself” approach has always been a part of his nature; from writing songs on guitar to experimenting with objects as instruments, Sam is always looking to create new approaches to music making. He has a keen interest in collaborating; his most notable collaborations include Alien Pod, an ensemble that utilizes a mix of acoustic, electronic, and homemade instruments, and co-founding Rubbish Jupiter Moths, a duo that explores the hybridization of sound sculptures through electronic processing. Sam enjoys working across disciplines, particularly in creating sound for dance and film.

Over the years Graham has performed with many jazz combos, funk, blues, pop, and rock groups. He’s shared the stage with The Wailers, Ani DiFranco, Colin James, Henry Small, The Odds, Long John Baldry, Nine Mile, and more.
After relocating from Vancouver to Kamloops, British Columbia in 2000 he owned his own live sound company for ten years.

In that time he mixed for artists like The Powder Blues Band, Alex Cuba, Jimmy Bowskill, Vinyl Ritchie, Mat the Alien, Danko Jones, Strung Out, Cryptopsy, and more.

In 2018 Graham relocated back to his home of Vancouver after selling the live sound company, and now owns and operates How Sound Music. This new endeavour sees Graham creating a name for himself as How Sound, while continuing to work with a network of talented contributors.