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EDUCATION
Sheridan College - Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Animation - 2012
Concordia University- Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction, Concentration Interdisciplinary Studies in the Studio Arts - 2009
Royal Conservatory of Music - Grade 8 Piano certificate
AWARDS and NOMINATIONS
Achievement in Music: Original Score, WINNER, Canadian Screen Awards for “Through Black Spruce”, dir. Don McKellar, Serendipity Films, 2019
Polaris Prize, Longlist Nominee, Polaris Prize for YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN “DIRT”, 2018
Best Musical Score, Canadian Videogame Awards for YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN and PANTAYO “Severed OST”, Drinkbox Studios, 2016
Polaris Prize, Shortlist Nominee, Polaris Prize for YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN, “UZU”, 2014
Best Alternative Album, Nominee, Juno Awards for YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN “UZU”, 2014
Polaris Prize, Shortlist Nominee, Polaris Prize for YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN “YT//ST”, 2012
INTERMEDIA PRODUCTION
2007 - 2020 YAMANTAKA//SONIC TITAN I Artistic Director, Performer, Composer, Production,
Audio Engineer, Tour Manager
2019 Jumblies Theatre & Arts and Soundstreams, “Odaabaanag”, Harbourfront Centre I Technical
Assistant
2019 Ange Loft & LAL, “All You Can Hold”, Summerworks / Museum Of Contemporary Art Toronto |
Technical Assistant, Lighting Designer
2019 Ange Loft, “A Foreign Source of Extraordinary Power”, Museum Of Contemporary Art Toronto |
Technical design, Audio Engineer
2016 - 2018 Jumblies Theatre & Arts, “Talking Treaties”, Historic Fort York I Technical Assistant
2017 Thinking Rock Community Arts “The Rivers Speak”, Mississauga First Nation I Technical Assistant
2017 Ange Loft, “Hoofs”, 38th Rhubarb Festival, Buddies in Bad Times Theater, Toronto | Composer,
Sound Designer, Audio Engineer
2012 YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN, “33//渦“, 33rd Rhubarb Festival, Buddies in Bad Times Theater,
Toronto / POP Montreal, Theatre Rialto I Music and Technical Director, Composer, Performer
2011 Centre for Indigenous Theatre, “Jumping Mouse” I Sound Designer, Audio Engineer
2010 Centre for Indigenous Theatre, “Red Moon” I Composer, Sound Designer
SELECTED AUDIO PRODUCTION I COMPOSITION I ENGINEERING
2021 Pantayo, Forthcoming Album TBA, Telephone Explosion | Producer, Engineer
2021 Supre, "What Flowers That Bloom", dir. C Hudson Hwang | Composer
2021 Mar Vista Entertainment, "The Boathouse" dir. Hannah Cheesman | Composer, Performer
2021 Aaron Ries, "DRUH" | Composer, Performer
2021 Musical Stage Co. Noteworthy Cohort | Composer
2021 National Film Board of Canada, "Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am An Indian Again" dir. Courtney Montour | Co-Composer, Performer
2020 Slow Down Molasses, Forthcoming Album TBA I Mixing Engineer
2020 YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN, “Night of the Living Dead rescored”, dir. George A Romero,
Presented by POP Montreal | Composer, Performer
2020 Aiken Heart Films, “Succor”, dir. Hannah Cheesman | Composer, Performer
2020 Pantayo, “Pantayo”, Telephone Explosion Records I Producer, Engineer, Songwriter, Performer
2019 Jumblies Theatre, Toronto Biennial “By These Presents: Purchasing Toronto” dir. Ange Loft I
Composer, Sound Technician and Sound Editor
2018 Serendipity Point Films, “Through Black Spruce”, dir. Don McKellar I Composer
2018 YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN, “DIRT”, Paper Bag Record I Composer, Performer, Producer,
Engineer, Illustrator
2017 National Film Board of Canada, Legacies 150 “XINONA” dir. Walter Kaheró:ton Scott I Composer
2017 C Hudson Hwang & Kellyanne Murphy, “Exiting Hell Bar”, dir. C Hudson Hwang I Composer, Audio
Engineer
2016 YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN with Pantayo, “Severed OST”, Drinkbox Studios I Game Music
Composer, Engineer, Performer
2016 Chelsea McMullan “Michael Shannon Michael Shannon John”, dir. Chelsea McMullan I Composer,
Audio Engineer
2015 Mohawk Princess Productions, “Sex, Spirit, Strength”, dir. Courtney Montour I Composer, Audio
Engineer
2015 Overnight “Overnight”I Producer, Engineer
2013 Centre Phi, “MCMXCVI-MMXIII” dir. Philippe Léonard part of 5 X Phi I Engineer,
Composer, Performer
2013 YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN, “UZU”, Paper Bag Records, Suicide Squeeze (USA), All Tomorrow’s
Parties (UK/EU) I Composer, Performer, Producer, Engineer, Illustrator
2012 Klei Entertainment, “Mark of the Ninja” I Game Music Composer, Audio Engineer
2012 Cartoon Network, “Lamia” Adult Swim Singles Club, YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN I Composer,
Performer, Producer, Engineer
2012 Paper Bag Records, “John I’m Only Dancing”, Paper Bag Records vs. The Spiders From Mars: David
Bowie Covers, YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN I Composer, Performer, Producer, Engineer
2011/12 YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN, “YT//ST”, Psychic Handshake / Paper Bag Records I Composer,
Performer, Producer, Engineer, Illustrator
SELECTED INTERMEDIA EXHIBITIONS
2021 Chinatown, Montreal "One Only Throws a Stick At a Lion Once // 一個人只能對獅子丟擲一次棍子",
Commissioned as part of MOMENTA Biennale de l'image | Augmented Reality Art
2017 Centre Daimon, Gatineau, “Let the Destructiveness of Sorcerers, Their Gods and Protectors
Descend Upon Themselves”, Commissioned as part of Interstices | Intermedia installation
2015 PDA Projects, Ottawa, “DISCHARGE KANNON 999”, Commission
2015 Studio XX, Montreal “DISCHARGE KANNON 999”, Artist in Residence
SELECTED WORKSHOPS / SPEAKING
2019 Vancouver International Film Festival AMP. “Stages to Screens”, “Producer’s Lounge” Vancouver
2014 Studio XX, “Wired Women Salon 100 : Deep Screens, Montreal
2013 Art Gallery of Ontario, “ +”, First Thursday, Toronto
2013 NXNE, “Women In Music”, Toronto
2012 Halifax Pop Explosion, “Women In Music: This Panel Shouldn’t Exist”, Halifax
2009 YWCA Summer Camp for Girls, “Rocking your Identity”, Montreal
SELECTED SKILLS
Audio Software: Ableton Live, Max4Live, Cubase, Reaper, Audition, Pro Tools
Graphics & Animation Software: Autodesk Maya, Autodesk Mudbox, Adobe Suite (Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere), Toon Boom, Clip Studio, Blender
Intermedia Software: MAX 8, Pure Data, Resolume
Hardware: MIDI devices, DMX systems, Video feeds, Projection Mapping, Arduino, basic Robotics (Pneumatic & motor based systems), intermediate electronic assembly