Mark Brownell

Mark Brownell is a Toronto-based playwright. In 2001 he was nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award for his play, Monsieur d'Eon. He also received a Dora Mavor Moore Award for his libretto Iron Road. He last collaborated with Sound Travels on Bells and Whistles (an "annoying but strangely addictive" travelling installation piece). Other written work includes The Martha Stewart Projects (Buddies in Bad Times) and The Chevalier St. George (Tafelmusik Baroque Ensemble). Mark is also co-artistic director of the Pea Green Theatre Group with his wife and partner Sue Miner. He is a graduate of the National Theatre School and has had many of his plays produced across the country and internationally.

Chandra Bulucon

Sole proprietor of audio production company Puppy Machine Productions, Chandra Bulucon is also a practicing interdisciplinary artist. She has shown her work in such places as the AGO and Art Metropole and has been featured in Eye Magazine and Lola. Chandra is also the producer and co-host of the 4.5 year running radio show Quick Stop Art Spot and continues to curate the show with artists around the world. She also integrates art making with her strong background in community work, especially with youth-based projects such as Toronto's Graffiti Transformation Project. She continues to compose music and create sound design pieces for film, video, theatre, and television on a full-time basis, perform with bands such as "Just Like the Movies," and dress up as other people for her art practice.

Kristiana Clemens

Kristiana Clemens has worked as a host, producer, technician and D.J. in community radio for ten years. She is currently the audio production co-ordinator at CKLN 88.1 FM. Kristiana appeared on "The New Music" produced by CHUM-CITY. This was edited from a longer interview about vinyl record collecting from January 2001 and appeared on the year end wrap up show in early 2002 on MuchMusic. Kristiana reveals the size of her record collection. With most of her energies devoted to creating and voicing many of the ads and promos you hear on CKLN, Kristiana also hosts and produces Word of Mouth Fridays (at 6pm) and is an accomplished reporter.

Dan Hart

Dan Hart cut his radio teeth in the Maritimes as Spoken Word Director and Program Director, a position also held at the University of Toronto (1993 to 1995 with CIUT-FM). Dan also worked as a Station Manager in Kitchener and corporate trainer, writer, and project controller here in Toronto. Last year, Dan took a course taught by Laurence Stevenson, Outfront Recording Engineer and Producer, resulting in, My Father, a reminiscence on alcoholism and divorce. Dan's subsequent radio pieces include Suspicious Fire (Producer, Lynda Shorten), seeing faith through the prism of unemployment, and Et in Arcadia Ego (Producer, Alison Moss), accepting the brutality of homelessness. In Buridan's Ass (Producer, Lynda Shorten), Dan brawls with bisexuality as he and Deborah prepare their commitment ceremony. Buridan's Ass is his fourth collaboration with CBC Radio's "Out Front" and his first for Deep Wireless.

Susanna Hood

Artistic director of her interdisciplinary performance company, hum, Susanna Hood is a compelling and virtuosic performer. She danced as a member of the Toronto Dance Theatre from 1991 through 1995. Independently, she has performed the works of various Toronto choreographers. Her own choreography has been presented throughout Toronto on stage and in film since 1991. In the fall of 1998, she was one of two recipients of the K.M. Hunter Emerging Artists Awards in Dance. In creation, Susanna draws on her studies and performing relationships with such artists as choreographer Holly Small, improviser Stephanie Skura, the women of the Urge Collective (most notably singer Fides Krucker and performance artist Katherine Duncanson) and internationally acclaimed voice teacher Richard Armstrong.

Since the spring of 1998, Susanna has been working and performing improvisational dialogues with guitarist Nilan Perera. They have been developing a conversation between the worlds of movement and sound using dance, voice and prepared electric guitar. In December, 2000, Susanna founded Liminal Projects with fellow musican/composer/visual artist Jackson 2bears, and visual artist, Tanya Doody. Liminal Projects is a visual and aural ongoing interdisciplinary installation performance project, using voice and sampled organic sounds through computer as its sound component and movement, sculpture, light and video as its visual elements.

Susanna also performs under her sonic alter-ego S3, layering voice and unusual sound-making objects through a series of effect pedals, as the palette for both standards and original material.

Reena Katz

Reena Katz began classical violin instruction at the age of four at the Guelph Suzuki School for Strings. She went on to study in Toronto with May Ing Ruehle for 11 years, and became interested in Suzuki pedagogy in her early 20‚s, studying annually at various Suzuki institutes. For the past 7 years, she has directed and instructed at the Cabbagetown Community Arts Centre in Toronto, an arts centre for low-income students in Regent Park and St. Jamestown, Toronto. Her program includes private and group instruction, composition and theory classes, non-classical violin workshops with local artists, seasonal recitals, a CD lending library and free TSO concert tickets on a regular basis. Reena‚s teaching is a central part of her musical work, and she incorporates her interests in non-classical violin and audio art into her teaching.

For 10 years, Reena has been studying Klezmer fiddle as well as Klezmer arrangement and Jewish liturgical traditions through private and group study. She currently plays with the Pomegranate Squad, a nine member women‚s group which plays traditional tunes, as well as more experimental work. Her solo project Needletrade is a fusion of Klezmer tradition with samplers, sequencers, effects pedal and turntable. Using voices and instruments sampled from early Klezmer recordings; Needletrade weaves an intricate soundscape of cultural memory and haunting. It has been developing over 5 years, and Reena has performed it in Toronto, Montreal, New York and Berlin in its various manifestations.

In 2001, Reena participated in the Screams and Whispers residency with Charles Street Video. Her piece, SWEAT exhibited as part of the TransTech festival and opened many doors for Reena in terms of digital audio technology and it‚s possibilities for sound art. She has composed scores for independent film and video, working with artists Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay and Aleesa Cohene as well as performance artist Mirha-Soleil Ross and is currently working with poet Trish Salah on music and poetry collaboration. She is also developing work with choreographer/dancer Karen Guttman.

Jeremy Mimnagh

Since 1997 Jeremy Mimnagh has performed as a dj and visual and sound artist in numerous conventional and unconventional environments. In 1998 Jeremy‚s collaborative nature led him to co-found Technot. Technot exists to discover, foster, and promote experimental electronic expression within Canada. It supports electronic music -- works which use as inspiration, broken technologies, environmental and quotien sounds and may either be composed and/or improvised using computers and digital technologies.

In the fall of 2002 Jeremy collaborated with choreographer Heidi Strauss and Ryerson University to create V Hold -- a work that highlights the worlds of modern dance, video, contemporary electronic music. In early 2003, with choreographer Jenn Goodwin, he will present a work titled Go for Dance Ontario. Once again fusing sound and visual art with dance.

Jeremy is currently working in Toronto as a DJ, Photographer, and Music Director.

John Oswald

John Oswald is a Canadian composer and multi-disciplinary artist residing in Toronto. He has just finished helping with James Kudelka's "The Contract" for the National Ballet of Canada. For the past three years he has been creating a database of photo portraits for a series of "Moving Stills." His first "Moving Still" to be exhibited in North America, entitled "Jacko Lantern," was recently on display in the window of Pages Books as part of both the Images Moving Pictures and the Contact Festival of Photography, while "Stills," his first solo show of images, was held over at Toronto Harbourfront's Premiere Dance Theatre for eight months. He is also developing Spinvolver, a stage show with actress/dancer/singer Susanna Hood, who plays his alter-ego. Oswald has just completed "aparanthesi," a one note electroacousmatic composition, entailing some research in the perception of sonic morphs. He recently composed a "Concerto for Wired Conductor and Orchestra," which premiered at Boston Symphony Hall. He designed the soundtrack and system for "Stress," an eight-screen movie by Bruce Mau, showing at the Museum of Technology in Vienna. A new piece entitled "Oswald's First Piano Concerto by Tchaikovsky, (as suggested by Michael Snow)" was recently premiered in Vancouver by Paul Plimley and the CBC orchestra. He composed a score for the National Ballet of Canada for orchestra, robot piano and the disembodied singing voice of Glenn Gould. One of his plunderphonie video/photo collages was shown at the Royal Festival Hall Hayward Gallery in London and was immediately sold as a gift to the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Matt Rogalsky

My work often focuses on exploration of abject, invisible/inaudible, or ignored streams of information. I perform and present work regularly in Europe and North America. Recent and current projects include a series of performance and installation works exploring radio silences (Diapason Gallery, New York; Sleeper Gallery, Edinburgh); a commission from the Berliner Festspiele for a new version of John Cage's Fontana Mix; performance of the music of Phill Niblock at the Barbican, London; collaborative performances with experimental violinist Jane Henry in New York; a series of collaborative exhibitions in the UK and Canada with UK artist Chloë Steele entitled Perfect Imperfect; and the sound installation Auricle in Norwich Cathedral (UK).

Guillermo Verdecchia

Guillermo Verdecchia is a writer of drama, fiction, and film, a director and an actor whose work has been seen and heard on stages, screens, and radios across the country and around the world. He is the recipient of the Governor-General's Award for Drama for his play "Fronteras Americanas."