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
Grade 8 Piano - Royal Conservatory of Music - 2000

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AWARDS and NOMINATIONS

2021    Polaris Prize, Longlist Nominee, Polaris Prize for Pantayo “Pantayo” (Producer)
2019    Achievement in Music: Original Score, WINNER, Canadian Screen Awards for “Through Black Spruce”, dir. Don McKeller, Serendipity Films
2018    Polaris Prize, Longlist Nominee, Polaris Prize for YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN “DIRT”
2016    Best Musical Score, WINNER, Canadian Videogame Awards for YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN and PANTAYO “Severed OST”, Drinkbox Studios
2014    Polaris Prize, Shortlist Nominee, Polaris Prize for YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN, “UZU”
2014    Best Alternative Album, Nominee, Juno Awards for YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN “UZU”
2012    Polaris Prize, Shortlist Nominee, Polaris Prize for YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN “YT//ST”

 

SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
2022    Pantayo, Forthcoming Album TBA, Telephone Explosion | Producer, Engineer
2021    Slow Down Molasses “Minor Deaths”  I Mixing Engineer
2020    Pantayo, “Pantayo”, Telephone Explosion I Producer, Engineer, Songwriter, Performer 
2018    YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN, “DIRT”, Paper Bag Record I  Composer,  Performer, Producer, Engineer, Illustrator
2015    Overnight “Overnight”I Producer, Engineer
2013    YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN, “UZU”, Paper Bag Records,  Suicide Squeeze (USA), All Tomorrow’s 
Parties (UK/EU) I  Composer,  Performer, Producer, Illustrator
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    YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN, “YT//ST”, Psychic Handshake / Paper Bag Records I  Composer,  
Performer, Producer, Engineer, Illustrator

 

SELECTED FILM AND GAMES
2022    Toronto Biennial of Art, "Dish Dances", dir. Ange Loft | Cinematography, Editor, Colorist
2021    Supre, "What Flowers That Bloom", dir. C Hudson Hwang | Composer
2021    Mar Vista Entertainment, "The Boathouse" dir. Hannah Cheesman | Composer
2021    Aaron Ries, "DRUH" dir. Aaron Ries | Composer
2021    National Film Board of Canada, "Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am An Indian Again" dir. Courtney Montour | Co-Composer
2020    YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN, “Night of the Living Dead rescored”, dir. George A Romero,        Presented by POP Montreal | Producer, Co-composer, Performer
2020    Aiken Heart Films, “Succor”, dir. Hannah Cheesman | Composer
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
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 Composer, Engineer, Performer
2016    Chelsea McMullan “Michael Shannon Michael Shannon John”, dir. Chelsea McMullan I Composer
2015    Mohawk Princess Productions, “Sex, Spirit, Strength”, dir. Courtney Montour I Composer
2013    Centre Phi, “MCMXCVI-MMXIII”  dir. Philippe Léonard part of 5 X Phi I Engineer, 
Composer, Performer
2012     Klei Entertainment, “Mark of the Ninja” I Composer

 

SELECTED THEATRE WORKS
2022 -  Musical Stage Company Dan Fund commission, "MEAT" by Aaron Jan & alaska B | Composer, Lyricist, Book co-writer | Toronto, ON
2022    Soulpepper Theatre, “Kamloopa”, dir. Kim Senklip Harvey | Composer, Sound Designer
2022    Fierce, "Queen of the Island of Flowers and Furs", dir. Ange Loft | Composer, Lyricist, Book co-writer | Birmingham UK
2022    Sheridan College Musical Theatre First Drafts, "Tiny Tenement of Terrors" | Composer, Lyricist | Oakville, ON
2017    Ange Loft, “Hoofs”, 38th Rhubarb Festival, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto | Composer, Sound Designer, Audio Engineer
2012    YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN, “33//渦“, 33rd Rhubarb Festival, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre,  Toronto / POP Montreal, Theatre Rialto I Music and Technical Director, Composer, Performer
2011    Centre for Indigenous Theatre, “Jumping Mouse” I Sound Designer
2010    Centre for Indigenous Theatre, “Red Moon” I Composer, Sound Designer

 

SELECTED INTERMEDIA PRODUCTION 
2007 - 2021     YAMANTAKA//SONIC TITAN I Artistic Director, Performer, Composer, Production, Tour Management
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

SELECTED INTERMEDIA EXHIBITIONS
2021        Momenta Biennale, Montreal, “One Only Throws a Stick At a Lion Once”, Commission
2017        Centre Daimon, Gatineau, “Let the Destructiveness of Sorcerers, Their Gods and Protectors 
Descend Upon Themselves”, Commissioned as part of Interstices
2015        PDA Projects, Ottawa, “DISCHARGE KANNON 999”, Commission
2015        Studio XX, Montreal “DISCHARGE KANNON 999”, Artist in Residence

 

SELECTED WORKSHOPS / SPEAKING / OTHER
2022        Facilitator, Musical Stage Company’s One Song Glory program, Toronto ON
2021        Music Director, Musical Stage Company’s One Song Glory program, Toronto ON
2021        Participant, Songwriter’s Association of Canada Pro Songworks Camp
2021        Participant, Musical Stage Company's 2021 Noteworthy Cohort for Musical Theatre Writers
2019        Panelist, VIFF AMP. “Stages to Screens”, “Producer’s Lounge” Vancouver
2014        Panelist, Studio XX, “Wired Women Salon 100 : Deep Screens, Montreal    
2013        Panelist, Art Gallery of Ontario, “ +”, First Thursday, Toronto
2013        Panelist, NXNE, “Women In Music”,  Toronto
2012        Panelist, Halifax Pop Explosion, “Women In Music: This Panel Shouldn’t Exist”, Halifax
 

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

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