a Kind of Harmony

Seth Cardinal Dodginghorse is a multidisciplinary artist, Prairie Chicken Dancer, experimental musician, and cultural researcher. They grew up eating dirt and exploring the forest on their family’s ancestral land on the Tsuut’ina Nation. In 2014, their family was forcibly removed from their homes and land for the construction of the Southwest Calgary Ring Road. This life changing event has been the focus of their creative work. [In this interview] Seth shares their practice of translating displacement into performance, and dreaming through pirate radio

AM Kanngieser is an award-winning geographer, sound artist and Research Fellow in Geography at Royal Holloway University of London. Their practice engages listening and attunement to approach how people collectively determine conditions of liberation and care in the face of ecocide and environmental change. In this interview, Kanngieser re-frames listening as a practice that is embodied, confrontational, challenging and truly transformative, and discusses how one can enter into dialogue with the environment. 

Sandra Volny (franco-tchèque) est une artiste, chercheuse et enseignante qui s’intéresse à la perception des espaces sonores.Titulaire d'un doctorat en Arts et Sciences de l'Art de l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, sa thèse porte sur le concept de "la survivance des espaces sonores", explorant la persistance du son dans les espaces à travers ses constellations matérielles, sensorielles et sociales. Ses recherches et sa pratique actuelle s’intéressent à la navigation dans les espaces par le son, « les résidus sonores », les « fossiles sonores », et l’interaction avec des êtres humains et non-humains par l'acte d'écoute. Volny s'intéresse tout particulièrement à ces occurrences où la conscience qu’a un individu de son environnement se construit par le biais du son. Elle considère l'utilisation des espaces sonores comme des vecteurs qui permettent à l'imagination individuelle et collective d'émerger.

Rehab Nazzal is a Palestinian-born multidisciplinary artist based in Montreal, Canada and Bethlehem, Palestine. Her work deals with the effects of settler-colonial violence on the bodies and minds of colonized peoples, on the land and on other non-human life. She describes the sonic environment of living in occupied Palestine and discusses sounds of resistance and the implications of silence.

Artiste sonore montréalaise, Chantal Dumas explore le médium du son depuis plus de 30 ans. Les années ont mis en lumière une récurrence thématique (espace, temps, territoire) soulignant une conscience environnementale qui se conjugue à un intérêt marqué pour l’écoute. Chantal partage sa connaissance de la perception et de l'interaction avec l'espace public, ainsi que ses recherches sur les sons de refuge.

Amanda Gutierréz is an artist and researcher who uses sound and performance art to investigate how aural conditions affect everyday life. She describes her soundwalking practice from a decolonial and feminist approach and shares how oral history, recording and producing sound can offer the potential to take back and to resist. Amanda’s soundpiece retraces her grandmother's steps while in dialogue about indigenous traditions of rootness, and her ancestors' experience of migration

In this episode we spoke with legendary Canadian/American singer, composer and transgender activist Beverly Glenn-Copeland  Glenn’s work has been gathering momentum and recognition in recent years thanks to a reissue of the extraordinary folk-jazz of his debut self-titled album (1970) and the widespread discovery of his masterpiece Keyboard Fantasies (1986). His life has been a non-stop combination self-discovery and part pop-culture fairy-tale. We were curious to speak with Glenn about his legacy and are deeply honoured that he took the time to share his knowledge, insight, and wisdom with us. 

In this episode we spoke with Rebecca Manankil. Rebecca is a multidisciplinary healer based in the unceded territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinabek, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat. Rebecca serves her community through her alternative medicine practice, Inspire and Instruct, where she guides others to become experts in self healing. As a Filipina womxn, Rebecca is committed to shifting the spiritual paradigm within the wellness industry. By sharing traditional knowledge and unique wellness modalities, she creates spaces for healing to happen. Rebecca finds her purpose by inspiring and instructing others to courageously step into the highest version of themselves - from soul to surface.   We were curious to speak with Rebecca about her practice as a sound healer -  we discussed traditional Filipina sound healing practices, corporate sound baths and human design.

In this episode we spoke with Nick Dourado. They are a composer, artist and scientist whose work represents the confluence of their Konkani heritage, childhood study in European impressionist and romantic piano, graduate degree in engineering and ocean acoustics, and varied experience as a working creative musician. We were curious to speak with Nick about their practice as a musician and collaborator, we discussed their time at The Creative Music Workshop, the erosion of music literacy, and consciousness elevation. 

In this episode we spoke with Olivia Dreisinger is a disability scholar, filmmaker, and writer. Her own fluctuating abilities often dictate how she produces work—a process that regularly leads her to new and generative mediums to explore. Currently, she is pursuing a PhD at the University of British Columbia in the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine.   We were curious to speak with Olivia about her practice as a researcher and podcaster.  We discussed the intersections of disability and academia as well as her unique relationship with sound