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Conceptual Manifestation, 2021

This work is simultaneously something, and nothing. A grouping of visuals from comics found in Egypt…

Boombox, 2020-2021

This boombox housing utilizes the aesthetics of Egyptian curios boxes, a craft that is fading due…

OUDUO, 2020

Improvised duets with Oud player Faidi Taiba, and myself on Udu. …

Yalla!, 2018

Yalla! is one in a series of video artworks exploring the relationships between sound, image, music, place,…

Music for Sewers, 2016

These recordings were played in a sewer next to the Marilyn I Walker School of Fine…

Quarter Rest, 2015

This work is quite simply a large scale version of a musical quarter rest. It was…

Piano Tusk, 2015

This artwork was made from ivory piano keys taken from 8 de-commissioned pianos, foam, and felt.…

F-Holes, 2014

This installation work involves cutting two f-holes into the gallery wall, and thus allowing one to…

Rigolo, 2014

Stop-watch, clipboard, text This work is a set of instructions suggesting how to pass through a…

Bird Planet, 2013

This work was created from a simple alteration of bird-watching footage shot in Niagara, Canada. Starlings, numbering in the tens of thousands, create monumental murmurations in the sky. Run through a filter, and slowed down substantially, the movement of these birds takes on an other-worldly form.…

Symphony Warm-up, 2013

A grouping of layered field recordings of the Niagara Symphony Orchestra warming up. …

Chromaphone, 2012

This interactive sound work translates the noise level of the gallery into colour. (Photo by Scott…

Piano Burn, 2012

Piano Burn is a 52-minute HD video work depicting the destruction of a piano with fire.…

Nature Walk

Nature Walk, 2011

This video depicts myself trying to navigate through a forest in Algonquin Park while blindfolded. The…

Silent Ocean, 2011

Silent Ocean consists of a modified record player, where the stylus is replaced with a seashell…

Practice, Practise, 2010

This work investigates the process of learning songs which I have written for piano. It was inspired by a friend using video to monitor his golf swing, and improve his technique. …

Chair Disciplining Itself, 2010

This work investigates historical notions of disciplining.…

The Ears have Walls, 2010

Electronics, speaker box This sound work is comprised of a speaker, microphone, and transmitter (a hidden…

The Main Event, 2010

The Main Event was an event curated, conceived and produced by Rodman Hall Art Centre in…

Work, Work, 2010

This endurance-performance involved crawling from my home to Rodman Hall (where I used to work) in…

Aluminum Drop, 2010

Aluminum Drop is another translation-based artwork; however, its origins are self-reflexive in nature. The methodologies behind…

Love Taps from Lily, 2010

The process involved in making this installation artwork involved recording my daughter talking about her brother,…

Chladni Prints, 2010

This work explored the visualization of sound through the recreation and mediation of Chladni experiments. Ernest…

Reveries (series), 2010

One of several experiments in utilizing found video that contains cross-fades. The goal of this experiment was to create new A/V compositions where the soundtracks are mixed and layered to form dream-like sequences. One could argue the videos are dreaming possible narratives. …

Invader, 2009

This bronze sculpture work is a polite jab at curating and the enculturation of art.…

HOMES: The Great Lakes Institute, 2008

HOMES was a relational performance/installation work that was presented as part of Ice Follies 2008 in…

Representationalism, 2008

This video was shot in Paris during the summer of 2007. I hired a camera operator…

White Picket Fence, 2008

This sound artwork was exhibited in Grimsby, Ontario at a public library and art gallery. I…

Another Slow Walk, 2008

Re-creation of Slow Walk experiment from Halifax, this time done along the Seine in Paris. …

L’intrus, 2007

This is another collaborative work with Parisian artist Emmanuelle Raynaut. The soundtrack composition is mine; the…

J’etais comme une pierre, j’etais comme une arbre, 2007

This performance/installation was a collaboration with Parisian artist Emmanuelle Raynaut as part of Nuit Blanche 2007…

Boules de Gui, 2006-2007

These charcoal drawings depict mistletoe dotting French landscapes. The parasites often take over trees and kill…

Lily in Wonderland, 2006

Lily in Wonderland, video, player, and headphones, 22 minutes, 2006 In this video experiment, my daughter…

Dance of the Ass, 2006

This suite of dance songs was written and recorded with the intention of having non-musicians sing…

L’Afrique, 2005

This is a series of sketches done in Paris while researching the history of the pianoforte…

Several Attempts at Crying on Demand, 2005

This video work was made in response to the terrorist bombings in London, England during the…

A Deep, Deep Fear of January, 2005

A photo series exploring a desolate drive-in landscape during winter, waiting for a spring opening.…

MusicBox Revolving Door, 2004

This collaborative work was created by Cory Lund, Janis Demkiw, and I. With careful design and…

De Rien, 2004

This performance/installation took place in the Anna Leonowens Gallery in NSCAD – formerly a piano factory.…

A Slow Walk, 2003

A slow walk was shot outside my studio window while at NSCAD. I became interested in…

Self-recorded record, 2003

This vinyl record was made from traveling from Toronto, to Manhattan , to New Jersey and…

Shuffle 1-99, 2003

This sound work involved recording the sound of a portable cd-player randomizing through tracks, recording these…

Tritone, 2003

This sound and haptic work is triggered by the motion of viewers near it. Simply, a…

Invisible piano, 2003

Performance documentation…

Save It for the Ring, 2000

This performance took place at Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Art as part of an outdoor…

Birch music for player piano, 2000

This interactive sound work involved transcribing patterns from a piece of birch bark into a player…

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