My dear friend and collaborator Malte Leander and I performed as part of Eastern Bloc’s showcase at Nuit blanche à Montréal. It was a beautiful experience filled with sound loving people and prismatic lights and shapes.

Composed by Malte Leander & Charles Harding

Mastered by Charles Harding

Prisma is a live improv soundscape set prepared for a special performance at a Nuit blanche Montréal event like-named PRISMA on February 25, 2023, hosted by Eastern Bloc and WIP.

The set was arranged to share varying biomes and sonic memories documented by the 2 composers throughout the past few years. Subtle synth textures are layered throughout the performance to alter the perceptual experience of the field recordings as well as to inspire thoughts of strange prismatic settings in time and space. Sonic spaces and temporal stamps resembling the colors formed by refraction of light through a prism.

Huge thanks to Eastern Bloc for providing us the facilities and equipment to rehearse and prepare the performance.

Blood & Breath by Trajectories
Artwork by Emily Blair

I am so unbelievable proud and thankful that SIGHT+SOUND Festival 2022 has been selected as a finalist for this year’s Grand Prix awarded by Conseil des arts de Montréal! It is such an honour to be able to share the nomination list with so many other incredible organizations who bring such vibrancy to this community! Huge thanks to Conseil des arts de Montréal, our team, board members, the curators Nathalie Bachand and Sarah Ève Tousignant, and the amazing artists who brought this event into being!

I'm feeling so lucky to have been able to perform at Soundwich XV on Nov. 3, 2022, presented by Conservatoire de musique et d'art dramatique du Québec and Akousma! The performance consisted of a 16-channel live diffusion of 2 pieces from my recently released soundscape album Rain Beast!

Since 2009, SIGHT+SOUND International Digital Art Festival seeks out the best, most provocative and outstanding works of digital art currently being made by international and local emerging artists. The festival has become a point of convergence for artists, activists, theorists, and technologists. It embraces the fringe of contemporary digital art and culture through installations, performances, workshops, interventions, and discussions. SIGHT+SOUND is seeing the unseen and hearing the unheard. It’s experiencing the indescribable. It is where contemporary digital art meets its critical agenda. It’s a festival that invites the possibility of social change through art, music, and all-night dancing.

Rain Beast is a collage of field recordings collected in New Brunswick and Montréal between 2018 and 2021. As part of a greater meditation on connecting technological mediums in artistic practice to notions of Anthropocene, this collection reflects upon the dissonances of nature and industry in the south of NB and some of the prominent soundmarks that relate to this theme.

This workshop covered methods for collecting and composing with sounds found in the world. Developing pieces of music with found sound is fun, inspiring, and can lead to unique results that define the character of your work. This workshop was designed to demonstrate a wide range of tools that can be used to record and process found sounds as well as to highlight music that has been created with these techniques.