education
2001 - 2004 Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design • Foundation year • Integrated Media, 2 years
2004 - 2006 Concordia University, Fine Arts • Electroacoustics Program 1 year • received BFA in Interdisciplinary Media
residencies, special projects
APO 33, July 2011, Nantes, FR: • solo performance and artist talk/workshop presentation
VFP 2011 (Vidéos de femmes dans le parc), GIV, July 2011, Montreal, QC: • screening of ‘3 x 2’
Hlysnan, Soundfjord, May 2011, London, UK: • analog a/v work ‘3 x 2’ was part of an evening of film and sound works selected by Constantine Katsiris (Scant Intone)
Salon:Data V, Eastern Bloc, February 2011, Montreal, QC: • artist talk, screening of new video works, and site-specific sound performance with hand held oscillators, room feedback, and electromagnetic waves
52 pickup, 2011, http:// 52pickupvideos.com/HTML/Sexton_grid.html : • web project to create one video per week for a year, curated by Dayna McLeod. exploring sound – image relations, on-camera audio, the aesthetics of limitation.
Avatar, Excavation Sonore series, August 2010, Quebec, QC: • residency to create “real-time-space”, a collaborative sound performance exploring real-time spatialization with analog electronics and objects. with Jocelyn Robert, Érick d'Orion, François Martig, Lorella Abenavoli, Meriol Lehmann, Frederic Dumond, Luke Dawson, François Simard, Martin Michaud, and Francis Arguin.
Studio XX, Launch for .dpi “Resistance + Violence”, June 2010, Montreal, QC: • presentation of audio work “shot/silence”, artist talk, and improvisation with analog electronics
installation work
‘other dimensions’, Espace Project, October 2010, Montreal, QC: • sound installation + performance with amplified surfaces, simple radios
Le Son a des Jambes, SAT Galerie, June 2008, Montreal, QC: • installation of live performance recordings from the Ostinato series, with prints by Jerome Fortin.
'Feminine Products', My Hero Gallery, June 2007, Montreal, QC: • 'untitled' wood, bullet holes, and video installation, as part of a group show.
'aircraft! vs. total music', Erin Sexton and Alain Lefevbre, Distinguished Gentleman's Club, May 2007, Montreal, QC: • sound and mixed media installation, live sound performance at opening.
improvisation/performance
solo
Sucked Orange Gallery, August 2011, Berlin, DE: • ‘other dimensions VI’
Zangi Music Summer Special, Tentstation, August 2011, Berlin, DE: • outdoor performance with water, oscillators, feedback, and electromagnetic fields
Le Bouillon Belge, July 2011, Paris, FR: • oscillators, feedback, EMF amplifiers, contact mics
Knot Gallery, July 2011, Athens, GR: • ‘other dimensions V’
Sounds Like… Audio Art Festival, May 2011, Saskatoon, SK: • performance of ‘other dimensions IV’
Send + Receive v.12, November 2010, Winnipeg, MA: • performance with amplified floor, feedback, hand held oscillators, and electronics. opening for C Spencer Yeh + Anju Singh
Mutek 10, Monument National Theatre, May 2009, Montreal, QC: • performed solo and collaboratively as part of “PLAY 2: Electric Intensity, White-Noise Exchanges, and Total Liberation” curated by Eric Mattson.
'Je Me Souviens', curator Eric Mattson, National Film Board of Canada, May 2008, Montreal, QC: • solo performance with live analog video, oscillators, feedback, objects, and electronics. An event dedicated to the 1970s -80s NFB sonic research lab.
"Live Cinema" event, New Forms Festival, Scotiabank Dance Center, September 2007, Vancouver, BC: • solo performance with analog audio/video processors, hand built oscillators, bass/room feedback, and other elements. Violence, the sublime, and a homage to the films of Arthur Lipsett. Supported by The Canada Council for the Arts.
Epoxy 3, curator Eric Mattson, La Sala Rosa, May 2007, Montreal, QC: • performance with live video feed, analog video and audio processors, oscillators, max/msp.
Mutek Festival 06 - La Placard, curator Eric Mattson, SAT, May 2006, Montreal, QC: • commodore amiga graphics, oscillators, analog video and audio processor. a headphone listening audio/video event.
Nuit Sonore, CBC Radio Canada, Gallerie B312, March 2006, Montreal, QC: • sampler, oscillators, shortwave radio.
collaborative
La Tour Prisme, October 2011, Montreal, QC: • duo with Julie Rousse (FR)
Casa del Popolo, September 2011, Montreal, QC: • trio with Magali Babin and Martin Tétreault
Le Placard, August 2011, Paris, FR: • duo with Emmanuelle Gibello
Experimontag, Madame Claude, August 2011, Berlin, DE: • duo with Seiji Morimoto, EMF, oscillators, amplified surfaces, feedback
Platform for Performance Artists, Flutgraben, July 2011, Berlin, DE: • Ænth performance with Alexander Wilson
Travaux Electroniques Feminins, Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, March 2011, Montreal, QC: • fünf - live analog electronics with Magali Babin, Anne-Francoise Jacques, Emilie Mouchous, and Andrea-Jane Cornell
L’Agitée, August 2010, Quebec, QC: • improvisation with Érick d'Orion, François Martig, and François Simard
Share, Issue Project Room, July 2010, Brooklyn, NY: • duo with Magali Babin. electronics, amplified objects, radio, feedback. also with Jerome Joy’s nocimena site streaming into the mix
Heartbeat 960, March 2010, Toronto, ON: • trio with Bryan Eubanks (NY) on open circuits and Chris Strickland (MTL) on prepared guitar
Perte de Signal, March 2010, Montreal, QC: • duo performance with Ignaz Schick (Berlin) in a concert series organized by Martin Tetreault
Les Filles a l’Envers II, l’Envers, January 2010, Montreal, QC: • improvisation with Gayle Young, Tina Pearson, Esther B, Chantale LaPlante, and Magali Babin
G.S.A. Entertainment Test Lab, La Sala Rosa, September 2009, Montreal, QC: • live sound laboratory, collaboration with artists Konrad Becker (Monoton), Keith Daniels (Sonde), Emilie Mouchous (Gmackrr). curated by Eric Mattson.
Bent Festival, DCTV/The Tank, April 2008, New York, NY: • oscillators, bass feedback, amplified objects. with Gmackrr (Emilie Mouchous).
Suoni per il Popolo Festival, Bande À Part.fm - CBC Radio Canada, Casa del Popolo, June 2007, Montreal, QC: • oscillators and bass feedback. with Anne-Francoise Jacques (le son 666) on electronics, and Jackie Gallant of 'Lesbians on Ecstasy' on electronic drums.
Nuit Blanche, Gallerie B312, February 2007, Montreal, QC: • video projection, oscillators, shortwave radio, microphone feedback, voice. with Freida Abtan on laptop.
CD releases
horizon, 2011, les encodage de l’oubli • double album, solo and in collaboration with Magali Babin, Martin Tetreault, Helene Prevost, and Érick D’Orion
Heisenberg Effect Volume Two, 2010, Nidog Son. • 2 mini CD release. collaboration with Steve Godin, Sam Shalabi, and Emilie Mouchous.
Heisenberg Effect Volume One, 2009, Nidog Son. • as above.
Ostinato 20, 2008, ORAL. • limited edition of 30 CDs containing live recordings of concerts produced by curator Eric Mattson, accompanied by 30 print works by Jerome Fortin. Epoxy 3, also with Alexandre St-Onge, Freida Abtan, and Joda Clement.
Ostinato 28, 2008, ORAL. • as above. Je me Souviens 4 also with Martin Tetreault, Michel Langevin, Steve Bates, and AUN.
Sam Shalabi - EID, 2008, Alien8. • played synthesizers and hand built electronics as part of Shalabi’s large ensemble.
aircraft vs. total music, 2007, independent. • collaboration with Alain Lefebvre.
Ladies Club Volume 1, 2007, le son 666. • mini CD compilation with Magali Babin, Anne-F Jacques, Nancy Tobin, Freida Abtan, and Martine H. Crispo.
aircraft, 2004, independent. • first full length solo album.
grants/awards
2010 Jeune Volontaire Quebec • 12 month grant for the production of new album “horizon" • disc 1 will be a solo album, disc 2 will be 4 duo improvisations with Magali Babin, Martin Tetreault, Helene Prevost, and Érick D’Orion
2007 The Canada Council for the Arts • Travel Grant for presentation of work at the New Forms Festival, Vancouver, BC
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