Sorted alphabetically by last name
B–K
Morgan Brooks
Morgan Brooks is in her final semester of university, pursuing a double major in Music Composition and Digital Audio Arts. Passionate about music and sound, she is especially drawn to the storytelling and imagery that music can create. Morgan has composed original scores for three independent films, developing a strong interest in how music supports narrative and emotion on screen. Alongside her creative work, she gains practical studio experience through her role in Studio 1, where she assists with recording workshops as well as junior and graduation recitals. These experiences have strengthened her technical recording skills and her ability to work within collaborative production environments. Throughout her time at university, Morgan has developed a particular interest in film and video game audio. She enjoys exploring new techniques in sound and music, and is excited by the many ways audio can shape immersive storytelling experiences.
Mianna Van Essen
Mianna Van Essen is a fourth year DAA student specialising in recording and production. She has an interest in electronics and audio artefacts that are outside of composition and control. Using cassette tapes and old recording gear through a childlike lens rediscovers some of the ingenuity and beauty behind chance in modern recording production. Her featured piece is a visual and acousmatic Exploration of the Queen Elizabeth II Trans Canada Highway.
Véronique Fortier
Véronique Fortier is a fourth-year saxophone studio major at the University of Lethbridge. She has a deep passion for music and enjoys exploring a wide range of musical pursuits. In addition to performance, Véronique is actively involved in composition and conducting, using these creative outlets to further expand her musical perspective. Her curiosity and enthusiasm for music have also led her to begin exploring the field of music research, where she is developing an interest in studying music from both creative and academic perspectives. Through her studies and musical activities, Véronique continues to seek opportunities to grow as a musician, performer, and scholar, embracing new challenges and experiences.
Gavin Goldthorpe
Gavin Goldthorpe is a 4th-year Digital Audio Arts student currently interested in experimental music and aesthetic noise. He works with a vocabulary of distortion as expression and the cusp of sound becoming noise and noise becoming sound. He performs on electric guitar and extreme processing methods along with intricate digital sculpting to create dense intentional textures. He has a foundation of playing heavy music and recording engineering, and is working to hone his current practice rooted in energy, texture, and sound as physicality. The track is an expression of his continued interest in distortion as both artistic and philosophical medium.
Terrell Jordan
Terrell Fernandes, Artist name: Terrell Jordan, is a third year DAA student interested in Electronic Music Production and songwriting. He focuses on creating full experiences that envelope the listener in not just music, but emotional and visual experiences. Terrell primarily uses synthesis and melodic songwriting techniques to create experiences. Having a remix on YouTube with over one million views, Terrell has been working on refining his craft and finding a unique style. The featured piece is an showcase of his increasing production skills and experience creation.
Samuel Kliever
Samuel Kliever is a Bachelor of Music student who enjoys exploring new ways to express emotion through his performance and artistic works. Samuel enjoys working at high levels in a variety of music fields, including music production, theatre performance, composition, and a variety of sound technology studies. Just as he creates a bridge between athletics and the nuance of storytelling in professional theatre, Samuel uses his many life experiences to create performances that engage thought and provoke discussion. Samuel’s piece highlights nostalgia, showcasing the importance of remembering our pasts; he hopes to nurture emotions within audience members to create a memorable experience.
Max Kortbeek
Throughout his four years as a Digital Audio Arts student at the University of Lethbridge, Max has worked professionally as a recording, mixing, and mastering technician for various artists in Lethbridge. Max’s activities cross multiple genres from classical to folk, and country. Alongside his unforgettable, currently underway, undergraduate degree, Max has studied at, and has attained a Certificate in Digital Audio from, the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary. He has also attended the L.A. Music Industry Summer Academy at Paramount Studios in North and South Los Angeles. Working in the music field and singing in the university choir (The University of Lethbridge Singers), have helped to inform Max’s fascination for overtones and vocal harmony. The culmination and integration of this passion is the subject of his research presentation, entitled “Constructive Interference: Overtones in Barbershop Quartet Music”.
Rachana Kulkarni
Rachana Kulkarni (or Zon) is a fourth year DAA student and composer who creates experimental sound designs and acousmatic music. Through her artistic work she investigates how noise creates emotional responses and how glitch aesthetics and sound fragmentation affect listeners. She processes piano recordings to create abstract textures by using granular synthesis and random sequencing techniques. The acousmatic composition Fractured Resonance by the artist presents a sonic exploration of beauty through disruptive sound transformations.
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Graeme Marion
Graeme Marion is a third-year Digital Audio Arts student, interested particularly in hip-hop music production. Over the past three years, this fascination has continued to grow through course material, collaboration with colleagues, and personal experimentation. Outside of music production, Graeme enjoys playing basketball, trying to rap and butchering songs at karaoke.
Douglas Monaghan
Douglas Monaghan is a fourth year DAA student interested in all aspects of music production. His music focuses on exploring emotion and memory through the combination of sonic landscapes and traditional song structure. Douglas utilises a combination of real world recordings and electronic instruments/synthesizers to create a sonic soundscape like no other. He has previously worked at Made Human Studios in Toronto, ON, as an audio engineer and recently released his debut single ROOF, under the moniker Stormy Lake. The featured piece is an electro-acousmatic piece written in collaboration with Jude Rose.
Gibson O’Beirne-Bishop
Gibson O’Beirne-Bishop is a third-year Digital Audio Arts major, with an interest in synthesis, sound design and sampling. His primary focus on his music is centred around creating sonic textures and styles unique to digital and electronic works. With special experience with various digital audio workstations, especially FL Studio, Gibson’s work merges the sounds of digital synthesizers, manipulated samples, and unorthodox experimental techniques to create sounds such as feedback noise. This experience in digital music is paired with years of learning about music theory and performance techniques as well, as he is also a multi-instrumentalist on the piano, bass guitar and alto saxophone. Today, Gibson puts his sampling and digital audio skills on display in an experimental breakbeat piece.
Tobi Ojo
The piece is composed by Tobi Ojo who is a fifth year DAA student interested in Artistry, Music Production, and Composition. His work usually focuses on themes of minimalism as well as experimentation. Tobi tends to produce a lot of his work through Fl Studio, but has always been very open to using field recordings which would be implemented with Tobi has worked in different areas of live audio engineering in one instance as an audio technician for ContainR as well as worked as an audio tech for many different churches in Alberta.
Izzy Paige
Izzy Paige is a third year BA Music student and multimedia artist whose works focus on ethnomusicology, field recording and experimental performance. Paige takes advantage of the digital age by mutilating recorded sound in her sample-based works. Whether she’s creating alien loops of mundane sound using incognito field recordings or bringing noise to the dance floor through disintegrating drum grooves, her DIY approach to sound shines through. Paige is committed to using open-source audio programming software, which allows her to go beyond the imposed limits of the DAW and work with sound on a more granular level. Her finished patches are freely available to download from https://github.com/IzzyPD/.
Jude Rose
Jude Rose is a fourth year DAA student interested in both the composition and production of music Jude focuses on adding energy and identity to pieces, with the goal being making the piece unique and interesting. His work experiments with creating and sampling sounds and processing them in a way that becomes something new. This piece is an electro-acousmatic piece written in collaboration with Douglas Monaghan, showcasing the dichotomy of nature and the space in which we live.
Griffin Sawatzky
Fin Sawatzky is a third year DAA major with an interest in emotional electronic music. His music focuses on nostalgic elements that play on people’s emotions and make them get lost in their own minds. Fin uses sound fonts, soundbites, and other nostalgic audio from years past to craft fresh but familiar soundscapes. The featured piece is a collaboration between Fin and two likeminded individuals that will feature these auditory techniques as well as visual aspects.
Seth Villamil
Seth Villamil is 2025-2026’s winner of the Joyce and Ron Sakamoto award for his interests in audio perception research and tinnitus during his capstone. Seth continues to garner curiosity in academia through strong, impactful questions that will influence his prospects as a post graduate student. With interests of teaching sound production techniques at the latter half of his career, Seth is finding new ways to apply his knowledge of sound in places one may not think of in order to make the most of his studies. With current collaboration with the Centre for Indigenous Arts Research & Technology as a Research Assistant at the University Of Lethbridge, Seth is researching technical methods with Digital Audio Workstations and Linguistic Software to produce huge data outputs that could potentially be used for training models and archival purposes. Seth’s studies in the Digital Audio Arts continues to offer him opportunities to network and collaborate. From providing feedback and teaser materials for Dr. Arlan Schultz’ Aurawand, to building connections with studio performance majors in forms of recordings and livestreams; He finds ways to gain experience in and outside of the classroom. Seth hopes to continue his pursuit as a Sound Recordist for films come graduation for 2028. With live sound experience, recording studio time and post sound projects, he continues to apply himself in many fields to stay sharp and multi-faceted in an ever evolving field. Seth keeps himself busy and forever curious of the rabbit hole that is Sound Engineering. Besides his interest and obsession with sound, he is a Beyblade fanatic as the President of the University Of Lethbridge Beyblade Club, as well as a motorsports fan enjoying recreational simracing in virtual reality titles like Assetto Corsa and Dirt Rally.
Yifan Wang
Yifan Wang is an electronic music producer from Calgary, Alberta, currently completing his 4th year as a Digital Audio Arts student at the University of Lethbridge. His signature sound features independent melodic phrases played together to form emergent harmonies that convey extended meanings. His style of electronic counterpoint draws on ambiguous, hybridised instruments, vocal-like textures, and shifting basses to create an atmosphere that keep listeners on their toes. His philosophy centres on finding creative and innovative ways to reproduce the details of natural sound, allowing composers to communicate their ideas in greater detail and authenticity, while offering musical ways to enhance an arrangement beyond the compositional material itself. His hope is to uncover distinct tools that would provide Christian artists with unique ways to express their faith in music.