Posts
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Solo Trombone Improvisations
Debut album
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Saint Laurent (2022) Conversations with Space and Architecture
Part of the CSA Series
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Fall 2025
I continue my half-year residency at Perte de Signal in Montréal and will have the chance to get some mentorship time with some of their incredible community artists working at the intersection of sound, image, and performance. It's my goal this year to develop a studio practice and I've made it a mission to put some time into my installative curiousities through Ambient Parade and the mubone. If you know someone I should reach out to for help please let me know.
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August 2025
ék is heading to our final creation residency for our show Pouet! A 30-min new music show for families with a special focus on children. Our show combines mime, foley, and clown, featuring two friends discovering the world of sound and how it relates to music. We will debut the project in September in Montréal, so stay tuned by following us on IG @ek_emailluine.
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Conversations with Space and Architecture
Conversations with Space and Architecture is an ongoing series of site-specific compositions developed using the mubone—a custom performance technology that explores the artistic potential of environment as medium.
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May 2025
Just back from Copenhagen, where we mounted the first mubone project with live projection mapping—brought to life through the brilliant digital wizardry of mubone co-creator Travis West. Mezzo-soprano and organizer Kirsten Voss, along with her production company Tonalteatret, made it all possible, and we were thrilled to present the work in a massive former boiler room in the city’s west end. The space still bore traces of its industrial past, with walls beautifully stained by time, which became part of our “soundpainting” as the projections and gestures played across them.
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January 2025
My wind trio, Williwaw, with Émilie Fortin and Philippe Lauzier, just wrapped up a two-week residency at Orford Musique in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. We were incredibly fortunate to have the support of the Canada Council for the Arts to make this happen, and over the course of the residency, we recorded a ton of new material that we’re excited to release in the coming year. I also had the chance to experiment with new instruments and trombone preparations—looking forward to sharing more on that soon! Orford Musique is an amazing place to retreat and focus, nestled at the foot of Orford National Park. With a trailhead right at our doorstep, we hiked every day, which was the perfect reset between sessions. And Jim, our chef, completely spoiled us with incredible meals—definitely one of the highlights of the stay!
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December 2024
I had the pleasure of joining MONO for their New York show at Pioneer Works, performing as part of the LPR ensemble alongside many friends and colleagues from NYC’s new and experimental music scene. MONO, the legendary Japanese instrumental band, is known for their sweeping, cinematic sound—blending post-rock, shoegaze, and orchestral elements into emotionally charged, immersive performances.
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November 2024
This past November, we wrapped up a two-year journey with Montreal’s experimental music ensembles Bakarlari and ILÉA through Émanants—a project that brought new life to the deconsecrated chapel of La Cité-des-Hospitalières.
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September 2024
I’m in the midst of a dream collaboration with the pioneering interdisciplinary artist Meredith Monk, known for her groundbreaking site-specific work. I’m performing on trombone in her piece Indra’s Net at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City, running until October 6, 2024. It’s been such a wholesome experience to work with Meredith every day—she has this remarkable ability to make everyone feel special. Watching the community and body of work she’s built over decades of innovation is nothing short of inspiring. We do movement and voice warm-ups each day, and I’ve picked up a few great quotes along the way, with my favorite being: “Make space your ally.”
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Same 36 Tunes for 100 Years
Immersive concert installation inspired by the last operational barrel organ in the UK, located in the parish church of Shelland, Suffolk. Barrel organs, like player pianos, use a rotating barrel with notches to play melodies. In 1925, when an article referenced in the title was published, this particular organ had three barrels, each containing 12 tunes.
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Baker’s Lung
Baker’s Lung, the second event of the #musicismore series combines professional baking experience and music practice. Both music and food are communal experiences that connect us as human beings, “Baker’s Lung” aims to amplify this connection and explore the relationships between sound and the making of bread.
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Local Music
Created as part of the Local Music Workshop at Darmstadt New Music Courses 2023. With support from the Canada Arts Council.
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Garcia
This piece is inspired by this process of uncovering memories through others and through self-discovery. Having immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong at age 4 with only one memory from this time, reconnecting with my nanny was a way for me to reconstruct how I navigated immigration and assimilation as a child, and to ascertain why I am the way I am.
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EXO Meditations
Commission for Experiential Orchestra
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Movement Etudes for Improvisors
Augmented woodwind ensemble, mubone adapted for clarinet
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Conductive Dinner
Interactive Sound Installation for Prepared Speaker Woofers Commissioned by Seed Artists for the Freedom of Sound: Percussion Festival
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Picnic Electronic
Solo trombone, mubone, battery-powered electronics, objects
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Echo Ensemble (2019 - 2020)
Evolving architectures in movement and sound
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BF+DA Interactive Cocoon (2018)
Interactive Wearable Garment for Performance Artist
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Die Posaune
Die Posaune (trombone in German), is an interactive sound art sculpture and performance that explores the sonic possibilities of the slide trombone as a self-generating sound object.
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Sound the Mound (2018)
Freshkills Site-Specific Improvisation
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Splunger (Speaker-Plunger Device) (2019 - )
feedback mute
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The New Masculinity
Not sure how well this aged but it’s here.
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The Digital Harings
Solo trombone, electronics, Casiotone, Keith Haring digital sketches
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Twisted Twister
Game for Audience and Improvisors
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Siri Breakup
The time I put candles on my trombone slide cum birthday cake.
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Montreal Salsa Collective
Classic salsa tunes.
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Trubaci McGill
Brass band music from the Balkans.