Tyson Houseman is a nehiyaw interdisciplinary video & performance artist, puppeteer, and filmmaker. Houseman’s practice focuses on aspects of nehiyaw ideologies and teachings—speaking to notions of opacity within ceremony, disruptions of linear time, and the interwoven relations between humans and their ecologies. He has exhibited at various galleries, screenings, and film/media festivals in the US and Canada. Most recently he participated in artist residencies at Vermont Studio Center, the Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University, and Locust Projects in Miami, Florida. Along with producing his own works, Houseman directs documentary film and music videos, and is a touring puppeteer on various multimedia live cinema performances created by DJ Kid Koala. He spends his summers working with the Bread & Puppet Theater in Glover, Vermont. Houseman has an MFA in Fine Arts from School of Visual Arts in NYC and a BFA in Theatre Performance from Concordia University in Montreal.
Jonathon Adams is a Cree-Métis two-spirit baritone from Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton, AB). They have appeared as a soloist under Masaaki Suzuki, Philippe Herreweghe, Laurence Equilbey, and Alexander Weimann, among others, with the New York Philharmonic, National Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Toronto Symphony Orchestras, Washington Bach Consort, Tafelmusik, Ricercar Consort, B’Rock, Vox Luminis, Netherlands Bach Society, and il Gardellino.
Devon Bate is a Montreal-based sound artist, music producer, and researcher. After dedicating seven years to the arts, he returned to university to obtain a Master’s degree in Media Studies at Concordia University. Concurrently, he engaged in research projects across Canada, exploring the intersections of sound, sleep, technology, and the environment. Over the past decade, Bate has successfully produced 16 LPs, including acclaimed projects such as Jeremy Dutcher’s Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa, a recipient of the Polaris Prize and a Juno Award, as well as Jean-Michel Blais’ Il, recognized by TIME as one of the top 10 albums of the year. Bate’s former theatre company, Cabal Theatre, received eight nominations for the Montreal English Theatre Awards, including three in the Outstanding Composition and Sound Design category. Across disciplines he has established himself with his rigorously experimental and playful style, emphasizing a collaborative approach to creation and research. To date, he has been awarded 11 grants on the federal, provincial, and municipal levels, supporting his research and production.
Leah Weitzner is a German-Mestiza singer, gambist, (re)searcher, and composer. She is the co-founder of the medieval music collective Ensemble Ursa Major and the vocal trio Increatum. Leah frequently collaborates with groups such as Ensemble Scholastica, Ensemble Alkemia, Les Idées heureuses, Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. In 2021, she earned a Bachelor of Music in Early Music Vocal Performance from McGill University and recently completed a Master of Arts in Musicology from the same institution. Her thesis explores poet-improvisation, embodied cognition, and notational fixity through the anonymous musical settings of Serafino Aquilano’s strambotti.
