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Vanessa Massera

February 2024 – Readings for The Future

February 2024 – Readings for The Future

READINGS FOR THE FUTURE Tine Surel Lange, Tøyen Fil og Klafferi and Vanessa Massera invite…
CollaborationsPerformancesMarch 25, 2025
You Got Ghosted – Passé Présent

You Got Ghosted – Passé Présent

Collaboration with the Collectif PASSÉ PRÉSENT, funded by the Canada Arts Council, to compose 8…
CollaborationsWorksMarch 25, 2025
June 2023 – Écoutes Alternatives

June 2023 – Écoutes Alternatives

Vanessa Massera is collaborating as composer and performer with Alexandra Templier on the performative/interactive art…
CollaborationsResidenciesJuly 11, 2023
Oct 2022 – Les Briques

Oct 2022 – Les Briques

Vanessa Massera is collaborating as sound designer and composer with Philippe Dépelteau on the performative/danse/installation…
CollaborationsResidenciesOctober 30, 2022
April 2022 – First Layers

April 2022 – First Layers

Vanessa Massera is sound designer and composer for piece First Layers, presented at Tangente for…
CollaborationsResidenciesOctober 30, 2022

2025.

JANUARY
Residency & Performance Le Murmure, Alexandra Templier, Le Vivier at Fonderie Darling

2024.

FEBRUARY
You Got Ghosted, creation at Cégep de Saint-Laurent
Nordlyst Festival, Andøya, Norway: Readings For the Future & Two For Mirth
Listening Lounge #4, Kunstkvarteret Lofoten, Norway
MARCH
Residency with Il y a des joies, Alexandra Templier, Echo House
NOVEMBER
Residency Le Murmure, Alexandra Templier, Le Vivier, Ste Hilda
DECEMBER
Residency Le Murmure, Alexandra Templier, Circuit Est & Studio B

2023.

FEBRUARY
Presentation of WIP composition for S’imbriquer, Espace Écotone
MARCH
S’imbriquer, Composition Residency with dance (Philippe Dépelteau)
APRIL
Dompteur, live improvised music with Frédéric Barbusci at le JIM de l’Instable (improvised theatre)
JUNE
Écoutes Alternatives, Research/composition/performance residency with Alexandra Templier at Maison de la culture NDG
AUGUST
S’imbriquer, Composition Residency with dance (Philippe Dépelteau) at La Serre
SEPTEMBER
S’imbriquer, Installative Performance with dance (Philippe Dépelteau) at Tangente
OCTOBER
Fulgurances at L’Espace du Son, Bruxelles (BE)

2022.

MARCH
First Layers, Composition Residency with dance (Catherine Bellefleur)
APRIL
Performance at Tangente / First Layers (Catherine Bellefleur)
Exploration Residency with Alexandra Templier / Silencio(s)
AUGUST THROUGH JUNE 2023
Passé Présent, composition commissioned by Passé Présent collective as a feminist initiative (Funded by Canada Arts Council)
OCTOBER
Les Briques, Composition Residency for dance and installation performance (Philippe Dépelteau)
13.10.2022. AKOUSMA / Border Crossing

2021.

FEBRUARY
Montréal Nouvelles Musiques, Nuit Blanche, Symposium, SMCQ
SEPTEMBER
Farœ Islands: Nordic Music Days, Think Tank

2020.

JANUARY
Matralab/Concordia: Residency + Talk, Montréal CA
MARCH
12.03.2020. Soundwich @ CMM/Akousma /An Almost Abstract Experience, Border Crossing
AUGUST
17.08.2020/31.08.2020. Suena Así Festival (Radio Edition) / Border Crossing
Tampere, Finland: UNM Festival Organisation
SEPTEMBER
Ultima Festival, Symposium Discussing Diversity Publication
NOVEMBER
Stockholm, Sweden: Sound of Stockholm Organisation (Postponed)

2019.

FEBRUARY
Residency / VICC, Visby Gotland
Seminarium (Guest Lecturer) at Tonsättarskola,  Visby Sweden
MARCH
Performance at Stockholms Konserthuset during Svensk Musikvår / Exercitium
Completion of PhD at The University of Sheffield
APRIL
Sound Design Environment for Sagastad Museum in Nordfjordeid, Norway
AUGUST
Co-production of UNM Festival / Piteå
OCTOBER
Residency / Arctic Wave Vesterålen, Norway
NOVEMBER
Lecture and Concert in Piteå & Luleå, Sweden
Participation at GRINM Conference, Zürich Switzerland
Organisation of Sound of Stockholm, Sweden

2018.

JANUARY
Talk / VEMS, EMS monthly Bollplank
MARCH
Knutpunkt, Lund / Border Crossing LARP sound design
ToBeContinued Live Stream / Collaboration with Tuulikki Bartosik
APRIL
Stockholms Kulturnatt, Fylkingen / Avalanche
MAY
Eurofolk Festival, Moscow / Collaboration with Tuulikki Bartosik
JUNE THROUGH AUGUST
GauteLjaudKarte – Kyrkorna, Gotland / An Almost Abxperience
SEPTEMBER
UNM Festival, Bergen / Éclats de Feux

2017.

Sound Junction, Sheffield / Exercitium arithmeticæ occultum nascientis se numerare animi
ZKM, Karlsruhe / Éclats de Feux
Nø Bounds, Trafalgar Warehouse Sheffield / Éclats de Feux
Ljud & Genus Festivalen, Göteborg / An almost abstract experience
Perdidos en el Espacio, Santiago de Chile / Éclats de Feux
Sound Junction, Sheffield / An almost abstract experience
GroundSwell Broadcast, Winnipeg / Éclats de Feux
CMMAS Morelia, Mexico / Éclats de Feux
Expansive Prairie Skies, Winnipeg / Éclats de Feux
Thank God it’s Free Range!, Winnipeg / Éclats de Feux
Boca del Lupo, Vancouver / Éclats de Feux
Sound Junction Satellite, DINA Sheffield / An almost abstract experience
InTIME, Coventry, UK / Éclats de Feux
NWEAMO Festival, San Diego, USA / Toreutique
Composition Residency, Stockholm / EMS
FRST Festival, Visby Sweden / An almost abstract experience
Noche Blanca (Ai-Maako), Santiago de Chile / Dremen

2016.

UNDÆ! Radio Broadcast, Madrid / Éclats de Feux
Foldover Radio Broadcast, Oberlin Ohio / Éclats de Feux
Composition Residency, Stockholm / EMS
Acoustic Frontiers, Ottawa / Éclats de Feux
NWEAMO Festival, Tokyo Japan / Toreutique
EMUFest, Roma Italia / Éclats de Feux
Electric Sense, Toronto / Éclats de Feux
Artist Residency, Visby Sweden / VICC
Presentation at Concordia University, Montréal / Éclats de Feux
2nd place at JTTP / Éclats de Feux
Artist Residency, Mooste Estonia / MoKS
Miso Music, Lisbon Portugal / Éclats de Feux
Audiovisual Arts Festival, Corfu Greece / Éclats de Feux
Sound Junction, Sheffield UK / Éclats de Feux
The Lake Radio, Denmark / Wrathful Vine

2015.

Stage d’interprétation spatialisée, Musiques & Recherches, Ixelles, Belgium
Publication of Analyse d’ Espace / Escape, CIRCUIT Musiques Contemporaines,  UdeM
EMS Network conference in Sheffield / Organisation & performance of Wrathful Vine
Sound as Being, Lancaster University / Wrathful Vine
Places we go — Places we’re from (Transatlantic tour, NAISA) / Wrathful Vine
NYCEMF, New York / Wrathful Vine
Sonorities, Belfast / Dremen
MANTIS Festival + NAISA, Manchester UK / Wrathful Vine

2014.

Sound Junction, Sheffield UK / Dremen
NAISA SOUNDplay, Toronto / Wrathful Vine
Started PhD research at The University of Sheffield
The CSUF Festival and the World Electro-Acoustic Listening
Room (WEALR) / Bora & Wrathful Vine
OUVREZ GRAND VOS OREILLES, Saint-Laurent / Wrathful Vine

2013.

Master’s completed, prize with distinction: Conservatoire de musique de Montréal
Honorary Mention: Destellos / Toreutique
Liverpool, UK. Music since 1900 Conference / Bora
Composer’s Workshop Residency at NAISA: soundscape and coding with Barry Truax and David Ogborn
Toronto, CA. T.E.S. (Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium),
Sound Travels, Wireless9 / Bora Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Sonorities / Bora

2012.

CEC / Cache 2012 / Toreutique, released on compliation CD
Leeds, UK. iFIMPaC / Toreutique
Madrid, Spain. UNDÆ! / Toreutique

2011.

Santiago & Valdivia, Chile. Ai-Maako / Toreutique
Bachelor’s degree completed / Conservatoire de musique de Montréal