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Malte Leander , Co-director & Program Developer
Malte Leander is a Swedish-French multidisciplinary artist currently residing in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Canada. Primarily working in sound and performance, his sonic explorations and artistic research often revolve around various natural environments, from urban spaces to coastlines and ocean ecology. He seeks to engage audiences through multisensory exploration around the topics of non-anthropocentric listening, deep listening practices, soundwalks and soundscape composition.
In this approach around ecologies, Malte explores shifts of perspectives when interactions and overlaps between the human and the more-than-human occur, serving to challenge the understanding of timescales and hierarchies across this spectrum. Malte also combines his compositional practice with experimental analog video production and DIY electronic projects in both installation and live performance. As an active musician, Malte presents improvised solo-performances combining field-recordings and voice, as a member in the audiovisual collective Trajectories, or frequently alongside longterm collaborator Valentina Plata.
Malte also works within a number of community-oriented initiatives and projects. Throughout his work with various collectives, non-profit organizations and art institutions, he has taken on roles such as programming coordinator, podcast host, audiovisual tech and project manager when organizing large scale events such as a two-day mini-festival, a songwriting camp, and an international sound artist residency exchange, to mention a few. Since July 2026, he is also the co-director of CNMN. His creative efforts across disciplines and communities have led him to present artworks and organize various projects in both Canada and internationally, spanning across Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Cuba, Mexico, Japan and the United States.
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Terri Hron , Sustainable Futures Project Lead
Terri Hron is a musician, a performer and a multimedia artist. Her work explores historical performance practice, field recording, invented ceramic instruments and videoscores. She often works in close collaboration with others. Besides composing and performing works for and with others, she produces performances, gatherings and events. Terri studied musicology and art history at the University of Alberta, historical and contemporary performance at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and electroacoustic composition at the Université de Montréal. Her research focuses on collaborative practice and scoring in multimedia performance art. She was a Visiting Scholar at Wesleyan University, former Executive Director of the Canadian New Music Network, where she has developed programs focusing on pluralism and sustainability, and is now the editor and general manager of (Circuit, musiques contemporaines). Recent collaborators include Monty Adkins, Paula Matthusen, Helen Pridmore and Jennifer Beattie (Out Loud), Katelyn Clark, Jennifer Thiessen and Myriam Boucher (Medusa Selfie), François Houle, Giorgio Magnanensi, Susanne Fröhlich, and Charlotte Hug. Latest commissions include Ensemble Paramirabó, GreyWing Ensemble, Dead of Night, Splinter Reeds and Ensemble Supermusique.
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Louise Campbell , Project Manager
Louise Campbell is a Montreal-based musician whose professional hats range from clarinettist to conductor, participatory arts facilitator to cultural mediator. As a performer-composer and improviser, Louise seeks to interrogate and renew the ways in which we make music by creating new works with everyone, regardless of age, ability, level of prior experience, or training. Her specializations include improvisation and creation with untrained (aka ‘amateur’) musicians, improvised conducting, cross-disciplinary creation, collaborative processes, and public engagement. She has toured as a performer, guest artist, and lecturer of improvised and composed musics across Canada, the US, France, Germany, and Brazil.
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Aurore Blondelot , Communications
Aurore is a trilingual (French/English/German) event and cultural communications consultant, based in Montréal (unceded lands Tiohtià:ke). A graduate with a Master’s degree in both Art History and Cultural Communications, she later specialized in writing (for print and the web) and PR Consultation (both internal and external).
Passionate about the arts and culture, she has over 10 years experience in cultural communications, marketing and event management, in addition to specializing in the fields of tourism and the environment. Aurore has worked for museums, art galleries, art centers, and tourist information centers; for associations, public relations agencies, and even for joint-governmental and international organizations.
With a diploma in musical studies in piano and musical training and a certificate in musicology from the University of Berkeley, California, Aurore has developed her services in Canada with stakeholders, producers and presenters of music and digital arts.