Michelle Helene Mackenzie is a Canadian writer, musician and artist born in Vancouver, the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She uses electronics, modular synths, field recordings, video, text, and archival research to explore sonic perception, ecological consciousness, and deep listening. This has culminated in site-specific sound installations, video, sound works, performances, and writing.

Mackenzie holds a BA (Honours) in Communication from Simon Fraser University, and pursued several years of graduate study in Duke University’s Program in Literature, supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship (2013–16). In her current PhD in Music at the University of California, San Diego, she explores approaches to and histories of electronic and experimental music practices, sound studies and the sonic arts.

Her work has been presented by INA-GRM (Paris), the Western Front (Vancouver), the Esker Foundation (Calgary), Kadist (San Francisco), the Qualcomm Institute (La Jolla), High Zero’s Diffusion festival (Baltimore), NTS Radio (London), Leaving Records (Los Angeles), the Hand (New York), SFU Galleries, the Vancouver Art Gallery and 221A (Vancouver), among others.

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