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Ben Finley, Creative Director of the Performer Composer Residency
Guelph, ON, Canada
Ben Finley is a performer-composer specializing in acoustic bass and electric bass (in multiple tunings and with effects).
annais linares, Co-Facilitator
Guelph, ON, Canada
Raised in the Coachella Valley, annais linares is a Residency Facilitator of Westben's Performer-Composer Residency. Sonically, she is a vocalist, improviser, and collaborator. She is currently working on co-creating musical playground installations.
Davy Sumner, Co-Facilitator
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Davy Sumner is a Residency Facilitator of Westben’s Performer-Composer Residency. He is also an installation artist, composer, improviser, and Maker based in Los Angeles
Sarah Belle Reid, Co-Facilitator
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sarah Belle Reid is a Residency Facilitator of Westben’s Performer-Composer Residency. She is a Canadian performer-composer, active in the fields of electroacoustic trumpet performance, intermedia arts, music technology, and improvisation
Luke Williams, Digital Venue Architect
Buffalo, NY, USA
Luke is the designer of the new Westben Digital Venue. Luke is an endlessly curious musician and creative coder. His work is playful and play-full, spanning games, sound tools, data visualization, and browser art.
Gao Yujie, Creative Support aka Cyborg Gardener
Kelowna, BC, Canada
Gao Yujie is a media artist and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of British Columbia. Her generative participatory performance work studies the materiality of duration and explores the elasticity of space and time in rule-based interactive environments.