Gambletron
Education
Art career Universe - PHD in lol yeah right 2025
Concordia University – BA in creative writing- incomplete 1998
Residencies
2025 Fabrik Potsdam/ QALC residency with Nate Yaffe and Maxine Segalowitz
2025 Devenir(s) corps w/ Nate Yaffe and Maxine Segalowitz
2024 Kamloops Art Gallery, Kambloops BC w/ J. Forever, Zev Teifenbach
2022 Robin’s Nest, Witzenhausen, Germany
2021 Toni Onley Project, Island Mountain arts, Wells BC
2020/21 Caetani Centre- Self directed- Vernon, BC
2017 Murmers Residency- BetOnest Aug 21-31, Angermünde, Germany
2016 Oboro Gallery- October 27-Nov 4th, Montreal ,Quebec
Radius Chicago- Sept 4-11, Chicago/ Starved Rock State Park, ILL
Struts Gallery and Faucet media center Artist in Residence- June, Sackville NB
2015 Wave Farm Artist Residency- Sept 11-20th, Hudson NY
2014 If You Got Ears CKUT 90.3 – guest artist programmer- 1 month, Mtl QC
2013 Sophie Gips-Höfe Gallery, Residence Souterrain- one month, Berlin, DE
2009 Etoiles Polaires, Festival Artist in Residence- one week, Vooruit, Ghent BE-
1995 University of Haifa, Project Oren, Kibbutz Kfar Hannasi- 10 months, Palestine
Awards and Grants (selected)
2022 Canada Council for the arts - Research and Creation
2013/16/18/19 Canada Council for the Arts - Travel
2018/19/20 SOCAN - Various
2016/17/18 Quebec Council for the Arts- Travel
2015/16 Music Action Quebec - Recording
2015/19 GAMIQ Award Winner - Roots Album of the Year - Nomination for the same four years later
2013 Canada Council for the Arts - Relève en concert - Innovations en concert - Featured artist
2012 Objet Inusite, Eastern Bloc- Curation supported by Canada Council for the Arts
Publications, Videos, Curation
Improv Notes: August 2023- “Artist of the month” by Chris Worden, article
Canadian Art Magazine - “Gambletron” Feature by Yaniya Lee, Frequencies spring 2021, print
Sound Method Podcast - Interviewed about soundart by Noah Sniderman Podcast
Radius GROUND - Radius Chicago, art book publication 2018 book
Struts Gallery Catalogue - Struts Gallery residencies 2017, published 2018, Sackville, New Brunswick
Studios Lofts and Jam Spaces, MA tv, Juliet Lammers, tv series episode 6, featuring Johnny Forever and Gambletron, 2017 TV
Cracking the Waves, Lorrie Edmonds, short documentary on transmission arts as alternative media, 2016, Video
Making Waves: Gambletron Artist in Residence, Wavefarm, NY, video about my radio Theremin, posted on their website, 2015,
Eccentric Eclectic- Nika Belianina, Doc about EE Festival, spotlight performance, 2015 film
A City Is An Island- Timothy George Kelly, Interview, documentary about Montreal art/music scene 2014 film
Ride The Tempo-Tiana Feng, Review of the Wavelength performance 14/02/2014
Wavelength Blog- Gambletron: The WL14 Interview 5/42014 article
Blouin Art Info- Altered City Soundscapes at the Darling Foundry, Robyn Fadden, 26/07/13
Sound Design
2025 Poland In Quebec- Film Soundtrack- full length film/ Gallery installation
Kinga Michalka Sarah Chinoird-Pourier
2025 A Hard Garment-Dance- sound design/ composition/ live, Radeau Dance Natte Yaffe w/ Maxine Segalowitz
2024 I have Boundaries- Performance art- live sound, Johnny Forever 2024 45 Libraries- video soundtrack- Johnny Forever
2019 Studs- live sound for performance art-
2019 This Body Can't Be All There Is, Sound design for gallery LA, by Johnny Forever
2019 USC Roski Graduate Gallery, Los Angeles
2018 Unpacking The Living Room-Sound design/ composition/ live- Julie Hollenback
2018 Black Conflux- Music cues for film- Nicole Dorsey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRPxZa5iIBE
2014 L’hiver Inconsolable, Sountrack for short film by Shayo Detchema
https://www.givideo.org/products/lhiver-inconsolable
2015 Rusalka- Soundtrack for video
2016 Rusalka- theatre sound design- live sound
2014 Future Visions- composition for video segment- Coral Short Angela Gabereau 2012 In Succube- live improvisational sound and composition for theatre
w/Holly Guathier-Frankel and Andreane LeClerk, https://nadereartsvivants.com/en/insucube/
Discography (selected)
2026- Rae Spoon/ unreleased Coax Records
2026- Geoff Berner/ unreleased Coax Records
2024- Orkestar Kriminal/ Origionali CPL Music Group/ Coax Records
2021- Gambletron/ Coppice: AM Radio Theremin NAISA
2020 Orkestar Kriminal/ Razlomanye Coax Records
2019 Black Conflux/ soundtrack Independant
2018 Orkestar Kriminal/ Ryobra Coax Records
2017 The Last Walk/ Soundtrack Pipaluk K Jørgensen & Mikisoq H Lynge
2016 Radius Episode 5- Ether Underground Radius Chicago
Gambletron / Transperens Idle Chatter/ Fabrica Records
Nive Nielsen/ Feet First Glitterhouse Records
2015 Orkestar Kriminal/ Tummel Independent/ Sainte Cécile
2013 Orkestar Kriminal/ Zontani! L’bin! Levende! Independent
2014 L’hiver Inconsolable- Soundtrack Shayo Detchema
Carla Bozulich/ Boy Constellation Records
2013 [walnut + locust] 10th Anniversary Comop [walnut + locust]
2012 Lévitation Compilation Jeunesse Cosmique
Jen Reimer/ Max Stein- sound engineer Noisy Kitchen
Gambletron Noisy Kitchen
2010 Greg Holden with Tony Berg Zeitgeist Records
Matana Roberts/Coin Coin Chapter One Constellation Records
Clues/ Endless Forever 7” Constellation Records
2009 Nive Nielsen/Nive Sings! Tuttu/MTP/Rough Trade Europe/ Glitterhouse
Clues/Self Titled Constellation Records
Evangelista/Prince of Truth Constellation Records
2007 Evangelista/Hello Voyager Constellation Records
Performances, Exhibitions and Festivals (selected)
2025 Screaming At Walls- Gallery Produit Rien/ Suoni Per Il Popolo w/ jforever, O Rabba
2024 Diasporist Anchors for Future Memory- Kamloops Art Gallery w/ J.Forever, Z.Teifenbach
2023 Meet me at the woodshop- Suoni Per il Popolo- monteal, QC w/ J.Forever 2022 Principles of Enclosure- Lake Country Gallery- Lake country, BC w/ j.Forever
2022 Via Detour-Uber Umwege- group show for Documenta 22, kassel, Germany
2021 Thin Walls_Bad Internet: Bodies in Resonance- Undefine Radio Montreal, Collaboration online and live performance w/ J.Forever in both Montreal and Spaceless gallery, Vernon, BC
2020 Gambletron/Johnny Forever/ Zev Teifenbach- Caetani Art Center Gallery, art show
2020 Gambletron: Quarentine Concert- Experimental Sound Studio Chicago, live stream
2020 Gambletron: Acoustic Mirron 003- Acoustic Mirror Montreal, broadcast performance
2019 Rabbi Rosenberg’s Poland part 1- w/ J. Forever, Meinblau Projektraum, Berlin, Germany
Talk To Your Legal Limit- Encuentro, Hemispheric institute NYU, Mexico City,
collaboration with Johnny Forever
2018 For Which We Can Not Own- Nocturne Festival Halifax, performance collaboration with Leelee Oluwatoyosi Eko Davis and Dayna Danger, Alderny Landing Theatre, Dartmouth, NS
Unpacking The Living Room- MSVU Halifax, sound design for Julie Hollenbach performance
CIRCLES: “Forest Antenna” Chapter 2- Meinblau Projektraum, Berlin, Germany
Ether Underground- Radius Episode 75- Ny’s Museam of Art and Design, New York
2017 CIRCLES: Eminations - Festival International Music Actual, Victoriaville, Quebec
Truss- Miami Performance Art Festival, Miami Beach Florida 2016 Gambletron- Red Bull Music Academy: Drone Activity in Progress, Mtl, Qc
Spam-Social media fun house- HTMLLES- Oboro/ Studio XX, Montreal, Quebec
Ether Underground- Radius Episode 75- Starved Rock State Park/ Chicago, Illinois
Stirring: Transmission- Encuentro 2016- Hemispheric Institute NY, Santiago, Chile
2015 Siren Drone Oscillation: multi tonal AM radio Theremin- Groundswell, Hudson, NY
40 radio Am multi tonal Theremin with transmission performance, Olana state historic site
Radio Floatilla- Camp Wavelengths, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto, Ontario
Floating FM transmission performance on Lake Ontario with Johnny Forever
Noise Karaoke- Electric Eclectics, Meaford, Ontario
Rusalka - Rhubarb Festival, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre Toronto, Ontario
Performance with video projection and radio theremin with Johnny Forever
2014 Rusalka - Electric Eclectics, Meaford Ontario
Rusalka 1- Wavelengths Festival- Polish Combatant Hall, Toronto, Ontario
2013 Radio Foam Machine- Phenomenon Festival, Bain St. Michel, Montreal, Quebec
Performance collaboration with Emily Pelstring, Johnny Nawracaj, Sophia Starosta,
Radio Oscillations- Electric Eclectics Festival, Meaford, Ontario
Outdoor performance with seven radio Theremins and electronic musical saw
Radio Oscillations- Place Public Performance II, Darling Foundry, Montréal, QC
Outdoor installation performance with thirteen oscillating radios, electronic musical saw and circuit bent items
Noise Karaoke- Megapolis Audio Festival, Drom, New York, NY
Interactive experimental noise karaoke performance
2012 Objet Inusité- Eastern Bloc, Montréal, QC
Solo bike wheel performance with FM transmission/ Curator
Field Trip- HTMLLES, Studio XX, Montréal, QC
Roaming mobile radio performance through the Montreal metro system
In Succube- Edgy Woman’s Festival, Studio 303, Sala Rosa, Montréal, QC
New media composition and performance for theatre piece w/ Holly Guathier-Frankel
and Andreane LeClerk
2011 Gambletron- Placard Headphone Festival, Eastern Bloc, Montréal QC
Noise Karaoke- Donau Festival, Krems, Austria
Interactive new media experimental karaoke performance
Soundtracks- Suoni per Il Popolo Festival, Sala Rosa, Montréal QC
Curator and Participant in a night of new visual works paired with live improvised soundtracks
Collaboration Performances and Festivals (selected)
2025 Crossing Boarders Festival- Antwerp and Den Hauge, Mashid Mohadjerin & Jan DeVroede
2025 Gawa fest- Saint Nazaire Quebec w/ Orkestar Kriminal
2023 Suoni Music Festival- Sala Rosa, Montreal w/ Matana Roberts
2023 Suoni Music Festival- Tom Tom Film- Production w/ Julie Richard/ j.Nawracaj
2020 Dawson City Music Festival-w.Orkestar Kriminal
2017 SXSW Festival, Austin Tx—w/ Orkestar Kriminal
2016 Festival Music du Bout du Monde, Sherbrook Quebec- w/ Orkestar Kriminal
2015 Toronto Luminato Festival- w/ Orkestar Kriminal
2014 Festival Soy, Nantes, France- w/ Carla Bozulich
Kexoxen, Tenerife, Canary Islands- w/ Carla Bozulich
2013 Alianait Arts Festival, Iqualuit, NU- w/ Nive Nielsen
2012 28e International Festival de musique Actuelle de Victoriaville- w/ Matana Roberts 2011 Drones/ Revelations by Richard Parry (arcade fire), Montréal QC- Technical director
Roskilde Festival, Copenhagen DE- Nive Nielsen and the Deer Children
SXSW Music Festival, Austin TX- Nive Nielsen and the Deer Children
Tothem, Trois Rivieres QC- Hrsta
2010 Greenland Festival, Tivoli, Copenhagen DE- Nive Nielsen and the Deer Children Dunk Festival, Zottegem BE- Hrsta
Coin Coin, Hotel2Tango Live Recording, Montréal QC- Matana Roberts Coin Coin, La Brique Ample, Montréal QC- Matana Roberts 2009 Festival de Musique Emergent en Abitibi-Temiscamingue, QC- Clues
Etoilles Polaires Festival, Vooruit, Ghent BE- Hrsta
Le Guess Who Festival, Ekko, Utrect NE- Clues & Hrsta
2008 Issue Project Room, NYC NY- Evangelista
Suoni per Il Popolo, La Sala Rosa, Montréal QC- Evangelista & Nels Cline
Teaching/ Workshop Instruction
2022 University of Southern California, Roski, Artist talk Class instructor
2016 Strutts, Sackville NB Am radio Theremin workshop
2016 Struts & Faucet, Sackville NB Am radio Theremin workshop
2015 Arsenal Montreal, In collaboration with Eastern Bloc- Circuit Bending Workshop, leader
Art Space Peterborough/ Eastern Bloc Mtl, Narcissist Redeemed,
Telematic performance curation and workshop
2011 Pop Montréal, Noisy Kitchen, Kids Pop, Instrument making and Circuit bending
Jeunesse 2000, Improvisation, Community and Social Practice (ICASP), Instructor Alberta School Board, Noisy Kitchen, Hanna Elementary School, Hanna AB
2010 Nuit Sonores Festival, Circuit Bending Workshop, Lyon FR
2008-2010 Pop Montréal, Symposium, Circuit Bending
2008 Suoni per Il Popolo, “Kids Rock” workshop, Montreal
Jeanne Mance Street Fair, Kids Improv, Montreal
2003-2006 Camp Kinneret, Improvisation and Creative Instructor, Tremblant, QC 2004 Montréal English School Board, Options 1, Art Class Coordinator/Teacher,
Curation
2013 Geothe Institute- Nuit Blance/ Montréal Soundmap w/ Jen Reimer/ Max Stien
2012 Eastern Bloc - Objet Inusité, International art summit of sonic object performance 2011 Suoni Per Il Popolo, “Soundtracks”- improv music w/ visuals, Montréal
1990-present Gambletron Presents, concert series, Montréal- site specific performance