Magazinist is an experimental sound art duo whose compositions make use of found sources and materially-driven processes. Their projects attempt, through acts of collage and archival intervention, to make intangible landscapes of media hearable, seeable, and feelable. Combining analog synthesis, digital sampling, and hand-built instrumentation, Magazinist conducts extended sonic studies in the form of immersive installations and multimedia performances.
Matthew Tomkinson is a composer and sound designer for theatre, film, and contemporary dance. His practice centres around constraint-based composition, creative misuse, and the exploration of threshold phenomena. His debut audiovisual album as Mathoms, The Woe Trumpets, is out with Decaying Spheres, along with an accompanying film that has been presented at Sound Scene Festival (Washington, USA) and Chapeltown Picture House (Manchester, UK). He holds a PhD in Theatre Studies from the University of British Columbia, where he studied sound within the Deaf, Disability, and Mad arts.
Matthew's scores have been presented widely at CBC, VIFF, PuSh, VIDF, New Forms, Dance in Vancouver, Tanzmesse, Vines Art Festival, Dancing on the Edge, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, and more. Recent collaborators and commissions include Ballet BC, Company 605, Ace Co Pro, Kinesis Somatheatro, Eric Cheung, and the All Bodies Dance Project.
Andy Zuliani is a media artist working at the zones of overlap between electro-acoustic music, video, and text. His work explores collective practices of healing and care, but also the vulnerability of these practices to exploitation and perversion; in doing so, he makes use of an eclectic range of methods and technologies, including modular synthesis, web art, narrative collage, and archival intervention. He is a doctoral student at New York University, where he researches aesthetics of flatness in visual art and literature, and teaches writing at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
Andy's work has been exhibited by VIVO Media Arts Society, Grunt Gallery, and StretchMetal, and at the Active Passive and Vines festivals, and will be appearing at the Public Access Memories pavilion at the 2024 Wrong Biennale. His video work is represented by Video Out Distribution, and has been supported by grants from the Canada Council for the Arts.Magazinist is based in Vancouver, on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.