Aysha Dulong is a composer, performer and improviser who lives, works and creates on the unceded, ancestral lands of the Coast Salish People, specifically the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations. They focus on composing for amplified instruments and electronics, as well as using live processing and sampling as tools to explore structured improvisation within a composed piece. They have sound-to-colour synaesthesia, and have recently been exploring the impact that this has on their practice, specifically in their recent work titled Pastel Places, for violin and electronics, which they premiered in 2019 at the Music + Sound Festival presented by Simon Fraser University’s School for Contemporary Arts. Other recent projects include releasing a debut album with their hybrid composer/performer band Alien Pod titled Merchants of Venus, in the spring of 2020, and composing new works for workshops such as a hybrid music workshop presented by experimental percussion and saxophone duo Scapegoat and Mauricio Pauly at Western Front (2020). Aysha currently studies acoustic and electroacoustic music composition at Simon Fraser University’s School for Contemporary Arts with Mauricio Pauly and Sabrina Schroeder.
