Nicole Marchesseau’s artistic and research practices explore spaces of process, method, and materiality. Her solo and multimedia collaborative artistic work has been featured in North America and overseas. Publications have ranged from topics exploring Surrealism and music, to Jandek, to the liminal spaces of Toronto’s Do-It-Yourself music scene. She has taught at Western and McMaster Universities and is currently working towards a PhD in Social Anthropology at York University, where she also completed a doctorate in music.
Sound braid (Luisa Isidro Herrera, Nicole Marchesseau, Johann Sander Puustusmaa, Pablo D. Herrera Veitia) is an exploration of collaborative listening and sonic conversations, a convergence of events that hop on and off the web platform with the hopes of sparking discussion, remixing, and moving through and with bodies in various ways. Sound braid is a non-institutionally sanctioned space and side-project meant for collaboration, inhabitation, and disruption. A mutable platform subject to change and revision, the sound braid website invites sounds that move, simmer, or ignite discussions. It aims to engage with experimental forms and to create rather than reproduce, to shape ecologies rather than libraries. This site may include or prompt non-performed or unexceptional sounds, dedramatized silences, quotidian dins, or failures.
