dssPow
(SETH POWER) (he, him)
Multidisciplinary Artist · Sound Artist · Audio Technician
Toronto / T’karonto, Canada
dsethpower@gmail.com · dsspow.com
SOUND / PERFORMANCE / COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE
Brown Dolly - Interdisciplinary collaboration with Lucía Rojas working across improvisation, sound, electronics, voice, field recording, moving image, performance, and installation.
2026 - Tranzac Southern Cross Residency, Tranzac Club, Toronto - Monthly Brown Dolly performance residency with invited interdisciplinary collaborators.
2026 - Sweet Noises in the Field Music Festival, Ontario - Brown Dolly performance.
2026 - Silt, Tuya Vale, Winchester Dance Theatre, Toronto - Brown Dolly performance with dancer Victoria Mata.
2026 - Colombian Collaborations Vol. 1: Chapinero - Brown Dolly Album - Research/creation and recording mixing - with Camila Mila, Bogotá, Colombia.
2026 - Colombian Collaborations Vol. 2: La Finca - Brown Dolly Album - Research/creation/recording/mixing with Rosina Kazi and Milena Geary, El Rosal, Colombia.
2026 - Colombian Collaborations Vol. 3: Avenida Chile - Brown Dolly Album - Research/creation/mixing/recording with Juliana Borrero, Bogotá / Toronto.
2024 - De Que Callada Manera - Brown Dolly improvised album.
2020 - The Last Wickie - Brown Dolly improvised album.
SELECTED SOLO SOUND WORK - dssPow
2025 - Blue Monserrate - Electroacoustic work combining field recordings from Australia and Bogotá for the Cities and Memory project.
2021 - Added Value Transit - Electroacoustic work combining a St. Petersburg metro recording with global environmental recordings for the Cities and Memory project.
2020 - I Can’t Get Her to Sleep - Extended work combining found environmental recordings, electronics, and acoustic instruments.
2010 - Space Skiing - Experimental pop album, Beans The Wing.
SELECTED ARTISTIC / AUDIOVISUAL WORK
2024 - Mending the Cracks: Geographies of Repair, Arcadia Art Gallery, Toronto - Collaborative multimedia exhibition with Lucía Rojas / Brown Dolly; curated by Alexandra Gelis. Mixed-media works, video/sound installation, and live performance.
2023 - Enlazadas Cocoon, CAMINOS Festival / Aluna Theatre, Toronto - Composition and audio production for multidisciplinary installation by Diana Lopez and Victoria Mata.
2019 - present - Slow TV - Ongoing atmospheric moving-image works focused on specific locations.
2023 - Enlazadas - Location sound for dance/performance and moving-image project by Victoria Mata and Diana Lopez.
SELECTED AUDIO / TECHNICAL PRACTICE
2022 - present - Vintage Voices — Audio Mastering / Technical Support (powerSound) for Laura Gillis’s community radio project amplifying the voices of people living in long-term care. Residents become guest DJs, sharing music, memories, and reflections in short radio episodes broadcast on CIUT 89.5 FM
2014 present - Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Toronto - Audio Technician - Audio and technical support for museum programs, events, and public-facing productions.
2026 - Y Jazzophine, Live Album - Live mixing and recording.
In production - Voces del Río, Colombia - Boom Operator / Location Mixer.
In production - The Infinite Mirror - Boom Operator / Location Mixer / Post-production.
2016 - present - Selected film, performance, and music projects - Location recording, live sound, mixing, mastering, post-production, ADR, and boom operation across independent film, music, performance, and moving-image work.
EDUCATION
Acadia University - B.A. Music Technology, 2009
New Media Lab Manager · School of Music Recording Technician