British Columbia, Canada

Sound Art, New Music, New Media

Statement of Identity as a Woman and as an Artist:

Female, girl, daughter, grand-daughter, niece, aunt, mother, great-aunt, woman. Identity … My passed – down family name could be Lillidottr. Or Persson. Ancestral hopes for Daughter and Son both reside in me, and have that dance together of giving and receiving, nurturing and expressing, holding form and going forth.

Where my art leads me is to sound; sensing it, hearing it, being inside it, wanting to know how it works, sounding with it, becoming it, and becoming through it. My art leads me also to music, another story perhaps, hearing it, sensing it, sounding it, playing it, creating within it, being moved by it. In my art in sound and in music, there is a third story; that of being and connecting with others; how, why, and where that happens compels and motivates me. I investigate, compose, collaborate, perform, improvise, listen. I also instigate, curate and organize sound and music events, give workshops, and sometimes write about sound and music.

I am a member of the electroacoustic ensemble LaSam, a solo and ensemble improvisor (flute, voice, electronics and other things), and the New Music curator at Open Space Art Gallery in Victoria, Canada.

I am participating in the Residency as both Tina Pearson and Humming Pera, my avatar in the virtual reality platform Second Life. As Humming Pera, I am a composer and performer with the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse, an international group of artists connecting virtually to investigate and create new forms for sound and visual works made possible with this way of connecting.