Michael Trommer BFA, MFA, PhD

Michael Trommer is a Toronto-based producer, sound designer, and sound artist; his experimental work has been focused primarily on psychogeographical and acoustemological explorations via the use of field recordings, infra- and ultrasound, as well as multi-channel installation and expanded video techniques.

He has released material on an unusually diverse roster of labels, both under his own name as well as 'sans soleil'. These include Transmat, Wave, Ultra-red, and/OAR, Audiobulb, Audio Gourmet, Gruenrekorder, Impulsive Habitat, Stasisfield, Serein, Flaming Pines, 3leaves, Unfathomless, and con-v. His audio-visual installation work has been exhibited at Australia’s ‘Liquid Architecture’ festival, Kunsthalle Schirn in Frankfurt, Cordoba’s art: tech and Köln’s soundLAB, among others.

Michael has performed extensively in North America, Europe, and Asia, including events with members of Berlin's raster-noton collective, as well as the 2008 and 2013 editions of Mutek's acclaimed a/visions series. He also regularly improvises with Toronto-based AI audio-visual collective 'i/o media'.

His sound design work encompasses composition, audio branding, installation and VR audio for clients such as Moment Factory, Intel, and Yahoo, as well as soundtrack and production development for a variety of international cinema, dance and installation artists.

In addition to teaching sound design at George Brown, he also a professor of English, sound design and design at OCAD University, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Cinema and Media Arts at York University.