Nancy Tam
Performing Sound Designer, Composer, Sound Editor
Sound Artist, Nancy Tam, works and lives on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Her work fuses sound and performance as primary media for collaboratively devised interdisciplinary performances. She specializes in live spatialized multi-channel sound performance for live and fixed media. Her current research triangulates between sound, space, and body to investigate tendencies of global and local mobilization of creatures, objects, and events. Nancy has a penchant toward listening to quiet sounds. Her work is form-bending and dramaturgically rigorous, often employing task-based performance to bringing the background to the forefront in creating immersive scenographic environments. Nancy is a founding member of the Vancouver-based interdisciplinary performance collective A Wake of Vultures as well as the Toronto-based Toy Piano Composers collective. Nancy is an award-winning composer. Her compositions, audio walks, performances, and collaborations have toured in Germany, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, Norway, Hong Kong, the U.S. and throughout Canada.