Deighan Morrison is a Toronto-based composer, sound artist, and sound designer who works with field recording, multichannel composition, interactive media, and sound installation. His work explores listening as a way of encountering systems and relationships that are often difficult to perceive, including subtle ecological processes and the ways individual sounds accumulate and interact within a larger environment.
His sound art and media work has been presented by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA), Digital Arts Resource Centre (DARC), and VSVSVS. Deighan also edits, mixes, and composes for independent film, including documentary, short, and feature-length work. His audio work has contributed to award-winning films and projects presented at festivals and industry programs including the Vancouver Queer Film Festival and Cannes Docs at the Marché du Film. He produces ambient and experimental music under the name Cape Moss and has performed as a musician at POP Montreal and OXW.
Deighan holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Ottawa, where he studied international studies, modern languages, and linguistics, as well as a Diploma in Music Industry Arts from Algonquin College and a Postgraduate Certificate in Sound Design and Production from George Brown College.
I use listening as a way of exploring systems, environments, and relationships that are often difficult to perceive. Working with field recording, synthesis, and interactive media, I create immersive settings that draw attention to the ways sounds interact and shape our perception of an environment.
Much of my work is informed by an interest in ecology and the natural world. I use field recordings alongside synthesis, digital processing, and spatial sound to explore natural processes that might otherwise go unnoticed. I am interested in altering and positioning these sounds to reveal details and relationships within the environments around us.
Deighan Morrison is a Toronto-based composer, sound artist, and sound designer who works with field recording, multichannel composition, interactive media, and sound installation. His work explores listening as a way of encountering systems and relationships that are often difficult to perceive, including subtle ecological processes and the ways individual sounds accumulate and interact within a larger environment.
His sound art and media work has been presented by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA), Digital Arts Resource Centre (DARC), and VSVSVS. Deighan also edits, mixes, and composes for independent film, including documentary, short, and feature-length work. His audio work has contributed to award-winning films and projects presented at festivals and industry programs including the Vancouver Queer Film Festival and Cannes Docs at the Marché du Film. He produces ambient and experimental music under the name Cape Moss and has performed as a musician at POP Montreal and OXW.
Deighan holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Ottawa, where he studied international studies, modern languages, and linguistics, as well as a Diploma in Music Industry Arts from Algonquin College and a Postgraduate Certificate in Sound Design and Production from George Brown College.
I use listening as a way of exploring systems, environments, and relationships that are often difficult to perceive. Working with field recording, synthesis, and interactive media, I create immersive settings that draw attention to the ways sounds interact and shape our perception of an environment.
Much of my work is informed by an interest in ecology and the natural world. I use field recordings alongside synthesis, digital processing, and spatial sound to explore natural processes that might otherwise go unnoticed. I am interested in altering and positioning these sounds to reveal details and relationships within the environments around us.