Born in Montréal, Que.
Lives and works in San Francisco, CA.
Selected Recordings: Solo
2017 Deface, Failing Forms
2017 Wait Until the Crowd Cries, Failing Forms
2017 As If We Were Never Here, Dragon’s Eye Recordings
2016 00, Failing Forms
2016 Laughter Cult, Failing Forms
2016 Despairer, Failing Forms
2015 File: #08, Computer Tapes
2014 Ink (as Never Knows), Sleep Genius
2013 Still Life (as Never Knows), Sleep Genius
2012 Untitled 25 (as Never Knows), Untitled & After
2012 Process Part 315 (Nostalgia) (as Never Knows), Modyfier-Modifying
2012 Spell Tomorrow (as Never Knows), Trip Show
2012 The Fate Tape Fait Tapé (as Never Knows), Break Up
2009 Untitled 08 (as Silencefiction), Untitled & After
2009 Untitled 04 (as Silencefiction), Untitled & After
Selected Recordings: Compilation
2017 Air Texture Vol. V, Air Texture
2017 Steel, Dragon’s Eye Recordings
Selected Recordings: Collaborative
2021 Afterlife (with Driftloss)
2021 Driftloss (with Driftloss)
2020 The Plague Hymns (with My Heart, an Inverted Flame), The Daft Alliance
2020 PSI-SOLATION (with My Heart, an Inverted Flame), Celebrate Psy Phenomenon
2021 Plague Notes, Unnamed, Unknown, A Finger Dragged Through Dust (with My Heart, an Inverted Flame) zum, tumult, Deathbomb Arc
2016 Languished (Marc Kate Remix), Jacktone
2013 Untitled 26 (feat Qzen), Untitled & After
2012 Untitled 25 (feat Jupiter), Untitled & After
2012 Untitled 24 (as Never Knows feat. Kevin Knapp), Untitled & After
2012 Same Mistakes (as Never Knows), Treehouse Muzique
2010 Untitled 19 (as Land Sound), Untitled & After
2010 Brotherhood (as Husband with Pee Play), HNYTRX
2009 Untitled 06 (as Land Sound), Untitled & After
2009 Lipstique Remixes (feat Fauxnique), Loöq Records
2009 Untitled 03 (as Land Sound), Untitled & After
2009 Untitled 02 (as Land Sound), Untitled & After
2008 A Light Awake Inside (with Vinsantos), CD Baby
2008 Lipstique (feat Fauxnique), Loöq Records
2008 Untitled 01 (as Land Sound), Untitled & After
2006 The Former Gender (as Evolution Rainbow), XXY Recordings
2005 Idol Worship (with Peaches Christ), Backlash
2003 The King Is Dead (with Ghost Orchids), Princehouse Records
2003 Split 12” (with Ghost Orchids), Global Symphonic
2002 Shown Actual Size (with I Am Spoonbender), Gold Standard Laboratories
2000 Teletwin (with I Am Spoonbender), Mint Records
Selected Performances: Solo & Collaborative
2019 Eternal (excerpt), San Francisco Electronic Music Festival (San Francisco, CA)
2018 Girl, Fauxnique & Marc Kate
Joe Goode Annex (San Francisco, CA)
2018 Adobe (San Francisco, CA)
2017 Bombs Away Cafe (Corvallis, OR)
2017 Cryptotropa (Olympia, WA)
2017 Gallery 1412 (Seattle, WA)
2017 “Quiet City” Selectors Records (Vancouver, B.C.)
2017 The Lido (Vancouver, B.C.)
2017 Gallery 1412 (Seattle, WA)
2017 The Lovecraft (Portland, OR)
2017 Complex (Glendale, CA)
2016 Nihil, Land and Sea (Oakland, CA)
2016 Unseen, Gray Area (San Francisco, CA)
2016 Trans-Pecos (Queens, NY)
2016 Spektrum (Berlin)
2016 Hemlock (San Francisco, CA)
2015 with Jonah Sharp, Life Changing Ministry (Oakland, CA)
2015 Life Changing Ministry (Oakland, CA)
2015 Mata Noise (Los Angeles, CA)
2015 Life Changing Ministry (Oakland, CA)
2015 Second Act (San Francisco, CA)
2014 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA)
Scores for Dance/Performance/video/film
2020 Häxan: or Witchcraft Through the Ages, The Unsound Orchestra
The Balboa Theater (San Francisco, CA)
2020 Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani, film
2019 Antifascist Meditation, Keith Hennessy
Tanzkongress (Dresden, Germany)
2019 Queent, Fauxnique & Vivvyanne Forevermore
CounterPulse (San Francisco, CA)
2018 Girl, Fauxnique & Marc Kate
Joe Goode Annex (San Francisco, CA)
2018 Leaning Out – An Intimate Look at Twin Towers Engineer Leslie E Robertson, film
2018 Stateless FOR-SITE Foundation
Fort Mason Chapel (San Francisco, CA)
2018 Sink, Keith Hennessy / Circo Zero
Joe Goode Annex (San Francisco, CA) & Lion’s Jaw (Boston, MA)
2017 Safely, Brendan Fernandes, FOR-SITE Foundation
Fort Mason Chapel (San Francisco, CA)
2016 Critical Joy, Keith Hennessy & Peaches
ImPulsTanz, (Vienna)
2016 DUAL / DUEL, Lluis Corujo Besga and Andrea Cammarosano, video
2016 I just wanna fuckin’ dance, Kiriakos Hadjiioannou
Réunion (Zürich)
2015 Real Future of Sound Real Future of Sound Fair
San Francisco, CA
2010 All About Evil, Peaches Christ director, film
2010 A Glamour, Monique Jenkinson choreographer, video
2008 Heroic Comportment, Monique Jenkinson
de Young Museum (San Francisco, CA)
2005 American Tweaker, Keith Hennessy / Circo Zero
Les Laboratoires (Paris), Les Subsistances (Lyon), Dance Mission (San Francisco)
2004 Mercy, Keith Hennessy / Circo Zero
Dance Mission (San Francisco, CA) Living Arts (Tulsa, OK)
Curatorial Projects
2018 Stateless FOR-SITE Foundation
Fort Mason Chapel (San Francisco, CA)
2015 Operators2
The Finn Mansion, (San Francisco, CA)
2014 Operators
CounterPulse (San Francisco, CA)
2013 Past Protocol Preservation Society: Session One
Amnesia (San Francisco, CA)
2008 – 2013 Untitled & After, record label
Residencies & Grants
2019 – 2020 Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, Incubator Member (San Francisco, CA)
2018 Kenneth Rainin Foundation
2018 Zellerbach Family Foundation
2016 Land and Sea residency (Oakland, CA)
2016 Tanzhaus Zürich residency (Zürich)
Speaking Engagements & Teaching
2020 Start Your Podcast Now!
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (San Francisco, CA)
2020 Gray Area Incubator Artist Salon
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (San Francisco, CA)
2017 Don Buchla Memorial Panel
Don Buchla Memorial Concerts
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (San Francisco, CA)
2017 Why We Listen with Nayland Blake
VOLUME and ICA LA
Cooper Design Space (Los Angeles, CA)
2017 ‘It’ panel
Scary Thoughts
Borderlands Books (San Francisco, CA)
2017 Introduction to Sonic Arts, guest instructor
UC Davis (Davis, CA)
2016 33 1/3rd series discussion (with Geeta Dayal & Erik Davis)
Adobe, (San Francisco, CA)
2016 33 1/3rd series discussion (with Evie Nagy & Marc Weidenbaum)
Adobe, (San Francisco, CA)
Installation
2016 Still, audio tour for Clyfford Still room
SFMOMA (San Francisco, CA)
2014 Dome, Bay Area Now 7
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA)
2013 Parenthetics
Public Works (San Francisco, CA)
Selected Bibliography
Oct 17, 2019 “In the Dust of this Planet” Literary Libations Podcast
Jan 19, 2019 “67” Topazu, Infinite Beat Podcast
Oct 12, 2018 interview, Jen Chien, Sights & Sounds, KALW
Oct 11, 2018 “Unique Fauxnique”, Peter Lawrence Kane, SF Weekly
Nov 9, 2017 “Scary Thoughts” Erik Davis, Expanding Mind Podcast
Oct/Nov 2017 “The Best New Ambient Music on Bandcamp” Bandcamp Daily
Oct 28, 2017 “As If We Were Never Here” Kevin Press, Badd Press
Oct 20, 2017 “Ghost Stories Part III” Kylie Burbank, KMUZ
Oct 18, 2017 interview, Vito Camarretta, Chain D.L.K.
Oct 3, 2017 “Deface” Mischa Mathys, The Formant
Feb 2, 2017 “Mix no. 21” BLACK YO)))GA
Dec 29, 2016 “Review of 00” Steve Mecca. Chain D.L.K.
July 12, 2016 “Complicit Listening” Forestpunk.
May 1, 2016 “Despairer” Guillermo Escudero, Loop.
April 12, 2016 “Torpor begets tumult” Andee Connors, Pandora.
April 03, 2016 “Elections Shmelections, or Where is the Political?”
Daniel Coffeen, An Emphatic Umph.
March 31, 2016 “Under Review” Andy French, Raven Sings The Blues.
March 29, 2016 “The hidden reality of Despairer” Mischa Mathys, The Formant.
March 23, 2016 “Notable Local Records” Chris Zaldua, SF Weekly.
Jan 21, 2016 “Hear an epic three-hour version of David Bowie’s Low”
Parker Freeman, FACT.
Jan 21, 2016 “Ce remix ambient des onze morceaux de Low de David Bowie
en même temps sonne exactement comme l’idée qu’on se fait du bruit d’une
étoile en train de mourir” The Drone
Oct 2, 2015 “Marc Kate is so interesting…” Calm Down Queen Podcast
Aug 15, 2015 performance/interview, Elevation Through Sound, dublab.com
May 23, 2015 “Review of File #08” Aquarius Records.
May 9, 2015 Interview, Temple of Dreams Podcast.
Publications
2016 “Nihil” Land and Sea Editions (Oakland, CA)
Podcasts
2016-present Scary Thoughts, co-host/producer
2012-present Why We Listen, host/producer
Education
1997-1998 Master of Fine Arts Candidate California Institute of the Arts
1995 Bachelor of Fine Arts, New Genres San Francisco Art Institute
1992 Certificate of Recommendation, Filmmaking Vancouver Film School