Erin Gee

Bio

Erin Gee is a Canadian artist, composer, and assistant professor in the Faculty of Music at the Université de Montréal. Her research investigates the intersection of voice, physiology, and technology through feminist and queer perspectives, using affective biofeedback, vocal performance, and emerging technologies to interrogate the boundaries between nature, technology, sincerity, insincerity, perception and sensation. Her approach to biofeedback music intentionally incorporates the human body into the biofeedback apparatus of software and hardware through the concept of wetware, using sound and performance to compose the body and expand zones of listening torwards affect itself. Her musical work draws on ASMR, hypnosis, clinical psychology, New Age thought and the placebo effect in combination with electroacoustic orchestration. In 2023, she was awarded Best Paper at NIME for her research on biofeedback instruments and feminist theory. Gee’s research-creation has been presented internationally at venues such as Ars Electronica, MUTEK festival, the Toronto Biennale, the Karachi Biennale, and ISEA Barcelona (2022). Her work is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Conseil des arts de Montréal.