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new media + sound + performance artist
&noise enthusiast
Miranda Firmston is an interdisciplinary media artist based in Vancouver, BC, on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples. Working across sound, new media, and performance, they build interactive instruments and responsive systems that explore touch, gesture, and bodily presence in technologically mediated environments. Rooted in the ethos of poetic computation, their practice approaches digital systems as sites for expressive experimentation, focusing on instability, fragmentation, and dis/embodied meaning.
Miranda maintains an experimental sound practice parallel to their media and performance work, releasing solo works under the name Pet. Grounded in the manipulation of found sounds and field recordings, their sound work typically stands alone as installation, composition, or recorded piece, and occasionally as compositions for visual media.
Miranda is currently completing a BMA in New Media + Sound Art at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
Miranda maintains an experimental sound practice parallel to their media and performance work, releasing solo works under the name Pet. Grounded in the manipulation of found sounds and field recordings, their sound work typically stands alone as installation, composition, or recorded piece, and occasionally as compositions for visual media.
Miranda is currently completing a BMA in New Media + Sound Art at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
easy on the turns - OST
original soundtrack for the short film by Seamus Gibney
+ watch the trailer here
05-2025
Refracted Fields - Accompanying Soundscape
made in collaboration with Annie Briard
@ the Surrey Art Gallery for UrbanScreen
+ read about the installation here
04-2025
Splint @ Durations V6
Sound + performance
Video and Sound Art festival Curated by Rafael Zen, Omar Khalil, and Stevan Oostenbrug
@ Emily Carr University
12-2024
Farmland @ Sketching with Technology
Sound + performance
@ Emily Carr University
+ read about the event here
11-2024
THUNDERSTORM @ Durations V5
live ensemble performance of a speculative soundscape with Max/MSP
Video + Sound Art festival Curated by Rafael Zen and Omar Khalil
@ Emily Carr University
+ watch documentation here
08-2024
Composition showcased @ Durations V4
Video + Sound Art festival Curated by Rafael Zen and Omar Khalil
@ Emily Carr University
04-2024
Composition showcased @ Durations V2
Video + Sound Art festival Curated by Rafael Zen and Omar Khalil
@ Emily Carr University
03-2024
Screaming Minerals performer
collaborative installment/performance supporting the work of Ioana Vreme Moser
@ Vancouver New Music - ANNEX
+ read about the event here
01-2024
Composition showcased @ Durations V1
Group exhibition, sound and video art installation
@ Emily Carr University’s Media Gallery & Massy Arts Society
+ listen to Durations here