miranda firmston
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. Their work investigates how sound, touch, and interactive technologies shape bodily and social experience. Working across sound, performance, and new media, they design responsive systems and interfaces that foreground the material and relational dimensions of sound, treating technology as a site of intimacy, care, and consequence.

firmston maintains an experimental sound practice grounded in real-time synthesis, field recordings, and found sounds, producing works as installations, compositions, or soundtracks for visual media. Their projects explore the ways sound inhabits bodies, environments, and social contexts, emphasizing physicality and experiential engagement.

firmston is currently completing their BMA in New Media + Sound Art at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.  




timeline

04-2026
easy on the turns - OST
original soundtrack for the short film by Seamus Gibney
+ watch the trailer here

02-2026
My Lovely Pet installation in the Intricate Rituals exhibition
@New Media Gallery, New Westminster, BC
+ read about the exhibition here

10-2025
Composition showcased in Echoes of the Hunt
with SENSES Art Collective 
@LOBE, Vancouver, BC
+ read about the event here

05-2025
Refracted Fields - Accompanying Soundscape
made in collaboration with Annie Briard
@Surrey Art Gallery for UrbanScreen, Surrey, BC
+ read about the installation here

04-2025
untitled (cast) at Durations V6
Sound + performance
Video and Sound Art festival curated by Rafael Zen, Omar Khalil, and Stevan Oostenbrug
@Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC
+ watch the performance here

12-2024
Farmland at Sketching with Technology
Sound + performance
@Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC
+ read about the event here

11-2024
THUNDERSTORM at 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, Vancouver, BC
+ watch documentation here

08-2024
Composition showcased at Durations V4
Video + Sound Art festival curated by Rafael Zen and Omar Khalil
@Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC

04-2024
Composition showcased at Durations V2
Video + Sound Art festival curated by Rafael Zen and Omar Khalil
@Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC

01-2024
Composition showcased at Durations V1
Group exhibition, sound and video art installation
@Massy Arts Society + ECUAD Media Gallery, Vancouver, BC
+ listen to Durations here