miranda firmston is an interdisciplinary media artist working with sound, performance, and interactive systems. Their practice explores embodied interaction with sound-as-material through wearable electronics, custom interfaces, and real-time audio environments. firmston designs 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.
Based in Vancouver, BC, on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples, firmston is currently pursuing an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at the SFU School for Contemporary Arts. They recieved their BMA in New Media + Sound Art at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2026.