Inspired by nature and the turning of the seasons, IHA's sound is elusive yet unmistakeable. Drawing from cultural memory, dreams, and shifts in perception, they bring a childlike play into the stage, whether live or on the dance floor. Venturing into sound spatialization and audiovisual collaborations in the past year, they scored the 2024 EDAA award-winning "GRWM", an original animation by Carmilla Sumantry; performed at Lobe's Mother Cloud Festival in 4DSOUND with Michael Red, and composed the audio for i+eo's 5760+1080, an audiovisual installation featured at New Forms Festival: Transform. Since 2021, IHA's forays have had them featured in festivals across the pond: Bass Coast, Wonderment, Active/Passive, and Pachena Bay (BC); Future Forest (NB), Osmosis (PDX), ADE (AMS), and Ever Afters (SFO). As one half of audiovisual duo i+eo with ephemeral objects, they are one of ten emerging artists selected for Mutek's Incubator program in 2024.
We're grateful to collaborate and produce on the shared, stolen, unceded, ancestral and traditional territories of Penelakut, Lamalcha, Hwitslum and other Hul’qumi’num speaking peoples, as well as the ceded territories of Tsawwassen First Nation, on what is now known as Galiano Island, British Columbia. We recognize the complex impacts that hosting settlers and non-settlers has on the Indigenous land and peoples of this area, and we aim to be responsible and accountable for these impacts and our footprint—whether cultural, environmental or social.
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