Michelle Helene Mackenzie is a Canadian writer, musician and artist born in Vancouver, the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She uses electronics, modular synths, field recordings, video, text, and archival research to explore sonic perception, ecological consciousness, and deep listening. This has culminated in site-specific sound installations, video, sound works, performances, and writing. Mackenzie holds a BA from Simon Fraser University, and spent five years pursuing a PhD in Literature from Duke University, where she became interested in literatures of necrophiliac-agonies, the possibilities of sounding the unheard hills of banshee-perturbations, and the violence and cultural amnesia that devours feminine genius. In her current PhD in Music at the University of California, San Diego, Mackenzie explores approaches to and histories of electronic & experimental music practices, sound studies and the sonic arts. Mackenzie’s works have been presented with 221A (Vancouver), the Albertinum (Dresden), the CAG (Vancouver) Capilano Review’s Small Caps (Vancouver), the Cultch’s Soft Cedar (Vancouver), Deep Blue (Vancouver), the Esker Foundation (Calgary), the Hand (New York), Kadist Gallery/Yerba Center for the Arts (San Francisco), the Operating System (Brooklyn), the Polygon Gallery (North Vancouver), SFU Galleries (Vancouver), the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Western Front (Vancouver).