Leave is the indie-rock music project of Emma Citrine, David Knights Cowling, Nicole Gilley, and Bryan Michael. Mavens of melancholy reverberations, and lovers of lyrical expression, Leave is an exploration of powerful voices, infectious melodies, and endlessly compelling stories.

Featured on Episode 2.1 and 2.3

Hildegard’s Ghost exists in the realm of the unusual, collecting and disseminating curious sounds at a moment's notice. Each tune a story, they implore you to look into their created ethereal worlds, a marriage of electro-acoustic jazz tinged compositions and improvisations.

Featured on Episodes 2.1, 2.4, 2.9, and the Scales of Change miniseries

Spencer is a Vancouver based musician who releases solo work and commissioned instrumentals under his given name, PORTBOU, and blue mirror. He is a percussionist, baritone choral singer, and ambient musician (mostly piano and field recordings with added effects). Spencer is also one third of the trio Miss Langley whose music can be heard in Bri Proke’s film Shark Week.

Featured on Episodes 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 1.11, 2.1, 2.2, 2.4, and the Meet Your Fungal Associates minisodes

Selkies is the musical alias of musician and ceramist Juliann Nelson. Her haunting voice and songs embody the forces of the untamed world she sings about and inhabits. She is currently a denizen of Cortes Island, BC.

Featured on Episode 1.11

The way Kieran Fearing sings and plays piano will break your heart. Mix equal parts scorned lover at the jazz bar & 3AM wanderings in a dimly lit city, add some time to reflect, plus a dash of glitch production by Jonathan Scherk, and the result is the mournful electro-accoustic classic “Repreive”.

Featured on Episodes 1.9 & 1.10

// Chaos and Collapse // A VHS copy of Hackers // Incidental Music for Virtual Spaces // CEO of Collapsed Structures // Sour Gout

Featured on Episodes 1.9, 2.8 and the Meet Your Jellyfish Overlords minisodes

Leucrocuta is an electronic music producer and performer living in Toronto. Her music plays in the spaces between synth-pop, post-industrial, ambient, techno. Sleepless and obsessed by post-apocalyptic science fiction, in 2017 she released her debut EP, “when all the animals are dead.” Alone with her machines, she comforted herself with broken sonic sketches and alien landscapes, and in February 2019, she released a full-length experimental electronic album “exorcizes in loneliness” on Lost Angles, a vaporwave cassette label (NOW! Magazine's Best Music of the Week).

Featured on Episode 2.1, 2.2, 2.4, and 2.7

Adam first encountered El Temporal in a mezcal bar in San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico (where else?). Their live performance was enchanting, and their recorded music is ... not easy to find, but well worth the search.

Featured on Episode 1.7

Brock James Mayer is an artist and musician working out of Vancouver under their given name and the moniker Valsi. They attempt to offer up sound experiences and the opportunity for an engagement with sound that may find a space between the austerity of the history of melody, harmony and counterpoint, and what could be considered the esoteric qualities of the evocation of sound.

Featured on Episode 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, and the Meet Your Fungal Associates minisodes

Spesh Pep is a collaborative effort between three singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalists who play a unique style of music described by Adam Huggins as "psychedelic funk-punk". Formed in 2012, Spesh Pep has kept a low-profile but gained a loyal following among those impressed by their instrumental prowess and tight knee-jerk compositions. Spesh Pep released their debut album “Weird Bodied Dancers” in 2014. Followed by 2018's “Like A Volcano”. They continue to record and perform in their homeland of Vancouver.

Featured on Episodes 1.8 and the Meet Your Jellyfish Overlords minisodes

Mendel and Adam were introduced to the meditative, playful, and at times haunting cello improvisations of William Benton Hamilton entirely by chance at at the Maitreya eco-village in Eugene, Oregon. Ben stopped in to jam with some of the resident musicians, and the Future Ecologies duo was enrapt for hours. Any opportunity to be absorbed into Ben’s melodic reverie is not to be missed.

Featured on Episodes 1.6, 2.2, 2.4, 2.7, 2.9, and 3.7

Sean Parker aka Cat Can Do aka Only Wolf is a dyed-in-the-wool analog synthesizer fiend. A musical autodidact, Sean is guided by an exploration of process: wiring and rewiring – drawing texture, melody, and rhythm from the gossip between machines.

Featured on Episodes 1.6, 1.11, 2.2, 2.4, 3.5, 4.1, and the Meet Your Jellyfish Overlords & Meet Your Fungal Associates minisodes.

Selu Herraiz is the director and curator of SONORA Experimental Music School (Murcia, Spain). As an artist, he analyzes the relations between Space-time, Memory and Identity, working with bodies, sounds, spaces and images in a transdisciplinary research. He combines his personal investigation with designing educational experiences and community projects. Combining noises, samples, field recordings and voices from the other side, it [Lilith’21] creates a direct channel to get in contact with the outer space.

Featured on the Meet Your Fungal Associates minisodes.

Luke and Charissa Garrigus are an Indianapolis-based, husband and wife contemporary art music duo. Much of their work is influenced by the natural world, and they hope to begin using their music to aid in conservation efforts and awareness. They are also the very first musicians to reach out to Future Ecologies.

Featured on Episode 2.3

Inspired by the mystery of life. Jack Hertz manipulates sound to create intangible techno-organic impressions between music and noise. Composing and recording music for more than 30 years. Jack is always searching for a sonic middle ground between the real and the artificial. He utilizes machines, instruments, found objects, field recordings, and effects processing to designs sounds, spaces, and atmospheres for deep listening. Jack also manages Aural Films: a record label of soundtrack albums for movies that do not exist.

Featured on Episode 2.5, the Meet Your Fungal Associates minisodes, and the Scales of Change miniseries

Radioactive Bishop is the underused, ambient nom-de-plume of Riley Byrne. The music featured in Future Ecologies were rescued from abandoned hard drives and given relevance only by being featured here. He has several free podcasting guides available at Podigy.co.

Featured on Episodes 1.4, 1.5, 1.8, 1.10, 1.11, the Meet Your Jellyfish Overlords & Meet Your Fungal Overlords minisodes, and the Scales of Change miniseries

Sunfish Moon Light (AKA Adam Huggins) composes music for practically every episode of Future Ecologies, as well as his own special blend of electric dream folk. When he's not producing a podcast, or composing music, he works as a restoration co-ordinator for a small gulf island conservancy.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg artist, musician, poet and writer. At Future Ecologies, we have only featured her evocative, instrumental soundscapes, but we hope you have the chance to experience her lyricism. Leanne’s work is always a creative tour de force: a multi-modal voice for a richly entangled world. Photo by Zahra Siddiqui.

Featured on Episode 2.5

IKSRE (I Keep Seeing Rainbows Everywhere) – aka Naarm/Melbourne-based multi instrumentalist, producer and sound healer, Phoebe Dubar. She combines field recordings from her beloved Australian bush with lush strings, swirling synths and vocals with ambient drone and binaural beats to create a unique sound which sits somewhere between the yoga studio and the after party.

Featured on the Meet Your Fungal Associates & Seaweed Sojourning miniseries, and the Scales of Change miniseries

Vincent van Haaff (aka flyingoctopus) is a multi-disciplinary media artist working with computer code to explore virtual and real spaces defined by rule-based systems. Originally from Southern California, Vincent went from a record label co-founder and audio hacker in Los Angeles to an environmental club founder in Santa Barbara before moving to Vancouver to become a tech consultant and media artist. His expertise spans from music and interaction art and design, data visualization, computer vision, event and community installation, and user centred design.

Featured on the Scales of Change miniseries

Loam Zoku is a research ensemble of commensurate parts sand-clay and clay silt specializing in Chthonic rave production and geomantic synthesis. All inputs and outputs by Schuyler Lindberg and Y'honatex.

Featured on Episode 1.9, 2.8, the Meet Your Jellyfish Overlords minisodes, and the Scales of Change miniseries

Aner Andros is an eclectic non-musician and producer of cinematic ambient, avant-garde, left-field, and softronica. Fond of improvisation, of the studio as an instrument and of meticulously prepared live shows; while preserving empathy and intuition as critical factors when drawing oneiric soundscapes into a story, in the making of musical voyages.

Featured on Episodes 2.9, 3.4, the Seaweed Sojourning minisodes, and the Scales of Change and miniseries

Born in Kaifeng, China, Vancouver-based Yu Su works as a composer, DJ, and sound artist. Tapping into an expansive repertoire of “fourth world” ambience and left-field dance music, Yu Su’s emotion-packed compositional punches are her truthful approach to the ambiguity and self-reflection of “the Oriental.” A proficient instrumentalist who conjures up moments of natural and synthetic beauty, her delicate, dub-inflected signature balances a variety of luminous downtempo textures.

Featured on Episodes 3.4, 3.5, 4.1, 5.6, and the Seaweed Sojourning minisodes

I’m Greenplant. I was planted and eventually potted in the early days of the 2010s. A couple years ago I said goodbye to my caretakers at the market and found a new home in a Montreal apartment with two new caretakers, Antoine Gallois and Conor Nickerson, who are both musicians. Incidentally, I have wanted to make my own music for plants ever since I sprouted. Given my newfound situation, I decided to make ambient music with the help of my two caretakers.

Featured on Episode 3.5

Based in the humid indie-rock haven of Athens, Georgia, Dan Nettles has supplied the world with his own unique blend of modern-jazz-meets-college-radio for well over a decade as guitarist and composer for the genre-bending ensemble, Kenosha Kid. Starting in 2004, he nurtured the band on these principles: build a scene, write for people you know, and listen to your creative heart. A steady string of remarkable content has followed in a variety or formations and flavors... silent film scores, sci-fi future-music vinyl, live raw trio excursions, records featuring 3 horns writing, and most recently with "Missing Pieces" a limited edition vinyl featuring a two-guitar quartet augmented by strings.

Featured on Episode 3.4

LATASHÁ is a rapper, singer, songwriter, influencer and performance artist. Influenced by her diverse and eclectic roots, Latashá serves genre-bending music that pumps deep energy, inspiration and good vibrations. Likened to her sheroes, Missy Elliott, and M.I.A., Latashá uses music as a landscape through her worlds.

Featured on the Meet Your Fungal Associates minisodes

Oh, The Universe! is the solo project of Arthur Leal Garcia, an overthinker musician/composer/writer from Brazil. After years collecting memos and demos that didn't fit his past bands Arthur created Oh, The Universe! so he could utilize all his inspiration that created songs that explore multiple genres. OTU!'s songs are odes to survival, relationships, loneliness, life and humanity.

Featured in the Meet Your Fungal Associates minisodes

C.Diab is a multi-instrumentalist from the west coast of Canada, composing primarily for bowed guitar, trumpet, synthesizer and tape manipulation. He is represented by AURA and signed to the London-based record label, Tonal Union.

Featured on Episode 3.2, 3.3, 5.7, and 5.8

Hidden Sky is the ambient solo project of Carlin McLellan, a Newcastle-based composer, music technologist, and registered music therapist. As Hidden Sky, McLellan weaves together lush, slowly shifting layers, leaving a muted canvas of minimal soundscapes that are both haunting and tenderly reassuring. Carlin is currently writing one song every day, guided by the mantra: Complete acceptance and surrender to the creative process.

Featured on Episodes 3.2, 3.3, 3.5, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, and 3.10

Barren House (formerly known as Meteoric Twin) are an electronic music duo based on what is now known as Galiano Island. Caitlin and Amos are the curators/producers of Active/Passive, an ambient music series and day-long mini-festival on Galiano Island celebrating artists from the Pacific Northwest. Past performances include Neuztec (Dec '20) online, TapeHeads (May '20) online, Biomass (Oct '19) at the Bloedel Conservatory and Active / Passive vol.1 (Aug '19) on Galiano Island.

Featured on Episodes 3.4, and 3.5