Plains
Plains (Cameron Wiest) is a mixed media artist hailing from Saskatchewan Canada. Wiest started exploring electronic music and sound creation at 14 through desktop apps like ReBirth and Sonic Foundry Acid. In 2007 he studied sound design at Vancouver film school, training that prepared him to work in the film and video game industries as a sound recordist, sound designer, technical sound artist, and composer.
In 2013, Wiest returned to Saskatchewan to complete an after degree in Arts Education. Currently a STEAM educator at Regina Public Schools, Wiest teaches robotics, communication media, and design studies. Wiest’s sound and music practice focuses primarily on modular synthesis, procedural composition, and hand-made electronics. For Wavefield 2025, he will be performing a section from an evolving work inspired by field recordings taken in and around Vancouver, BC while working as a recordist and sound designer.
SBOT N WO
Sbot N Wo is Helen Pridmore and WL Altman. The voice/electronics improvisation duo was formed at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Since then the duo has toured and performed across Canada, including shows with Black Ice Sound (Yellowknife), Suddenly Listen (Halifax), Thunder and Lightning (Sackville NB), Reflux Festival de musique et d’art sonore (Moncton), Montréal, Ottawa, Thunder Bay, Regina, Sounds Like (Saskatoon), and 8East (Vancouver). They have also performed in the USA, Germany, the UK, Ireland, and Japan. Most recently Sbot N Wo were featured performers at the 20th Anniversary Sappyfest,Sackville, NB in August 2025 (see https://www.sappyfest.com)
Apart from the duo, WL Altman is an active interdisciplinary artist and Helen Pridmore is a singer in contemporary scored music, experimental music and improvisation.
Wasauksing Sniper
Wasauksing Sniper is a moniker of noise artist B.P. (Bret Parenteau) and a homage to Francis Pegahmagabow, the most highly decorated Indigenous soldier in Canadian military history and the most effective sniper of the First World War. Layers of ambient and harsh textures echo the flow of battle and the incessant rumble of artillery.
Bret Parenteau is a sound/noise artist based in Winnipeg. Under the initials B.P., Parenteau has been making his formula of noise, field recording, & tape manipulation. Most recently Bret has been working on film scores for short & feature length films.