Murat Çolak is a Turkish-American audio engineer, producer, and composer based in New York City. He earned his master’s degree in music composition and technology in 2013 from Istanbul Technical University and completed his doctorate in music composition at Boston University in 2018. 

Murat’s first introduction to digital audio was in 2003, when he was a college student in Istanbul. He initially produced electronic dance music as an enthusiast. Years later, while creating sonically complex electroacoustic pieces as a composer, he developed a deep interest in acoustics and audio engineering. In 2018, he moved to NYC and started working as a part-time audio engineer. During the pandemic, he completed a 26-week advanced audio mastering program at Mastering Academy in Hamburg.

Since 2020, Murat has worked full-time as a mastering, mixing, and recording engineer out of his studio, GERYON. He specializes in contemporary classical and experimental music but is equally at home with EDM, rap, and pop. His engineering work can be heard on critically acclaimed art music labels like KAIROS, Edition Wandelweiser, NEOS, New Focus, Innova, Carrier, Important Records, and more.

Jaash Singh is a multi-award-winning percussionist, specializing in folk music and dance accompaniment. He is featured on many notable recordings, has done over a thousand live performances, and has experience in film, theatre, and as an educator. He has been involved in eastern European, middle eastern, and mediterranean music and culture for 15 years, and has worked extensively with many community organizations who focus on making cultural experiences accessible to a wider audience. He is known for his work with such artists as Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Ventanas and Measha Brueggergosman. He is known for his exciting rhythmic grooves and his magnetic audience engagement.

Recipient of Michael Davies Scholarship Endowment Fund.

ረብሻ(Rebsha) is the Ethio-ambient duo created by Feven Kidane and Nebyu Yohannes. Delighted to be invited to Soundweavings at Banff Centre, Kidane and Yohannes fuse their background in ambient and Black American music with their East African heritage, generating a sonic landscape stretching from sub-Saharan Africa to the Pacific Northwest. ረብሻ’s dedication to decolonization while recognizing cultural tradition as members of the Ethiopian diaspora is paramount to their work. With Kidane and Yohannes on a mix of brass, strings, and their recent learnings of traditional Ethiopian instruments, the pair blend acoustic and electronic textures to score the memories of their ancestors (Tizita) and carry these lifetimes into the present, holding them under the light of today’s world.

reb·sha: 
noun
1. noise, riot, disturbance.

Recipient of Michael Davies Scholarship Endowment Fund.

STATHIS//DAVEY//KIM are a Melbourne based collective of three female composers who have an extensive multi-instrumental practice including the use of analogue synthesizers. Their practice spans large scale fully immersive sound installations, to live electronic music performance.

SDK’s site-responsive installations are presented in expansive settings where nature and human-made structures co-exist. They interact with site by using features present (rock faces, bodies of water and architecture) as surfaces from which to bounce sound off, creating delays and rhythms. Furthermore the trio incorporate diegetic sounds as key voices in the work, allowing them to work with, instead of overriding the environment.

Stathis//Davey//Kim’s sound is presented in multi-channel diffusion, sonically mapping a new awareness of the physical space. Audiences are placed directly into the center of their sound worlds, as the work shifts and moves around them. Conceptually Stathis//Davey//Kim explore the paradoxes of site, the beauty and sparseness, the functional and the fantastical, natural and manufactured and in all this question human’s impact on ecologies. Their work allows audiences to experience a unique aspect of site, where sound, nature and architecture interact. For audiences, these types of singular sonic experiences bond the location to memory through the extraordinary experience of immersive sound and music.

Recipient of Banff Centre Artists' Awards.

Jay Yoo is a Korean Canadian guitarist and composer based in Toronto, holding both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Jazz Performance from the University of Toronto. Active in both performance and teaching, he draws inspiration from a wide range of genres, collaborating on projects that span jazz, funk, R&B, and musical theatre. Jay is a member of the Korean fusion band Haneum, the award-winning group Snaggle, and leads his own ensembles, including Jay Yoo Group and Next Perfect Day. His discography features the duo album Here, Now (2019) with Jenna Marie Pinard, Dual Unity(2022) with Mark Kazakevich, and the jazz quartet EP Cosmic Latte (2023) from his time in Denmark. He’s also involved in several current collaborations, including Robert Lee’s upcoming album Forbidden West (2025), which blends Korean traditional music influences, and Baejjange, a trio focused on Korean percussion and vocal traditions.

Recipient of Banff Centre Artists' Awards.