Mitch Renaud is a composer and curator who resides on the unceded homelands of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples, comprised of the Esquimalt and Songhees First Nations, in what is known as Victoria, BC.
His current practice centers on feedback systems with analog electronics and sampling techniques to develop a series of palimpsests, which takes the erasure of one set of material as the ground for new material. These palimpsests are rendered through conceptual fields such as attention, tuning as relational, the sense of place of sound, and listening to the memory of listening. This work is done through solo performance and in ongoing collaborations with artists such as Cathy Fern Lewis, Katelyn Clark, and Brandon Poole. Key previous collaborators include artists such as Quatuor Bozzini, the Onyx Trio, Duo Incendium (Charlotte Mundy & Chelsea Stanoff), Greg Harrison, Jonny Smith, gamUT, the Earwax Ensemble, and the University of Toronto’s Junior Percussion Ensemble.
Mitch holds a Master’s degree in Cultural, Social, and Political Thought from the University of Victoria. His thesis deconstructed the role of noise in the materiality of sound. He studied composition in Toronto with James Rolfe and Gary Kulesha. He is a member of the Blue Moss Ensemble with Anna Höstman and Emilie LeBel, and co-director of of-the-now with Chedo Barone.