Speaker · Vancouver 2026

Suzy Easton

Musician and technologist

Independent

October 28–30 · Vancouver

Futureproof Festival featured speaker square for Suzy Easton holding a small keyboard beside a chrome toaster wired through patch cables to a pedal on a floating cedar platform over a sunrise inlet, with the BC + AI ecosystem presenter mark.

A musician's case that AI is one more instrument to play, and a reason to stop calling what she does prompting. She solders her own pedals.

Thu 29 · 1:30–1:45 PM

The afternoon reset

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About Suzy Easton

Suzy Easton is a born and raised Vancouver musician and technologist. She holds certificates in Digital/Analog Recording Arts from Columbia Academy and Music Technology from Douglas College. After a recording instructor asked her to pick up the bass and join Seafoam, she spent years playing and touring in Vancouver’s indie and punk scenes. With Minto, formerly the Smokes, she recorded the band’s 2009 album Lay It on Me with Steve Albini at Electrical Audio. She later taught herself to solder and began building and modifying guitar pedals, chasing sounds from vintage fuzz to the Super-Fuzz bass on the Beastie Boys’ “Gratitude,” and sometimes putting the circuits inside repurposed bread toasters. Alongside more than a decade in software QA and technical operations, she now experiments with AI as a musical tool for analyzing, generating and reshaping sound.

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  1. Thursday · October 29
    1:30–1:45 PM

    The afternoon reset

    Lunch is over and everybody needs waking up. Suzy Easton, fifteen minutes, all sound and texture, and then the afternoon.

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Hand-painted Futureproof Festival scene: Squatchie on a snowy switchback under the aurora, carrying half a geode while a raven lifts the other side, the line "Bring The Question You Cannot Solve Alone." lettered into the picture and the festival name drawn as a constellation in the sky
Bring The Question You Cannot Solve Alone.

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