Suzy Easton
Musician and technologist
Independent
October 28–30 · Vancouver
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Suzy Easton, Vancouver musician and technologist. She solders her own pedals, hides the circuits inside repurposed appliances, and treats AI as one more instrument to play rather than a thing to prompt.
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.
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Her self-released rock single, a short loud one about taking up space. It got airplay on UBC’s CiTR.
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Her dashboard that reads official AI and cloud status pages every 15 minutes and translates them into something humans can use.
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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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Where to find Suzy
- Thursday · October 291:20–1:35 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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