RITUAL PURIFICATION is a nêhiyaw and Denesuline noise, drone, and experimental sound artist from Treaty 6 territory and based in Vancouver. His work draws from Indigenous cultural knowledge, protocols, and sound worlds, as well as ritual practices, mythologies, and field recordings sourced from across the globe. Both his live performances and recordings are self-contained rituals that incorporate a punishing array of noise-generating devices, sound sources, pedals, field recordings, and efx that are transmuted and transformed into deep melodic drones, crushing waves of harsh noise, fragments of lost melodies, and echoing rhythmic ambience. RITUAL PURIFICATION offers a potent, immersive and embodied experience of conjured spirit, ritual noise, and hypersaturated sound.
He is currently based on the unceded and occupied territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) people.
Since 2023, he has released more than a dozen albums with labels including Bent Window, Black Artifact, PRESSOR, Drama Recorder, BISAD, Communal Deafness, Venalism, Outsider Industries, Enforced Existence, 1tracktape, and others. He has performed at End Tymes (NY), Suoni Per Il Popolo (Montreal), Vancouver Noise Fest, Teflon Spine, and Low Indigo; and he is one half of the experimental duo Oracle Chamber and the electronic duo CHXMERAS.
