Raylene Campbell is a sound artist living in Treaty 6 who’s embraced various creative practices including improvisation, composition, performance art, sound and image, public intervention, and Deep Listening. The focus of their creative process involves explorations of Musique concrète, acoustic ecology, psychogeography, computer interactive technology, and audience interactivity in both performance and installation environments.

Raylene’s creative work centres on a conceptual practice inspired by personal experiences exploring the world as a queer, genderqueer, curious and compassionate individual. Her practice relies entirely on sound samples collected specifically for each piece, with recent projects exploring sexuality and gender; environment, acoustic ecology, and spiritual belief systems; and abandoned, traditional instrumental practices.

Raylene has always been interested in new technologies, but with the proliferation of AI, especially generative AI, she balances her creative explorations with research and awareness of how these technologies affect human rights and privacy.

The scope of Raylene’s work extends beyond a specific style, ranging from more subtle and delicate compositions incorporating accordion drones and improvisations to intense, noisy, beat driven machine sounds collected from sex toys and other found objects. They also have an ongoing, long term creative research project on hot springs inspired by an interest in acoustic ecology, called Ray’s Well: a hot springs research project.