An experimentalist at heart, Canadian artist Stephanie Castonguay develops a hands-on practice rooted in materiality, listening, and transformation. Through the construction of DIY instruments and the repurposing of obsolete machines, she explores sound as a living process shaped by touch, decay, and unpredictability. Her work reveals hidden resonances within analog systems, where fragility, accidents, and attention become tools for improvisation and presence.

During her residency a concert at Galiläakirche is planned on 16.05 where she will perform “soft_cuts” unfolding as a tactile, luminous ritual for hacked turntables and their interplay using modular synthesis, named for the soft yet lasting marks engraved through time, bodies, and sound. Using Playmobil-built turntables with multiple tonearms, soft_cuts explores fragmented, decomposing bio-vinyls – stacked, layered, and partially erased – read by altered needles, sometimes tracing grooves backward. In the same night she will perform an improvised set along with berlin turntablist JD Zazie details about the concert here: https://galilaea-kirche.de/event/jd-zazie-stephanie-castonguay-solos-duo-_on-turntables/ further open studios and events will be announced.