Jesse PETER Ash
Jesse Peter Ash is a Sound Designer, Engineer, and Musician based in Montréal with work spanning a wide variety of projects and roles over his career including Original Compositions, Sound Design/Creation and Audio Production, System Design and Integration, and Live Mix and Engineering.
With a focus on engagement and a knack for adapting his work to specific production contexts, Jesse is particularly interested in helping to create audience experience that fit seamlessly into their environments, whatever they may be and ensuring an open, collaborative process. Whether Theatrical, Installation and Immersive Experience, New Media, Concerts, Film or Web Production the focus is the same and always driven by the context of the project itself and the stories and ideas being explored.
Over the years Jesse has collaborated with numerous world renowned artists and companies including Robert Wilson, Francois Girard, the Stratford Festival of Canada, Moment Factory, Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, and Robert Lepage’s Ex Machina. Additionally he's credited on several world premieres and original installations, including works by Daniel MacIvor, Robert Wilson, Judith Thompson, Morris Panych, Derek McCormack, and the cabaret musical The God That Comes featuring Hawksley Workman.
In addition to his collaborative efforts focused on collective experiences, Jesse’s self driven work, also rooted in sound veers more toward creating personal experiences outside of traditional 'programmed' spaces.
SERVICES
Original Music, Sound Design & Production; Context appropriate content and systems for experiences of all kinds, devised through collaboration to achieve project goals
Bespoke Sound System Design; Architectural, Installation, Interactive, Mobile and Performance
Creative and Technical Consultation; Macro Level Solutions
Technical-Creative Project Management, Team Lead; Assembling and working with teams to execute the tasks associated with a given project
Sound Supervision and Direction; Originating and ensuring the integrity of the Audio ‘Vision’ of a project, from start to finish
Pedagogical Consultation; Development of programs and courses that reflect current, up to date realities of the performance and entertainment industries, leveraging these skill sets to enrich understanding of the world and society and unlock creative potential.
in parallel
Alongside a professional dedication to Sound Design and Audio, Jesse has pursued parallel careers in Technical Direction, working with world renowned Multimedia Studio Moment Factory creating new and exciting experiences around the world, and as a Teacher. In both contexts as in his design work he prioritizes the importance of collaboration, experience, and adaptability.
Now largely retired from Technical Direction he currently teaches Sound Design and Video Systems Design at Montreal’s John Abbott College and has taught at his Alma Mater, the National Theatre School of Canada regularly over the past decade.
In addition to this work Jesse has played in and worked with a number of bands and musical acts over the years, most notably as a member of Montreal’s Reversing Falls. Jesse holds a technician class amateur radio license and enjoys searching through static and capturing oddities that present themselves over the airwaves.