Artist Statement
Devon Ross is a sound engineer and musician who focuses mainly on film. Location sound, post-production sound, ADR and VO recording, sound design, and film composing are all parts of his broad wheelhouse. Devon has nearly 30 years of experience in sound and music, and loves it just as much with every project on set, or in the studio.
Biography
Education
2020 Location Sound Mentorship - FilmPEI
2007- 2008 Sound Engineering - Recording Arts Canada - Montreal, QC
2006 – 2007 Music and Technology - Major in Violin - Selkirk College Nelson, BC
Awards
2023 Best Atlantic Original Score, Atlantic International Film Festival, for: Evelyn
2020 Best Background Score, Beyond The Curve International Film Festival, for: The Rolling Pin
Links to My Work
Original Score & Composition
2023 All Water touches All Water, director Mille Clarkes 2023 Ginama'timg-Time of Learning, Eliza Knockwood 2022 First Inuk Teacher, Heather Campbell, NFB
2022 Evelyn, director Mille Clarkes
2021 Paradox of Life, director Jahan Bloch
2021 Time Management (art exhibition), Carmen Belanger
2021 The Wraith of Rustico Vale, director Justin O’Hanley
2020 Undercurrents, director Megan Stewart
2020 The Flock, director Megan Stewart
2020 The Rolling Pin, director Trilby Jeeves
2019 Othering - arranging/composition, collaboration with Tanya Davis
2019 Sins of the Father - film score, director Ryan McCarvill
2019 Solastalgia - film score, director Millefiore Clarkes
2018 Wave Explorations - Music and video collaboration with Monica Lacey 2017-18 The Song and the Sorrow – film score, director Millefiore Clarkes, NFB 2015 St. Peter's Pause - commission by Randy Campbell
2014 Everything is Fine – multi-media project by Monica Lacey
2014 The Beautiful Edge – short film collaboration with Monica Lacey
2012 ...for the body... – multi-media project by Monica Lacey
2011 Code – multi-media installation by Paula Keppie
Recordings
2023 Song Portraits, various artists
2018-2022 Shed Sessions PEI - Recording, Mixing, and Mastering 2022 River Clyde Pageant Choir
2022 Feelings - EP
2021 Lee Clarke - self titled album
2021 Performances of music by Gerard Clarkes
Sept 2023
2020 This Town Is Small season 2 podcast
2017 Jasmine Michel - original song
2016 Peter Forbes - original song
2008 Migrating Birds – recording & mixing for 5-piece band
2004 Crossbone: waiting for thaw – album of 12 original compositions
Location Sound Recordist
Narrative work
2023 Meskeyi, director Shane Mountain
2023 Currie, director Justin O’Hanley
2022 The Community Players season 2, director Jacob Puiras
2022 Rambling of a middle aged drag queen, director Aharon Jinjihashvili 2022 Sea Salt, director Logan Fulford
2021 Little Gifts, director Kyle Stimers
2021 The St. Peter’s Bay Community Players, director Jacob Puiras 2021 Paradox of Life, director Jahan Bloch
2020 Aww Shucks!, director Kelly Caseley
Documentary/Reality TV
2023 SeaChange, director Aaron Hancox
2023 Gespe'gewa'gi - The Last Land 3, director Eliza Eliza Knockwood 2023 Grand River Grand, director Susan Rodgers
2022-2023 Thinning the Veil, director Mille Clarkes, NFB
2022 River Clyde Pageant, director Megan Stewart 2022 Ghosts of PEI, director Nathan Sizemore 2022 Time of Learning, director Eliza Knockwood 2022 My Best Ride, director Brian Sharp
2022 Trajectoires - episode 803
2021 Canada Council - Don Ross interview, director Ryan McCarvill 2021 River Clyde Poem, director Megan Stewart
2021 Worth our Salt, director Kelly Caseley
2021 The Rite of Passage, director Eliza Knockwood
2021 The Ice Walk, director Eliza Knockwood
2020 Acadie Rocks
2020 The Summerside Kitchen Party, director Louise Lalonde
Commercial work
2023 Credit Union commercial, director Craig Harris
2023 Workers Compensation Board videos, director Aaron Hancox 2023 Bluefield Seeding Solutions, director Brian Sharp
2023 Pair it with Dairy s3, director Ryan McCarvill
2022 Thyramas Corporation - Home Practise Kit
2022 Pair it with Dairy s2, director Ryan McCarvill
2022 Halifax airport training videos, director Lindsay Kyte 2021 Farm and Food care, director Shannon Shura
2021 Pair it with Dairy, director Ryan McCarvill
2019-2021 River Clyde Pageant, director Megan Stewart 2018-2021 Province House restoration, director Mille Clarkes
Post-production sound mixing
2023 Canoe Roots, director Eliza Knockwood
2023 Currie, director Justin O’Hanley
2023 Ginama'timg-Time of Learning, Eliza Knockwood
2022 Finale, director Jacob Puiras
2022 The River Clyde Pageant, director Megan Stewart
2022 Thyramas Corporation - Home Practise Kit
2022 The Lumberjack’s Cookbook, 6 episode series, director Shane Mountain 2021 River Clyde Poem, director Megan Stewart
2021 The Ice Walk, director Eliza Knockwood
2021 Paradox of Life, director Jahan Bloch
2021 Sorry, Mommy, director Kelly Caseley
2021 In My Heart, director Luc Trottier
2021 The Last Renaissance Man, director Mille Clarkes
2021 Aww Shucks!, 5 episode series, director Kelly Caseley
2020 Undercurrents, director Megan Stewart
2020 The Flock, director Megan Stewart
2020 The Rolling Pin, director Trilby Jeeves
2020 The Summerside Kitchen Party, director Louise Lalonde
2015 St. Peter's Pause - commission by Randy Campbell
2014 Everything is Fine – multi-media project by Monica Lacey
2014 The Beautiful Edge – short film collaboration with Monica Lacey
2012 ...for the body... – multi-media project by Monica Lacey
2011 Code – multi-media installation by Paula Keppie
Sound Engineer and Instructor
2007 – present Owner and operator of a sound recording studio. Online and in-person technical support and instruction Recording, mixing, and mastering music and sound for TV/Film Original music composition
2018 - Ableton Live masterclass for MusicPEI
