A consummate sonic adventurer, Sorbara’s music draws from a vast array of influences. He is equally comfortable playing jazz, freely improvised music, indie rock, and chamber music, but most at home playing them all at the same time. He has performed and recorded with Ken Aldcroft, Jared Burrows, Anthony Braxton, Nikita Carter, Paul Dutton, François Houle, Germaine Liu, Evan Parker, Allen Ravenstine, Clyde Reed, and Friendly Rich, among many many others. His own projects and ongoing collaborations include a Toronto-based sextet and a Vancouver-based quartet as well as Never Was, The Imperative, Other Foot First, Reliable Parts, My Misshapen Ear, and the Imaginary Percussion Ensemble.
Joe is a long-time student of master drummer Jim Blackley. He holds an Honours Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music from York University in Toronto as well as a Master’s degree in English from the University of Guelph where his work focussed on critical improvisation studies, literary and cultural theory, and pedagogy. He is currently studying toward a PhD with the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. Joe has worked extensively as a workshop facilitator and guest lecturer and has taught for twelve years in the School of Fine Arts and Music at the University of Guelph.

After retiring as a successful entrepreneur, Robert rediscovered his long lost love of playing concert band music and joined Guelph New Horizons and Kitchener Musical Society concert bands playing bass clarinet. After reconnecting with music, Robert came to the realization that today’s society values and respects the corporate arena more than the cultural world. In an effort to provide musicians affordable playing venues. Robert joined the Silence team. His goal is to provide a listening space where artists can develop their audience, build new repertoire, and, most importantly, advance their craft by pushing boundaries through experimentation, improvisations, and sharing with others.

He is Research Chair at the University of Guelph and a leading Canadian humanities researcher who has produced important cross-disciplinary work, including some sixteen books with a wide variety of international presses. His most recent books include (with Ajay Heble and George Lipsitz) The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation (Duke UP) and a co-authored book with Martha Nandorfy entitled The Community of Rights • The Rights of Community (Oxford UP), the third in a trilogy of books co-written with Martha Nandorfy on rights issues. Daniel has received several major awards for teaching excellence and is to date the only winner from the Humanities of the prestigious Premier’s Research Excellence Award. He is a multiple award winner of SSHRCC grants as an independent researcher and as a core investigator on the MCRI and Partnership Fund grants and is associated with the Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice (ICASP) project and the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI).

Over the past thirty-eight years Cathy has created scores for over one hundred theatre productions across Canada: her work has been heard on international stages with Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, Manitoba Theatre For Young People and DynamO Théâtre. Cathy has scored a dozen documentary films including The Motherload for CBC Doc Zone and was Assistant Conductor/Keyboard 1 for the Toronto company of Jersey Boys.
Cathy has been a passionate teaching artist for numerous programs including the After School Opera Program for the Canadian Opera Company, Youth Inside Opera program for Tapestry Opera, tdsbCREATES and Swallowing Clouds for Princess Dance Productions. Cathy led community choirs for Community Arts Guild Unfolding and Moving Parts for Fujiwara Dance.
Other projects include workshops for Call and Response (Roy Thomson Hall/Massey Hall), Dispelling Darkness (Sampradaya Dance Creations) and WeeFestival: creation of The iPad Vocal Group at Waterfront Neighbourhood Centre: participation in the Artist and Climate Change Incubator with The Arctic Cycle: composer for Poetry & Healing (The League of Canadian Poets): and music facilitator for The Lullaby Project (Roy Thomson Hall/Massey Hall).
Cathy has been nominated for five DORA awards and for the 2020 Louis Applebaum Composer Award - Music For Young People. She is a member of the Toronto Musicians Union Local 149 and the Screen Composers Guild of Canada. As of September 2021, she is a University of Guelph M.A. candidate in Critical Studies in Improvisation.

Dr. Woods holds the position of Assistant Professor in the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph, where she is also a member of the research team and Site Coordinator for the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. Her research involves interdisciplinary approaches to music-analytic and socio-cultural analysis with recent work focusing on the concept of mythmaking, genealogy, and succession in hip-hop. She is currently working on a book length project, entitled Temptation and the God Flow: Sound and Signification in Pre- and Post-Conversion Hip-hop.

During her time at Silence, Scarlett has enjoyed success by fostering community partnerships, bolstering artistic expression and experimentation, and participating in organizational reflection and renewal. Prior to joining the team at Silence, Scarlett's experience included: Front of House Manager at Blyth Festival Theatre, Local Affairs Commissioner for the University of Guelph Central Students' Association, and Festival Director at Huronsound Music and Arts Festival. Scarlett brings to Silence a strong anti-oppressive framework and a dedication to amplifying marginalized voices and developing safe and community-focussed spaces.