Luke wyland

Musical performance
📍 Café Robin des Bois, Montréal
3933 Av. du Parc-La Fontaine, Montréal, QC H2L 0C7
🗓️ November 8, 2025 | 7:00–7:45 p.m.
Free and open to the public

⬅️ Back to Exhibition and Performances: JJJJJerome Ellis x Luke Wyland x Dysfluent art curated by SPACE

Luke Wyland is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, and cultural organizer based in Portland, Oregon. As a person who stutters, his practice is deeply rooted in disability justice and the rich terrain of speech diversity. In collaboration with the nonprofit SPACE, he curates the Library of Dysfluent Voices, a living archive that reimagines stuttering not as a deficit, but as a generative and expressive mode of communication.

For over two decades, Wyland has been releasing critically acclaimed records under his own name, with the groups AU and Methods Body, and as LWW, collaborating with labels such as New Amsterdam, Beacon Sound, and Balmat. His music moves fluidly between experimental composition, improvisation, and embodied performance, weaving bespoke tuning systems, the cadences of dysfluent speech, and time manipulation technologies into sonic landscapes that invite new ways of listening.

At Voice and Media, Wyland will present music from Covert/Overt (2024) and A Person Ssspeaking (forthcoming). Both works draw directly from the Library of Dysfluent Voices and showcase his creation of “voice portraits”: audiovisual compositions that translate the rhythmic and emotional qualities of dysfluent speech into visual and sonic form.

For many participants, seeing their voices rendered as art sparks an internal shift toward pride and acceptance, often for the first time. For audiences, the work invites a radical slowing down, offering space to unlearn conditioned responses to dysfluency and feel in their own bodies what it might be like to stutter.

Wyland’s practice aims to elevate dysfluent voices and shift how we listen. In an era of cultural fragmentation, he believes listening is a social practice, one with the power to foster empathy, disrupt bias, and build more connected, just communities. His work will also be featured as the score for the short film We Are the Audience (premiering November 6 at the festival).

⬅️ Back to Exhibition and Performances: JJJJJerome Ellis x Luke Wyland x Dysfluent art curated by SPACE