Project I\O — Briana Gillet & Andrew Bennett

The name is the work01

Input / output.

Briana Gillet and Andrew Bennett met in spring 2026 at the FUSE Interdisciplinary Collaborative Residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Each arrived with a practice of their own; there, the two converged. Project I\O is what they founded together.

The work draws live music, movement, theatre, projection, and design into singular, site-aware productions. It is built to be felt, not just watched from a distance, with the audience inside the arc of the work.

The work02

You are here.

A Nuit Blanche Saskatoon commission / 2026

A performance in an intersection closed to traffic, about being present once you have arrived.

On a map, “you are here” shows where you start from, and we used it to mark the place the audience had come to after crossing the city. Those words were projected onto white fabric that the performers held up, and the sound was voice processing and live trumpet.

Briana Gillet / trumpet, live processing Andrew Bennett / voice processing, composition, direction, movement Kirk Ford / choreography, movement Vehicle / Porsche Centre Saskatchewan Photographs / Kenton Doupe

The intersection from above at night: a pool of white light around the car, raised platforms, performers in white, the audience at the edges

Photo documentation / Broadway Avenue and 10th Street East, Saskatoon, 19 September 2026

Performers in white gathered at the open back of the car, lit from inside it

Some of the light came from inside the car.

You are here. / Nuit Blanche Saskatoon, 19 September 2026 / Photographs Kenton Doupe

A dancer in white running past the car, blurred

A performer inside the car, its doors open and the cabin lit

A dancer kicking off a platform under the theatre lights, blurred

The words you are here projected onto white fabric held up by the performers, a green traffic light above

A dancer low on a platform, the audience close behind

The car from directly above, performers in white gathered at its open back

The crowd around the car in haze under a green traffic light

Three dancers on a tilted platform under the Broadway neon sign

A dancer running across the street past the crowd

A dancer in silhouette against bright light and haze

Red light from the car’s rear light bar shining through white fabric

Dancers leaning out from a platform under the Broadway neon sign

A dancer beside the car’s headlights in haze, the crowd behind

A performer pulling white fabric across the red rear light of the car

Briana Gillet at the microphone, the audience behind her

The street at night in red light, the crowd from behind

(O))

A cross-medium performance / 2026

A cross-medium performance on the arc of relationships and human connection.

Live instruments are processed in real time through a single two-stage signal chain; aerial acrobatics, contact dance and strap work move through and around the sound. It builds from tender duets into fractured group dynamics and ends in suspension.

Premiered as a twelve-minute proof of concept at FUSE In Concert; being built toward an evening-length work. (O)) is also the imprint the recorded work is released under.

Briana Gillet / trumpet, live processing Andrew Bennett / voice processing, composition, direction, movement Carina Gillet de St Christ / aerial, straps, violin Nora Price / electric guitar, movement Adanya Dunn / voice, movement Projection / Nora Price, Kenton Doupe, Adanya Dunn, Andrew Bennett, Malo Lacroix

Play / 12 min

Video documentation / FUSE In Concert, 2 May 2026

Briana Gillet on trumpet in front of the projected texture

What sounds like drums, strings, or horns traces back to a trumpet or a recording of a voice.

(O)) / FUSE In Concert, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity / 2 May 2026 / Photographs Abigaile Edwards

The aerialist suspended in a shaft of light above the stage, the projection wall behind — Suspension

The opening duet on the stage floor, straps rising above — Tender duets

Contact dance across the stage floor — Contact

The aerialist in the beam, the trumpet at the edge of the light — In the beam

Briana Gillet, trumpet, in front of the projected texture — Signal chain

Aerial work above the square of projected light — Fractured group dynamics

The full stage: aerial, projection, trumpet, voice — The room

The aerialist above the circle of light — Ends in suspension

What’s next03

(O)) — full length

Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan amphitheatre, Saskatoon / June 2027

The Banff proof of concept built out to an evening-length work: an outdoor night on the riverbank, an aerial apparatus rigged above the stage.

How we work04

Artist-led
by design.

Project I\O, standing for “input / output”, facilitates moments for creative exchange, expression, and expansion. The touring duo travel alongside a core group of artists, leading a residency-incubator that activates local artists in each city.

I\O experiences are created by the people performing them, with creative authority shared amongst the room. The work is built with and for those hosting it.

01Theatrical productionsEvening-length, chapter-driven works for touring and traditional theatre spaces.

02Site-specific performancesBuilt around, and inseparable from, a specific space.

03Touring residency & incubatorOne to two weeks with local collaborators in each city, culminating in public performance.

04Brand & institutional campaignsCreative-direction engagements for luxury, fashion, and technology partners.

05Installations & experientialSite-aware, ongoing-experience works for gallery, public realm, and brand contexts.

06Workshops & lecturesPerformative lectures, artist talks, and discourse-driven formats.

Founders05

Briana Gillet

Trumpet, live processing / Salt Lake City

French-American trumpet player and cross-medium performance artist. Her work merges classical and contemporary traditions with electro-acoustic sound, movement, and visual media, exploring how music dynamically interacts with space, gesture, and narrative — running the trumpet through effects pedals, processing and mixing the sound live.

A founding member of the Bridger Brass Quintet and a member of the Gillet Trio, whose Tetrascapes showed at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in 2026. Adjunct Professor of Trumpet at Utah Valley University; completing her Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of Utah.

@brianagilletmusic Portrait / Dave Titensor

Andrew Bennett

Voice, composition, direction, movement / Saskatoon

Multi-disciplinary artist working across sound, movement, fashion, and artistic direction. Performing as Factor Eight, his music is built entirely from his own voice — a method with sync placements on Gladiator II, The Odyssey, Women Talking, A24’s Warfare, Apple TV+’s Smoke, and Disney+’s Shipwreck Hunters, alongside three Saskatchewan Music Awards and a Western Canadian Music Award.

His installation and performance work has been presented internationally, including Catalyst II in London; recent performances integrate dance, projection, and voice into cross-medium theatrical works, including the sold-out 2025 debut concert A LIVE.

@factoreight factoreight.net

Core cohort

Carina Gillet de St Christ — circus artist and musician: straps, lyra, partner acrobatics, violin — Salt Lake City.

Nora Price — dancer, experimental musician, and filmmaker — Salt Lake City.

Adanya Dunn — mezzo-soprano and interdisciplinary artist: voice, movement, contact dance.

The people who made (O)) with us, and who travel with the work.

Contact06

Bring the work to your city.

Project I\O is available for programming, commissions, residencies, and partnerships. Write to either of us, or use the form — it reaches us both.

Briana Gilletbriana.gillet@gmail.com Andrew Bennettandrew@factoreight.net