Brandon Hocura is a filmmaker, sound artist, archivist, and scholar who works at the intersection of sound, media archaeology, material culture, and creative practice. He is the founder and creative director of the record label and publisher Séance Centre. His research on Canadian sound poetry manifests in his role as the archival director of Siren Recordings Sonic Poetry Archive, a public-facing preservation project funded by the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Foundation, supported by SpokenWeb (Concordia), Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (UofT), and Southwestern University. His short documentary, The Lake Sutra, and vinyl reissue project of Keyboard Fantasies helped revitalize Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s career and saw the film screen in galleries and theatres worldwide. In his role as producer, engineer, and curator, he has contributed to the release of over 150 albums on vinyl, digital, and cassette. 

He has organized numerous sound culture events, partnering with TIFF, Music Gallery, The Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Standard Time, Market Video, The New Circle of Cinema, The Screening Room, Vinyl Factory, and Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre. His writing has been published by Amodern, PUBLIC, Record Magazine, Enthusiasms, Numerical Periodical, Minka, and Intellect Books; and he is the author of Discrepant Echoes: A Dialogue in Song with Edward George, BlackMass Publishing, 2025. As an extension of his work with Séance Centre he hosts a monthly radio show on NTS (London, UK) focussing on sonic archives from vulnerable communities, past and present.