The Phonoréalistes met sometime in the distant past around the year 2006, when two individuals of musi-artistic temperament were summoned to the mountainous regions of the north. While enduring not only the harsh climes, but also bear, elk, and T-rex attacks on a regular basis, they forged a voice of a sub-sub-genre of musical art. In the majestic Southern Continental Ranges of the Canadian Rockies, the two intrepid heroes united to fight the good fight and to sing the good song (and occasionally the bad song) in recitals that are part performance art, part art history lecture and part pop song. Through their actions, Mary-Anne McTrowe and Daniel Wong are engaging new audiences for the art history they tear down and send up.

Daniel Wong is an interdisciplinary artist from Lethbridge, Alberta working in a range of forms including installation, performance, writing, drawing, and music. He received a BFA from the University of Lethbridge in 2003 and an MFA from the University of Western Ontario in 2006.

Mary-Anne McTrowe has a BFA from the University of Lethbridge (1998) and an MFA from Concordia University in Montreal (2001). Her work has spanned a number of media, and recent interests include the crocheting of cozies for everyday objects and the proposing of ever-larger cozies for natural and man-made architecture, and performance and static work about the sasquatch.