A Canada Council for the Arts (CCA) recipient in 2018, Connor Harvey- Derbyshire is an accomplished independent musician and Contemporary Experimental Electronic Music (CEEM) artist. Connor utilizes obsolete music technologies, expression-based improvised performance, experimental composition and scoring, and universal synthesis as a part of his alter ego Cosmo Duff. Cosmo is a telematics (wo)man-machine. The sonic interface is crafted from an NBCD (Nuclear Biological Chemical Defence) suit engineered for protection and data collection. The suit comprises an analogue sensor harness with collection, processing, and rebroadcasting functionality. Others can tether to Cosmo or Cosmo collects sonic samples from the atmosphere.