Aimee Copping

Aimee Copping is a teaching artist and the creator of Blackball, a non-profit electronic music education project for children and youth, currently sited at the Guelph Youth Music Centre. In collaboration with the restorative justice initiative Pros and Cons, Aimee established a dedicated music production space at a federal penitentiary, Grand Valley Institution for Women and produced two albums of original music composed and performed by imprisoned women. Aimee collaborates regularly with Girls’ Rock Camp Guelph and Silence Sounds, and has held board and committee seats with ARCH Guelph and the Upper Grand District School Board and is currently under consideration for a vacant seat on the Guelph Youth Music Centre board of directors.

Aimee performs and records electronic music as Transstar. In 2021, she wrote and produced Synths Always, a four-part audio documentary on the history of electronic music for broadcast on CFRU 93.3 FM and CHMA 106.9 FM in Sackville, New Brunswick.
Aimee holds a Master’s Degree in Critical Studies in Improvisation and is an Ontario Graduate Scholarship laureate.

The Canada Council for the Arts has awarded Aimee an Explore and Create grant for her literary fiction project, ‘Promise’, a novel about a dysfunctional suburban family living through the darkest years of the Cold War. Additionally, Aimee’s scored another Ontario Graduate Scholarship for her proposed PhD research, “From Right to Privilege: The Downsizing of Music Education in Ontario.” She is currently in her second year of the Social Practice and Transformational Change PhD program at the University of Guelph.