She received her Master’s of Music in composition at the University of Calgary in 2015 and her Bachelor of Music from Acadia University in 2009. Her Yellowknife-based company Black Ice Sound creates compositions, soundscapes, film scores and field recordings. Carmen’s music includes soundtracks, theatre sound design, works for spoken word, choral, and solo voice, electroacoustic installations, and jazz performance. Carmen has had works performed by the Gryphon Trio, the Penderecki Quartet, the Elmer Iseler Singers, and works have been performed at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, the National Arts Centre’s Northern Scene Festival and at the 2012 Global Composition conference in Dieburg, Germany. Her work is heavily influenced by the sonic environment of the Canadian sub-Arctic, in particular, of the soundscape of ice.