Now inviting founding communities for 2027
We bring the studio to your community, anywhere in Canada, to make songs, record language speakers and storytellers, and restore older recordings. One project can bring these together, creating resources people can listen to, learn from and keep.
Your producer is Jamie Kuse. He produced Snotty Nose Rez Kids’ JUNO-winning Red Future and mixed YB Nakota’s JUNO-nominated Nakota Tayhunyabi in 3D sound.
We come to you
Record at home, on the land or in the hall. Elders, singers and families do not need to travel.
Our travel is part of the one total cost in your plan.
What we can do together
Choose what matters most to your community. Record new material, restore older recordings or host a hands-on workshop, and bring them together in one project.
Record songs your community holds, or create new ones with speakers and youth. Every song comes in immersive sound and everyday versions for phones and speakers, with an optional written guide checked by a speaker you choose.
Record words, phrases and conversations in your speakers’ own voices. Your language team guides each session. You receive recordings people can use to teach, practise and hear the language in everyday life.
Record the memories and knowledge your storytellers choose to share. Include the sounds of the places those stories belong to, with written versions or translations where agreed.
Make voices easier to hear in older tapes and recordings, using sound restoration tools made for film. We listen to each recording, reduce noise where possible and leave your originals unchanged.
Hear voices, songs and the sounds of the land all around you, then record together. A hands-on half day, full day or class for community members, schools and students.
Record songs, speakers and stories during the same visit, with older recordings restored as part of the project. Together, we decide who takes part, where to record and how to make the most of our time with you.
You receive finished recordings and agreed written materials, ready for your audio players and language platforms. Your community owns every recording. Originals and final versions go to you or your chosen archive, with a plan for storing and caring for them.
Interactive workshop
This is where language, song and story preservation meets immersive audio technology, at the forefront of revitalization work. In this workshop, your community hears it, makes it and keeps it.
Hear voices, songs and the sounds of the land all around you. Make recordings together and see how they can serve your community’s language work.
We bring a portable immersive audio system to your community, school or classroom. Community members get hands-on experience recording, producing and using immersive audio, with Jamie guiding each step, and hear what they made the same day.
Hear voices, songs and sounds of the land around you. Compare the same recording two ways: sound from the left and right, and sound that surrounds you.
Record a speaker, a story or sounds from your community with a microphone that captures sound from every direction, then shape it into a finished piece together.
Learn how your recordings can work in lessons, songs and stories. Your community decides who can hear them and how they are shared.
Your community keeps every recording, and nothing is ever used to train AI.
Book a workshopWhy songs
Making music together gives young people a way to spend time with speakers, practise the language and make something they want to hear again. The songs and written companions stay with the community for listening and learning.
Land, place and 3D sound
We record where the voice lives. Song, story and language are tied to land and place. We capture voices and the sounds around them in 3D, so the place becomes part of the listening experience.
Every song we make includes a Dolby Atmos mix, the format used for major films and albums. Singers and drums surround the listener, creating a recording future generations can step back into.
You also receive everyday versions for phones, speakers and headphones. The immersive mix can support listening spaces in a school or cultural centre.
Your community chooses the places and sounds, who may hear them and how they are used.
We choose the files and listening versions to suit your project and equipment.
How it works
A recording supports living traditions. It does not replace them. A few plain questions shape the project, and your community sets the priorities and pace.
Tell us what you would like to keep or make, and who should be involved. You do not need a finished plan.
We agree on the work, people, timing and total cost. We also plan where the files will live and who will care for them.
We come to you. Your language lead guides the speaking sessions, we look after the sound, and you review the recordings with us.
Recordings go to you or your chosen archive with descriptions, access rules and agreed written materials. We check that you can open and use the files, help with your agreed storage, and delete working copies on the agreed schedule.
As the program grows, we will hire and train or mentor Indigenous engineers.
What you decide and own
Who we are
Creator’s Path brings Indigenous creative education and community work. NOVA brings recording and immersive sound. Your community leads the language and cultural decisions.
Creator’s Path
Founder
Drezus founded Creator’s Path, an Indigenous-led organization bringing creative education, mentorship and youth programming to communities.
He is Nêhiyaw (Plains Cree) and Anishinaabe (Saulteaux), from the Muskowekwan and Cote First Nations in Saskatchewan.
NOVA Studios
Co-founder · Recording and production
Jamie is a producer, audio engineer and co-founder of NOVA Studios in North Vancouver. He produced Snotty Nose Rez Kids’ Red Future, winner of the 2025 JUNO for Rap Album/EP of the Year.
He was the immersive audio producer and mix engineer on YB Nakota’s Nakota Tayhunyabi, in stereo and Dolby Atmos.
The recording that inspired IPP
YB Nakota · 2026 JUNO nominee
Drum circle music, healing songs and the voice of YB Nakota’s grandmother come together in Jamie’s immersive mix. That sense of being there inspired IPP: bringing the same care to language, story and community recordings.
Cost and planning
We shape the project around your priorities and available budget. You see the work, timing and total cost before deciding.
We agree on the recording and restoration work, who takes part, what you receive and when. You do not need to arrive with a finished plan.
Your written budget shows production, community pay, travel and materials. Any studio time contributed by NOVA is listed in the quote.
A project may use your own budget or community grants. Speaker and story recordings often suit language funding, while songs and workshops can suit arts, youth or education programs. We help you outline the work and costs, match each part to the right program and check the funding rules with you.
The plan, ownership and permissions are agreed in writing before the program starts.
You choose the recording place. Mixing happens afterwards in our studio, where you are also welcome to visit.
Our travel is planned into the one total cost in your project plan, so your Elders, singers and speakers can record at home.
We provide everyday files, a version for ordinary headphones, and files for your language platforms, such as FirstVoices.
That can include cassettes, reel-to-reel tapes and older digital files. We work on copies and leave the original transfer unchanged. Any new immersive version is a creative interpretation; it cannot recover sound positions the original did not capture.
In BC, FPCC Language Vitality allows outside providers. Their costs, including travel and equipment, are capped at 30% of the whole project budget. Other funding may cover costs above that limit. Funded materials may not be sold for profit.
Your community or eligible organization applies. We help define the recording work and budget. Read the current FPCC guidelines.
Some audio tools use AI to process sound. That is different from using your recordings to train AI.
You keep the originals and finished masters. IPP does not store them long term. We agree when to delete working copies, after you confirm you have everything.
Get in touch
Have songs, stories or a collection in mind? Tell us what matters to your community. We can work out the next step together.
We also welcome Indigenous scholars, language keepers and educators who would like to help shape the program and its training.
NOVA Studios is located on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil‑Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.
