Aimee Copping is a musician, educator, composer, writer and producer, and the creator of the Blackball electronic music program.

Blackball was launched in Toronto’s Regent Park in 2015 and delivers electronic music technology and teaching to children and youth in under-resourced communities at no cost to the user. Blackball has reached hundreds of community members across Ontario and received funding from the Ontario Arts Council, Musagetes, the Guelph Community Foundation—and the Guelph Arts Council.

Aimee Copping records and performs as Transstar on the independent Park Music label. Laurie Brown of CBC Radio q says the debut Transstar EP Famous Door is “like landing on another planet.” Transstar's sophomore release, Untraceable, reached the Top 10 on CFRU 93.3 Radio Gryphon. The Transstar song Wolf at the Door can be heard on the soundtrack to the 2024 independent Canadian feature film release Really Happy Someday.

In 2023, Aimee created SongLine, a songwriting workshop for trans, non-binary and Two-Spirit youth. That same year, Aimee and co-producing partner Lucy Bilson created and led asuperher00pera, an original opera-based performance piece with 29 students at Victory Public School.

In 2021, Aimee wrote and produced a four-hour audio documentary on the history of electronic music, Synths Always, which was broadcast on University of Guelph’s radio station CFRU FM in August of 2021 and picked up by CHMA in Sackville, New Brunswick the following month. Synths Always is available on the NCRA/ANREC campus and community radio exchange.

In 2019, Correctional Service Canada commissioned Aimee to create and lead Wellspring, a summer-long creative writing workshop for Grand Valley’s LGBTQ+ inmates.

In 2017, Aimee was engaged by singer-songwriter Arlene Bishop to write arrangements for and conduct a 30-voice choir for her live album, Together Tonight.

In 2016, Aimee began a four-year collaboration with Pros and Cons, a songwriting project for imprisoned people. She established a dedicated music production space inside a federal penitentiary, Grand Valley Institution For Women in Kitchener, and collaborated with inmates in songwriting, vocal technique and music production in immersive one-on-one workshopping. Aimee Copping has produced two Pros and Cons albums, Undisclosed Location in 2018 and, in 2020, Private Town.

Aimee has collaborated with Girls’ Rock Camp Guelph, Art Not Shame, Silence Sounds, and the Upper Grand District School Board.

Aimee Copping holds a B.A. in English with a creative writing major and a Master's degree in Critical Studies in Improvisation and is currently enrolled in the PhD Social Practice & Transformational Change program at the University of Guelph. In February of 2025, Aimee was awarded a grant by the Explore and Create program of the Canada Council for the Arts' to complete her untitled novel-length work of fiction.