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Radio Producer (1995-96)
I organized and produced a number of radio programs on CITR Radio in Vancouver, Canada between 1995 and 1996. Orchestral Conductor (1997) In 1997, the American College Band Directors National Association gave me the opportunity to workshop one of my orchestral compositions for wind ensemble. Many young American band musicians and students came to Richmond, Virginia to participate. I conducted my Natural Distortions for wind orchestra. Concert Administrator and Choir Director (1997-99) In May of 1999, I presented a concert in Amsterdam featuring young musicians. The music was all ‘new’ music written by composers from the Concerten Tot en Met collective. The compositions created for this event, were for choir and for drum band. A Few Memorable Performances (1997-2001) • In 1997, Toronto’s New Music Concerts featured my The ART of Japanese Bed-fighting for voices, percussion and tape. The concert contained works from Canadian composers from abroad presented live to air from The Glenn Gould Studio at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. • In 1997, my set of piano miniatures, entitled Egregious Quiddity, were performed at Lincoln Center, New York, by the American Guy Livingston. • My composition, entitled Breathe, was featured in the Festival for Contemporary Recorder Music in Salzburg, Austria in 1999. This is a work for soprano, alto, tenor and bass recorders with interactive electronics. • In Köln, Germany, my composition, Slip of the tongue, for trumpet, percussion and tape was performed in 1999 by the German ensemble Musik Fabrik. The concert featured works from past students of the Dutch composer Louis Andriessen. • The Mexican Ensemble 3, a trio consisting of flute, bass clarinet and piano, premiered my If...in Paris in Mexico City in 2001. The work also calls for guitar. New Digital Musical Instrument (2000-03) What does it mean to create a new instrument; or perhaps a better question is, what is it about ‘traditional’ instruments that allows us to refer to them as instruments? What if your new instrument has nothing of the physical quality of a traditional instrument, neither keys nor buttons; how does the player control and subsequently relate to this immaterial device? My Sonic Jumper is just such an instrument. The performer wears a body-suit containing a number of tiny sensors that survey movement and send corresponding data to a computer. Sound and body movement combinations are created and synchronized using Voltage to MIDI interface technology. Using my Sonic Jumper, I will explore how one ‘feels’ or perceives the physical sensation inherent in music, and subsequently, how music or sound in combination with an observed movement can trigger a physical reaction in the listener. Ultimately, this project will address the issue that a human being’s capacity to digest and produce sound is linked to the comprehension of, appreciation and dislike for sound. I believe that exploring our relation to sound, either as agents or receivers, can help us to discover what makes our ability for sound-making( and music-making) so unique. The ramifications of this will have a direct impact on how the roles of sound and music are valued within a given society. Please follow the sonic jumper link on the front page to find out more. Rogues, Bayans and Accordions (2002-03) You can catch the premier of my Rogues’ Gallery for bayan and wind orchestra on December 8 in Tilburg, The Netherlands; and there will be a few subsequent performances in the spring of 2003 - to be announced. By the way, the bayan is an instrument of Russian origin and most closely resembles the Italian-designed button accordion. The bayan and accordion have distinct timbral qualities. In fact, there are conflicting opinions as to the merits of one over the other. Piano Miniatures (2003) My series of miniatures for piano, entitled Egregious Quiddity, has recently been expanded. I have composed three new miniatures, which will be premiered in January, 2003, at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France. Please come to see Christine Cornier-Langlois interpret these ‘love’ songs. The poet of rhythm and skunk...(2003) If you are in Vancouver, Canada in March of 2003, you might want to catch my The poet of rhythm and skunk, DJ Ninja Mastermix Coldcut Panic A.K.A. Sven Love my Body A.K.A. The Garage Man and Coma Dan being premiered by the local Symposium Ensemble. This is a composition for alto saxophone, amplified violoncello, vibraphone and piano. Sonic Jumping (2003) My current project - Sonic Jumper - has showings in Canada and Amsterdam in the month of May, 2003. Improvisation and audience interaction will be the principle activities. sounds between our minds (2008) for digital musical instruments (soprano t-stick, tenor t-stick, rulers) March 2008 Pollack Hall, Schulich School of Music, McGill University And Wolf Shall Inherit the Moon (2003-08) The epilogue to R. Murray Schafer's Patria Cycle August 2008 Haliburton Forest and Wildlife Reserve Everybody to the Power of One (2008) for solo t-stick sonor-jo September 2008 Codes d'accès et Le Vivier Catching air and the superman (2009) for chamber orchestra, keyboard synthesiser and t-sticks March 2009 — project web page — Digital Musical Instrument Composition: Limits and Constraints This talk investigates the importance of understanding and establishing limits while creating music for digital musical instruments Electroacoustic Music Studies Network June 2009 E pluribus unum (Out of many, one) and One Ton for solo t-stick co-production by Codes d'accès and live@CIRMMT December 2009 Biameral Mind, part 2 for audio-streaming clarinet-controller January 2010 Concurrence and Counteraction in Musical Gesture and Form Our contribution to the theme of 'music and gesture' involves describing gestural controller mapping principles from the perspective of the performer and composer. Co-presented with Joe Malloch. 3rd International Conference on Music and Gesture Montreal March 2010 Soprano t-stick performance at the CHI Media Showcase Atlanta April 1010 Concert of new t-stick works, hosted by the EMF. New York May 2010 Vigorous music-making: the inherent “liveliness” of a t-stick instrumentalist, paper presentation at the 2010 ICMC New York June 2010 Immortal Machine for SonicJumper and other digital musical instruments in collaboration with percussionist João Catalão, Ida Toninato on saxophone and Jean-Guy Boisvert, clarinet Montreal June 2010 The Power of One: Performance Modes on the T-Stick Digital Musical Instrument 2010 Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium Toronto August 2010 Performances and launching of 2010 T-Stick Composers' Workshop at Sound Travels Festival, hosted by New Adventures in Sound Art Toronto August 2010 Shake, rattle and roll : Or how to create music for digital musical instruments Performance-lecture at The Ghost in the Machine: Technologies, Performance, Publics hosted by The Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas Improvisation, Community and Social Policy Montreal 2 February 2011 A glimpse of t-stick workshop compositons Performance at the 2011 Open Ears Festival Kitchener-Waterloo 28 April 2011 A night for t-stick music in New York Hosted by the Electronic Music Foundation and ISSUE Project Room New York City 4 May 2011 packing a lunch at !, for soprano t-stick, at NIME 2011 Hosted by the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Academy of Music, in collaboration with NOTAM, BEK, NTNU, Simula and the Norwegian Museum of Science, Technology and Medicine. Oslo, Norway 30 May 2011 Research presentation at the MATRALAB Showcase Hexagram-MATRALAB, Concordia University Montreal 7 June 2011 WITH WINDS t-stick performance at the 2011 Electroacoustic Music Studies network conference Hosted by the the Electronic Music Foundation and Electroacoustic Music Studies Network New York 14-18 June 2011 Experimental Music from Brazil and Beyond During their visit to Lethbridge, the percussion and violoncello duo, Fernando Rocha and Elise Pittenger, perform live electronic music from composers Sergio Freire, Matthew Burtner, Kaija Saariaho, as well as performing the world premiere of a new composition from João Pedro Oliveira. The t-stick instrumentalist, D. Andrew Stewart, will be joining them for performance-improvisations in an unusual combination of acoustic and digital-electronic instruments. University of Lethbridge Recital Hall 29 January, 2012 Residency at the Centro Mexicano para la Música y Artes Sonoras, or CMMAS (The Mexican Centre for Music and Sonic Art) Morelia, Mexico May 2012 |
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