Canadian Electroacoustic Community
GM-500 — 1455, boulevard De Maisonneuve Ouest, Montréal, QC, H3G 1M8, Canada
http://cec.sonus.ca - cec@sonus.ca
- Residence: Guelph, ON, Canada
Al Mattes received a BA from the University of Manitoba (1964), and a BFA from York University (1975). He was the managing director of the Association of Non-Profit Artist-Run Centres (ANNPAC) from 1977-81. With CCMC cohort Peter Anson, Al Mattes founded the Music Gallery in Toronto, and was its executive and artistic director from 1975-87. He was also the artistic director of the Inter-Arts department of the Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta. A founding member of the CEC, he was a member of the CEC’s Board of Directors from 1990-89, serving as President from 1994-97. Mattes was pivotal in the making of the CEC’s Journées Électro Radio Days festival, in December 1993. JERD was the first nationwide non-profit community-based radio festival, and linked Montréal, Toronto and Vancouver by broad band-width telephone lines, and involved live-to-air performances and interactive ea/cm. Since 2000 he is Patron of the CEC.
[Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC), 2008]
List of Works
- a.k.a. February 13th (24:33 / 1979) — Al Mattes, Casey Sokol, Michael Snow, Nobuo Kubota
- CCMC in concert, 1990/12/12 (1990) — John Kamevaar, Al Mattes, Paul Dutton, Michael Snow
- downtown Toronto (5:20 / 1980) — Al Mattes, Casey Sokol, Michael Snow, Nobuo Kubota
- Free Soap (10:52 / 1979) — Al Mattes, Casey Sokol, Michael Snow, Nobuo Kubota
- Low Blow (16:40 / 1979) — Al Mattes, Casey Sokol, Michael Snow, Nobuo Kubota
- Somewhere Else (9:51 / 1992) — Al Mattes, Paul Dutton, Michael Snow
- Umlaut Semicolon Dipthong (3:50 / 1980) — Al Mattes, Casey Sokol, Michael Snow, Nobuo Kubota
- Without a Song (18:00 / 1980) — Al Mattes, Casey Sokol, Michael Snow, Nobuo Kubota