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Composers » K » John Kamevaar
- Residence: Toronto, ON, Canada
John Kamevaar is a multi-disciplinary artist, living in Toronto. He has used
sampling/quotation in various media.
From 1981 to 1994, he was a member of the CCMC, playing several instruments in this
improvisation collective which toured internationally. Between 1987 and 1991, he was
the artistic director of a tape music group, “Kaiser Nietzsche”. The latter was
primarily a minimalist noise ensemble, which spawned several tape, record and CD
releases on the “Freedom in a Vacuum” label. And from 1987 to 2004, his main
involvement was in the production of several sound-tracks for the experimental films of
Carl Brown. His current preoccupation with sampling film sound-tracks is an extension
of his work on the 2004 film “Triage” by Carl Brown and Michael Snow.
[SONUS.ca, 2003]
List of Works
- CCMC in concert, 1990/12/12 (1990) — John Kamevaar, Al Mattes, Paul Dutton, Michael Snow
- Department (four-minute example) (4:00 / 1990) — John Kamevaar, Thomas Handy, David Scurr
- Send (five-minute example) (1990) — John Kamevaar, Thomas Handy, David Scurr