Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium 2013
TES 2013 is a co-presentation of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) and New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) and is held in parallel with the 15th edition of Sound Travels, NAISA’s annual Festival of Sound Art. The Keynote Speaker for TES 2013 is Francis Dhomont.
All activities take place at Theatre Direct’s Wychwood Theatre [ unless otherwise indicated ], in the Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street — Studio 176, Toronto [ Google maps ]
http://www.wychwoodbarnscommunity.ca
Registration — includes entry to all concerts [ register now ]
Webcast — Listen in to all events on a live stream.
Questions about the schedule or any other aspect of the symposium can be directed by email to Emilie LeBel, Chair of the symposium committee. For any registration or Sound Travels questions, contact Nadene Thériault-Copeland.
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Schedule Summary | Directions | Organisation
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TES 2013 event / info summary (PDF)
Day 1 — Wednesday 14 August
18:00–20:00 • Opening Reception, Registration + Installations
(E)scapes: Exploring the sonic relationship between body and space
Sound Travels installations Sonic Suit by Satoshi Morita and Tele Echo Tube by Hill Hiroki Kobayashi are on exhibition daily during the symposium from 18:30–20:00 and additionally from 10:00–15:00 on the final day, Saturday, 17 August.
[ NB Location: NAISA Space (Studio #252) ]
20:00–22:00 • Symposium Concert #1
Host: Emilie LeBel
Saman Shahi — A Dialogue in Afshari (2012), for clarinet + fixed media
Andrew Babcock — Pianolanche (2012)
Timothy Roy — Wunderkind (2012), for toy piano and computer
Teresa Connors and Andrew Denton — Aspects of Trees (2013), for visual projection, cello + electronics
Elizabeth Hoffman — Soundendipities (2008/11)
Maximilian Marcoll — Compound No. 5: CONSTRUCTION ADJUSTMENT (2011), for black box
Roberto Gerhard / Federico García Lorca — Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter (1959), Arr. Gregorio García Karman (2012)
Steven Naylor — Simeonovo (2011/13)
See the programme notes for details.
22:00–00:00 • Symposium Dinner
Mezzetta Restaurant & Tapas Bar, 681 Saint Clair Avenue West (at Christie)
Meet outside the concert hall after concert.
[ NB The dinner is sold out, only those who have previously reserved will be able to attend! ]
Day 2 — Thursday 15 August
[ Click on linked titles to read paper abstracts ]
09:30–10:45 • Session #1: Creative Practices
Chair: Steven Naylor
Interacting with Inner and Outer Sonic Complexity: From microsound to soundscape composition
by Barry Truax
[Lecture-Recital] Breathwood: Composing for instruments and electroacoustic sounds
by James Harley
10:45–11:00 • Coffee Break
11:00–12:30 • Keynote Lecture
Chair: Kevin Austin
Abstraction et figuration dans ma musique… et autres considérations
by Francis Dhomont
12:30–14:00 • Lunch Break
14:00–15:15 • Symposium Concert #2
Host: Michael Palumbo
Daniel Swilley — Contrapture (2009, rev. 2012), for video and EA
David Litke — Synesthesia (2013), for live electronics
Danny Saul — Frictions_Storms (2013)
Christopher Haworth — Vertizontal Hearing (Up & Down, I then II) (2012)
John Kamevaar — Echo, videomusic (2012)
Benjamin O’Brien — OSCines (2013)
Josh Horsely — Sedemus (2013)
See the programme notes for details.
15:15–15:30 • Coffee Break
15:30–16:30 • Session #2: Tools!
Chair: James Harley
Affective Computing, Biofeedback and Psychophysiology as New Ways for Interactive Music Composition and Performance
by Valery Vermeulen
MyPic: A Tool for computer-assisted algorithmic composition
by Daniel Swilley
16:30–17:00 • CEC — Preliminary General Meeting
(See Saturday for the AGM)
[ NB Location: NAISA Space (Studio #252) ]
16:30–20:00 • Dinner Break + Installations
(E)scapes: Exploring the sonic relationship between body and space
Sound Travels installations Sonic Suit by Satoshi Morita and Tele Echo Tube by Hill Hiroki Kobayashi are on exhibition daily during the symposium from 18:30–20:00 and additionally from 10:00–15:00 on the final day, Saturday, 17 August.
[ NB Location: NAISA Space (Studio #252) ]
20:00–22:00 • Symposium Concert #3
Host: Sophie Dupuis
Adam Vidiksis — synapse_circuit (2012), for percussionist and realtime processing
David Ikard — Água Eletrônica (2013), for water percussion and live electronics
Amanda Lowry — Gigue (2012), for violin and electronics
Luca de Siena and Antonello Belgrano — Concrezione (2102), videomusic
jef chippewa — DUO (1998)
Robert Fleisher — Loretto Alfresco (2009)
Girilal Baars — Lykanthropos (2012)
See the programme notes for details.
Day 3 — Friday 16 August
[ Click on linked titles to read paper abstracts ]
09:30–11:00 • Session #3: Form and Function in EA
Chair: Emilie LeBel
Mastering the Mutable: Music, technology and change
by Steven Naylor
Lost in Transformation: Composer as translator
by Benjamin O’Brien
miniature form in electroacoustic and instrumental new music
by jef chippewa
11:00–11:15 • Coffee Break
11:15–12:30 • Session #4: Creative Practices 2 — Data Manipulation and Generation
Chair: Adam Tindale
[Lecture-Recital] Hadronized Spectra (The LHC Sonifications): Sonification of proton collisions
by Michael Rhoades
From Sound to Score and Back: Approaches to composing with spectral data
by David Litke
12:30–14:00 • Lunch Break
14:00–15:15 • Symposium Concert #4
Host: Matthew Hills
Jeffrey Roberts — Records of A Fractured Past (2012), for flute, cello, percussion + electronics
Jon Fielder — Vous l’inaccessible (2012), for voice and live electronics
Adam Tindale — SIMPLE (2013)
Nick Collins — Supersonic Aortae (2013)
Jerod Sommerfelt — kernel_panic (2011)
See the programme notes for details.
15:15–15:30 • Coffee Break
15:30–16:30 • Session #5: EA Outside the Concert Hall
Chair: Amanda Lowry
Listening to Electroacoustics Outside the Concert Space
by Jean-Francois Denis
MoneySquall: Commodification and its effect on form in electroacoustic music
by Matthew Griffin
16:30–20:00 • Dinner Break + Installations
(E)scapes: Exploring the sonic relationship between body and space
Sound Travels installations Sonic Suit by Satoshi Morita and Tele Echo Tube by Hill Hiroki Kobayashi are on exhibition daily during the symposium from 18:30–20:00 and additionally from 10:00–15:00 on the final day, Saturday, 17 August.
[ NB Location: NAISA Space (Studio #252) ]
20:00–22:00 • Sound Travels Concert #1: Places Real and Imagined
Devin Ashton-Beaucage — ES6 (2009)
David Ikard — Velo (2012)
Iain Armstrong — Annapurna-Pastoral One Hundred Springs (2012)
Samuel Dunscombe — Poetic Cartography: Rainforest (2012/13)
Francis Dhomont — CPH Pendler Music (1997)
Barry Truax — Pendlerdrøm (1997)
Jullian Hoff — Chants migratoires (2012)
See the NAISA website for programme notes for this concert and more information about the various events in Sound Travels 2013 (15 July – 24 August).
Day 4 — Saturday 17 August
[ Click on linked titles to read paper abstracts ]
08:00–13:00 • Farmer’s Market in the Barns!
Every Saturday there is a lovely farmer’s market in the Wychwood Barns complex. A great place for some food to get you through another big day of papers and concert!
10:00–15:00 • Installations
(E)scapes: Exploring the sonic relationship between body and space
Sound Travels installations Sonic Suit by Satoshi Morita and Tele Echo Tube by Hill Hiroki Kobayashi are on exhibition daily during the symposium from 18:30–20:00 and additionally from 10:00–15:00 on the final day, Saturday, 17 August.
[ NB Location: NAISA Space (Studio #252) ]
09:30–11:00 • Session #6: Networked and Open Source Creative Practices
Chair: Matthew Griffin
Notes on the Historical Position of the Live Coding Laptop Orchestra
by David Ogborn
LANdini: A networking utility for wireless LAN-based laptop ensembles
by Jascha Narveson
Quince: A Modular approach to music editing
by Maximilian Marcoll
11:00–11:15 • Coffee Break
11:15–12:30 • Session #7: Live and Non-Realtime Approaches to Presenting EA Projects
Chair: Adam Vidiksis
[Lecture-Recital] CrossTalk: A Reflection on the development of an interactive performance
by Michael Palumbo
Live and Non-Real-Time Source Separation Effects for Electroacoustic Music
by Nick Collins
12:30–14:00 • Lunch Break
14:00–15:00 • Session #8: Interdisciplinary Practices and Waveform Modulation
Chair: jef chippewa
Fear of Flight: Expanded presence and inter-sensory gesture in multimedia performance
by Freida Abtan
Oscillating Oscillators
by Adam Tindale
15:00–15:15 • Coffee Break
15:15–16:45 • Session #9: EA Analysis
Chair: David Litke
Towards a New Philology: Approaching the analysis and reconstruction of early tape music based on magnetic tape sketches
by Gregorio Garcia Karman
Analysis of Christian Calon’s “The Standing Man”
by Bijan Zelli
Structure Formation: An Analysis of electronic superimpositions in Stockhausen’s “Solo”
by Mark Nerenberg
17:00–18:00 • CEC — Annual General Meeting (AGM)
Annual General Meeting of the CEC. Members are invited to attend. Non-members interested in the activities of the CEC are welcome to attend as observer/participants.
[ NB Location: NAISA Space (Studio #252) ]
18:00–20:00 • Dinner Break + Installations
(E)scapes: Exploring the sonic relationship between body and space
Sound Travels installations Sonic Suit by Satoshi Morita and Tele Echo Tube by Hill Hiroki Kobayashi are on exhibition daily during the symposium from 18:30–20:00 and additionally from 10:00–15:00 on the final day, Saturday, 17 August.
[ NB Location: NAISA Space (Studio #252) ]
20:00–22:00 • Sound Travels Concert #2: Places Real and Imagined
Vanessa Sorce-Lévesque — Bora (2011)
Barry Truax — Chalice Well (2009)
Monique Jean — Givre (2011)
Francis Dhomont — Here and There (2003)
Ursula Meyer-Koenig — L’espace entre les souvenirs (2009)
Francis Dhomont — Espace / Escape (1989)
See the NAISA website for programme notes for this concert and more information about the various events in Sound Travels 2013 (15 July – 24 August).
Post-Symposium — Sunday 18 August
13:00–15:00 • Spatialization Workshop
Host: Darren Copeland
A hands-on workshop where NAISA Artistic Director Darren Copeland will explain and demonstrate the Audio Spotlight directional speakers and the NAISA spatialization system. Participants will have the chance to try out the system.
Free to all registered TES attendees!
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