Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium 2007

Paper Schedule

Day One: Thursday 9 August 2007

Note: Unless otherwise indicated, symposium events take place in room 330 of the Edward Johnson Building, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. 80 Queen’s Park Cr. Toronto, Ontario. M5S 2C5.

09:00–09:30 Registration, Coffee and Introductions

09:30–11:00 Session 1: The Discipline of Electroacoustics

• Kevin Austin — The Breadth of Electroacoustics, A personal (re)view
• Paul Connolly — The Piano as an Electroacoustic Instrument
• Andrew Staniland — Electroacoustic Influences on Acoustic Compositional Process

11:00–11:30 Coffee Break

11:30–13:00 Session 2: Interfaces and Environments

Chair: Dennis Patrick

• Hector Centeno — Open Source software and electroacoustic music creation: an overview and personal practices
• Bruno Degazio — Software Tools for Electronic Wind Instrument Performance
• David Ogborn — Programming As Artistic Practice: The Allegory and Analogy Environments

13:00–14:30 Catered Lunch

Courtesy of Faculty of Music, University of Toronto

14:30–15:30 Keynote Lecture: Barry Truax

15:30–16:00 Walk to Chalmers House, Canadian Music Centre

16:00–17:00 Presentation and reception by Canadian Music Centre

Michelle Arbuckle & Jason van Eyk — CMC and the Electroacoustic Community: Past, Present and Future. Location: Chalmers House, 20 St. Joseph St.

21:00–00:00 Open-mic concert hosted by angelusnovus.net and InterAccess

Location: InterAccess Media Arts Centre, 9 Ossington Avenue

Day Two: Friday 10 August 2007

Note: Unless otherwise indicated, symposium events take place in room 330 of the Edward Johnson Building, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. 80 Queen’s Park Cr. Toronto, Ontario. M5S 2C5.

09:00–10:30 Session 3: Soundscapes

Chair: Kevin Austin

• James Harley — The Hills Are Alive…: The Wild Fruits Electroacoustic Soundscape Project
• Elsa M. Lankford — Bringing Composed Activism (Back) into the Soundscape
• Paul Scriver — Re-auralizing Nature: Musical practice as a means to a greater understanding of the natural world

10:30–11:00 Coffee Break

11:00–12:30 Session 4: Instruments and Installations

Chair: David McCallum

• James Hearon & Akito Van Troyer — Aspects of Sahnsi and Polos in Balinese Gamelan Instruments
• Eric Leonardson — The Springboard: The Joy of Piezo Disk Pickups for Amplified Coil Springs
• Micheline Roi — Reciprocal Listening in electroacoustic sound installation

12:30–13:30 Lunch Break

13:30–14:30 Keynote Lecture: Trevor Wishart

14:30–15:00 Coffee Break

15:00–16:30 Session 5: Live Electronics

Chair: David Ogborn

• So Jeong Ahn — New Composition Techniques in Live Electronic Music using MaxMSP
• Carey Dodge — The ‘Beast’ that is Live Spatialization
• Mark Nerenberg — Aleatoric Techniques: Piece for Saxophone Quartet and Live Electronics 1st mvt.

16:30 End of symposium: Dinner and travel to Toronto Islands

19:00 Sound Travels weekend begins with soundwalk on Toronto Islands

Location: it is necessary to be at the Toronto Islands ferry terminal by 18:30 in order to arrive in time for soundwalk (full concert schedule here).