TIES 2014 — Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium
Detailled Symposium Schedule
TIES 2014 is a co-presentation of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) and New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) in collaboration with the Canadian Music Centre (CMC). TIES is held in parallel with the 16th edition of Sound Travels, NAISA’s annual Festival of Sound Art. The Keynote Speaker for TIES 2014 is Pauline Oliveros.
Activities take place at the Canadian Music Centre (Thursday and Friday morning sessions) and at the Artscape Wychwood Barns (all concerts and afternoon sessions, all activities on Saturday and Sunday). Inside the Artscape Wychwood Barns, there are two venues: Theatre Direct’s Wychwood Theatre (Studio 176) and the NAISA Space (Studio 252).
Registration — includes entry to all concerts [ register now ]
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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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Day 1 — Wednesday 13 August 2014
18:00–20:00 • Opening Reception and Installation
Venue: NAISA Space
Fernando Godoy Monsalve — Atacama: 22º 54\” 24\” S, 68º 12\” 25\” W
Programme notes and biographies for the Friday and Saturday evening Sound Travels concerts and for Monsalve’s installation can be found on the NAISA website and in the Sound Travels programme booklet.
20:00–22:00 • Symposium Concert #1
Venue: Wychwood Theatre
Host: jef chippewa
Elainie Lillios — The Rush of the Brook Stills the Mind (2013), for percussion and live electroacoustics
Thomas Dempster — contact clusters (2007)
Stephen Lilly — Divided Attention (2012), for trombone, fixed and unfixed media
jef chippewa — footscapes: one, march (2013)
Shawn Pinchbeck — Container (2014)
Joseph Hyde — Vanishing Point (2010), videomusic
Scott Deal, percussion
Michael Boyd, trombone
See the TIES 2014 programme notes for work details and artist bios.
22:00–00:00 • Symposium Dinner
[ Pre-registration required! ]
Day 2 — Thursday 14 August
09:30–14:30 • Installation
Venue: Canadian Music Centre
Teresa Connors and Andrew Denton — Lines and Tears (2014)
See the TIES 2014 programme notes for work details and artist bios.
09:30–11:00 • Session #1: Software and EA Tools
Venue: Canadian Music Centre
Chair: Kevin Austin
A Multi-Touch Gesture Recording and Manipulation System for Musical Interfaces
by Lawrence Fyfe
Flocking.js: JavaScript Audio for Artists
by Colin Clark
Tools for Sound Spatialisation
by Robert Normandeau
11:00–11:15 • Coffee Break
11:15–12:45 • Session #2: Issues of EA Performance and Distribution
Venue: Canadian Music Centre
Chair: Matthew Fava
Further Access Beyond Concert Performance: Practical consequences of on-demand online electroacoustic music streaming
by Jean-François Denis
Twiddling and Twerking: Thoughts on electroacoustic music performance
by Steven Naylor
The Pipe
by Jean-François Laporte
12:45–14:30 • Lunch
14:30–16:00 • Symposium Concert #2
Venue: Wychwood Theatre
Host: Emilie LeBel
Christopher Anderson — Transom 2 (2012)
Thomas Rex Beverly — Telepresent Storm: Rita (2013)
Shawn Pinchbeck — Tallinn City Symphony (2012)
Oren Boneh — Klaustrophobie (2013), for accordion and fixed media
David Litke — Tabula Rasa (2014)
Richard Garrett — Only Now (2013)
Alexander Sevastian, accordion
See the TIES 2014 programme notes for work details and artist bios.
19:00–20:00 • Installation
Venue: NAISA Space
Fernando Godoy Monsalve — Atacama: 22º 54\” 24\” S, 68º 12\” 25\” W
Programme notes and biographies for the Friday and Saturday evening Sound Travels concerts and for Monsalve’s installation can be found on the NAISA website and in the Sound Travels programme booklet.
20:00–22:00 • Symposium Concert #3
Venue: Wychwood Theatre
Host: Eldad Tsabary
Jeremy Baguyos — Lifeline IV (2013), for contrabass and electroacoustics
Robert McClure — Untangle my Tongue (2011), with Anne Shaw (text)
Jeffrey Roberts — Twelve Landscape Views: III (2014), for guqin, saxophone and electronics
Christopher Biggs — Externalities (2011), for cello and digital audio and video
John Thompson — Stream Stone Surface (2013)
Jeremy Baguyos, contrabass
Zachary Boyt, cello
Jeffrey Roberts, guqin
Chelsea Shanoff, saxophone
See the TIES 2014 programme notes for work details and artist bios.
Day 3 — Friday 15 August
09:30–14:30 • Installation
Venue: Canadian Music Centre
Teresa Connors and Andrew Denton — Lines and Tears (2014)
See the TIES 2014 programme notes for work details and artist bios.
09:30–11:00 • Session #3: Perspectives on Cultural Meaning, Storytelling and Education
Venue: Canadian Music Centre
Chair: James O’Callaghan
Composing Electroacoustic Music in the Intercultural Context: Cultural meanings and uses of timbre
by Jeffrey Roberts
Una Casa de Sonidos: Sonic storytelling with Central American refugee minors
by Blake McConnell
The Laptop Orchestra as a Framework for Transformational Education
by Eldad Tsabary
11:00–11:15 • Coffee Break
11:15–12:45 • Session #4: Studies in Sound
Venue: Canadian Music Centre
Chair: Elainie Lillios
An Audio Programming Language Informed by the Theory of Cognitive Dimensions
by Tanya Goncalves
Qualitative Quantity: A Phenomenological investigation into the compositional potential of audification
by Joshua Horsley
Studies in Sound and Vibration
by VibraFusionLab (David Bobier)
12:45–14:30 • Lunch
14:30–16:00 • Keynote Lecture
Venue: Wychwood Theatre
Chair: Darren Copeland
What Matters? Make the Music!
by Pauline Oliveros
19:00–20:00 • Installation
Venue: NAISA Space
Fernando Godoy Monsalve — Atacama: 22º 54\” 24\” S, 68º 12\” 25\” W
Programme notes and biographies for the Friday and Saturday evening Sound Travels concerts and for Monsalve’s installation can be found on the NAISA website and in the Sound Travels programme booklet.
20:00–22:00 • Sound Travels Concert #1
Venue: Wychwood Theatre
Works by Emilie LeBel, WL Altman and Karlheinz Essel performed by JunctQin keyboard collective, as well as a newly commissioned work by Jean-François Laporte for his new sound sculpture The Pipe.
Programme notes and biographies for the Friday and Saturday evening Sound Travels concerts and for Monsalve’s installation can be found on the NAISA website and in the Sound Travels programme booklet.
Day 4 — Saturday 16 August
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 help you through another big day of papers and concert!
09:30–11:00 • Session #5: Approaches to Spectralism and Visuals
Venue: Wychwood Theatre
Chair: Shawn Pinchbeck
Spectralism and Microsound
by David Litke
Three Electroacoustic Artworks Exposing Digital Networks
by Aaron Hutchinson
Visual Suspension and Audiovisual Acousmatics: Noise and silence in visual music
by Joseph Hyde
10:00–15:00 • Installation
Venue: NAISA Space
Fernando Godoy Monsalve — Atacama: 22º 54\” 24\” S, 68º 12\” 25\” W
Programme notes and biographies for the Friday and Saturday evening Sound Travels concerts and for Monsalve’s installation can be found on the NAISA website and in the Sound Travels programme booklet.
11:00–11:15 • Coffee Break
11:15–12:45 • Session #6: Lecture-Recitals
Venue: Wychwood Theatre
Chair: Adam Tindale
[Lecture-Recital] “In Flight” and Audio Spray Gun: Generative composition of large sound-groups
by Richard Garrett
[Lecture-Recital] Resounding but not Sounding: Diffusing into interior spaces of instruments
by James O’Callaghan
12:45–14:30 • Lunch
14:30–15:30 • Symposium Concert #4
Venue: Wychwood Theatre
Host: Steven Naylor
Robert Normandeau — Anadliad (2010)
Sebastien Lavoie — Basketball Glitch (2013)
Kyle Vanderburg — Blueprints of Eternity (2012)
Daniel Courville — Harmonices Mundi (2014)
Michael Pounds — Hajiki [Pluck] (2010)
Alexandra Spence and Katrina Stamatopoulos — Wind Up Bird (2013), videomusic
See the TIES 2014 programme notes for work details and artist bios.
15:30–16:30 • Session #7: Historic Perspectives and Sound Landscapes
Venue: Wychwood Theatre
Chair: Emilie LeBel
Sound Landscape Memory
by Don Hill
Recreating Robb: The Sound of the world’s first electronic organ
by Michael Murphy and Max Cotter
16:30–17:30 • CEC AGM / AGA
Venue: Wychwood Theatre
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 observers / participants.
19:00–20:00 • Installation
Venue: NAISA Space
Fernando Godoy Monsalve — Atacama: 22º 54\” 24\” S, 68º 12\” 25\” W
Programme notes and biographies for the Friday and Saturday evening Sound Travels concerts and for Monsalve’s installation can be found on the NAISA website and in the Sound Travels programme booklet.
20:00–22:00 • Sound Travels Concert #2
Venue: Wychwood Theatre
Solo performance by Pauline Oliveros.
Programme notes and biographies for the Friday and Saturday evening Sound Travels concerts and for Monsalve’s installation can be found on the NAISA website and in the Sound Travels programme booklet.
Day 5 — Sunday 17 August
10:00–12:45 • Session #8: Perspectives on Notation and Live Instruments in EA
Venue: Wychwood Theatre
Chair: Jeffrey Roberts
[Lecture-Recital] Counterpoint, Expansion and Interaction: Approaches to flute and electronics
by Elise Roy
[Lecture-Recital] The Generative Percussionist: 21st-Century ideas and methods for real-time performance and expression
by Todd Campbell
When Worlds Collide: Tackling graphic notation in live electronic music
by Christian Martin Fischer
[Lecture-Recital] New Music Notation — Score Design, Function and Role: Notation of electroacoustic sound and the problematics of representation
by jef chippewa
12:45–14:30 • Lunch
14:30–16:00 • Special Session: A Noisome Pestilence —An Afternoon of Hugh Le Caine
Venue: Wychwood Theatre
Moderator: Gayle Young
Panel: Kevin Austin, Norma Beecroft, David Jaeger, Jim Montgomery, Pauline Oliveros and Paul Pedersen.
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