Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium 2016
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Day 1 — Wednesday 10 August 2016
09:00–17:00 • Installation
Venue: Canadian Music Centre
John Oswald — The Birth and Death Frequencies
12:00–13:00 • Opening Reception / Registration
Venue: Canadian Music Centre
13:00–14:00 • Lecture-Recital #1
Venue: Canadian Music Centre
Kazimierz Serocki’s “Pianophonie” (1978) for piano, electronic sound transformation and orchestra: Reproducing old analogue sound transformation devices using the Max/MSP and Max for Live environment
14:00–15:00 • Lecture-Recital #2
Venue: Canadian Music Centre
Contraction Point
15:30–16:30 • Lecture-Recital #3
Venue: Canadian Music Centre
Integrating Electroacoustic Techniques into Theatrical Performance
16:30–17:00 • Installation: Introduction
Venue: Canadian Music Centre
Johann Diedrick — Good Vibrations
19:00–19:30 • Installation
Venue: Geary Lane
Campbell Foster — Creation Spirit Machine
19:30–22:00 • Symposium Concert #1
Venue: Geary Lane
Jerod Sommerfeldt — Strong Back, Soft Front (2016/7:28)
Matt Wellins — Sequiturs (2016/20:00)
John Thompson — Electrotactile Maps (2015/5:45), audiovisual
Barbara Finck-Beccafico — Mnoussacheate (2015/9:54)
Jean-Paul Perrotte and Gideon Caplovitz — Composition for EEG and Computer (2016/8:00–10:00), for live streaming of EEG data and Max/MSP
–intermission–
Mei-Fang Lin — Entre le son et la lumière (2015/7:47)
Nathaniel Haering — Resplendent Shards (2015/7:55), for vibraphone and electronics
Ursula Meyer-König — allears (2014/8:00)
Brian Connolly — Maeple (2015/6:20)
Elizabeth Hoffman — Trading Cities — Summer 2016 (2016/6:30)
Mirko Ettore D’Agostino — A Walk Through Karaköy (2014/7:58)
Kiran Bhumber, Norah Lorway and Nancy Lee — Hollow Vertices (2015/10:00), audio-visual environment: live coding and clarinet
Evan Leffert, vibraphone
Kiran Bhumber, code and clarinet; Norah Lorway, code; Nancy Lee, visuals
Day 2 — Thursday 11 August
09:00–17:00 • Installation
Venue: Canadian Music Centre
John Oswald — The Birth and Death Frequencies
09:30–10:30 • Paper Session #1
Venue: Canadian Music Centre
Franco Donatoni: Quartetto III
Allusion and Timbre: A Theory of implicit reference, emotion and familiarity bias in contemporary music
10:30–13:30 • Mobile Installation
Venue: Canadian Music Centre
Johann Diedrick — Good Vibrations
10:45–12:15 • Paper Session #2
Venue: Canadian Music Centre
It’s Not an Instrument, It’s an Ensemble: Adventures in modern modular synthesizer design
Kinesia: The use of physical gesture as an expressive tool in electroacoustic composition
Live Sound Spatialization and On-Stage Feedback Control: Cues to develop an interaction between acoustic and electronic musicians
14:15–15:15 • Lecture-Recital #4
Venue: Geary Lane
The Amplified Tuba: Three sides of a new medium
15:30–17:00 • Keynote Lecture
Venue: Geary Lane
Electronicousmatics, and my involvement since 1956
19:00–19:30 • Installation
Venue: Geary Lane
Campbell Foster — Creation Spirit Machine
19:30–22:00 • Symposium Concert #2
Venue: Geary Lane
Elliott Grabill — planet heart (2016/8:30), for clarinet and laptop
Dan Tapper — Heliosphere (2016/10:24)
Thomas Dempster — the bunyip (2014/8:30), for alto saxophone and fixed-media electronic sounds
Bret Bohman — Traces (2015/9:30), for bassoon and electronics
Xavier Madore — Ready about… Tacking (2015/11:01)
Jane/Kin — Morphine (2015/10:00), Vents sauvages (2015/10:00), for baritone saxophone and laptop
–intermission–
John Mayrose — Random Access (2016/9:00), for alto saxophone and electronics
Kyle Stewart — Bloom (2015/6:36)
Eddie Farr — Chatter (2015/7:03), for two saxophones and laptop
Kerry L. Hagan — Cubic Zirconia (2014/8:30)
Gordon Delap — Splintered Elements (2016/8:00), for simple-system flute and electronic sounds
Guillaume Loizillon — Chimerical Diary (2008–16/15:00)
Michele Jacot, clarinet
Paula Van Goes, alto saxophone
Susan Nelson, bassoon
Ida Toninato, baritone saxophone; Ana Dall’Ara-Majek, laptop
Drew Whiting, alto saxophone
Carolyn Bryan and Alex Sellers, alto saxophones; Eddie Farr, Laptop
Gordon Delap, flute
Day 3 — Friday 12 August
09:00–13:00 • Installation
Venue: Canadian Music Centre
John Oswald — The Birth and Death Frequencies
09:30–10:30 • Paper Session #3
Venue: Canadian Music Centre
Sounding Riddims: King Tubby’s Dub in the context of soundscape composition
Copy-Paste Aesthetics, Distributed Creativity and the Circulation of Max for Live Devices in Online Communities
10:45–12:15 • Paper Session #4
Venue: Canadian Music Centre
Microtonality, Technology and Dramatic Narrative in Manfred Stahnke’s Operas
Xenakis’ “Orient/Occident”: Some alternative analyses
Before Their Time: Revisiting indeterminate composition in the digital age
13:30–18:30 • Mobile Installation
Venue: Geary Lane
Johann Diedrick — Good Vibrations
14:15–15:15 • Special Session
Venue: Geary Lane
Acousmatic Music as a Medium for Information: A Case study of the acousmatic documentary “Archipel”
15:30–17:00 • Symposium Concert #3
Venue: Geary Lane
Hannah M. Brown — Ecosystem (2016/20:00)
Anthony Marasco — WELD (2011/6:00), for iPad, computer and 4 circuit-bent radios
Travis West — Pulmonary (2016/4:28)
Abe King — Public Catharsis Study #1 (2014/8:26), video
19:00–19:30 • Installation
Venue: Geary Lane
Campbell Foster — Creation Spirit Machine
19:30–22:00 • Sound Travels Concert: Two Retrospectives — John Oswald and Paul Dolden
Venue: Geary Lane
In this concert, works by John Oswald and Paul Dolden — two highly individual and distinguished Canadian artists — will trace how they approach the concept of sonic density through their original use of multi-tracking recording techniques since the 1970s. Included on the programme are world premieres as well as classic works by these two esteemed Canadian composers.
Paul Dolden — Below the Walls of Jericho (1988–89/14:35)
Paul Dolden — Who Has the Biggest Sound [excerpt] (2014)
Paul Dolden — L’ivresse de la vitesse (1992–93/15:49)
Paul Dolden — Entr’acte (2016/4:00), commissioned by NAISA
Paul Dolden — Air of the Rainbow Robe and Feathered Skirt (2016/12:34), commissioned by NAISA
John Oswald — Vertical Time (1973/9:58)
John Oswald — 12 Atmospheres (2014/10:00)
John Oswald — Skindling Shadés (1987/7:00)
John Oswald — Bell Speeds (1983, recreated 2016/6:00)
John Oswald — DAB (1989/7:12)
Programme notes and biographies for the Saturday evening Sound Travels concert and for the installations can be found on the NAISA website and in the Sound Travels programme booklet.
http://naisa.ca/festivals/sound-travels
Day 4 — Saturday 13 August
09:30–11:00 • Paper Session #5
Venue: Geary Lane
Live Coding the Mobile Voice
Radiophonic Arts and the Problem of the Stage
11:15–12:45 • Paper Session #6
Venue: Geary Lane
Proposing an Application for Binaural Beating in Timbre Modulation
Sonifying Tidmarsh
Convergence of Set: A Very general technique for automated musical decision-making
12:45–18:30 • Mobile Installation
Venue: Geary Lane
Johann Diedrick — Good Vibrations
14:15–15:15 • Lecture-Recital #5
Venue: Geary Lane
Sharing the Studio in the Creation of “Lépidoptères”: A Study in collaboration and notation
15:30–17:00 • Symposium Concert #4
Venue: Geary Lane
Cody Kauhl — Excursus (2014/15:00), three art songs for soprano and flexible media
Garrett Hecker — Bought and Sold (2015/4:45)
Benjamin McCarthy — The Instagram Loops (2016/10–11:00), for sampled piano, synth, laptop and visuals
Georgios Varoutsos — Elongation (2015/4:14)
Hugh Lynch — Another September (2013/12:36)
Leah Reid — Ring, Resonate, Resound (2014/7:23)
Mikaela Sullivan, soprano
Lara Dodds-Eden, piano; Jonathan Carroll, visuals
19:00–19:30 • Installation
Venue: Geary Lane
Campbell Foster — Creation Spirit Machine
19:30–22:00 • Symposium Concert #5
Venue: Geary Lane
Carolina Heredia — Déjate Caer (2012/7:00), for violin and electronics
Navid Bargrizan — Lava Ilogica (2015/9:47)
Terry Dame — I Feel the Lift Off (2016/15:00)
David Su — 谁追谁? [Who Is Chasing Who?] (2016/5:00), for percussion and electronics
Kevin Patton — A Bird Escaped From the Snare of its Fowler (2016/12:00), for saxophone and electronics
–intermission–
Benjamin Whiting — Illumina! Arabidopsis thaliana (2015/9:17)
Christopher Biggs — Decoherence (2014/15, 10:00), for trumpet, computer and live visuals
Sean Peuquet — What Rough Beast Slouches? (2014–16/11:36)
Mark Zaki — reFRACTion (2012/7:30), for violin and live electronics
David Jason Snow — Wake Me When We Get There (2015/4:58), video
Sundar Subramanian — Locks and Ripples (2013/6:25), for electric guitar and electronics
Maxime Corbeil-Perron — Cubic (2016/11:00)
Carolina Heredia, violin
David Su, percussion
Nikki D’Agostino, saxophone
Robert White, trumpet
Mark Zaki, violin
Sundar Subramanian, guitar
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