Concordia Music Department Presents at the Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium

The Concordia Music Department made several presentations at the Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium 2010, which took place at Artscape Wychwood Barns on August 4-7, 2010.

Matralab researcher D. Andrew Stewart presented the T-Stick digital musical instrument, which was designed and developed by Joseph Malloch and Stewart at the Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory.  He also discussed compositional and performance considerations with gestural controllers.

Professor Christian Calon (keynote speaker) introduced his current spatial media installation project, entitled Atlas (2005-2010), an homage to man's creative enterprise.

Professor Eldad Tsabary revealed the results of a year-long educational action study he conducted at Concordia with electroacoustic-ear-training students.
 
Music Department Chair Ricardo Dal Farra discussed emerging issues (curricular, pedagogical, social, technological) uncovered in four media arts and electroacoustic educational projects he directed (the earliest occurring in 1985).
 
Professor Kevin Austin shared his usage of micro-editing as a compositional technique as part of the TES 2010 Compendium of Practice.

Works by most of these composers were presented during several evening concerts as part of the Sound Travels Festival, hosted by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA):  Tikkun Nefesh (2010) for flute and 12-channel fixed media by Tsabary, Time Well (2000) for fixed media by Calon, Everybody to the Power of One (2008-09) for soprano t-stick by Stewart and Memories (1992) for fixed media by Dal Farra.
 
The symposium also included a presentation of 60x60 Canada 2010 (directed by Tsabary) with compositions by Concordia professors, students and alumni:  Kevin Austin, Adam Basanta, Ede Cameron, Dan Campbell, Mark Corwin, Ricardo Dal Farra, Tyler Fitzmaurice, Yves Gigon, Todd Griffiths, Fernando Leppe Alvarez, I.Tobin Lippold, Florence Masson, Alexandre Matheson, Rosemary Mountain, Alex Olsen, Michael Pinsonneault, Jeffrey Rabena, Julian Stein, Maxwell Stein, Eldad Tsabary, Jennifer Wicks and Nimalan Yoganathan.

Following the symposium, from 10-13 August, Calon and Tsabary remained in Toronto to give masterclasses at NAISA's Sound Travels Intensive workshop for sound artists.  Stewart will be returning to Toronto in the coming months in order to hold the first-ever T-Stick Composition Workshops.  The workshops will also be visiting Montréal and New York City.

The symposium was organized by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) in collaboration with Toronto's New Adventures in Sound Art.