Lecturer

Limited Term Appointment beginning August 15, 2010


Contact Information:
Tel: 514-848-2424 ext. 5163
Email: Eldad.Tsabary@concordia.ca
Office: S-GM 500-31

Eldad has taught electroacoustic composition, performance, history, and ear training at Concordia since 2005. He also teaches sound recording, digital audio, MIDI, synthesis, sampling, and sound for image at Formation Musitechnic since 2007.

Research:

In collaboration with other faculty members, Eldad has been involved for several years with developing an ear training method specialized for electroacoustic studies at Concordia's music department, using auditory scene analysis, perception, and brain studies as theoretical foundations, and mixed-method action research as an educational model.  This method is geared at improving aural segregation, discrimination, identification, and integration skills of EA students and to develop an aural flexibility with tonal, none-tonal, and unpitched aural stimuli, enhancing students' abilities in all other courses in the curriculum.

Eldad has also given related talks and taught ear training workshops at Toronto Electroacoustic Symposiums, NAISA's Sound Travels Intensive, and CRES/CFRO Co-op Radio (Vancouver). His related writings have been published and his doctoral research in music education at BU is also on the topic.

Involvement with the EA community:

As the Canadian director of 60x60, Eldad recently organized several music, dance, and multimedia shows, including "60x60 Order of Magnitude" - a 10-hour long show at the FOFA gallery as part of Congress 2010. The show comprised 600 compositions, all one-minute-long, by 600 different composers (the most ever programmed in a single show), with 600 improvisations by 20 dancers coordinated by Stéphanie Bernard, and 10 hours of live video by Michael Plante.

Eldad is also the treasurer of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) - Canada's national EA organization.

Composition:

Recent artistic highlights include From My Home to Your Home (a telematic duet with David Eagle for Deep Wireless 2010 Festival in Toronto), Tikkun Nefesh for solo instrument and 14-channel electronics (commissioned by trombonist Haim Avitsur), and Homo Religiosus (an interreligious piece containing prayers and interviews recorded in places of worship of five different faiths).

Eldad's works won prizes and mentions in international competitions including Washington Project for the Arts and Kraft Media Prize 2009, Miniaturas Electroacústicas 2008, Deep Wireless / CBC Outfront Residency 2008, Bourges 2007, Madrid Abierto 2007, ZKM's Shortcuts: Beauty 2006, and Harbourfront Centre's New Canadian Sound Work 2006.
His music is released on Confluencias, ERMMedia, Capstone Records, NAISA, ElektraMusic, Vibrö, Vox Novus, and JAZZIS, and published by Editions BIM (Switzerland). Performers of his music include the Bulgarian Philharmonic, Cygnus Ensemble, Haim Avitsur, and Silvie Jensen.

Education:

Eldad received his education at Boston University, CUNY Graduate Center, Mannes College of Music, Rimon School of Jazz and Musitechnic. He studied composition under David Loeb, David Olan, David Del Tredici, and Tim Brady, Schenkerian Analysis under Carl Schachter, and contemporary music theory under Philip Rupprecht and Philip Lambert.