Artist Biographies  Kristi A. Allik
Kristi A. Allik was born in Canada and has received degrees from University of Toronto (Bachelor of Music), Princeton University (M.A. in Music Composition), and University of Southern California (D.M.A. in Music Composition). She has received numerous commissions and awards, including Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council grants, Chalmers Award, and has won prizes from the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition and Ars Electronica. Allik's work synthesizes the stylistic and cultural resources of atonality, jazz, and Estonian music. Her works, which include electroacoustic music, multimedia works, orchestral works, opera, and chamber music, have been performed in Europe, U.S.A., South America and Canada. Currently she is Associate Professor at Queen's University, where she is Director of the Electroacoustic Music Studios and the Computer Laboratory for Applications in Music. She teaches courses in electroacoustic music composition, computer music, multimedia, and jazz arranging. Lori Beckstead  Lori Beckstead is a professor in the School of Radio & Television Arts at Ryerson University in Toronto, teaching radio, audio and digital media. She spent ten years as a community radio broadcaster and has done freelance work for the CBC producing and reporting for radio and the web. She recently completed studies at the University of Technology, Sydney (Australia) where she found a new interest in interactive art that incorporates and highlights sound as the central focus.
Robert C. F. Mulder was born in The Hague, Holland in the last century. After much probing he will admit to being an independent interdisciplinary artist with a passion for the real-time interaction of light, sound and imagination. This passion has resulted in a long exploratory path of discovery in the domain of live media arts ˜ the integration of visuals, music, and drama ˜ in performance utilizing new means. He was (and still is) inspired by the interdisciplinary ideas/works of Le Corbusier & Edgar Varèse, Louis-Bertrant Castel, Thomas Wilfred, Bulat Galeyev, and Leon Theremin. Among his major commissions are new media and integrated arts commissions for the Canada Pavilion of Expo 1986, Ars Electronica Festival, (Austria 1992), the Berlin Music Biennale (Germany,1997), and New Music Concerts (1992 & 2000). He has won awards/prizes from the Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition and Prix Ars Electronica. His works have been staged, screened or exhibited in Brazil, Canada, Europe, Estonia, USA, and Russia.  Barry Prophet
Barry Prophet is a composer, percussionist, and sculptor whose music has appeared in galleries and theatres in Canada, United States and Europe. Creating unique sounds since 1979, he has exhibited and performed on his percussion sculptures 'Glass Box', 'Revolving Tone Door' and 'TransparentTone Arch' at the Art Gallery of Windsor (1986), Bloomsburg Theatre (1989) Bloomsburg, USA, the Art Gallery of Algoma (1989, 1991, 1992) Sault Ste. Marie, Thunder Bay Art Gallery ((1989, 1990, 1991), White Water Gallery (1989) North Bay, McMichael Canadian Art Collection (1994) Kleinberg, Pekao Gallery, (1997) Toronto and the Canadian Sculpture Centre (2002) Toronto. Barry's micro tonally tuned glass lithophones have been featured in performance venues throughout the country and his 1997 recording 'Crystal Bones' (CD) has been choreographed to by international dance artists. Barry has led traditional and experimental percussion programs for students and educators across Canada since 1983. David Rose David Rose is a multiple award winning sound designer/editor for film and television who has recently rediscovered sound for sounds sake. His most recent efforts are “You Are Here”, part of the Geophonobox exhibition at the Around the Coyote gallery in Chicago and “Winanga-Li: Australian Soundscapes” a collaboration with partner Lori Beckstead, released on the wanderingear.com label. This past summer he did sound design work for the acclaimed feature film documentary “Manufactured Landscapes” which explores the work of noted Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky. He is currently working with Ms. Beckstead on a user created soundscape sculpture called “The Whispering Tree”. David lives in Toronto, Canada |
