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 The name itself is a Nintendo
reference born out of improvisation with a Casio keyboard. Colin mixes
found sounds, noise, samples, synthesizers, and acoustic instruments
using tape recorders and computers. In 2003, his "X-Mas in Roxbury" and
"Winter Lives" albums were released on Villa Magica Records, the
project label of Swiss artists Sylvie Fleury and John Armleder. In
2004, he was included in a double LP compilation put out by Atlanta
noise label Old Gold. Other music projects of his include: L. Contra
Band, Conquistador, Mastablasta, and the Arrangement. The last several
years, Colin has collaborated with artist Jennifer Schmidt on a series
of videos, including: "What's in a Name" (2001), "Scan-Tron" (2003),
"Letters in a Coma" (2004), and "Waterlogged" (2005). “Wish You Were
Here” represents the first time he has worked with Terry Nauheim, and
the first non-video based project with Jennifer Schmidt. http://www.villamagica.com
and http://www.myspace.com/twoheaded.
 Wende
Bartley
Wende Bartley is a
Toronto-based composer writing in a variety of forms. Her current work
is focused on an investigation into sound and voice as vibrational
energy. She is creating a series of pieces based on recordings made at
various ancient sites in Greece, Malta, and England.
 Chantal
Dumas
Chantal Dumas is an audio and radio artist who uses sound to explore
new possibilities for narration. Since 1993 she has produced over 23
works for radio as a freelancer; her "stories" have been widely
broadcast on public radio and at festivals. She has received awards
including EAR International Competition (Hungary) and Phonurgia Nova
International (France). Her works can be found on OHM editions and on
326music.
 James
Harley
James Harley is a Canadian
composer presently based at the University of Guelph, where he teaches
digital music, composition, and related courses. He obtained his
doctorate in composition at McGill University in 1994, after spending
six years composing and studying music in Europe (London, Paris,
Warsaw). His music has been awarded prizes in competitions in Canada
(CBC, New Music Concerts, SOCAN), USA (McKnight Foundation), UK
(Holland Prize, Huddersfield Festival), France (Bourges, MC2), Poland
(Lutoslawski, Serocki), Japan (Irino), and has been performed and
broadcast around the world. Some of Harley's compositions are available
on disc (Artifact, ATMA, Kappa, McGill, Musicworks, PeP, Soundprints)
and his scores are primarily available through the Canadian Music
Centre. He has been commissioned by, among others, Codes d'Acc�s,
Continuum, Ensemble contemporain de Montr�al, Hammerhead Consort,
Kappa, Kore, Kovalis Duo, New Music Concerts, NUMUS, Oshawa-Durham
Symphony, Open Ears Festival, Polish Society for New Music, SMCQ,
Transit Festival—Belgium, Trio Phoenix, Vancouver Bach Choir. He
composes music for acoustic forces as well as electroacoustic media,
with a particular interest in multi-channel audio. According to Marc
Couroux (Musicworks 69), Harley's music "resides at the intersection of
a network of influences rather than proliferating from a central
ideology… Harley accepts that the complexity of nature requires a more
artistically imaginative interpretation than the simple extension of an
Arcadian, placid contemplation… Harley consequently oriented himself
towards the theory of chaos, which derives its principles from a much
more global study of natural mechanisms than was previously allowed due
to hyperspecialization… James Harley defends on the highest level the
great Canadian creative tradition, rooted in the natural world, a
metaphor for the irreducible complexity of Canada and, by extension, of
universal humanity."
Matt Miller
Matt Miller is a Toronto-based
composer and sound designer whose compositions range from
genre-bending, cross-cultural pop, to what might be described as
organized noise.
 Robert Mulder
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
Var�se, 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.
He is a founding member of
LEARK, a live improvisatory laptop band. His most satisfying event of
this Century was the creation of an interactive CD-ROM about the
passing of the Millennium Year in partnership with the extended public
school community of a small Ontario village.
Terry
Nauheim
(b. 1970) explores sound and
visual relationships through digital media, drawing, and installation.
Her artwork has been exhibited in the Bronx Museum of Arts; the Drawing
Room, London; Contemporary Museum, Baltimore; Delaware Center for
Contemporary Arts, Mus�e Art Contemporain Lyon; and the Sculpture
Center, Long Island City. She was a recipient of Maryland State Arts
Council's Individual "New Genre" Artist award and an
Artist-in-Residence at Harvestworks. Ms. Nauheim has an MFA from
University of Maryland and a BFA from Washington University. In
addition to producing her work, she teaches computer arts at NewYork
Institute of Technology and New York University. She currently lives
and works in New York.
http://www.terrynauheim.com
Robert Normandeau
After a BMus in Composition
(Electroacoustics) from the Universit� Laval (Qu�bec City, 1984) Robert
Normandeau moved to Montr�al and completed an MMus in Composition
(1988) and the first PhDMus in Electroacoustic Composition (1992),
under Marcelle Desch�nes and Francis Dhomont. He is a founding member
of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC, 1987). From 1986 to
1993, he was an active member of the Association pour la cr�ation et la
recherche �lectroacoustiques du Qu�bec (ACREQ), where he produced the
Clair de terre concert series at the Montr�al Planetarium. In 1991, he
co-founded R�seaux, an organization for the production of media arts
events, notably the acousmatic concert series Rien � voir.
After a certain interest in
instrumental and mixed works, his current endeavours are focused on
acousmatic music. More specifically, his compositions employ esthetical
criteria whereby he creates a ‘cinema for the ear’ in which ‘meaning’
as well as ‘sound’ become the elements that elaborate his works. Along
with concert music he now writes incidental music, especially for the
theatre.
He is Professor in
electroacoustic music composition at Universit� de Montr�al since 1999.
He received two Opus Awards from the Conseil qu�b�cois de la musique in
1999: “Composer of the Year” and “Record of the Year-Contemporary
Music” for Figures (IMED 9944) The Acad�mie qu�b�coise du th��tre (AQT)
has given him a Masque Award in 2002: “Best Music for Theatre” for the
play Malina.
Robert Normandeau is an award
winner of numerous international competitions, including Ars
Electronica, Linz (Austria, 1993, Golden Nica in 1996), Bourges
(France, 1986, 1988, 1993), Fribourg (Switzerland, 2002),
Luigi-Russolo, Varese (Italy, 1989, 1990), M�tamorphoses, Bruxelles
(Belgium, 2002, 2004), Musica Nova, Prague (Czech Republic, 1994, 1995,
1998), Noroit-L�once Petitot, Arras (France, 1991, 1994),
Phonurgia-Nova, Arles (France, 1988, 1987), and Stockholm (Sweden,
1992).
He received commissions from
The Banff Centre for the Arts, CKUT-FM, Codes d’Acc�s/Musiques
& Recherches, Groupe de recherches musicales (GRM), Groupe de
musique exp�rimentale de Marseille (GMEM), Jacques Drouin, �v�nements
du neuf, Claire Marchand, Arturo Parra, Mus�e d’art contemporain de
Montr�al, Open Space Gallery, Soci�t� Radio-Canada, R�seaux, Sonorities
Festival, Vancouver New Music, and Zentrum f�r Kunst und
Medientechnologie (ZKM).
He was composer in residence
in Banff (Canada, 1989, 1992, 1993), Belfast (Northern Ireland, 1997),
Bourges (France, 1988, 1999, 2005), Mons (Belgium, 1996), Paris
(France, 1990, 1994), Ohain (Belgium, 1987), and Karlsruhe (Germany,
2004).
 David
Ogborn
(www.davidogborn.net)
Freely traversing borders and
genres, David Ogborn is a composer, guitarist and performer of
electronic sound and video. At the centre of his work is the
combination of traditional performance arts with electronic elements —
whether these be recordings of diverse outdoor environments around the
world, improvisations on a laptop or altered guitar, video projections
influenced by live musical gestures, or massive synthesized sounds on
immersive arrays of loudspeakers. His sound installation Dream House
was featured at the Canadian Music Centre's Chalmers House during
Toronto's inaugural Nuit Blanche and his live electronic music for
Fritz Lang's silent film Metropolis was a special event at the Esprit
Orchestra's 2007 New Wave festival. In November 2007 the Transatlantic
Transient tour saw Ogborn perform on guitar and electronics in
Amsterdam, Belfast, Berlin, and several Canadian cities. He is an
Associate of the Canadian Music Centre, a founding member of the
angelusnovus.net group, and serves on the board of the Canadian
Electroacoustic Community (CEC).
Rob
Piilonen
Rob Piilonen is a
Toronto-based flute player, improvisor, composer and producer.
 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.
Jennifer Schmidt
(b. 1975) is a multi-media
artist living in Brooklyn, NY and Boston, MA, who often works with
printed media and graphic design to create sculptural installations,
video, and screenprinted ephemera.She received her Master of Fine Arts
degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999 and
Bachelor of Arts degrees in Studio Art and Art History from the
University of Delaware in 1997; and is faculty within the Print Media
and Graduate Program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Recent exhibitions and screenings include: International Print Center
New York, NY, Pulsar Festival for New Media, Caracas, Venezuela,
Cinema-Scope, London, UK and Miami, FL, Candela Gallery, Puerto Rico,
Test Patterns: Public Art Project, Baltimore, MD, Conversational Lag,
Volume Gallery, New York, NY, Rencontres Internationales Paris /
Berlin, 50th International Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany, Video
Pool, Winnipeg, Canada, AIM V:SYZYGY, Armory Center for the Arts,
Pasadena, CA, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE,
Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, and Experimental Sound, Video
and Film Programmation, Institute Jean Vigo, Perpignan, France.
Jennifer is a 2007 fellow in Printmaking / Drawing / Artists' Books
from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
http://www.jenniferschmidt.com
J�rgen
Teller
J�rgen Teller born 7th of
january 1958 in Copenhagen DK does composition, guitar, sampler, synth,
vocal, electroacoustics and songs. His compositions and projects focus
on guitars, electro acoustics, laptop interacting w.
brass/instruments/dancers/poets, songwriting, improvisation, music for
dance-theatre, poetry and video. Teller has performed at Sound Travels
in 2001 and 2003 and took part in a Sound Travels residency in Arhus,
Denmark.
The Wanderology
The Wanderology is an
improvisation collective made up of alumni of the University of
Guelph's Contemporary Music Ensemble. The group has performed at
Leftover Daylight, at Guelph's River Run Centre, and at the launch for
the interdisciplinary research project Improvisation, Community and
Social Practice. Three members of the group will participate in the
2008 edition of Sound Travels. Germaine Liu is a percussionist and
composer pursuing graduate studies in composition with David Mott at
York University. She will appear with Montreal's famous SuperMusique
ensemble in their 2008/9 season. Mark Zurawinski began life as a punk
drummer who is currently studying the Toronto improvisation scene as
part of his Masters in Ethnomusicology at York University. Versatile
experimental vocalist Megan-Fay Rothschild has a Masters degree in
English from the University of Guelph and a passionate interest in
social counselling.
Ellen
Waterman
Ellen Waterman is a dynamic
flutist/vocalist and creative improviser who specializes in
contemporary and experimental music. She is known for her flamboyant
physical presence and wild range of vocalizations on the flute, and for
her dedication to Canadian experimental music. Her performance practice
intersects closely with her work as a cultural theorist and
musicologist.
Ellen is Associate Professor
in the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph, where
she leads the Contemporary Music Ensemble and teaches courses in 20th
century and avant-garde music. She holds the Ph.D. in Critical Studies
and Experimental Practices from the Department of Music at the
University of California, San Diego. For over a decade she performed
with iconic Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer on several of his
Patria music/theatre projects, and her scholarly work on Schafer has
been widely published.
Ellen is represented on
premiere recordings of works by Brian Ferneyhough (CRICD 652) and
Schafer (CMCCD 8902). Her own compositions and improvisational work
have been released on Radiant Dissonance Volume Two, a set of ten radio
programs produced by the Canadian Society for Independent Radio
Production, and on her CD Sound Crossings. As an improviser she has
been fortunate to perform with such major artists as George Lewis, Miya
Masaoka, Malcolm Goldstein, Susie Ibarra, Jo�lle Leandre, Jean Derome,
Lori Freedman, Nicole Mitchell, Pauline Oliveros and Anne Bourne. She
has performed at the Guelph Jazz Festival, the Vancouver International
Jazz Festival (with VCMI), and Montreal’s The Upgrade! In 2007 she was
Artist in Residence at The Art of Immersive Sound (U. of Regina). Ellen
is an active member of the Association of Improvising Musicians,
Toronto.
Darren
Copeland - Artistic Director
(website)
 Darren Copeland is a
soundscape composer, radio artist, sound designer and concert producer.
He has studied electroacoustic composition under Barry Truax (Simon
Fraser University) and Dr. Jonty Harrison (University of Birmingham).
His concert works have received mentions in competitions (Vancouver New
Music, Luigi Russolo, Hungarian Radio, La Muse en Circuit, and
Phonurgia Nova) and appeared on compilation CD releases (Storm of
Drones, Radius #3, DISContact I & II, Lieu - Non Lieu, and
Soundscape Vancouver). Rendu Visible, a CD devoted to his work, is
available on the empreintes DIGITALes label.
Other works combine his
electroacoustic and theatrical backgrounds to break open disciplinary
boundaries between electroacoustics, radio art, and theatre. Highlights
include the adaptation of August Strindberg's A Dream Play (first radio
drama at CBC conceived for broadcast in Surround 5.1), the soundscape
documentaries Life Unseen and The Toronto Sound Mosaic, and a DORA
nominated soundtrack for Samuel Beckett's That Time.
In addition to composing, he
has written articles about listening and environmental sounds for
Electronic Cottage, Musicworks, Contact! (CEC), Soundscape: Journal of
Acoustic Ecology, and The Journal for Electroacoustic Music (Sonic Arts
Network) as well as CD, concert and book reviews for Musicworks, The
Whole Note, and Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology.
Has a producer and
administrator, fond memories lie with Wireless Graffiti, a live-to-air
radio extravaganza in 1993 co-produced by Rumble Theatre and Vancouver
Pro Musica. After active histories with Vancouver Pro Musica, the
Standing Wave Ensemble, and the Communaut� �lectroacoustique
Canadienne/Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) from 1990 to 1996,
he now serves on the board of the Canadian Association for Sound
Ecology (CASE) and is the Artistic Director for New Adventures in Sound
Art.Art.
 Nadene
Th�riault-Copeland - Managing Director
Nadene Th�riault-Copeland is
Managing Director of New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA), Business
Manager of Musicworks Magazine and Financial Coordinator for Charles
Street Video. Nadene is also on the board of directors of the Canadian
Association for Sound Ecology. She promotes the dissemination of new
and experimental sound art through her work with New Adventures in
Sound Art, and recently edited three educational booklets published by
NAISA: Radio Art Companion (2002), Sign Waves Companion (2002) and
Sound in Space (2003). Nadene received her B.F.A. in Music from York
University in 1991 where she studied composition with James Tenney.
 Barry
Rueger
(website)
Barry Rueger is the NAISA
webmaster and helps with thvarious NAISA projects. Barry has worked
with non-profit organizations for nearly 20 years, with a particular
focus on non-commercial radio. In the past he has sat on the Board of
Appalshop, an Appalachian media arts organization in Whitesburg,
Kentucky, and was a Board member of The Association of Independents In
Radio (AIR). Previously Barry worked at CKCU Radio Carleton in Ottawa,
Canada, guiding a major restructuring and financial overhaul. He has
also been involved in leadership roles at CFMU, at McMaster University
in Hamilton and Vancouver Co-op Radio in Vancouver. In 1996 he managed
the National Campus and Community Radio Conference in Hamilton, Ontario.
In recent years Barry has
become recognized for his ongoing work with new and emerging community
radio broadcasters, and received a "People Who Make A Difference" award
from the Community Foundation of Ottawa. He continues to guide and
shape the direction of campus and community radio in Canada. He can
always be counted on by novice broadcasters to provide guidance on the
business of radio.
Barry is now located back in
Vancouver, and is loving the mountains and ocean , and is charting new
directions. Barry's free time is spent on his blog Three
Squirrels in a Pressure Cooker.
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