Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium
August 10 - 13, 2011 at the Wychwood Theatre and Christie Studio
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The Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) and New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) are pleased to announce the 5th annual Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium 2011. The 2011 symposium is not only the fifth annual iteration of this important opportunity for exchange between diverse EA communities – it also coincides with the 25th year of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) and the 10th anniversary of New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA). At the heart of the symposium will be a keynote lecture by Sound Travels featured artist Jonty Harrison (Birmingham, UK). The proceedings of the symposium will be published in a forthcoming issue of the CEC's online journal, eContact!
TES Opening Reception:
Wednesday August 10, 6-8 PM
(includes performance/demo by Chan Ka Nin of his installation Welcome to My Parlour)
TES Opening Night Concert:
Wednesday August 10, 8 PM
Theatre Direct's Wychwood Theatre, Artscape Wychwood Barns 601 Christie Street #176
Symposium Sessions (Day 1):
Thursday August 11th 9:30 AM – 4:45 PM
Theatre Direct's Christie Studio, Artscape Wychwood Barns 601 Christie Street #170
9:30-10 AM Open remarks by Kevin Austin
10-11:30 AM Paper Session 1: Creation
Chair: Bruno Degazzio (University of Toronto)
Sonik Spring: a new digital instrument
Tomas Henrqiues
Electro-acoustic and Computational Feedback Synthesis
Campbell Foster
Creative Translations: Exploring how compositions are transformed when
translated betwee acoustic and electroacoustic media
Fiona Ryan
11:30-12:00 Break
12:00-1:00 Listening Session 1: 60 x 60 Canada
1-2:30 PM Lunch
2:30-3:30 PM Paper Session 2: Analysis
Chair: Mitch Renaud (University of Toronto)
Playing with the Voice and Blurring Boundaries in Hildegard Westerkamp's
'MotherVoiceTalk'
Alexa Woloshyn
Henry Gwiazda: buzzingreynold'sdreamland, an Analysis
Bijan Zelli
3:45-4:45 PM Paper Session 3: Algorithms
Chair: Alan Tormey (University of Toronto)
"Visual Music" - Integration of Real-Time OpenGL Graphics with an
Algorithmic Music Composition System
Bruno Degazio
Towards a Generative Electronica: A Progress Report
Arne Argenfeldt
TES Concert #2: Thursday August 11th 8PM
Theatre Direct's Wychwood Theatre, Artscape Wychwood Barns 601 Christie Street #176
Symposium Sessions (Day 2):
Friday August 12th 9:30 AM – 4:45 PM
Theatre Direct's Wychwood Theatre, Artscape Wychwood Barns 601 Christie Street #176
9:30-11 AM Keynote Lecture by Jonty Harrison
The Final Frontier? Spatial strategies in acousmatic composition
and performance
11:00-11:30 AM Break
11:30-1:00 PM Session #4: Space
Chair: Arne Argenfeldt
New Alternatives in Live Performance Spatialization
Darren Copeland
Social Spatialisation: Exploring links within contemporary sonic art
Ben Ramsay
Waves, Ripples, Beats: Psychoacoustic Phenomena Produced by Electronic
Means as Compositional Material, and the Potential of Sine Waves to
Trace the Acoustical Properties of a Given Room
Chioyoko Szlavnics
1:00-2:30 PM Lunch
2:30-3:30 PM Listening Session #2
Vista Points by Manuella Blackburn
Louder by Norah Lorway
3:45-4:45 PM Paper Session #5: Listening to the World
Chair: Kevin Austin
The political Economy of Noise in Ixtlan de Juarez
Owen Coggins
The Soundson Project
Wiska Radkiewicz & Andrea Cohen
4:00-4:15 PM Break
4:15-5 PM Session 7: Listening
Memories by Ricardo Dal Farra; Tikkun Neffesh by Eldad Tsabary
August 12, 8PM, $15/$10
Places for our Ears to Go
Jonty Harrison, David Berezan, llya Rostovtsev, Nick Storring
Theatre Direct's Wychwood Theatre, 601 Christie St #176
(FREE for INTENSIVE and SYMPOSIUM participants)
Symposium Sessions (Day 3):
Saturday August 13th 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Theatre Direct's Wychwood Theatre, Artscape Wychwood Barns 601 Christie Street #176
9:30-1 PM Special Session: Participatory Electronic Ensemble Performance (PEEP)
Laptop orchestras, live coding, networked collaboration, and pedagogy
Arne Eigenfeldt (Simon Fraser University)
David Ogborn (Cybernetic Orchestra at McMaster University)
Alan Tormey (Eclectic Laboratory Chamber Orchestra, Pittsburgh, PA)
1:00-2:30 PM Lunch
2:30-4:00 PM Paper Session 6: Curation
Chair: Darren Copeland
We Built Ourselves a Ghetto: An Analysis of Curatorial Practices
in Electroacoustic Music
Matthew Griffin
Electroacoustic Ageism
Steven Naylor
A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and … an acousmatic composition?
An analysis of contemporary cross-sensory curatorial and presentation
practices in electroacoustic art music
Eric Powell
4:15-5:00 PM Closing Discussion and CEC Annual General Meeting
August 13th, 8PM, $15/$10 (free to symposium participants)
About TIME Concert
Chiyoko Szlavnics, Martin Messier, Yves Daoust
Theatre Direct's Wychwood Theatre, 601 Christie St #176
(FREE for INTENSIVE and SYMPOSIUM participants)
