Wednesday, 4 August 2010 — Opening Day

18:00

Venue: Theatre Direct’s Christie Studio, 601 Christie Street #170

20:00

Venue: Theatre Direct’s Wychwood Theatre, 601 Christie Street #176
Entry: $15/10 (FREE for symposium participants)

Butch Rovan — Correspondences
Nick Storring — Artifacts
Bob Bauer —Returning to his Old Home
Ben Ramsay — Low-bypass

22:00

Venue: Mezzetta’s, 681 St Clair Avenue West

Mezzetta’s is situated at the corner of Christie and St. Clair Ave West, a 5-minute walk from the Artscape Wychwood Barns.NB: Reservations have been made, however individual, advance registration for the symposium is required to attend. .

Thursday, 5 August 2010 — Symposium Session Day 1

All sessions will be held in Theatre Direct’s Christie Studio, 601 Christie Street #170.

09:30–10:00

10:00–11:30

Chair: Emilie LeBel

Malletkat for New Music
Rick Sacks

The Power of One: Performance Modes on the T-stick Digital Musical Instrument
D. Andrew Stewart

• D. Andrew Stewart — Catching Air and the Superman, for keyboard, digital T-sticks and chamber ensemble (video)

11:30–11:45

Break

11:45–13:00

Chair: Christian Calon

Join us in celebrating the official announcement of the winners of this year’s edition.

A large multi-leveled project of the Communauté électroacoustique canadienne (CEC) Canadian Electroacoustic Community, JTTP is aimed at promoting and celebrating new electroacoustic works from young and/or emerging sound artists/composers from (or living in) Canada. JTTP is an annual project and was launched in 2000. In its 2010 edition, the JTTP project took the form of a collaboration with the Australasian Computer Music Association (ACMA).

13:00–14:30

Lunch

14:30–16:30

Chair: Michael Kaler

Wallace Berry’s Structural Processes and Electroacoustic Music: A Case Study Analysis of Robert Normandeau’s Onomatopoeias Cycle
Alexa Woloshyn

Suspended Imprints: An Exploration of space, sound and the inner monologue
Samantha Horseman

Exploring the Shared Cognitive Networks Between Speech and Music
Christopher Trimmer

20:00

Venue: Theatre Direct’s Wychwood Theatre, 601 Christie Street #176
Entry: $15/10 (FREE for symposium participants)

Travis Ellrott — Away (movements IV–VII)
Louis Dufort — Nervures
Daniel Courville — Les fruits du hasard

Friday, 6 August 2010 — Symposium Session Day 2

All sessions will be held in Theatre Direct’s Christie Studio, 601 Christie Street #170.

09:30–10:00

Coffee

10:00–11:30

Keynote Speaker: Christian Calon

11:30–11:45

Break

11:45–12:45

Chair: Eldad Tsabary

60 pieces by 60 Canadian composers will be played without pause, with a new piece beginning every minute on the minute. The sound will be accompanied by spectrographic images and a large clock.

60x60 is an annual project which started in 2003 and has seen since over 200 concerts, dance shows, and multimedia installations worldwide. Its Canadian edition is organized by Vox Novus in collaboration with the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) with the mission to support and highlight Canada’s EA community.

12:45–14:00

Lunch

14:00–16:00

Chair: Kevin Austin

The Results of a Year-Long Action-Study on Aural Skills Acquisition by Students of Electroacoustics at Concordia University
Eldad Tsabary

Electroacoustic Music and Media Arts Teaching
Ricardo Dal Farra

Masterpiecing Electroacoustic Music: Pedagogical Reflections from a Musicological Perspective
Cathy Cox

In Search of Tools for the Laptop Ensemble
Arne Eigenfeldt

16:00–16:15

Coffee Break

16:15–17:00

Ricardo Dal Farra — Memories
Eldad Tsabary — Tikkun Nefesh

20:00

Venue: Theatre Direct’s Wychwood Theatre, 601 Christie Street #176
Entry: $15/10 (FREE for symposium participants)

Works by Christian Calon, D. Andrew Stewart and David Eagle.

Saturday, 7 August 2010 — Symposium Session Day 3

All sessions will be held in Theatre Direct’s Christie Studio, 601 Christie Street #170.

09:30–10:00

Coffee

10:00–11:30

Chair: David Eagle

Composing with Food: Technical and Aesthetic Considerations for the Sound Installation, Eating
Cathy Cox

Sixteen Lazy, Myopic, Inattentive, Forgetful and Capricious Robot Musicians
Bentley Jarvis

Bodily Listening
Satoshi Morita

11:30–11:45

Break

11:45–12:45

Chair: Fiona Ryan

12:45–14:00

Lunch

14:00–16:00

Chair: D. Andrew Stewart

A Local and Global Approach to Composition
Louis Dufort

Developing Content-Based Processing for SuperCollider… and Beyond
Thomas Stoll

• Thomas Stoll — geré en réseau

Negotiated Content: Generative Soundscape Composition by Multi-agents
Arne Eigenfeldt

• Arne Eigenfeldt — Coming Together: Freesound

16:00–17:00

Chair: David Ogborn

20:00

Venue: Theatre Direct’s Wychwood Theatre, 601 Christie Street #176
Entry: $15/10 (FREE for symposium participants)

Works by Manuella Blackburn, Natasha Barrett, David Hindmarch, Ned Bouhalassa.