60x60 (2012) Canada Mix

The 60x60 (2012) Canada mix is comprised of composers, musicians and sound artists from Canada. James Finnerty is the audio coordinator for the 60x60 (2012) Canada Mix.

• 1 ) Sixty To Life
  Jeremy Peter Curry
• 2 ) Twice through the looking glass
  Sylvain Poitras
• 3 ) Race Against Time 2
  John Oliver
• 4 ) Greenchain
  Soressa Gardner
• 5 ) Eight Bars
  Ferdows Laraya
• 6 ) Organoleptic dream
  Dubravko Pajalic
• 7 ) A Palette (for electric bass and effects)
  Andrew James Noseworthy
• 8 ) Railway Siding, Mars
  Lorne F Hammond
• 9 ) The 1 second sound
  Sophie Mercedes Genest
• 10 ) Ice Orchestra
  Bob Bauer
• 11 ) Steel wool study #66
  Jonathan Desjardins
• 12 ) Memory
  Sarah Boothroyd
• 13 ) Choir Loop
  Robert James Pierson
• 14 ) Merja
  James Andean
• 15 ) Hot Water
  Alexandra Olsen
• 16 ) (re)Find Objects no.2
  Mario Gauthier
• 17 ) flashing into the dark
  Hope KW Lee
• 18 ) Each uisge
  Ben Jisoo Kim
• 19 ) Wind Shadows
  Rolf J. Boon
• 20 ) staghit
  Ede Cameron
• 21 ) foam
  Terry Gambarotto
• 22 ) Attraction
  Emilie Payeur
• 23 ) They
  Dimitar G Pentchev
• 24 ) Mockingbird Whisper
  John G Coutanche
• 25 ) Isomorphia
  James O'Callaghan
• 26 ) minim
  Mark Hannesson
• 27 ) Geostatic Arrays
  Marco Liy
• 28 ) Maritime exile
  Helene Garcia
• 29 ) Une histoire de métal
  Thomas Francois Giros
• 30 ) Lithufo
  Todd Harrop
• 31 ) Seven Crystal Balls
  Quaternin
• 32 ) Appassionato
  Joanna Estelle
• 33 ) Rain
  Jana Skarecky
• 34 ) Boon
  John Sobocan
• 35 ) love and beauty
  Aaron Acosta
• 36 ) Sherbourne
  Emilie Cecilia LeBel
• 37 ) Trinity
  Nicolas Diab
• 38 ) Dark in the dark
  Victor Garibaldi
• 39 ) The Fountain
  Myriam Bleau
• 40 ) Roboterstück
  Arne Eigenfeldt
• 41 ) Undine
  David Neil Campbell
• 42 ) Dear Gerhard
  James Bailey
• 43 ) And Please Stay Away From the Adobe Flasher Player
  fourthousandblackbirds
• 44 ) Mother-in-Law's Tongue
  Dry Heeves
• 45 ) FM-TASF
  Christopher Gorman
• 46 ) Cehennem Çukuru
  Brian Beaudry
• 47 ) Wheeze3
  Ambrose Pottie
• 48 ) the days you work are the best days
  Jamie Woolard
• 49 ) I sang for 60 seconds
  Suzy Easton
• 50 ) After Keem
  Robin Parmar
• 51 ) Millisecond Pulsar
  Keith Odell
• 52 ) Autumn - The Fourth of the 4 Seasons
  Sebastion Lavoie
• 53 ) 60 X 60 X 2012
  David Kettle
• 54 ) n4t2a
  Desktop Icons (Kendal Zier, JJ Rogers, and Shaun Gamboa)
• 55 ) people with stripey hats go to the mountain and play bongos
  Gamble Tron
• 56 ) Midi
  Scott Mallory, Jr.
• 57 ) Inuvik Sky Synth
  Michael Baker
• 58 ) Two Robots in a Phone Booth
  Justin Rito
• 59 ) Quick Six/ Steadman Doubles
  John L Baker
• 60 ) Glass Candy
  Maxine Corbeill-Perron

• 1 ) Sixty To Life
  Jeremy Peter Curry
• Jeremy Curry started an avant-garde improv music collective called "Space Rabies" in 2009. He has played monthly noise events, and the Sled Island music festival. He is also a freelance writer, digital artist, and plays in the improv duo "Super Gross Mountain". His major influences are Debussy, Steve Reich, and Jim O'Rourke. Other mediums influence him as well. Comic books, fatty foods, and his cat, Winston.
  The composition was made to be a minimal piece, but I found that I could stretch the tones to their maximum capacity to make an almost mind-melding atmosphere of sound, despite the fact I was not using many filters or instruments. The whole thing was prepared on a laptop, and mixed myself.
  slackula.tumblr.com
• 2 ) Twice through the looking glass
  Sylvain Poitras
• A philosopher by training (BA and MA) he is particularly interested in language, thought and art. Trombonist with various ensembles, he has played twice at the Ottawa Jazz Festival. His recent musical explorations lead him towards experimental and electronic music. Founding member of Kino Outaouais, he produced some thirty short films. Recently, he explores the world of comics at UQO. Left to himself, he watches Star Trek and writes poetry.
  A bass clarinet sample from the lodon philharmonia orchestra is mangled beyond recognition and serves as the only sound source for this one minute composition.
  www.sylvainpoitras.com
• 3 ) Race Against Time 2
  John Oliver
• Award-winning composer & performer John Oliver writes opera, orchestra, chamber & electroacoustic music, & performs chamber music as a guitarist. Performed extensively in his native Canada, his works have also been heard in Europe, the Americas, and China, and are heard worldwide on recordings from empreintes DIGITALes, earsay, CBC Records, ZaDiscs, SNE, & Centrediscs. Oliver holds a doctorate from McGill University.
  The short piece was composed using 96 tones per octave (16th of tone) and then a rather haunting sound in Absynth was used as the "instrument." The music moves from clusters to cadences on adjacent overtones, such as 17 through 23, and then some lower ones.
  http://www.johnolivermusic.com
• 4 ) Greenchain
  Soressa Gardner
• Soressa Gardner is a vocalist, improviser and electronic music composer who collaborates with authors, dancers, visual artists and fellow musicians. She performs regularly with VEE (Vancouver Electronic Ensemble), and with two community based improvising choirs: DB Boyco's Voice Over Mind, and Kate Hammett-Vaughan and Carol Sawyer's Voxy Music. Soressa's work is influenced by her studies with composer Peter Hannan and vocal coach Richard Armstrong.
  "Greenchain" was written using gong, fiddle and celesta samples layered and spread over octaves each divided into 31 equal tones. The mood was inspired by the poem Greenchain 1973 by Dennis E. Bolen.
  soressa.com
• 5 ) Eight Bars
  Ferdows Laraya
• Ferdows Laraya is a student in Electroacoustic Studies at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
  This was created with electric guitar, hardware sampler, and loop pedal. A loop is created using overdubbing. The output of the loop pedal is sampled, played, and added to the loop.
• 6 ) Organoleptic dream
  Dubravko Pajalic
• Dubravko Pajalic lives and works in Vancouver BC as a computer specialist. His background in musicology, conducting, information science allows him to explore various musical forms and expressive tools.
  Organ fantasy was commissioned by distinguished organist Misha Arensky and will be performed in Vancouver in the fall 2012. The piece is dedicated to Croatian composer Dubravko Detoni.
• 7 ) A Palette (for electric bass and effects)
  Andrew James Noseworthy
• Andrew Noseworthy is a composer and guitarist from St John's, Newfoundland, Canada. While most of his compositional output is works for solo guitar, Andrew has also composed for strings, brass, percussion and piano in solo and ensemble settings; along with aleatoric works for any choice of instruments. He is also active as a performer, both solo and with groups such as Memorial University's Guitar Quartet and Experimental group C'llapse.
  This piece is inspired by the idea of painting colours spontaneously on a canvas. It is meant to be a sound, and written score, representation of placing the colours as oppose to music inspired by the finished painting itself. While it is open to interpretation, different colours could be represented by timbral qualities reflected in the use of effects as well as pitches. Motives could possibly be shapes. The electric bass guitar provides a rich yet wide ranged instrument for this purpose.
• 8 ) Railway Siding, Mars
  Lorne F Hammond
• "For several decades I have been exploring electronics and the wide diversity of recorded sound and genres. I like to work quickly, with as clear and uncluttered mind as possible so the piece can emerge instinctively. i don't like to edit inside a piece, mentally or physically. I stop thinking about structure once it begins but I may spend some time thinking about the sonic canvas before I start."
  An initial composition using the 4-track facilities of an op-1 sound device in a music concrete style of overlays. The lower tones are reminiscent of time spent listening to trains rattle by in Manitoba but the higher pitches areas relate to distant radio pulses and atmospheric noises. Something odd is in those cars being taken where and why? Situated somewhere near the lab that bounced Diefenbaker's voice of the moon? Or Mars?
• 9 ) The 1 second sound
  Sophie Mercedes Genest
• I have a passion for music and art. I have a DEC in classical music, a BFA in electroacoustic music and I will be starting a second BFA in studio art soon. I plan to work on more mixed media. I have a music and an art blog which I use to share my work and experience.
  This piece is made out of a one second sound. I transformed the sound and compose a 60 seconds piece with it. It's very abstract and doesn't have a specific story.
  phiemercedes.blogspot.com
• 10 ) Ice Orchestra
  Bob Bauer
• Bob Bauer is a respected Canadian composer, broadcaster, performer, conductor, arts administrator and educator. He worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for 30 years as a recording engineer and music producer. Bauer is one of the founders of ArrayMusic in Toronto and Upstream Music Association in Halifax. Currently he is co-artistic director of the Oscillations festival of electroacoustic music, Musikon concerts and he is Atlantic regional chair of the CMC.
  "This work was inspired by a passage from the novel "The Brief History of the Dead" by Kevin Brockmeier. The heroine is struggling to stay alive in the frigid arctic and as she dances from ice floe to ice floe, she imagines hearing music coming from the water under the ice. The sounds of cracking ice have always been fascinating to me and mixing them into my little ice orchestra has been a delight. "
  www.freewebs.com/bauermusic/
• 11 ) Steel wool study #66
  Jonathan Desjardins
• Jonathan Desjardins lives and works in Montreal. He holds a BA in Computation Arts from Concordia University. His work is declined in several fields including sound art, sound installation, printmaking, drawing and video. Multi-instrumentalist, he has composed for theater, accompanied several poets and founded many groups of free improvisation.
  Steel wool study # 66 is part of a series of studies using as a single sound source, a steel wool. From several different sounds taken, and a score inspired by the visual morphology of steel wool; this urban walk fits within a process of dematerialization of the landscape where nature takes slowly his right.
  jonathandesjardins.com
• 12 ) Memory
  Sarah Boothroyd
• The audio work of Canadian Sarah Boothroyd has been featured by broadcasters, festivals and galleries in over 25 countries. She has won awards from Third Coast International Audio Festival, New York Festivals, the European Broadcasting Union, and La Muse En Circuit.
  "Memory" is a one-minute sound-illustration of the idea that the past isn't what it used to be.
  www.sarahboothroyd.com
• 13 ) Choir Loop
  Robert James Pierson
• Composer from Victoria B.C. currently enrolled in the Concordia Electroacoustic Program.
  The inspiration of the piece is the idea of chaos, how it is always changing and unpredictable, not an evil consciousness, which I once thought it meant. In this piece I show chaos in action as I improvised the processing on the voices with a device I had never used before, recorded in one take, showing that anything is possible in chaos.
  http://autodix.bandcamp.com/
• 14 ) Merja
  James Andean
• James Andean is a musician and sound artist. He is active as both a performer and a composer in a range of fields, including electroacoustic composition and performance, improvisation, sound installation, and sound recording. He is a founding member of improvisation and new music quartet Rank Ensemble and of the sound collective Resonator Helsinki, and one half of the audiovisual performance art duo Plucié/DesAndes.
  "Merja" was composed as part of an audiovisual installation in collaboration with visual artist Merja Nieminen. The materials for this piece are an unlikely cooperation between the recorded voice of my baby daughter, and a large wooden door at the Finnish coastal fortress Suomenlinna.
• 15 ) Hot Water
  Alexandra Olsen
• Alexandra Olsen is a Montréaler who writes, performs, and produces avant-pop, and now and then electroacoustic music and music for film and theatre. Her music bridges the worlds of pop and experimental music; taking in acoustic instruments, synthesis, field recordings, and studio manipulations. Her piece "Rust" was featured in both the Vermillion and Canada mixes of 60x60, 2010. Her work for theatre has included composing the original score for “Stranger”—Praxis Theatre's stage adaptation of Camus’s “L'Étranger”. She was previously the lead singer of the post-rock band Marlowe, and studied electroacoustics at Concordia. Her first solo album (under the name Alex Ookpik), is forthcoming. She will soon also have a mixtape featured as part of Steven Hall (Arthur's Landing) and mim gf's Mitamine Lab (http://www.mitaminelab.com/).
  "Hot Water" is a live recording of an improvised "performance" on a hot water tap, (minimally processed and edited). The make and vintage of the hot water tap is unknown.
  http://alexookpik.com
• 16 ) (re)Find Objects no.2
  Mario Gauthier
• Independant researcher and sound artist for almost ten years now, I was, for a long time, producer at the CBC radio (Chaine culturelle) and also, a archivist for the late Phonotheque Quebecoise. I produced recordings of new music (all genre), archival stuff, and I do a lot of research about phonography and new music. As a sound artist, I'm a member of a collective ectroacoustic quartet (Theresa Transistor) and I collaborate with a lot of sound artists.
  (re)Find objects no 2 is the continuity of a precedent project call Objets (re)Trouvés. It is compose only from unused part of old tape recordings I found here and there during my job as a sound archivist. I don't know the exact provenance of the sound(s) because there where found at the end of pre-recorded projects of different nature (generaly quite old). I just bring them again to surface instead of put them in the trash without duplicate it. But all this is, of course, also a fiction...
  http://www.mariogauthier295.ca
• 17 ) flashing into the dark
  Hope KW Lee
• Hope Lee exploits instruments imaginatively, creating colourful and evocative sonorities. Aptly described by Michael Schulman as a "cross-cultural explorer," she is always exploring new sounds and structures, and striving for constant growth within individual works and in her output as a whole. Furore-Verlag, Germany publishes all her works.
  flashing into the dark is for bass clarinet, commissioned by Italian clarinetist Guido Arbonelli for his Namaste Suite.
  hopelee.shawwebspace.ca
• 18 ) Each uisge
  Ben Jisoo Kim
• Ben Jisoo Kim (b. 1984) is a composer who creates vivid and colorful music from an eclectic palette of musical backgrounds. He combines his experience in Korean traditional music and his knowledge of western classical music to achieve a unique soundscape. Although he composes for all instruments, he often focuses on choral music. His works and arrangements have been performed throughout North America and Europe by ensembles including the LA Master Chorale and Spiritus Chamber Choir.
  Each uisge is a work for solo clarinet inspired by and titled after the Scottish water horse spirit. Although thought to be extremely dangerous to people, I paint a careless, straightforward, and playful picture of this mythological creature with broad and splashy strokes.
  http://soundcloud.com/b-67
• 19 ) Wind Shadows
  Rolf J. Boon
• Dr. Rolf Boon is an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre, Member of the Canadian League of Composers, Audio Engineering Society and Tonus Vivus. His compositions have received national and international exposure including performances in Barcelona, Spain; Berlin, Germany; Los Angeles, USA; Poland and China. His work has been broadcast on Access Radio and CBC radio/television. Rolf has received many commissions from individuals, multimedia groups, and organizations.
  "Wind Shadows explores the energies, subtleties, and tensile effect of the wind on the beautiful prairie fields and coulees of southern Alberta, Canada. The work is based on an octatonic pitch/formal organization, and employs extended flute performance techniques. I used a studio audio capture of an interpretation and realization of the graphic score by flutist Sarah Gieck to digitally process, spatialize and manipulate elements of the work to enhance the sonic narrative. "
  http://directory.uleth.ca/users/rolf.boon
• 20 ) staghit
  Ede Cameron
• Have been involved in music for numerous years. Currently studying for my Masters in Computer Science.
  staghit... reminds me of a robotic spagetti western soundtrack though the rolling cylinder sounds.. I guess robots ride hollow steel horses.. hum??
• 21 ) foam
  Terry Gambarotto
• Terry Gambarotto is a digital artist and composer from Toronto. His most recent work is the audiovisual performance Operations (2012).
  This track is an excerpt from an upcoming album of experimental works made with Max/MSP.
  http://foolskool.com
• 22 ) Attraction
  Emilie Payeur
• The electroacoustic composer and visual artist Émilie Payeur presents works steeped in the influence of the abstract movements of the 20th century, the psychedelic art of the 60's, experimental cinema and good old fashion surrealism. She currently pursues a master in electroacoustic composition (M. Mus) at the Université de Montréal, under the guidance of composer Robert Normandeau. Her research focuses on understanding and adapting her painting processes to her work as musical composer.
  ''Attraction'' is a work in which different sound objects meet at the end as if they were attracted by it.
  http://www.myspace.com/emiliepayeur
• 23 ) They
  Dimitar G Pentchev
• Dimitar Pentchev is an award-winning composer and pianist who has written music for theatre, film and the concert stage. He is interested in combining acoustic sounds and approaches to pre-recorded and manipulated sounds, especially the human speech as a source of musical inspiration. His score for the legendary silent film "Pandora's Box" (1929) was one of four chosen by Criterion Collection for their 2007 DVD Edition of the film and received great reviews from critics and audiences alike.
  "The piece is based on a poem of mine, part of the set-of-66 poems "Gleams". They've clipped a wing of mine And lured me with sky See, I'm flying already Proud and content But why am I flying in circles Why"¦ This was an attempt to treat the human speech/voice as a musical instrument and also see how far I could deconstruct language without loosing the meaning of it."
  http://soundcloud.com/soundconvincer
• 24 ) Mockingbird Whisper
  John G Coutanche
• John Coutanche is a sound designer/editor based in Winnipeg, Canada, especially interested in natural sounds, the practise and technology of gathering them, and the further use of these sounds in support of experimental and art video and film. He is a radio producer and documentarist whose work has been featured in CBC Radio documentaries including Ideas, Between Ourselves and other programs. He is a Producer member of Video Pool Media Arts Collective in Winnipeg.
  This recording was made at a table under an orange tree in Gulfport, Florida. The mockingbird is not native to Winnipeg, so its perky perurations are fascinating and brought to mind an old song chestnut from my youth. I have quoted part of the song while listening to the birds. Distant local traffic, planes, and a high school practise field are also part of this particular urban soundfield. I have processed to try to reduce these less musical bits. A Tascam DR-07 and its built in mics.
• 25 ) Isomorphia
  James O'Callaghan
• "James O'Callaghan is an emerging composer and sound artist based in Montréal. His music, equally concentrated in electroacoustic and acoustic idioms, attempts to preserve a connection with real-world sound identities and social justice, often drawing on sounds from natural and urban environments. He received his Bachelors of Fine Arts in composition from Simon Fraser University, studying with Barry Truax, and is currently an MMus Candidate at McGill University."
  Isomorphia is a study in the shared morphologies of animal-produced sounds. The piece exchanges transformation strategies between morphological and semantic comparisons between sound-sources. By transforming sound-sources through their inherent comparison, I hope to craft a kind of poetic narrative, underlining the similarities between non-human animals, and ourselves.
  http://www.jamesocallaghan.com
• 26 ) minim
  Mark Hannesson
• Mark Hannesson is a composer and sound artist who writes instrumental, electroacoustic and mixed works. Many of his works explore and attempt to develop the connections between instrumental and electronic music. As well, he is an active performer of live electronic music. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta (Canada) teaching courses in Composition and Music Technology.
  One of a series of pieces exploring the idea of duration. These pieces range from a few seconds to hours.
  http://www.ualberta.ca/~mjh7/Hannesson/
• 27 ) Geostatic Arrays
  Marco Liy
• Marco Liy is an electroacoustic composer and sound artist born in Lima, Peru and based in Montreal, Quebec currently studying Electroacoustics at Concordia University. His intrepid perspective towards sound practices leads him to constantly explore unknown sonic potentials and pushing the boundaries of the sonic experience
  The immersive stereo piece "Geostatic Arrays" was inspired by the perception of a sonic texture that is able to vary in space and/or time, yet able to resist the pressure of the mass of different materials (ranging from the mass of a rock to the mass of the earth) without losing its unity. The overall organic feeling of the gestures resembles the concept of geostatic stress.
• 28 ) Maritime exile
  Helene Garcia
• Composer since the age of 8, I first met with music with a guitar. For 8 years I turned into electroacoustic music but I compose mainly with recorded sounds rather than processed sounds. Being not only musician, but also a writer, my compositions are the ground for spoken-word and singing. Also I'm studying in digital music in order to orient myself towards multidisciplinary uses of music, like cinema (foley), theatre and contemporary arts installations.
  Despite the sonic pollution that attacks our ears in modern occidental life, there is a music in each and every daily situation that can open up the imagination. Here is a maritime ambiance created with sounds recorded far away from the sea : despite all the noise we have to live with, there are still sounds that help humans to admire the infinite of nature and to fill the ears with the desire of a long journey around the world.
  www.soundcloud.com/louonthemoon
• 29 ) Une histoire de métal
  Thomas Francois Giros
• I'm french and I live in canada since 2 years to study music and sound. I love jazz and I play piano as much as possible. I must say that since I have my tascam recorder all the time with me, I discover a new kind of vision. every material, object has his signatur, colours shapes for the ear. Metals, glasses and woods objects are the most common that we all know, so I record them.
  The idea behind this short composition is to make alive steal sounds. There is always a cold and biting side outgoing from a metal , but it is also mysterious and got deep resonances. It is this that I wanted to favor in this particular miniature.
• 30 ) Lithufo
  Todd Harrop
• Todd Harrop is an artist working in music and theatre, dividing his time between Montreal and Hamburg. He holds a M.Mus. degree from the University of Victoria and studied with John Celona and Andrew Schloss. Currently he is enrolled at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with a semester off for a residency at the Banff Centre's Leighton Colony.
  A shameless, fantasy union inspired by African amadinda and Lithuanian skudučiai musics, with a short ride aboard a flying saucer. Not in any tuning system per se, but featuring outspreading scales.
  http://thmuses.wordpress.com/
• 31 ) Seven Crystal Balls
  Quaternin
• Quaternin consists of Will Ballantyne and Ethan Lustig and is based in Vancouver, Canada. We make new music with original contexts for timbre, pitch, and rhythm. "to pigeonhole [Quaternin’s music] would be to do the duo a disservice…simultaneously minimalist, yet complex recordings." — Everyday Guitar Gear [Jan. 2012] "An un-classifiable array of music … as diverse as they are talented." — Autonomous Notion [March 2012]
  Will Ballantyne - Guitar Ethan Lustig - Piano Recorded and produced by Karel Roessingh (Roessong.com) This track is from our upcoming album, Forms Presents.
  quaternin.com
• 32 ) Appassionato
  Joanna Estelle
• Canadian composer, lyricist, and arranger Joanna Estelle has won the critical acclaim of audiences from Parliament Hill, Ottawa to London, England and Barcelona, Spain. Joanna is best known for her choral compositions and art songs, but she began her musical explorations as a child on the piano. Beginning with her debut performance at Canada House in London, England (1996), Joanna's music has been premiered at the National Arts Centre in Canada's capital city of Ottawa as part of Canada Day celebrations (2004, 2009). After studying music privately for many years, she studied composition with Steven Gellman at University of Ottawa, while continuing a fulltime career in federal public service. After graduating summa cum laude as silver medalist in the Faculty of Arts (2009), Joanna completed her MA Music at York University in 2011 and is currently studying advanced composition with Larysa Kuzmenko at University of Toronto to prepare for future doctoral studies. Joanna is a member of the Canadian League of Composers, as well as the Heliconian Club of Toronto, and is currently the interim Chair of the Association of Canadian Women Composers.
  "Appassionato" was the first of a new collection of short pieces for solo piano being written by Joanna Estelle to be entitled "Umori" (or 'Moods'). The pieces to be included in this collection will reflect a range of emotions, from joy to sorrow, as well as many other places in between that one experiences during the course of a lifetime. In this piece, Joanna explores the ardent passion, idealistic yearning and energy of youth, albeit expressed from a classical perspective.
  www.vivestarmusic.com
• 33 ) Rain
  Jana Skarecky
• Jana Skarecky is a Canadian composer and artist, originally from the Czech Republic. She studied composition with Peter Sculthorpe in Australia. Her music has been performed on four continents, and she has written for a variety of instrumental as well as vocal resources, from solo and chamber works to choir and orchestra. Her most performed work recently has been her opera "Emily, the Way You Are", about artist Emily Carr. She teaches piano and music theory at the Royal Conservatory of Music, and her works are available from the Canadian Music Centre. For more information see www.JanaSkarecky.com.
  "Rain" is part of a series of 17 short piano pieces about water, entitled 'Water Colours', composed in 2011. The composer has combined them with her photographs of water to give students visual inspiration while practising.
  www.JanaSkarecky.com
• 34 ) Boon
  John Sobocan
• Born, bred and raised in Malton, Ontario. Moved to India for a while and upon returning, used the over abundance of time for making music, paintings and galaxies...
  The Consciousness of Space Presented by Sound
  http://soundcloud.com/bubble-9
• 35 ) love and beauty
  Aaron Acosta
• Aaron Acosta is a graduate from the College of Santa Fe with a BA in Sound Design in Media in 2002. This is a Self Designed major that consists of studies in Theatre, Film, and Music. In theatre, he as worked as lighting, set and sound designer in the U.S. and Canada. He is involved with electro acoustic composition as well as more traditional composition and currently resides in Sydney Nova Scotia, Canada. Three cds called frequency, amplitude and time, wave, and deep field
  Love may not always be beautiful. this piece is intended to give a slight ominous overtone to the concept of love. The piece uses a line from Antonin Artaud's "Spurt of Blood" spoken by computer synthesized voice.
  www.aaronacosta.com
• 36 ) Sherbourne
  Emilie Cecilia LeBel
• Emilie Cecilia LeBel is a Canadian composer, intermedia artist, and arts-educator. Her compositions have been performed across Canada, and internationally. She is completing doctoral studies in composition at The University of Toronto. She has participated in a variety of workshops and residencies such as Arraymusic Young Composers' Workshop, Quatuor Bozzini Composers' Kitchen, and most recently at The Banff Centre.
  This piece consists of sounds collected (and later processed) from the exit at Sherbourne subway station in Toronto Canada.
  www.ceceproductions.ca
• 37 ) Trinity
  Nicolas Diab
• Holder of a degree in computer science from University of Sherbrooke, Nicolas Diab is now studying digital musics at University of Montreal. Self-taught drummer, his interests range from synthesis and sound design to algorithmic music and audio programming.
  "Trinity" is separated in three parts having variations in timbres and sound morphologies. It has been realized during a course called creative sound recording using exclusively sounds created by manipulating everyday objects. No effects, automations or signal processing were used.
• 38 ) Dark in the dark
  Victor Garibaldi
• Victor Garibaldi is an Electroacoustic music composer from Montreal,Canada. He produces all kinds of sound designs for video and fixed medias. His main passion is the creation of electronic and computer music. His Electroacoustic composition "Elitism 2 was selected to be played at the 'Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium-60x60 Canada 2011'. He studied Electroacoustic studies at Concordia University(Montreal).
  Dark is dark. We spend 60 seconds inside the dark.
• 39 ) The Fountain
  Myriam Bleau
• Originaire de Montréal, Myriam Bleau a été initiée à l'électroacoustique au Cégep St-Laurent. Elle termine présentement un BFA en guitare jazz à Concordia et poursuivra sa formation en composition à l'Université de Montréal. En plus de continuer à composer de la musique instrumentale, électroacoustique et mixte, elle dirige actuellement plusieurs groupes aux influences électiques - jazz minimal, post-rock, hip hop... Elle s'intéresse aux frontières entre les styles et à la perception musicale.
  The Fountain imagine avec humour ce que l'on entend aux limites du sommeil et de l'inconscience, parmi les répétitions accélérées des gestes de la journée.
• 40 ) Roboterstück
  Arne Eigenfeldt
• Arne Eigenfeldt is a composer of live electroacoustic music, and a researcher into intelligent music systems. His music has been performed around the world, and his collaborations range from Persian Tar masters to contemporary dance companies to musical robots. He is an associate professor of music and technology at Simon Fraser University, Canada, and is the co-director of the MetaCreation Group, which aims to endow computers with creative behaviour.
  A tongue-in-cheek homage to Karlheinz Stockhausen's famous total serialist work Klavierstück XI, in which the performer glances at a sheet of music and randomly chooses to play from 15 notated fragments. In this case, software agents negotiate a texture - from 16 possible combinations - based upon the following features: slow/fast; sparse/dense; loud/soft; rhythmic/arhythmic. Performed by the KarmetiK NotomotoN, an 18-armed mechanical musical instrument created by Ajay Kapur.
  www.sfu.ca/~eigenfel
• 41 ) Undine
  David Neil Campbell
• David Campbell has written music for a variety of different functions. He has a history of composing and arranging music for orchestra, chamber ensembles and big bands, writes music for television using a variety of real players and modern electronic production techniques and also performs as a guitarist and bassist in a number of avant-garde rock and jazz ensembles. He has been writing acousmatic music seriously since 2001 after having spent so many years constructing soundscapes for film and t
  "Undine is a piece that uses electronics, real players and is conducted using a variety of sound-painting techniques. The ensemble for this piece is a large one consisting of 11 players and is scored for two pianos, acoustic guitar, two drum kits, three percussion, three recorders, and lap-top running Reacktor. "
  dncampbell.com
• 42 ) Dear Gerhard
  James Bailey
• I have been improvising with sound for most of my life, in Toronto and elsewhere, with whatever is available. Often electronic modification is used, but is not necessary. Member of several improvising ensembles in the Toronto area. Played at: Y2K8 and Y2KX international live looping festivals (solo), Electric Eclectics (Six Heads, Odradek), FIMAV 25 (EAR-CAM).
  Dear Gerhard was performed using three notes on a ruined Gerhard Heintzman upright piano in my back garden. Apart from some slight improvement in the sound, no modifications were made. The sounds are entirely acoustic.
• 43 ) And Please Stay Away From the Adobe Flasher Player
  fourthousandblackbirds
• And Please Stay Away From The Adobe Flasher Player
  fourthousandblackbirds
  fourthousandblackbirds is the new solo project of French experimentalist Albérick (.cut) based in Montreal, Quebec. Albérick is also a founding member of the droning ambient electronics project Montreal Nintendo Orkestar and of the psychedelic noise trio Thee Virginal Brides (Canada / Israel / USA).
  This track is based on a message left by a complete stranger on my answering machine.
  www.dotcut.org
• 44 ) Mother-in-Law's Tongue
  Dry Heeves
• Emanating from Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada, The Dry Heeves are cultural analysts who use experimental music as their dissemination medium of choice. Welcome to a new Theatre of the Absurd at: www.dryheeves.tk www.vvvu.ca "
  You can own a mother-in-law's tongue for decades and never know that they produce flowers; then one day, seemingly out of the blue, you find that your mother-in-law's tongue has produced a flower stalk. Is this possible?
  http://www.dryheeves.tk
• 45 ) FM-TASF
  Christopher Gorman
• Montreal based composer. Currently an undergrad majoring in Electroacoustics at Concordia University.
  In this piece, I have used a sheet of aluminum foil as a sound object, recording a series of several one minute improvisations that were then transformed, through processes of diminution, into a miniature landscape that evokes the original object, but also suggests other errors in judgement that are products of a carefree lifestyle with a heavy present-moment bias. The overall sound is also suggestive of the violent and aggressive manner in which we have thoughtlessly abused our planet.
• 46 ) Cehennem Çukuru
  Brian Beaudry
• Currently a radio host and audio producer for half the year in Vancouver, and a silvicultural worker on the British Columbian coast and interior the other half. My use of unaltered field recordings alongside strictly synthetic composition is strongly informed by the distinct cultural and physiological transitions from life in a city to that of working in remote locales.
  "A field recording of the underground river accessible only aurally from the bottom of Cehennem Çukuru - a cave in the Mersin province of Turkey which Greek myth claims to be the temporary burial place of Zeus after losing his first battle against the monster Typhon. The river itself is thought to be a tributary to the Styx. During the descent to the bottom of the cave, the batteries of the portable recorder failed, producing the distortion that characterizes the end of the piece. "
  http://soundcloud.com/vehscle
• 47 ) Wheeze3
  Ambrose Pottie
• Ambrose Pottie is a Toronto based musician and graphic designer. He studied design and photography at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. A primarily self taught musician, he has recorded and/or performed with Eugene Martynec, Bob Becker, Anne Bourne, Eugene Chadbourne, Crash Vegas, Andrew Cyrille, Fred Frith, Bill Grove, Guy Klucevsek, Evan Lurie, John Millard, Tom Walsh, Richard Sacks and Andrew Staniland
  Finding myself with a mild case of walking pneumonia, I was for a brief period, able to make unusual breathing sounds. I thought they were beautiful. So I recorded myself with stereo omni microphones mounted to my chest. Other than EQ, no audio processing was used.
• 48 ) the days you work are the best days
  Jamie Woolard
• Jamie Woollard explores sound as an artistic medium through performance and composition. She is a classically trained pianist, an electroacoustic musician and teacher, and has produced work in diverse areas including live performance, radio and film score. She is currently completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in piano performance and electroacoustics at Concordia University in Montreal.
  This piece was composed during the course of my seasonal work on the Hudson Bay. It reflects a Northern environment that is at once industrial and wild, stark and richly nuanced, and expresses the intense joy of my experience in this abrasive terrain.
• 49 ) I sang for 60 seconds
  Suzy Easton
• Suzy Priceless, A.K.A. Suzy Easton, is a 29 year old born and raised Vancouverite multi-instrumentalist, improvisor, composer, and most recently, music podcaster/blogger and transcriber. Throughout her life she has learned to play a variety of instruments: piano, classical guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, drums, beginner violin, and mandolin. She has toured across Canada playing bass for Minto, recording an album with Steve Albini in Chicago. She received a certificate in Digital Recording Arts from the now defunct Columbia Academy in Vancouver, BC and completed another Music Technology Certificate in April 2012 from Douglas College in New Westminster, BC.
  Trying to be creative with looping radio stations and my voice, I became frustrated with myself, stopping the whole process and began singing solo to my dynamic mic, "What do I sing for 60 seconds?" I soon found myself answering, singing, "I sing for freedom, I sing for peace, I sing for love, for you and me" which I ended up looping, singing on top of, and then manipulating the heck out of. for 60 seconds.
  www.suzypriceless.ca
• 50 ) After Keem
  Robin Parmar
• Robin Parmar is an intermedia artist whose practice incorporates electroacoustic composition, sound installation, non-ideomatic improvisation, radiophonics, experimental writing, and photography. Works have appeared in Ireland, England, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Canada, and elsewhere.
  My sound work is largely created by improvising with sonic material drawn from my daily life. I engage with sources both biotic and abiotic, natural and artificial, in order to emphasise our embedded situation in a network of connections and flows. I relate disparate objects based on their materiality, acoustical characteristics, cultural and functional relationships, and so on. This process, in which I am at play with sound, is designed to maximise the potential for accidents of listening.
  robinparmar.com
• 51 ) Millisecond Pulsar
  Keith Odell
• Originally hailing from Calgary, Alberta, Keith Odell relocated to Montreal in 2010 to study Electroacoustic Composition at Concordia University. His work as a composer/sound artist focuses on the use of unusual and unfamiliar sounds and re-appropriating them into a more traditional and musical compositional form. Utilizing his previous experience as an improvisational and noise musician, he has carried over his work in Calgary to Montreal under the solo moniker Korea Suicide.
  Millisecond Pulsar is based on manipulating recorded sounds into unfamiliar and other-wordly sounds. Using only one original source point for the recordings (a piano soundboard), different sequencers and programs were used to achieve these tones. Millisecond Pulsars are stars that are thought to originate from longer period pulsars, colloquially referred to as "recycled pulsars" - thus, this piece originates from an original recording and becomes a "recycled sound."
• 52 ) Autumn - The Fourth of the 4 Seasons
  Sebastion Lavoie
• Sebastien is working on sound spatialization with his professors Robert Normandeau at Université de Montréal and with John Young at De Montfort University. After completing his bachelor degree, he decided to further his research on the spatialization of sound in electroacoustic music, from the compositional process, as well as in the diffusing practice. Sound explorator, Sebastien travels through the diverse avenues of noise and music in order to capture and compose the novel sounds.
  Over the last four years, I've recorded many sounds to inspire my compositional projects. Living in Canada, I've noticed that I had distinctive sound recordings from the four seasons. I thought it would be great to implement these seasonal sounds with their related natural elements in order to create four seasons sonically. The elements invoked are from Empedocles: Water, Earth, Fire, Air. Thus, for Autumn, the sound material mainly comes from the sonic manifestation of air and metallic elements
• 53 ) 60 X 60 X 2012
  David Kettle
• I like to make noise and images with computers.
  Just some heavily processed Kalimba sounds.
• 54 ) n4t2a
  Desktop Icons (Kendal Zier, JJ Rogers, and Shaun Gamboa)
• Desktop Icons create live electronic landscapes.
  This track n4t2a was stolen from the city and taken to the country to enjoy a few hours with nature. Desktop Icons are from Edmonton, Guelph, Montreal, and Brooklyn.
• 55 ) people with stripey hats go to the mountain and play bongos
  Gamble Tron
• Gambletron is an electronic noise improviser based in Montreal. She uses her own circuit bent creations along with cheap filters to create her sound. She is the innovator of Noise Karaoke and has toured extensively playing festivals such as EuroVox (Fr), Etoiles Polarus (Be) and Donau Festival (Au). She plays regular skype concerts and is currently working on an album. She is also a multi instrumentalist working in numerous projects, most of which can be found on constellation records.
  One minute-- multi tracked.... the voice of the kitchen. I never multi track. What a great experiment!
  www.gambletron.ca
• 56 ) Midi
  Scott Mallory, Jr.
• As my artwork evolved, my tools of choice evolved from drawing & painting to video art, filmmaking, and finally visual effects. My music branched into sound art, and my writings evolved into different forms & hybrids. Ultimately, I find filmmaking to be the powerhouse that can host most mediums and ideas.
  Created with MIDI in Reason 6.
  iscottm.com
• 57 ) Inuvik Sky Synth
  Michael Baker
• John L Baker, like many artists, becomes depressed when not making something. Since 1988, he has made about 50 pieces of music. Before that he studied computers and math and wrote a little poetry. His work has been performed in Canada and the U.S.A. and on the worldwide web. His "Petit hommage à Varèse" was included in the 2005 60x60 Pacific Rim Mix. He serves as treasurer for Vancouver Pro Musica, a producer of new music concerts.
  Quick Six is a change-ringing arrangement of S3, the six permutations of three things. Here the foreground sound (FM synthesized and subjected to varying effects) realizes Quick Six on three pitch registers. The plain course of Stedman Doubles is a change-ringing arrangement of A5, the 60 even permutations of five things. Here the foreground sound's five distinct timbres realize this. A Tibetan cymbal, sampled and ring-modulated, provides a treble obbligato referring perhaps to the much larger usual subjects of change-ringing. Software used for this: Digital Performer, FM8, Reaktor, Amadeus Pro, Mathematica, Mac OS X.
  polytrope.ca
• 58 ) Two Robots in a Phone Booth
  Justin Rito
• Justin Rito is a composer, performer, theorist, and educator currently studying music theory in London, Ontario. More information can be found in his website: www.justinrito.com.
  This work is an exploration of the rhythmic capabilities of a single sound source, which is a free improvisation by the Central Michigan University Concert Choir. The title was not determined previous to its composition. It was suggested by a friend, Andy Cote, after the piece was completed.
• 59 ) Quick Six/ Steadman Doubles
  John L Baker
• Composer, Sound artist. Studied Electroacoustics at Concordia University
  Inuvik Syk Synth is a piece generated entirely from astronomical data: lunar phases and rise and set times of astral and planetary bodies for inuvik, NWT; the most northern city reachable by highway in Canada. A Max/MSP patch was designed to condense the astronomical data from Jan 1st, 2012 to Dec 31, 21 into a 60 second piece. Lying within the Arctic Circle, Inuvik's year begins and ends in darkness.
• 60 ) Glass Candy
  Maxine Corbeill-Perron
• A child of rock and electronic music, Maxime Corbeil-Perron draws inspiration from the instrumental tradition and nature to create a personal, abstract, and lively soundworld. Student at the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal, Maxime Corbeil-Perron is currently working on obtaining his master's degree in electroacoustic composition. The Montreal-based composer divides his time between the new music scene, video art and the local underground scene. He won first prize at the Jeux de Temps/Times Play competition (Canada, 2011), a special mention at the Città di Udine competition (Italy, 2012) as well as second prize from the Destellos Foundation competition (Argentina, 2012) for his composition Fragments. He recently was commissioned a mixed-media piece by the Productions Totem Contemporain for Siren Organ, tape and live electronics. His work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
  A remix of some sort... I composed this piece while reading Chuck Palahniuk's Invisible Monsters. It really set the tone.
  soundcloud.com/maxcorbeilperron

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