Performances Presented in 2008

Matt Miller is an electro-acoustic musician, composer and soundware developer. He is an active performer in Toronto's new music scene. His latest release, the vinyl album “MiMo Presents: No Exit”, is a compilation of 96 locked-grooves, co-produced with Samuel Morgenstein and featuring performances by members of AIMToronto.

Jørgen Teller Danish artist Jørgen Teller has a long career as an electric guitarist, vocalist, electronic musician and performer. He has released many records and performed internationally as a solo artist and in collaboration with many Danish and International artists. His past collaborators have included Rhys Chatham, Tony Conrad, Fast Forward, Jac Berrocal, Otomo Yoshihide, Morten Carlsen, Peter Ole Jørgens, Jakob Draminsky, Kim Cascone, Jakob Riis and many others. He has a prolific range of solo projects that combine his extended and alternative approaches to guitar playing and often have used unconventional spaces for listening. His project STATICTELLER will be presented at the Electric Eclectics Festival in Meaford in August 2022. His Soundportraits series of pieces combines his parallel interests in location recording, improvisation and extended guitar techniques.

Robert Normandeau his work is focused on acousmatic music. He creates a ‘cinema for the ear’ in which ‘meaning’ as well as ‘sound’ become the elements that elaborate his works. He has been Professor in electroacoustic music composition at Université de Montréal since 1999. Robert Normandeau is an award winner of numerous international competitions, including Ars Electronica, Bourges, Fribourg, Luigi Russolo, Métamorphoses, Musica Nova, Noroit-Léonce Petitot, Phonurgia-Nova, and Giga-Hertz (Karlsruhe, 2010).

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.

David Ogborn is a creator and producer who combines the traditional performing arts with electronic media. Recent highlights include Metropolis (New Wave Festival 2007), Opera On The Rocks (Toronto Star’s 2008 list of “boffo opera”), and Emergence (robot and guitar, 2009). In 2010, the interactive video sculpture Waterfall (commissioned by the Canadian Wildlife Federation and created with David Clark, Kim Morgan, and Rachelle Viader Knowles) was featured in Whistler, BC at the 2010 Olympic Games. Ogborn teaches audio production and physical computing at McMaster University, directs the Cybernetic Orchestra http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-G-zp5wjNU and is the President of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC).

Hervé Birolini Hervé Birolini studied electroacoustic composition at the Centre Européen de Recherche Musicale (CERM) from 1990 to 1993. He went on to complete a postgraduate diploma in audiovisual production, before joining the Paris-based GRM (Groupe de Recherches Musicales) in 1994 as chief sound engineer for the Multiphonie and Présences électroniques concert series. This involvement would ultimately inspire him to start writing his own music in 2000.

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.