TIES 2015 — Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium (TIES)
SYMPOSIUM OVERVIEW
Toronto Aug 19 - 22, 2015
Wychwood Theatre, 601 Christie St #176
Artscape Wychwood Barns
To register go to: https://naisa.ca/ties-registration/
TIES is a unique point of convergence for a growing international community of diverse electroacoustic (EA) practitioners. We look forward to seeing you at TIES 2015, where you can explore and share new developments in equipment and software development, and perspectives on performance and research practices, while expanding your artistic and professional network.
Schedule Summary
For more information, including all abstracts, programme notes and biographies, please refer to the TIES programme booklet.
Day 1 — Wednesday 19 AugustVENUE: Wychwood Theatre and the NAISA Space
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18:30–19:30 • Opening Reception and Installation
Venue: NAISA Space
Host: Steve Naylor
Alexis Langevin-Tétrault — Shapeshifter
Myriam Boucher — Cities
Robin Cox — START, for violin and tape
Felipe Ramirez Rodriguez — “Reto” (Challenge), for violin and stereo audio
Marie-Hélène Breault and Martin Bédard — Replica
–intermission–
Alexandra Spence — Nankai
Fernando Alexis Franco Murillo — Untitled #1
Martin Marier — Origami, live sponge (cushion-like digital
musical instrument) performance
Jerod Sommerfeldt — Dharma in Excelsis
Robin Cox, violin
Lynn Kuo, violin
Marc Lalancette and Martin Marier, laptops
21:30–23:30 • Symposium Dinner
[ Pre-registration required! ]
Day 2 — Thursday 20 August
VENUES: 09:15-12:30 at the CMC / 14:30-21:30 in the Wychwood Theatre and the NAISA Space
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09:45–11:15 • Paper Session #1: Listening
Venue: Canadian Music Centre Chair: Alexa Woloshyn
Gliding Slowly: The interrelationship between body, voice, listening and the environment
by Wendalyn Bartley
A Dialogue Between the Seen and the Heard: The live use of sound as a sculptural material and sculpture as a sound instrument in Cuboid
by Ben Nigel Potts
Hearing Electronic Voices
by Ryan Olivier
11:30–12:30 • Paper Session #2: Algorithmic Creation
Venue: Canadian Music Centre Chair: Richard Windeyer
Audiovisual Coherence and Physical Presence: I am there, therefore I am.
by Dr. Louise Harris
Musical Behaviours in the Transformation Engine
by Bruno Degazio
14:30–16:00 • Keynote Lecture
Venue: Wychwood Theatre
Host: Kevin Austin
Semiconducting — Making Music After The Transistor
by Nicolas Collins
16:30–17:30 • Lecture-Recital
Venue: Wychwood Theatre
Host: Michael Palumbo
Cross-Media Transcription as Composition
by James O’Callaghan
19:30–21:30 • Sound Travels Concert #1: “Unstable Rationality”
Venue: Wychwood Theatre
Host: Bekah Simms
“Unstable Rationality” refers to Nicolas Collins’ practice of going beyond the cutting edge in his exploration of sound and interactive systems. His performance reflects a renewed interest in the quirky performance possibilities of unstable electronic circuits, especially damaged or misused ones, often in interaction with more rational computer software. Also included will be a performance by Matt Rogalsky that arose from recordings made in Kingston Penitentiary (first opened in 1833) before it closed.
Programme notes and biographies for the Thursday and Saturday evening Sound Travels concerts and for Bosch & Simon’s installation can be found on the NAISA website and in the Sound Travels programme booklet. https://naisa.ca/festivals/sound-travels
VENUES: 09:15-12:30 at the CMC / 14:30-21:30 in the Wychwood Theatre and the NAISA Space
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09:45–10:45 • Paper Session #3: Education/Pedagogy
Venue: Canadian Music Centre
Chair: Linda Antas
Moving Beyond the Weird, Creepy and Indescribable: Pedagogical principles and practices for listening to electroacoustic music in the general education classroom
by Alexa Woloshyn
Exploring the Musical Thinking of Middle School Students Composing Electroacoustic Music: Reflections from a qualitative case study
by Jeffrey Martin
11:00–11:30 • Paper Session #4: Mirlitones
Venue: Canadian Music Centre
Chair: Brian Garbet
Mirlitones
by Peter Bosch
11:30–12:30 • Panel Session
Venue: Canadian Music Centre
Chair: Brian Garbet
by Louise Harris and Nick Fells
14:30–16:00 • Symposium Concert #2
Venue: Wychwood Theatre
Host: Louise Harris
Adam Tindale — OSCILLATE
Benjamin Whiting — Melodía sin melodía
Steven Naylor — I Wish
Adam Vidiksis — Things That Live in the Whirligig, for multi-percussionist with live processing and laptop orchestra
Michael Lukaszuk — Ritus
–intermission–
Brian Connolly — Critical Bands
Michael Drews — End Times
Jason Bolte — Putt’n Around
Adam Vidiksis, percussion
16:30–17:30 • Lecture-Recital
Venue: Wychwood Theatre
Host: Michael Lukaszuk
“Mockingbird”: Confessions of an abstract aural documentary
by Brian Garbet
19:30–21:30 • Symposium Concert #3
Venue: Wychwood Theatre
Host: Alexandra Spence
Linda Antas — All That Glitters and Goes Bump in the Night
Elsa Justel — Cercles et surfaces
Hiromi Ishii — Ryojinfu
Louise Harris — pletten
Nick Fells — o ire, laptop performance
–intermission–
Shane Byrne — Tatemae/Honne
Linda Antas — Iridescence
Myriam Boucher — QUADr, for electroacoustic quartet
VENUE: Wychwood Theatre
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09:45–10:45 • Paper Session #5: Musicking
Venue: Wychwood Theatre
Chair: Adam Tindale
Touch, Device, Performance
by Nick Fells
Costumes for Cyborgs: New body experience in sound and movement
by Izzie Colpitts-Campbell
Venue: Wychwood Theatre Chair: Bruno Degazio
Punchcard Rewind: Real-time audience participation meets electroacoustic music performance in a recent performance of Udo Kasemets’ “Tt (Tribute)”
by Richard Windeyer and Adam Tindale
Turning the Tables: The audience, the engineer and the acousmatic violin
by Chris Mercer
14:30–16:00 • Symposium Concert #4
Venue: Wychwood Theatre
Host: James O’Callaghan
Thomas Rex Beverley — Dancing Tree, for electronics and video
Jon Fielder — Wind Chimes Clatter through the Mist and Fog
Louise Harris — ic2, for live audiovisuals
Lucas Paris — Candor Monique Jean — T.A.G.
16:30–17:30 • CEC Annual General Meeting
Venue: NAISA Space
Annual General Meeting of the CEC. Members are invited to attend. Non-members interested in the activities of the CEC are welcome to attend as observers / participants. http://cec.sonus.ca/agm
19:30–21:30 • Sound Travels Concert #2: “Revealing Origins”
Venue: Wychwood Theatre
Host: Elliott Fienberg
A performance of new works by Stephanie Moore and Wendalyn Bartley. Bartley’s work was commissioned by New Adventures in Sound Art through funding from the Ontario Arts Council and originated from explorations made during last year’s Sound Travels Intensive. Stephanie Moore will be presenting a trilogy of new works called Lunar Cycle, which use fixed media and solo double bass performed by Adam Scime.
Programme notes and biographies for the Thursday and Saturday evening Sound Travels concerts and for Bosch & Simon’s installation can be found on the NAISA website and in the Sound Travels programme booklet. https://naisa.ca/festivals/sound-travels
Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street, Toronto [ Google maps ]
http://www.wychwoodbarnscommunity.ca
Public transportation (TTC) — Take the 126 Christie bus either north from Christie Station or south from St. Clair West Station and get off at Benson Avenue. Or, from the St. Clair West Staton take the 512 St. Clair streetcar westbound and exit at either St. Clair or Wychwood (about 2 min.), then walk south to Benson. Once you pass Benson, you can enter the Barns from either the Christie or Wychwood side.
By foot — From the St. Clair West Subway Station walk west to Wychwood Avenue or Christie Street and then south to Benson Avenue. Once you pass Benson, you can enter the Barns from either the Christie or Wychwood side.
By car — From the 401 take the Allen Expressway south to Eglinton. Go west (right) on Eglinton (400 m) and then South (left) on Oakwood and left onto Vaughan Street (300 m). Follow Vaughan to St. Clair West, (1.5 km), and turn west (right) onto St. Clair. Turn south (left) from there onto either Wychwood or Christie (200 m). There is street parking on the Christie and Wychwood sides of the building.
Canadian Music Centre (CMC)
20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto [ Google maps ]
http://musiccentre.ca
Public transportation (TTC) — The CMC is located just off Yonge Street, a short walk from several subway stations: Wellesley (closest), Museum, Yonge/Bloor or Bay.
By foot — From Wellesley Station, walk west along Wellesley towards Yonge and cross at the lights to the west side of Yonge. Walk north along Yonge until you reach St. Joseph Street then turn left heading west. The CMC is located on the north side of St. Joseph Street.
By car — From the 401 take the Yonge Street exit and drive south (5 km). Just past Bloor Street, turn right onto Irwin Avenue. Make a left onto Bay Street, and another immediate left onto St. Joseph Street (a one-way street, running east). Please note that parking is expensive and very limited in downtown Toronto.
Travelling from the CMC to the Artscape Wychwood Barns
Public transportation (TTC), v.01 — Take the Yonge subway line north from Wellesley Station to Bloor/Yonge Station, transfer to the Bloor line and take the subway west to St. George Station. Transfer at St. George to a northbound subway train and get off at St. Clair West Station. Take the 512 St. Clair streetcar westbound and exit at either Christie or Wychwood (about 2 min.), then walk south to Benson. Once you pass Benson, you can enter the Barns from either the Christie or Wychwood side.
Public transportation (TTC), v.02 — From the CMC, walk west along St. Joseph Street towards Queen’s Park. Walk to the north end of Queen’s Park and board the subway at Museum Station (the entrance is located on the west side of Queen’s Park in front of the Royal Ontario Museum). Take the northbound subway to St. Clair West Station. Take the 512 St. Clair streetcar westbound and exit at either Christie or Wychwood (about 2 min.), then walk south to Benson. Once you pass Benson, you can enter the Barns from either the Christie or Wychwood side.
By car — Head north on Yonge, turn left heading west on Charles Street, turn right heading north on Bay Street. Bay terminates at Davenport Road. Turn left onto Davenport. When Davenport intersects with Bathurst, turn right, heading north (1.5 km). Third street on the left, turn left. Wychwood Barns is at the t-junction of Wychwood Avenue.
Organisation
Review Committee / Comité de sélection
Eldad Tsabary, Acting Chair (CEC / Concordia University)
Kevin Austin (Concordia University)
Christina Baade (McMaster University)
Natasha Barrett (Oslo)
David Berezan (MANTIS)
Nicolas Bernier (Université de Montréal)
Manuella Blackburn (Liverpool Hope University)
Myriam Bleau (Montréal)
Rose Bolton (Toronto)
Yves Daoust (Conservatoire de Montréal)
Louis Dufort (Conservatoire de Montréal)
Chantal Dumas (Montréal)
Arne Eigenfeldt (Simon Fraser University)
Ken Fields (University of Calgary)
Gilles Gobeil (CÉGEP de Drummondville)
Peter Hatch (Wilfried Laurier University)
Bentley Jarvis (OCAD University)
Emilie LeBel (Toronto)
Cort Lippe (University at Buffalo)
Gordon Monohan (Electric Eclectics)
Steven Naylor (Acadia University)
David Ogborn (McMaster University)
Shawn Pinchbeck (CEC / University of Birmingham)
Laurie Radford (CEC / University of Calgary)
Godfried-Willem Raes (Logos Foundation)
Scott Smallwood (University of Alberta)
Andrew Staniland (Memorial University)
D. Andrew Stewart (University of Lethbridge, AB)
Jessica Thompson (University of Waterloo)
Helen Thorington (New Radio & Performing Arts, Inc.)
Adam Tindale (OCAD University)
Jane Tingley (University of Waterloo)
Barry Truax (Simon Fraser University)
Doug Van Nort (York University)
Jamie Woollard (Montréal)
John Wynne (University of the Arts London)
Organising Committee / Comité d’organisation
Kevin Austin (Concordia University)
jef chippewa (Canadian Electroacoustic Community)
Darren Copeland (New Adventures in Sound Art)
Matthew Fava (Canadian Music Centre)
Nadene Thériault-Copeland (New Adventures in Sound Art)
Eldad Tsabary (CEC / Concordia University)