2014
ANTHROPO, for trombone and interactive electronics, premiered by Benny Sluchin, New Music Concerts, Music Gallery, Toronto, December 11.
HYPOSURFACE EXHIBITION, May 21 to October 5, 2014, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal. Archaeology of the Digital: Media and Machines.
Including an early version of HYPOSURFACE, by dECOi Architects, including interactive audio by Paul STEENHUISEN. VIDEO AUDIO 1 2 3 4 5
Toneland Security performed by Margaret Lancaster, bass flute. Gallery MC, New York City, September 29.
2013
Composer in Residence, Sonic Boom Festival (Vancouver Pro Musica). March 20-24, Vancouver.
Intaglio sulla cervello, for violin, cello, and piano premiered by Corey Hamm, David Gilham, and Eric Wilson, VSO Annex, Vancouver.
Leads masterclass with Turning Point Ensemble and student composers, Vancouver.
Foundry, performed by Mark McGregor, flute on The Four Elements, a co-presentation of Tempest Flute Ensemble, ECM+, and Redshift Music Society. Orpheum Annex, Vancouver, May 23.
A Book from the Harbour III, performed by Stacie Dunlop and Cheryl Duvall at the Shaken or Stirred new music and martinis benefit for the Thin Edge New Music Collective. Array Space, Toronto, September 14.
Jeu de Téléphone for 2 alto saxophones, piano, and smartphones premiered by William H. Street, Charles H. Stolte, saxophones, Roger Admiral, piano, Convocation Hall, University of Alberta, October 6.
Jeu de Téléphone performed by William H. Street, Dale Wolford, saxophones, Roger Admiral, piano, San Jose State University, October 22.
Host, concert by William H. Street, San Jose State University, October 22. Intaglio Sulla Cervello performed by Nu:BC Collective (version with flute), Fresno New Music, Fresno, California, November 4.
Intaglio Sulla Cervello performed by Nu:BC Collective (version with flute), University of California at Davis, November 7.
Foundry performed by Mark Takeshi McGregor, flute. Canadian New Music at Off-IAMA, Montreal, November 7.
Publication of interviews with Walter Boudreau, David Eagle (SOUNDLAB New Music Podcast, iTunes).
2012
Toneland Security performed by Margaret Lancaster, bass flute. Gallery MC, New York City, January 30.
Bidiniband's In the Rock Hall released, containing electroacoustic introduction to the song Eunoia, February 1.
Revolutions per minute and Plea performed by Roger Admiral, Keyano College, Fort MacMurray, Alberta, February 4.
Copralite Culture and Analysis #21-34, for oboe, piano, & live electronics. Beth Levia/ Sylvia Shadick-Taylor. Edmonton, Alberta. Commissioned by Tonus Vivus Music Society, February 17.
Circumnavigating the Sea of Shit, and Poland is not yet Lost. Martian Gardens, WMUA, Amherst, Mass., May 20.
Sonic Geography” of Paris’ Fête de la Musique (article and audio) published in MUSICWORKS 113.
Frank O. Lunaire #10: Raub broadcast on Acoustic Frontiers, hosted by Ralph Hopper. CKCU, Ottawa, August 6.
Live interview with Giorgio Magnanensi, New Music Edmonton Festival, November 17.
Publication of interviews with Keith Hamel, André Ristic, Gordon Fitzell, Peter Eötvös, Brian Cherney, Bob Pritchard, James Harley, Aaron Gervais, James Rolfe, Howard Bashaw, Paul Steenhuisen (SOUNDLAB New Music Podcast, iTunes).
2011
Awarded Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award as the outstanding mid-career artist in music (Canada Council for the Arts).
Frank O. Lunaire #10: Raub broadcast on WIRED FOR SOUND, CHRW-FM, London, ON. May
Pomme de Terre performed by Margaret Lancaster. 124 Henry Street, Brooklyn, New York. Frank O. Lunaire #10: Raub broadcast on Sounds like Radio, WSIU-NPR, Carbondale, IL. April
Kee Yong Chong podcast interview released.
EVERY JOY POP TURBO, plea, and Revolutions per Minute performed by Roger Admiral, CMC BC Region, Vancouver.
World premiere of Supplice & Demand, for mezzo-soprano, ten instruments, and live electronics. New Music Concerts, with Robert Aitken, conductor, Erica Iris Huang, mezzo-soprano. The Music Gallery, Toronto, Ontario. April
Recipient, Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant to attend premiere of Supplice & Demand.
Jonathan Harvey podcast interview released. SOUNDLAB New Music Podcasts. February.
Recipient, Canada Council for the Arts Project Grant to attend IRCAM (Paris) and begin work on a new piece for Benny Sluchin, trombone.
One of seven composers selected to participate in Intensive Course, IRCAM, Paris.
Video work North Saskatchewan River at Edmonton, Canada exhibited in Disruptive Stillness, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Jean Paul Slusser Gallery. January 7-26.
Podcast interview of Elliott Carter broadcast on "Sound as Art", CKLN, Toronto. Saturday, January 1.
2010
Podcast interview of Rick Sacks featured on Sound as Art, CKLN, Toronto. Saturday, December 18.
Elliott Carter Podcast interview released, December 3.
MUSICWORKS Magazine ISSUE 108, Winter 2010: "VISIONS OF SOUND" features Paul Steenhuisen and dECOi
Architects interactive kinetic display, Hyposurface.
Lecture/ Concert including Every Joy Pop Turbo - Roger Admiral, piano. November 25, Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest.
Lecture, MIT Department of Architecture. Cambridge MA, USA. Paradigm. November 12.
Performances of Revolutions per minute, plea, and Every Joy Pop Turbo. Performed by Roger Admiral. November 3,
Kodaly Institute, Kecskemet, Hungary.
Performances of Revolutions per minute, plea, and Every Joy Pop Turbo. Performed by Roger Admiral. October 16, Music Information Centre, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Kodaly Institute, Kecskemet, Hungary.
Rick Sacks podcast interview released.
Frank O. Lunaire #10: Raub, broadcast on Perdidos en el Espacio, Santiago, Chile. July
Commission for Roger Admiral and Kathleen Corcoran. New work for soprano and piano, AFA. June
60x60 Dance Project in Montreal, choreographed performance of Poland is not yet lost. May
Panelist on "Building a New Music Culture" at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Sydney. May
Copralite Culture and Analysis #1-20 performed at ISCM World New Music Days, Sydney, Australia.
Claire Edwardes, percussion, Zubin Kanga, piano. Live broadcast on ABC Radio. International Selection, ISCM. May
Toneland Security broadcast on Electric Sense, CKLN Toronto. James Bailey, host. April
New Music Concerts commission - new work for voice and ensemble with live electronics for 2010/2011. April
ACDI - Canada Council/AFA grant received.
Contributions to the LoK8Tr internet audio and video project, “New Music in New Places”, Canadian Music Centre. Four-hour
telematic improvisation collaboration with Mannlicher Carcano, with contributors from Guelph, Montreal, Winnipeg, Edmonton,
Bratislava, Los Angeles, Berkeley. One-hour improv later that day at Echo Curio, Los Angeles. March
Frank O. Lunaire #10: Raub broadcast by art@radio and Neighbourhood Public Radio, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore. March
Frank O. Lunaire #10: Raub broadcast on Runny Noise, CJLO Montreal. March
Panelist at Canadian League of Composers "Cultivating Your Career" workshop. February
Every Joy Pop Turbo performed in Camrose, AB. Roger Admiral, piano. Recorded for broadcast by CBC. February
Poland is not yet lost broadcast on Radio Kolemna, Kolemna, Russia. February
Art’s Birthday, CITR, Vancouver broadcasts of wonder, and Blueblood Soundtrack. January
Circumnavigating the Sea of Shit broadcast on Radio Ultra, Moscow. January
Frank O. Lunaire #10: Raub broadcast on RTQE, Madison, WI. January
Completion of intaglio sulla cervello, for piano trio. Written for Trio Fibonacci. January
2009
Completion of Revolutions per minute, for solo piano. Used in LoK8Tr project. December
Presentation @ IAMIC (International Association of Music Information Centres) Conference, Toronto.
Composers in the 21st Century: A Case Study (June).
“Sonic Mosaics: Conversations with Composers” published by the University of Alberta Press. 314 pages.
Toneland Security performed by Margaret Lancaster, New Music Miami, November.
Toneland Security performed by Margaret Lancaster, Greenwich House, New York City, November.
Attendance @ ISCM World Music Days, Sweden (President Emeritus, Canadian Section).
“Sonic Mosaics” lectures at University of British Columbia, University of Victoria, University of Toronto, University of Guelph, Wilfrid-Laurier
University, University of Western Ontario, University of Windsor.
EVERY JOY POP TURBO performed on tour by Roger Admiral. September 13, Edmonton (University of Alberta), September
14/15, Minneapolis (St. Joseph's College), September 16/17, Stetson University (Deland, Florida), September 18/19, Millikin University
(Decatur, Illinois), September 20/21, University of Illinois (Champagne-Urbana) September 22/23, Lawrence University Appleton, Wisc),
September 24, Wright University (Dayton, Ohio).
2008
Pensacola performed by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.
Attendance @ ISCM World Music Days, Lithuania (President and Delegate, Canadian Section).
Toneland Security (bass flute) performed by Margaret Lancaster. Composers Voice Concert Series, Jan Hus Church, NYC. November 30.
Toneland Security (bass flute) performed by Margaret Lancaster. Colours of Music Festival, Santa Fe, New Mexico. January 17.
Cette obscure clarté qui tombes des étoiles, performed by Annie Massa, Concordia Conservatory, Bronxville, New York. June.
2007
HYPOSURFACE @ BIO Conference, Boston, MA.
Attendance @ ISCM World Music Days, Hong Kong (President and Delegate, Canadian Section).
2006
A Book from the Harbour, Chapter III (soprano and piano) performed on Music at Convocation Hall series, U of A.
Toneland Security (bass flute) performed by Margaret Lancaster, New York Theatre Lab, New York City, May 7.
Poland is not yet lost (electroacoustic) performed as part of 60X60 at Bainbridge Island, Washington, June 7.
HOBO ACTION FIGURES (ensemble and electronics), performed by Continuum at soundaXis Festival, Toronto.
Frank O. Lunaire #10: Raub performed as part of Xenakis Legacies, University of Toronto.
Pomme de Terre performed by Margaret Lancaster, New York City, USA.
Exhibition of HYPOSURFACE, 90,000 visitors, IMTS, McCormack Place, Chicago, September 6-13.
There’s a Glacier in Our Sink distributed by rabble.ca (400+ downloads).
Attendance @ ISCM World Music Days, Stuttgart, Germany (President and Delegate, Canadian Section).
Awarded HFASSR Grant to travel for Hyposurface Installation Project, Boston.
Awarded Support for the Advancement of Scholarship Travel Grant, U of A.
2005
Toneland Security (bass flute) performed by Derek Charke, July 13, University of Buffalo, New York.
Circumnavigating the Sea of Shit (electroacoustic) performed Convocation Hall, U of A, September.
Pomme de Terre (piccolo) performed at Septs Lezards, Paris, France, October 17.
Frank O. Lunaire #10: Raub performance premiere, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, deCOI opening.
Material/Ultramaterial world premiere, New Music Concerts, Toronto, Ontario.
Toneland Security (bass flute) performed by Margaret Lancaster, New York City, December 19.
Toneland Security world premiere by Margaret Lancaster, Stanford University, California.
Toneland Security performed at BONK Festival, Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.
Toneland Security performed at Spoleto Festival, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Wonder (orchestra, tape, soprano) broadcast nationally in The Netherlands, 3rd quarter.
Awarded a Canada Foundation for Innovation grant ($71,000), funding to U of A.
Awarded a Council Council Travel Grant to attend premiere in Toronto, Ontario.
Now is a creature, Frank O. Lunaire #10:Raub, Vorwissen, Who are we? Recipes for the Common Man, broadcast on art@radio, Baltimore.
Cette obscure clarté qui tombes des étoiles, performed by Michelle Cheramy at NEWFOUND festival, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL.
Recipes for the Common Man broadcast on Elektra Radio Show, Paris, France (6, 9 January).
There’s a Glacier in Our Sink broadcast, CBC Radio’s Sound Like Canada (11, 12 January).
There’s a Glacier in Our Sink broadcast, Deep Wireless, CKLN, Toronto (13 January).
There’s a Glacier in Our Sink performed, Deep Wireless Festival, Drake Hotel, Toronto (2, 12, 22 May).
Frank O. Lunaire #10: Raub broadcast on Difficult Listening, RTR FM, Perth, Australia.
Now is a Creature broadcast on Difficult Listening, RTR FM, Perth, Australia.
Now is a Creature broadcast on Elektra Radio Show, Paris, France (3, 6 February).
Frank O. Lunaire #10: Raub, Bread broadcast on FOLDOVER, WOBC, Oberlin, Ohio, USA (21 March).
Attendance @ ISCM World Music Days, Croatia (President and Delegate, Canadian Section).
Plea, for solo piano, performed by Roger Admiral, Convocation Hall, Edmonton, Conservatory of Music and Dance, Winnipeg, Vandercook College, Chicago, University of Wisconsin, Penn State University, Ball State University, University of North Carolina, Milikin University, Decatur, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, University of Southwest Missouri, Drake University, Desmoines, Susquahana University, Selinsgrove, William Paterson University, Newark, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Newberry College, South Carolina, Stetson University, Florida, University of South Carolina.
2004
Poland is not yet lost US premiere, 60X60 project, Harbor College, Los Angeles, California.
Sommes-nous pilotées par nos genes broadcast on CBC Two New Hours.
Circumnavigating the Sea of Shit, Convocation Hall, U of A.
A Book from the Harbour III (Excerpts), performed by Roger Admiral and Kathleen Corcoran, UA.
Cette obscure clarté qui tombes des étoiles, St. Crispin’s Chamber Ensemble, Red Strap Market, Ed.
There’s a Glacier in our Sink (radio documentary) featured on CBC “Sounds like Canada”.
HOBO ACTION FIGURES (scripted improvisation) premiered by FLUX, Edmonton.
Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? Part One: Sommes-nous pilotees par nos genes ERGO Projects Canada/Lithuania Exchange, Toronto/ Vilnius.
Cette obscure clarté qui tombe des étoiles - presentation and performance by Margaret Lancaster, flute. University of South Florida.
Circumnavigating the sea of shit, Sonic Lab concert, Univerisity of Victoria (March).
Vorwissen premiered by Gryphon Trio, Toronto. CBC Broadcast, Two New Hours.
Foundry performed by Chenoa Anderson, University of Alberta (February), Experimental Music Collective, Vancouver (February) Mount Allison University, NB (March).
Featured composer, Soundstreams Canada “Encounters” series.
Attendance @ ISCM World Music Days, Switzerland (President and Delegate, Canadian Section).
Awarded an Endowment Fund for the Future grant, funding to U of A.
Awarded a Council Council Travel Grant to attend premiere in Toronto, Ontario.
2003
A Book from the Harbour III premiered by Jane Archibald, John Hess, Soundstreams, Toronto.
Now is a Creature (revision) performed by Alain Trudel, Soundstreams, Toronto.
Recipes for the Common Man performed by Lawrence Cherney, Soundstreams, Toronto.
Cette obscure clarté qui tombe des étoiles Soundstreams Canada. Glenn Gould Studio.
Pensacola performed by the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal.
A Book from the Harbour III, Now is a Creature, Recipes for the Common Man, CBC Broadcast.
Pensacola performed by Esprit Orchestra, Alex Pauk, subsequent CBC broadcast.
Pensacola performed by Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Roberto Abaddo.
les enfers éternels des gens désespérés premiered by The Hilliard Ensemble, Montreal Nouvelles Musiques.
Attendance @ ISCM World Music Days, Slovenia (President and Delegate, Canadian Section).
Recipes for the Common Man performed at the BONK Festival, Tampa, Florida.
Awarded a SOCAN Foundation Residency with Soundstreams Canada.
Awarded a Council Council Long Term Grant for research in computer applications.
2002
Pensacola premiered by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Recipes for the Common Man premiered in Banff, Alberta.
Your Soul is a Bottle Full of Thirsting Salt performed by the Esprit Orchestra.
Foundry performed by New Works Calgary.
cette obscure clarté qui tombes des étoiles performed by Kathryn Cernauskas, Luzern, Switzerland.
Awarded a Canada Council Travel Grant to attend premiere in Banff, Alberta.
2001
wonder performed at Open Ears Festival, Kitchener, Ontario.
Your Soul is a Bottle Full of Thirsting Salt premiered by the VSO.
Featured guest composer, Ought-One Festival, Montpellier, Vermont.
Featured guest composer, BONK Festival of New Music, Tampa.
Selected composer, ISCM World Music Days, Yokohama Japan (Bread).
Awarded a Canada Council Travel Grant to attend premiere in Yokohama, Japan.
Awarded a Canada Council Travel Grant to attend premiere in Vancouver, BC.
bread performed by the Tokyo Ensemble COmeT, Minato Mirai Theatre, ISCM World Music Days Gala Concert, 2001, Yokohama, Japan.
bread, pomme de terre, cette obscure clarté qui tombes des étoiles performed at BONK Festival, Fla.
Poland is not yet lost, pomme de terre, cette obscure clarté qui tombes des étoiles, Ought-One Festival, Vermont.
2000
airstream premiered by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Roy Thomson Hall.
Feature radio program, ORF, Austria.
Mycenaean Wound performed by Continuum, Toronto.
Lectures at University of Toronto.
Joins Morningstars Hockey Club.
1999
Featured guest composer, Musikprotokoll, Austrian Radio (ORF).
bread premiered by Klangforum Wien, Sylvain Cambreling, Graz, Austria.
wonder given european premiere by Austrian Radio Philharmonic, Arturo Tamayo.
pomme de terre given world premiere by Guido Arbonelli, Assisi, Rome, Antwerp, Moscow, and Perugia.
Circumnavigating the Sea of Shit performed in Toulouse, France.
Circumnavigating the Sea of Shit performed at the BONK Festival, Tampa.
A Book from the Harbour III (excerpts) premiered by Michelle Todd, Andrea Stoneman, Banff.
Circumnavigating the Sea of Shit performed at Rien à Voir Festival, Montréal.
Awarded a Canada Council Travel Grant to attend premiere in Graz, Austria.
Commissioned by Austrian Radio.
Commissioned by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Commissioned by the BC Heritage Fund.
1998
Huskless performed by Lori Freedman, New Works Calgary.
Completes Doctor of Musical Arts degree, UBC.
Artistic Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts.
Commissioned by oboist Lawrence Cherney.
Appointed Composer in Residence, Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Ciphering in Tongues premiered by the Toronto Symphony, Evening Overtures.
Panel discussion, Made in Canada Festival, with John Corigliano, Henry Kucharzyk, Barbara Croall, Eric Morin.
1997
wonder 3rd of 10 recommended works, 44th Tribunes Internationale des Compositeurs presented at UNESCO, Paris.
wonder broadcast in 23 countries.
Exegesis performed by the Composer's Orchestra, Gary Kulesha, conductor, Toronto, "Made in Canada" Festival.
millennia broadcast on France Musique.
Now is a Creature given world premiere by Bennie Sluchin, L'Espace de Projection, IRCAM, Paris.
Presentation/lecture at IRCAM open house.
1996
wonder given world premiere by CBC Vancouver Radio Orchestra, Owen Underhill, cond., Valdine Anderson, soprano. (VNM Festival).
wonder broadcast on Two New Hours and Radio Concert Hall.
Circumnavigating the Sea of Shit given world premiere, Concordia University, Montréal.
Awarded a Canada Council Long Term Grant for Composers.
Awarded Canada Council Paris Studio at Cité Internationale des Arts.
Awarded a British Columbia Arts Council Scholarship.
Commences Course in Composition and Computer Music, Institute for the Research and Coordination of Acoustics/Music (IRCAM), Paris. Studies with Tristan Murail, masterclasses with Brian Ferneyhough, Magnus Lindberg.
Lectures at UBC, Queen's, McGill, and Huddersfield universities.
1995
Mycenaean Wound performed by the SMCQ, Montréal, Quebec.
Tract given European premiere by Vertical Music, Rome, Italy.
Tract given world premiere by Marshall MacGuire, Sydney Spring, Australia.
Huskless premiered by Lori Freedman, Toronto.
Featured guest, Winnipeg New Music Festival; performances of Foundry, Tube Shelter Perspective.
Selected for participation in the IRCAM Course in Technology and Composition.
2nd prize, Godfrey Ridout Choral Awards, SOCAN Competition (Between Lips and Lips There are Cities).
3rd prize, Pierre Mercure Chamber Music Awards, SOCAN Competition for Young Composers (millennia).
1994
Tube Shelter Perspective performed at the Planetarium, Amsterdam, Holland.
on a pin's point my love is spinning premiered by Elektra Women's Choir, QE Playhouse, Vancouver.
Between Lips and Lips… premiered by Nederlands Kamerkoor, Gaudeamus Music Week, Amsterdam (competition finalist).
millennia performed by Ensemble 2e2m at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
1st prize, Electroacoustic music category, 11th CBC Radio Competition (Enclaves Intèrieures).
2nd prize, Pierre Mercure Awards, SOCAN Competition (Foundry).
Mycenaean Wound performed by Ensemble Télémaque, Contemporary Art Museum, Marseilles, France.
Commissioned by ELEKTRA Women's Choir.
1993
Tube Shelter Perspective given American premiere at BONK New Music Festival.
Mycenaean Wound premiered by Vancouver New Music on “Complexity and More”.
millennia given Canadian premiere by Continuum, Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto.
2nd prize, Sir Ernest MacMillan Awards, SOCAN Competition (Exegesis).
1992
2nd prize, Electroacoustic category, 10th CBC Radio Competition (Tube Shelter Perspective).
3rd prize, Orchestra music category, 10th CBC Radio Competition (Exegesis).
3rd prize, Chamber music category, 10th CBC Radio Competition (Corpus Inconnu).
CAR‑MEL prize for music notation at the 36th Internationales Ferienkurse Für Neue Musik, Darmstadt.
3rd prize in the Serge Garant Awards, SOCAN Competition (Corpus Inconnu).
Enclaves Interieures performed by Batterie Park, Sound Symposium, Newfoundland.
Attendance @ 36th Internationales Ferienkurse Für Neue Musik, Darmstadt.
Private lesson and masterclasses with Helmut Lachenmann.
Foundry, millennia, and Tube Shelter Perspective performed at Darmstadt.
2-year Killam Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, UBC.
1991
Selected to be an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre.
University Graduate Fellowship.
Commences Doctor of Musical Arts degree, UBC.
BC Arts Council Recommender Program Award. 2-year UBC Graduate Fellowship.
Co-founder, 99 Generators electroacoustic music concerts.
Tube Shelter Perspective and Foundry premiered, Arnold Schoenbergzaal, The Hague.
1990
Completes Master of Music degree in composition, UBC.
Awarded Governor General of Canada Gold Medal as outstanding student in all faculties.
Studies with Louis Andriessen, Amsterdam.
Post-graduate Certificate (Composition), Royal Conservatory of Music, The Hague.
Private composition consultations with Michael Finnissy, London, England.
Awarded a Canada Council Arts "B" Grant.
Recipient of a NUFFIC Scholarship.
BC Ministry of Culture Senior Arts Award.
1989
1st prize in the PROCAN Competition, Choral Category (Two Rivers).
1st prize in the Vancouver New Music Society Competition for Young Composers.
Selected work, Degré 1-Résidences category, 17e Concours International de Musique Electroacoustique, Bourges.
Performance by Vancouver New Music.
1987
Completes Bachelor of Music degree, University of British Columbia.
Attends masterclass given by Luciano Berio.
Begins "Are You Serious Music?" radio show, CITR.
(not a comprehensive list)
ANTHROPO, for trombone and interactive electronics, premiered by Benny Sluchin, New Music Concerts, Music Gallery, Toronto, December 11.
HYPOSURFACE EXHIBITION, May 21 to October 5, 2014, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal. Archaeology of the Digital: Media and Machines.
Including an early version of HYPOSURFACE, by dECOi Architects, including interactive audio by Paul STEENHUISEN. VIDEO AUDIO 1 2 3 4 5
Toneland Security performed by Margaret Lancaster, bass flute. Gallery MC, New York City, September 29.
2013
Composer in Residence, Sonic Boom Festival (Vancouver Pro Musica). March 20-24, Vancouver.
Intaglio sulla cervello, for violin, cello, and piano premiered by Corey Hamm, David Gilham, and Eric Wilson, VSO Annex, Vancouver.
Leads masterclass with Turning Point Ensemble and student composers, Vancouver.
Foundry, performed by Mark McGregor, flute on The Four Elements, a co-presentation of Tempest Flute Ensemble, ECM+, and Redshift Music Society. Orpheum Annex, Vancouver, May 23.
A Book from the Harbour III, performed by Stacie Dunlop and Cheryl Duvall at the Shaken or Stirred new music and martinis benefit for the Thin Edge New Music Collective. Array Space, Toronto, September 14.
Jeu de Téléphone for 2 alto saxophones, piano, and smartphones premiered by William H. Street, Charles H. Stolte, saxophones, Roger Admiral, piano, Convocation Hall, University of Alberta, October 6.
Jeu de Téléphone performed by William H. Street, Dale Wolford, saxophones, Roger Admiral, piano, San Jose State University, October 22.
Host, concert by William H. Street, San Jose State University, October 22. Intaglio Sulla Cervello performed by Nu:BC Collective (version with flute), Fresno New Music, Fresno, California, November 4.
Intaglio Sulla Cervello performed by Nu:BC Collective (version with flute), University of California at Davis, November 7.
Foundry performed by Mark Takeshi McGregor, flute. Canadian New Music at Off-IAMA, Montreal, November 7.
Publication of interviews with Walter Boudreau, David Eagle (SOUNDLAB New Music Podcast, iTunes).
2012
Toneland Security performed by Margaret Lancaster, bass flute. Gallery MC, New York City, January 30.
Bidiniband's In the Rock Hall released, containing electroacoustic introduction to the song Eunoia, February 1.
Revolutions per minute and Plea performed by Roger Admiral, Keyano College, Fort MacMurray, Alberta, February 4.
Copralite Culture and Analysis #21-34, for oboe, piano, & live electronics. Beth Levia/ Sylvia Shadick-Taylor. Edmonton, Alberta. Commissioned by Tonus Vivus Music Society, February 17.
Circumnavigating the Sea of Shit, and Poland is not yet Lost. Martian Gardens, WMUA, Amherst, Mass., May 20.
Sonic Geography” of Paris’ Fête de la Musique (article and audio) published in MUSICWORKS 113.
Frank O. Lunaire #10: Raub broadcast on Acoustic Frontiers, hosted by Ralph Hopper. CKCU, Ottawa, August 6.
Live interview with Giorgio Magnanensi, New Music Edmonton Festival, November 17.
Publication of interviews with Keith Hamel, André Ristic, Gordon Fitzell, Peter Eötvös, Brian Cherney, Bob Pritchard, James Harley, Aaron Gervais, James Rolfe, Howard Bashaw, Paul Steenhuisen (SOUNDLAB New Music Podcast, iTunes).
2011
Awarded Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award as the outstanding mid-career artist in music (Canada Council for the Arts).
Frank O. Lunaire #10: Raub broadcast on WIRED FOR SOUND, CHRW-FM, London, ON. May
Pomme de Terre performed by Margaret Lancaster. 124 Henry Street, Brooklyn, New York. Frank O. Lunaire #10: Raub broadcast on Sounds like Radio, WSIU-NPR, Carbondale, IL. April
Kee Yong Chong podcast interview released.
EVERY JOY POP TURBO, plea, and Revolutions per Minute performed by Roger Admiral, CMC BC Region, Vancouver.
World premiere of Supplice & Demand, for mezzo-soprano, ten instruments, and live electronics. New Music Concerts, with Robert Aitken, conductor, Erica Iris Huang, mezzo-soprano. The Music Gallery, Toronto, Ontario. April
Recipient, Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant to attend premiere of Supplice & Demand.
Jonathan Harvey podcast interview released. SOUNDLAB New Music Podcasts. February.
Recipient, Canada Council for the Arts Project Grant to attend IRCAM (Paris) and begin work on a new piece for Benny Sluchin, trombone.
One of seven composers selected to participate in Intensive Course, IRCAM, Paris.
Video work North Saskatchewan River at Edmonton, Canada exhibited in Disruptive Stillness, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Jean Paul Slusser Gallery. January 7-26.
Podcast interview of Elliott Carter broadcast on "Sound as Art", CKLN, Toronto. Saturday, January 1.
2010
Podcast interview of Rick Sacks featured on Sound as Art, CKLN, Toronto. Saturday, December 18.
Elliott Carter Podcast interview released, December 3.
MUSICWORKS Magazine ISSUE 108, Winter 2010: "VISIONS OF SOUND" features Paul Steenhuisen and dECOi
Architects interactive kinetic display, Hyposurface.
Lecture/ Concert including Every Joy Pop Turbo - Roger Admiral, piano. November 25, Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest.
Lecture, MIT Department of Architecture. Cambridge MA, USA. Paradigm. November 12.
Performances of Revolutions per minute, plea, and Every Joy Pop Turbo. Performed by Roger Admiral. November 3,
Kodaly Institute, Kecskemet, Hungary.
Performances of Revolutions per minute, plea, and Every Joy Pop Turbo. Performed by Roger Admiral. October 16, Music Information Centre, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Kodaly Institute, Kecskemet, Hungary.
Rick Sacks podcast interview released.
Frank O. Lunaire #10: Raub, broadcast on Perdidos en el Espacio, Santiago, Chile. July
Commission for Roger Admiral and Kathleen Corcoran. New work for soprano and piano, AFA. June
60x60 Dance Project in Montreal, choreographed performance of Poland is not yet lost. May
Panelist on "Building a New Music Culture" at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Sydney. May
Copralite Culture and Analysis #1-20 performed at ISCM World New Music Days, Sydney, Australia.
Claire Edwardes, percussion, Zubin Kanga, piano. Live broadcast on ABC Radio. International Selection, ISCM. May
Toneland Security broadcast on Electric Sense, CKLN Toronto. James Bailey, host. April
New Music Concerts commission - new work for voice and ensemble with live electronics for 2010/2011. April
ACDI - Canada Council/AFA grant received.
Contributions to the LoK8Tr internet audio and video project, “New Music in New Places”, Canadian Music Centre. Four-hour
telematic improvisation collaboration with Mannlicher Carcano, with contributors from Guelph, Montreal, Winnipeg, Edmonton,
Bratislava, Los Angeles, Berkeley. One-hour improv later that day at Echo Curio, Los Angeles. March
Frank O. Lunaire #10: Raub broadcast by art@radio and Neighbourhood Public Radio, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore. March
Frank O. Lunaire #10: Raub broadcast on Runny Noise, CJLO Montreal. March
Panelist at Canadian League of Composers "Cultivating Your Career" workshop. February
Every Joy Pop Turbo performed in Camrose, AB. Roger Admiral, piano. Recorded for broadcast by CBC. February
Poland is not yet lost broadcast on Radio Kolemna, Kolemna, Russia. February
Art’s Birthday, CITR, Vancouver broadcasts of wonder, and Blueblood Soundtrack. January
Circumnavigating the Sea of Shit broadcast on Radio Ultra, Moscow. January
Frank O. Lunaire #10: Raub broadcast on RTQE, Madison, WI. January
Completion of intaglio sulla cervello, for piano trio. Written for Trio Fibonacci. January
2009
Completion of Revolutions per minute, for solo piano. Used in LoK8Tr project. December
Presentation @ IAMIC (International Association of Music Information Centres) Conference, Toronto.
Composers in the 21st Century: A Case Study (June).
“Sonic Mosaics: Conversations with Composers” published by the University of Alberta Press. 314 pages.
Toneland Security performed by Margaret Lancaster, New Music Miami, November.
Toneland Security performed by Margaret Lancaster, Greenwich House, New York City, November.
Attendance @ ISCM World Music Days, Sweden (President Emeritus, Canadian Section).
“Sonic Mosaics” lectures at University of British Columbia, University of Victoria, University of Toronto, University of Guelph, Wilfrid-Laurier
University, University of Western Ontario, University of Windsor.
EVERY JOY POP TURBO performed on tour by Roger Admiral. September 13, Edmonton (University of Alberta), September
14/15, Minneapolis (St. Joseph's College), September 16/17, Stetson University (Deland, Florida), September 18/19, Millikin University
(Decatur, Illinois), September 20/21, University of Illinois (Champagne-Urbana) September 22/23, Lawrence University Appleton, Wisc),
September 24, Wright University (Dayton, Ohio).
2008
Pensacola performed by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.
Attendance @ ISCM World Music Days, Lithuania (President and Delegate, Canadian Section).
Toneland Security (bass flute) performed by Margaret Lancaster. Composers Voice Concert Series, Jan Hus Church, NYC. November 30.
Toneland Security (bass flute) performed by Margaret Lancaster. Colours of Music Festival, Santa Fe, New Mexico. January 17.
Cette obscure clarté qui tombes des étoiles, performed by Annie Massa, Concordia Conservatory, Bronxville, New York. June.
2007
HYPOSURFACE @ BIO Conference, Boston, MA.
Attendance @ ISCM World Music Days, Hong Kong (President and Delegate, Canadian Section).
2006
A Book from the Harbour, Chapter III (soprano and piano) performed on Music at Convocation Hall series, U of A.
Toneland Security (bass flute) performed by Margaret Lancaster, New York Theatre Lab, New York City, May 7.
Poland is not yet lost (electroacoustic) performed as part of 60X60 at Bainbridge Island, Washington, June 7.
HOBO ACTION FIGURES (ensemble and electronics), performed by Continuum at soundaXis Festival, Toronto.
Frank O. Lunaire #10: Raub performed as part of Xenakis Legacies, University of Toronto.
Pomme de Terre performed by Margaret Lancaster, New York City, USA.
Exhibition of HYPOSURFACE, 90,000 visitors, IMTS, McCormack Place, Chicago, September 6-13.
There’s a Glacier in Our Sink distributed by rabble.ca (400+ downloads).
Attendance @ ISCM World Music Days, Stuttgart, Germany (President and Delegate, Canadian Section).
Awarded HFASSR Grant to travel for Hyposurface Installation Project, Boston.
Awarded Support for the Advancement of Scholarship Travel Grant, U of A.
2005
Toneland Security (bass flute) performed by Derek Charke, July 13, University of Buffalo, New York.
Circumnavigating the Sea of Shit (electroacoustic) performed Convocation Hall, U of A, September.
Pomme de Terre (piccolo) performed at Septs Lezards, Paris, France, October 17.
Frank O. Lunaire #10: Raub performance premiere, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, deCOI opening.
Material/Ultramaterial world premiere, New Music Concerts, Toronto, Ontario.
Toneland Security (bass flute) performed by Margaret Lancaster, New York City, December 19.
Toneland Security world premiere by Margaret Lancaster, Stanford University, California.
Toneland Security performed at BONK Festival, Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.
Toneland Security performed at Spoleto Festival, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Wonder (orchestra, tape, soprano) broadcast nationally in The Netherlands, 3rd quarter.
Awarded a Canada Foundation for Innovation grant ($71,000), funding to U of A.
Awarded a Council Council Travel Grant to attend premiere in Toronto, Ontario.
Now is a creature, Frank O. Lunaire #10:Raub, Vorwissen, Who are we? Recipes for the Common Man, broadcast on art@radio, Baltimore.
Cette obscure clarté qui tombes des étoiles, performed by Michelle Cheramy at NEWFOUND festival, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL.
Recipes for the Common Man broadcast on Elektra Radio Show, Paris, France (6, 9 January).
There’s a Glacier in Our Sink broadcast, CBC Radio’s Sound Like Canada (11, 12 January).
There’s a Glacier in Our Sink broadcast, Deep Wireless, CKLN, Toronto (13 January).
There’s a Glacier in Our Sink performed, Deep Wireless Festival, Drake Hotel, Toronto (2, 12, 22 May).
Frank O. Lunaire #10: Raub broadcast on Difficult Listening, RTR FM, Perth, Australia.
Now is a Creature broadcast on Difficult Listening, RTR FM, Perth, Australia.
Now is a Creature broadcast on Elektra Radio Show, Paris, France (3, 6 February).
Frank O. Lunaire #10: Raub, Bread broadcast on FOLDOVER, WOBC, Oberlin, Ohio, USA (21 March).
Attendance @ ISCM World Music Days, Croatia (President and Delegate, Canadian Section).
Plea, for solo piano, performed by Roger Admiral, Convocation Hall, Edmonton, Conservatory of Music and Dance, Winnipeg, Vandercook College, Chicago, University of Wisconsin, Penn State University, Ball State University, University of North Carolina, Milikin University, Decatur, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, University of Southwest Missouri, Drake University, Desmoines, Susquahana University, Selinsgrove, William Paterson University, Newark, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Newberry College, South Carolina, Stetson University, Florida, University of South Carolina.
2004
Poland is not yet lost US premiere, 60X60 project, Harbor College, Los Angeles, California.
Sommes-nous pilotées par nos genes broadcast on CBC Two New Hours.
Circumnavigating the Sea of Shit, Convocation Hall, U of A.
A Book from the Harbour III (Excerpts), performed by Roger Admiral and Kathleen Corcoran, UA.
Cette obscure clarté qui tombes des étoiles, St. Crispin’s Chamber Ensemble, Red Strap Market, Ed.
There’s a Glacier in our Sink (radio documentary) featured on CBC “Sounds like Canada”.
HOBO ACTION FIGURES (scripted improvisation) premiered by FLUX, Edmonton.
Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? Part One: Sommes-nous pilotees par nos genes ERGO Projects Canada/Lithuania Exchange, Toronto/ Vilnius.
Cette obscure clarté qui tombe des étoiles - presentation and performance by Margaret Lancaster, flute. University of South Florida.
Circumnavigating the sea of shit, Sonic Lab concert, Univerisity of Victoria (March).
Vorwissen premiered by Gryphon Trio, Toronto. CBC Broadcast, Two New Hours.
Foundry performed by Chenoa Anderson, University of Alberta (February), Experimental Music Collective, Vancouver (February) Mount Allison University, NB (March).
Featured composer, Soundstreams Canada “Encounters” series.
Attendance @ ISCM World Music Days, Switzerland (President and Delegate, Canadian Section).
Awarded an Endowment Fund for the Future grant, funding to U of A.
Awarded a Council Council Travel Grant to attend premiere in Toronto, Ontario.
2003
A Book from the Harbour III premiered by Jane Archibald, John Hess, Soundstreams, Toronto.
Now is a Creature (revision) performed by Alain Trudel, Soundstreams, Toronto.
Recipes for the Common Man performed by Lawrence Cherney, Soundstreams, Toronto.
Cette obscure clarté qui tombe des étoiles Soundstreams Canada. Glenn Gould Studio.
Pensacola performed by the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal.
A Book from the Harbour III, Now is a Creature, Recipes for the Common Man, CBC Broadcast.
Pensacola performed by Esprit Orchestra, Alex Pauk, subsequent CBC broadcast.
Pensacola performed by Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Roberto Abaddo.
les enfers éternels des gens désespérés premiered by The Hilliard Ensemble, Montreal Nouvelles Musiques.
Attendance @ ISCM World Music Days, Slovenia (President and Delegate, Canadian Section).
Recipes for the Common Man performed at the BONK Festival, Tampa, Florida.
Awarded a SOCAN Foundation Residency with Soundstreams Canada.
Awarded a Council Council Long Term Grant for research in computer applications.
2002
Pensacola premiered by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Recipes for the Common Man premiered in Banff, Alberta.
Your Soul is a Bottle Full of Thirsting Salt performed by the Esprit Orchestra.
Foundry performed by New Works Calgary.
cette obscure clarté qui tombes des étoiles performed by Kathryn Cernauskas, Luzern, Switzerland.
Awarded a Canada Council Travel Grant to attend premiere in Banff, Alberta.
2001
wonder performed at Open Ears Festival, Kitchener, Ontario.
Your Soul is a Bottle Full of Thirsting Salt premiered by the VSO.
Featured guest composer, Ought-One Festival, Montpellier, Vermont.
Featured guest composer, BONK Festival of New Music, Tampa.
Selected composer, ISCM World Music Days, Yokohama Japan (Bread).
Awarded a Canada Council Travel Grant to attend premiere in Yokohama, Japan.
Awarded a Canada Council Travel Grant to attend premiere in Vancouver, BC.
bread performed by the Tokyo Ensemble COmeT, Minato Mirai Theatre, ISCM World Music Days Gala Concert, 2001, Yokohama, Japan.
bread, pomme de terre, cette obscure clarté qui tombes des étoiles performed at BONK Festival, Fla.
Poland is not yet lost, pomme de terre, cette obscure clarté qui tombes des étoiles, Ought-One Festival, Vermont.
2000
airstream premiered by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Roy Thomson Hall.
Feature radio program, ORF, Austria.
Mycenaean Wound performed by Continuum, Toronto.
Lectures at University of Toronto.
Joins Morningstars Hockey Club.
1999
Featured guest composer, Musikprotokoll, Austrian Radio (ORF).
bread premiered by Klangforum Wien, Sylvain Cambreling, Graz, Austria.
wonder given european premiere by Austrian Radio Philharmonic, Arturo Tamayo.
pomme de terre given world premiere by Guido Arbonelli, Assisi, Rome, Antwerp, Moscow, and Perugia.
Circumnavigating the Sea of Shit performed in Toulouse, France.
Circumnavigating the Sea of Shit performed at the BONK Festival, Tampa.
A Book from the Harbour III (excerpts) premiered by Michelle Todd, Andrea Stoneman, Banff.
Circumnavigating the Sea of Shit performed at Rien à Voir Festival, Montréal.
Awarded a Canada Council Travel Grant to attend premiere in Graz, Austria.
Commissioned by Austrian Radio.
Commissioned by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Commissioned by the BC Heritage Fund.
1998
Huskless performed by Lori Freedman, New Works Calgary.
Completes Doctor of Musical Arts degree, UBC.
Artistic Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts.
Commissioned by oboist Lawrence Cherney.
Appointed Composer in Residence, Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Ciphering in Tongues premiered by the Toronto Symphony, Evening Overtures.
Panel discussion, Made in Canada Festival, with John Corigliano, Henry Kucharzyk, Barbara Croall, Eric Morin.
1997
wonder 3rd of 10 recommended works, 44th Tribunes Internationale des Compositeurs presented at UNESCO, Paris.
wonder broadcast in 23 countries.
Exegesis performed by the Composer's Orchestra, Gary Kulesha, conductor, Toronto, "Made in Canada" Festival.
millennia broadcast on France Musique.
Now is a Creature given world premiere by Bennie Sluchin, L'Espace de Projection, IRCAM, Paris.
Presentation/lecture at IRCAM open house.
1996
wonder given world premiere by CBC Vancouver Radio Orchestra, Owen Underhill, cond., Valdine Anderson, soprano. (VNM Festival).
wonder broadcast on Two New Hours and Radio Concert Hall.
Circumnavigating the Sea of Shit given world premiere, Concordia University, Montréal.
Awarded a Canada Council Long Term Grant for Composers.
Awarded Canada Council Paris Studio at Cité Internationale des Arts.
Awarded a British Columbia Arts Council Scholarship.
Commences Course in Composition and Computer Music, Institute for the Research and Coordination of Acoustics/Music (IRCAM), Paris. Studies with Tristan Murail, masterclasses with Brian Ferneyhough, Magnus Lindberg.
Lectures at UBC, Queen's, McGill, and Huddersfield universities.
1995
Mycenaean Wound performed by the SMCQ, Montréal, Quebec.
Tract given European premiere by Vertical Music, Rome, Italy.
Tract given world premiere by Marshall MacGuire, Sydney Spring, Australia.
Huskless premiered by Lori Freedman, Toronto.
Featured guest, Winnipeg New Music Festival; performances of Foundry, Tube Shelter Perspective.
Selected for participation in the IRCAM Course in Technology and Composition.
2nd prize, Godfrey Ridout Choral Awards, SOCAN Competition (Between Lips and Lips There are Cities).
3rd prize, Pierre Mercure Chamber Music Awards, SOCAN Competition for Young Composers (millennia).
1994
Tube Shelter Perspective performed at the Planetarium, Amsterdam, Holland.
on a pin's point my love is spinning premiered by Elektra Women's Choir, QE Playhouse, Vancouver.
Between Lips and Lips… premiered by Nederlands Kamerkoor, Gaudeamus Music Week, Amsterdam (competition finalist).
millennia performed by Ensemble 2e2m at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
1st prize, Electroacoustic music category, 11th CBC Radio Competition (Enclaves Intèrieures).
2nd prize, Pierre Mercure Awards, SOCAN Competition (Foundry).
Mycenaean Wound performed by Ensemble Télémaque, Contemporary Art Museum, Marseilles, France.
Commissioned by ELEKTRA Women's Choir.
1993
Tube Shelter Perspective given American premiere at BONK New Music Festival.
Mycenaean Wound premiered by Vancouver New Music on “Complexity and More”.
millennia given Canadian premiere by Continuum, Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto.
2nd prize, Sir Ernest MacMillan Awards, SOCAN Competition (Exegesis).
1992
2nd prize, Electroacoustic category, 10th CBC Radio Competition (Tube Shelter Perspective).
3rd prize, Orchestra music category, 10th CBC Radio Competition (Exegesis).
3rd prize, Chamber music category, 10th CBC Radio Competition (Corpus Inconnu).
CAR‑MEL prize for music notation at the 36th Internationales Ferienkurse Für Neue Musik, Darmstadt.
3rd prize in the Serge Garant Awards, SOCAN Competition (Corpus Inconnu).
Enclaves Interieures performed by Batterie Park, Sound Symposium, Newfoundland.
Attendance @ 36th Internationales Ferienkurse Für Neue Musik, Darmstadt.
Private lesson and masterclasses with Helmut Lachenmann.
Foundry, millennia, and Tube Shelter Perspective performed at Darmstadt.
2-year Killam Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, UBC.
1991
Selected to be an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre.
University Graduate Fellowship.
Commences Doctor of Musical Arts degree, UBC.
BC Arts Council Recommender Program Award. 2-year UBC Graduate Fellowship.
Co-founder, 99 Generators electroacoustic music concerts.
Tube Shelter Perspective and Foundry premiered, Arnold Schoenbergzaal, The Hague.
1990
Completes Master of Music degree in composition, UBC.
Awarded Governor General of Canada Gold Medal as outstanding student in all faculties.
Studies with Louis Andriessen, Amsterdam.
Post-graduate Certificate (Composition), Royal Conservatory of Music, The Hague.
Private composition consultations with Michael Finnissy, London, England.
Awarded a Canada Council Arts "B" Grant.
Recipient of a NUFFIC Scholarship.
BC Ministry of Culture Senior Arts Award.
1989
1st prize in the PROCAN Competition, Choral Category (Two Rivers).
1st prize in the Vancouver New Music Society Competition for Young Composers.
Selected work, Degré 1-Résidences category, 17e Concours International de Musique Electroacoustique, Bourges.
Performance by Vancouver New Music.
1987
Completes Bachelor of Music degree, University of British Columbia.
Attends masterclass given by Luciano Berio.
Begins "Are You Serious Music?" radio show, CITR.
(not a comprehensive list)
