Category: Composition
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The Fashioned Sound Body
The Fashioned Sound Body links the physical touch of bodies to sound composition through the use of a hand woven electronic textile jumpsuit. Performance of The Fashioned Sound Body March 1st 2025 Presented by Stillmoon Arts Society Programme notes: The Fashioned Sound body a live performance weaving music and dance together through the use of…
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Consciousness of Streams
Consciousness of Streams is a three-year interdisciplinary performance that contemplates the lost streams buried beneath the Renfrew-Collingwood neighbourhood. Created by award-winning choreographer Isabelle Kirouac and produced by Stillmoon Arts Society. I was the composer, nusicain and music coordinator. Over the three years I worked with Zhongxi Wu (Suona and Sheng) in 2022, Solo my clarinet…
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High {In}fidelity
I started experimenting with several ways to make loudspeakers that would distort sounds sent to it. First I tried out making my own voice coils, piezoelectric crystals, and attaching speaker divers to different shaped materials. I got both my homemade voice coil based drivers and piezoelectric crystals to work but they were very quiet and…
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Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival
Years 2003 to 2014 and again in 2019 Involved in many capacities About the Festival
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Embodied Clarinet
The piece is the outcome of researching the body’s connection to the clarinet. Exploration and play were used to find a myriad of sounds that can span a range from the visceral to the more traditionally “musical”. Light and shadow illuminate the bodies/actors on stage and their interconnection. The light and its player both become…
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Inkling to be Still Sneaky
A commissioned composition by Still Moon Arts Society for a site-specific performance called Still Creek: Lost and Found Performed for Still Creek Stories
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A Piece Cut Short
The concept:A 30-minute piece of sound textures built from the amplification of all the characters of wound within the clarinet (the subtle, incidental and the intended, apparent) which is abruptly cut off at the 5-minute mark because there is not enough time in the composition concert for 30-minute pieces. Composition Concert 2018 – Program of…