My recent article on borrowing in acousmatic music, “Borrowed for Permanent Use: The Instruments INDIA commissions”, has been published in Organised Sound 24 (2). This is an excellent issue, with much insightful commentary.
Steven Naylor : composer : performer : writer : producer
Author Archives: Steven
Paper in EMS 2018 proceedings
My paper, ‘Sound Design and Electroacoustic Music: Practices or Perspectives?’ (presented in Florence in June 2018) is available online in the conference proceedings: http://www.ems-network.org/spip.php?article466 Continue Reading
New article in Organised Sound
My article, ‘Voice: The persistent source’ is now available in the December 2016 issue of Organised Sound. Further information available here. Continue Reading
Paper now on econtact.ca
My paper ‘Twiddling and Twerking: thoughts on electroacoustic music performance’ – presented at the Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium in August 2014 – is finally available on the CEC’s brand new eContact! site. Congrats to Yves Gigon and jef chippewa for the excellent new site design – it was worth waiting for! Direct link to the… Continue Reading
Merritt Award nominations 2015
Very happy that my work on Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia’s ‘Stella, Queen of the Snow’ has been nominated for Merritt Awards for both ‘Outstanding Original Score’ and ‘Outstanding Sound Design’. Continue Reading
ECMA Nominations 2015
Just learned that my piece ‘Dream Kitchen’ was nominated for ECMA’s ‘Classical Composition of the Year’! And the Centrediscs CD it’s on – Kitchen Party (performed by Mark Adam and Derek Charke) – was nominated for ‘Classical Recording of the Year’. The winners will be announced in St John’s, in early April. ‘Dream Kitchen’ is… Continue Reading
‘Mastering the Mutable’ paper now online
I’m happy to announce that my 2013 Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium paper, ‘Mastering the Mutable: Music, technology and change’, is now online on sonus.ca. You can read it here. Continue Reading
Irrashaimase in concert
Some wonderful news: my multi-channel electroacoustic piece Irrashaimase (from my empreintes DIGITALes disc, Lieux imaginaires) will be presented in concert in Echochroma XII, November 17, 2014, at Leeds Beckett University in the UK. Many thanks to Nikos Stavropoulos for programming and presenting this work! Continue Reading
New theatre sound design
I’ve just completed the sound design for Mulgrave Road Theatre’s production of the haunting Judith Thompson play, Watching Glory Die, featuring Stephanie MacDonald. The show will have a brief run at the Mulgrave space in Guysborough, November 13-16, and then tour in 2015. This sound design drew heavily on my background in acousmatic music (and… Continue Reading
Article in Organised Sound
I’m very happy to announce that my article, “Appropriation, Culture and Meaning in Electroacoustic Music: a composer’s perspective”, has just been published in Organised Sound, Volume 19, Special Issue #2. I presented a shorter version in Liverpool at the Music Since 1900 conference, and expanded it for publication. The print issue of OS will be… Continue Reading