Steven

I had a wonderful time in Birmingham (UK), participating in BEAST FEaST 2022  (June 28 – July 1) where I presented my new octophonic piece, Lullaby.   This event was particularly special because it celebrated both 40 years of BEAST, and the continuing work of BEAST’s founder, Jonty Harrison It was a delight to be with … Read more

So pleased to have participated in this event on June 25 – celebrating 32 years of Upstream! I was especially happy that Upstream AD Lukas Pearse included a performance by the ‘subSet Trio’ (Tom Roach, Jeff Reilly and myself), with Lukas joining us on bass to make it a quartet.  It was wonderful to play … Read more

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.

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

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 … Read more

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’.

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 … Read more

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.

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!