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jef chippewa (London, Ontario, Canada, 1969) • residence: Berlin, Germany • composer
Canadian composer jef chippewa is particularily interested in questions of cultural awareness and identity in regards to the composer’s responsibility in inheriting or appropriating cultural heritage. Understanding the impossibility of definitive articulation or comprehension of cultural identity does not justify conscious unawareness of any of its aspects. Nor does it excuse irresponsibility in cultural appropriation, and this applies equally to the appropriation of one’s ‘own’ culture (cultural heritage) as to that of another culture or sub-culture (‘external influences’). In 1999, jef chippewa founded shirling & neueweise, a company specialized in new music notation, which collaborates with composers, ensembles and publishers. In 2006, with colleagues João Miguel Pais and Alberto Bernal, he is transforming shirling & neueweise into an international publishing house. Since 2005, he is the Administrative Co-Director of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC), Canada’s national association for electroacoustic music. [x-06] electrocd.com jef chippewa: biography |
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