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The Orford Arts Centre (Québec) announces its 4th Sound Art Workshop as part of the International Music Academy. Held on August 2 to 15, 2009 the workshop, directed by Yves Daoust, is open to sound creators of all styles. This year Yves Daoust — assisted by Alexandre Burton, and Jean Landry — has invited guest masters Gilles Gobeil, Jean-François Laporte, John Oswald, and Hans Tutschku with special guests Robert Normandeau, and Annette Vande Gorne.
The choreography Interiors by Laurence Lemieux, for which John Oswald was sound advisor, will be presented as part of the Mainstage Series on October 25 to 27, 2007 at Enwave Theatre in Toronto.
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) invites its visitors to experience its new entrance in a dynamic new way: with sound. Its new main hall is partly filled with the sounds the permanent sound installation A Time to Hear for Here by John Oswald.
Robert Normandeau and Jean-François Denis presented the closing concert of the “Akusmatisches Wochenende” festival produced by the Studio für elektroakustische Musik (SeaM) in Weimar (Germany) on June 18, 2006. The programme included works by Normandeau, and, spatialized by Denis, short works by Elainie Lillios, Elsa Justel, Elizabeth Hoffman, Natasha Barrett, John Oswald, Yves Daoust, and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay.
Jocelyn Robert made a selection of videographic works by John Oswald, Éric Gagnon, Bernard Gigounon, Julia Page and Ben Reisman for La lumière immobile, an exhibition at Dazibao gallery (Montréal) from April 28 to June 3, 2006.
John Oswald is presenting a solo art show at the Ed Day Gallery (Toronto), to be shown until May 14, 2006. In addition to the exhibition, a 2-projector version of his “chronophotic” work instandstillnessence will be presented outdoors on Sunday April 23, part of the closing ceremonies for the Images Film and Video Festival.
Simon Fraser University’s electroacoustic music studio is celebrating its 40th anniversary with the release of SFU 40, a compilation of works from the studio and previously unreleased on CD. Featuring composers Barry Truax, Hildegard Westerkamp, John Oswald, Jean Piché, Anne Holmes, Arne Eigenfeldt, and Martin Gotfrit.
The Orford Arts Centre (Québec) announces its new Sound Creation Workshop as part of the international Music Academy. Held from June 26 to July 8, 2006 the workshop, directed by Yves Daoust, is open to sound creators of all styles. This summer Yves Daoust has invited guest “teachers” John Oswald, Åke Parmerud, Alexandre Burton, Louis Dufort, and flutist Robert Aitken. There will be a public evening concert on July 6 (Piché, Oswald, Parmerud, Dufort), and a half-concert on July 7.
John Oswald will present a set of compositions for Disklavier (a robotized acoustic piano) at the Western Front in Vancouver (BC) on September 15, 2005. This Disklavier concert is part of the New Forms Festival. Other performing artists at the festival include Tomas Jirku, The Mole, and Deadbeat.
Many Canadian artists have received distinctions and special mentions in the “digital musics” category at the recent Prix Ars Electronica 2005 competition. John Oswald was awarded a distinction for his plunderphonics. Gilles Gobeil’s composition Ombres, espaces, silences… received a mention. Duo Skoltz_Kolgen also obtained a mention for their performance work Flüux :/ Terminal. Finally, the Artificiel trio were awarded a mention for the project condemned_bulbes.