Bang
On A Can - A multi-faceted new-music project from New York:
ensemble, record label, summer institute, festival...
the Guelph Jazz Festival
- annual festival of forward-thinking improvised music in Guelph, Ontario
- held every September
the Kitchener-Waterloo
Chamber Music Society - one of the busiest presenters of
chamber music in the country (and my family home)
The
Music Times - a new
paper! KW's guide to classical music
NUMUS -
Presenters of new music in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario and environs
the Open Ears Festival of Music and
Sound - biennial festival of new music and sound art in
Kitchener, Ontario
RED -
A bi-monthly cabaret held in Toronto, Ontario, featuring dance, art,
music, story telling, performance art, etc...
ZED TV - open source television -
an interesting idea. And it's from the CBC - who knew? (i have some
tracks here - search for "jascha")
Aaron
Siegel - fellow Wesleyan composer - percussionist, installation
artist, composer
Caleb Buhrans
- a New York multi-instrumentalist and composer/improvisor
Celeste
Hutchins - fellow Wesleyan composer - computer music
Danny Holt - an excellent
pianist from the states who i've been working with lately
Freida Abtan
- long-time friend - digital media art / all manner of sound+image interactivity
Memetics
- musician collective featuring monthly concerts in montreal.
Check out their half-hour mash-up
party mix
Neely Bruce
- Professor of composition at Wesleyan University, and one of the most
eclectic people i know
Nick Storring
- Kitchener-Waterloo area composer and improvising electro-cellist
Peter
Hatch - Kitchener-Waterloo area composer, professor at
WLU, and founder of both NUMUS and the Open Ears festival
Phillip Schulze
- fellow Wesleyan composer - digital media art / laptop improv
Todd Reynolds
- New-York new-music violinist - member of Ethel,
also does solo shows with live electronics
Ardour
is an open-source DAW which is well on the way to giving the likes of
ProTools, Cubase and others a run for their money.
Scala
- designed for working with experimental tunings. These people have
also been compiling a giant scale archive (linked under 'resources,'
below).
SPEAR
- stands for Sinusoidal Partial Editing And Resynthesis. Lets
you do spectral editing on audio.
SuperCollider - ...is an open-source
programming language for music and sound synthesis and processing. audiosynth.com
is the home-page, and Wesleyan
University hosts a site which compiles ready to use versions
every day. (Note: file sizes under 5 MB or so mean that the build failed
that night - stick with things 5 MB or larger (more like 6 MB, these
days...).
The Bohlen-Pierce
site - info on a very interesting alternative scale
Conflations.com - new conversational idiom for the 21st
century
Scala
scale archive - over 3000 alternate tunings in the concise
and flexible .scl format.
Alaya Shiatsu - a close friend, and a Montreal-area healer
of exceptional ability
GirlCanCreate.com
- the website of my inspired friend Lisa Pijuan, who dances, puppeteers,
story-tells, and masterminds in Toronto, Ontario. Info on her ongoing
performance series RED and other happenings can be found here
MJYoga.com - Close
friend Meaghan Johnson is a gifted yoga teacher (K-W area)
Oonabeatrice.com
- I also do web design - this one was assembled for my friend Oona Fraser's
silk-painting persona