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List of Octophonic Works realized at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV

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works realized with 8- and 16-channel computer-controlled diffusion

Barry Truax

Riverrun (1986), remixed for 8-ch. tape (2004)

The Wings of Nike (1987), remixed for 8-ch. tape (2009)

Basilica (1992), 8-ch. tape

Sequence of Later Heaven (1993), 8-ch.tape

Pacific Fanfare (1996), remixed for 8-ch. tape

Pendlerdrøm (1997), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Sequence of Earlier Heaven (1998), 8-ch.tape

Powers of Two (1995-99), for six singers, two dancers, video tape and 8-channel tape

Act 1: Repetition (1999), for four singers, two dancers, and 8-ch. tape

Act 2: The Artist (1995), for two singers, dancer, video tape and 8-ch. tape

Act 3: The Sibyl (1997), for two singers, dancer, video tape and 8-ch. tape

Act 4: Beyond (1997), for four singers, two dancers, and 8-ch. tape

Island (2000), 8 or 16 soundtracks (program note)

Temple (2002), 8 or 16 soundtracks (program note)

Prospero's Voyage (2004), 8 or 16 soundtracks (program note)

The Shaman Ascending (2004-2005), 8 or 16 soundtracks (program note)

The Way of the Spirit (2005-2006), for ichigenkin, shakuhachi and eight digital soundtracks, with Randy Raine-Reusch

Chalice Well (2009), 8 or 16 soundtracks

Fire Spirits (2010), 8 soundtracks

Aeolian Voices (2013), 8 soundtracks

Earth and Steel (2013), 8 soundtracks

The Garden of Sonic Delights (2015-16), multiple soundtracks

Ocean Deep (2017), 8 soundtracks

The Bells of Salzburg (2018), 8 soundtracks

Infinity Room (2019), 8 or 16 soundtracks

Rainforest Raven (2020), 8 soundtracks

What The Waters Told Me (2022), 8 soundtracks

How The Winds Caressed Me (2023), 8 soundtracks

Talking Rain (1997), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Into The Labyrinth (2000), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Peter Manning

In Memoriam CPR (2000), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Jonathan Herring

Transport (2000), 8-ch. tape

... to sing the love of danger (2000), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Gas Tractor (2005), 8-ch. tape

Moonlight on Flowing Water (2005), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Didg (2005), 8-ch. tape

Damián Keller

Touch 'n' go / Toco y me voy (1999), 8-ch.tape

"...soretes de punta" (1998), 8-ch. tape

Drop (1999), 8-ch tape and 35 mm. film

Adis Husejnagic

Neptune (2002), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Solea (2003), 8-ch. tape

Thanon Khaosan (2004), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Hyperalgesia (2006), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Andrew Czink

Strike Slip (2005), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Marc Bjorknas

Jamaican Sound System (2002), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Ben Wilson

Sediment (2003), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Googolplex (2003), 8-ch. tape (program note)

sylvi macCormac

8 Directions (1999), 8-ch. tape and live performers

Witness: Round Journey (2000), 8-ch. tape

De Constructing Abuse (2004), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Daniel Pruger

The New World: Now Boarding at Gate D14 (2005), 8-ch. tape

Galen Elfert

Nebulae (2005), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Biblio (2005), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Jeffrey Mettlewsky

POST (2005), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Unanswered? (2006), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Andrew Douglas

The Lament for the Children (2005), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Continuum (2006), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Sylvia DeTar

Footsteps (2005), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Homecoming (2006), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Pipe Cycles (2006), 8-ch. tape

James O’Callaghan
     

Casino (2007), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Adam Basanta

is the Medium is the Message (2007), 8-ch. tape and video (program note)

Transients and Resonances (2008), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Eric Powell       

A Low and Distant Roar (2007),  trombone and 8-ch. tape (program note)

Sammy Chien

Landing, Immanent Particles in the Air, Recollecting… (2007), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Nathan Clarkson

Ephemeral Memories of Somewhere (2008), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Wynde Priddy

A Whole Bunch of Sounds (2008), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Peter Bowles

Outside the Innermost Squall (2008), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Craig Noble

Aerosol (2002), 8-ch. tape with video (program note)

Mark MacIntosh

Glass Wind (2003), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Darvin Jones

Artist Resource Centre (2003), 8-ch. tape

Massimo Mariani

604- (Sky Train) (2003), 8-ch. tape

Phil Thomson

Mountain (2003), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Matt Kober

Apotropaic (2004), 8-ch. tape

Jennifer Balabanov

The Evolution of Flight (2003), 8-ch. tape

Milena Droumeva

History Repeating (2003), 8-ch. tape

Alex Mateesco

Lifeblood (2003), 8-ch. tape

Robin Quirk

Eagles Run (2003), 8-ch. tape

Journey of the Fingerlings (2003). 8-ch. tape

Dexter Wayne

A Time Inside (2003), 8-ch. tape

Elizabeth Knudson

Recipe (2003), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Eric Paul

Lenny (2001), 8-ch. tape (program note)

Brian Garbet

Would You Like Fries With That? (2002), 8-ch.tape (program note)

Daniel Colyer

Yume No Nakani (1999) "Into the Dream", 8-ch. tape

Kacho-Fugetsu (2000); 8-ch. tape (program note)

Mike Konkin

New Uluru Rain (2001), 8-ch. tape

Chris Rolfe

Bronze Wound (1996) 8-ch. tape

Scott Wilson

Strings, 8-ch. tape

Sue McGowan

The Carnelian Sea, 8-ch. tape

 

THE VANCOUVER SOUNDSCAPE 1996 PROJECT

Darren Copeland

Recharting the Senses

Claude Schryer

Vancouver Soundscape Revisited

Sabine Breitsameter

The Hidden Tune

Hans Ulrich Werner

Vanscape Motion

 

PAST OCTOPHONIC PERFORMANCES (for more recent listings, click here)

• Island, The Shaman Ascending, Open Ears Festival, Kitchener, City Hall, April 25-May 1/09
  
• Chalice Well, Steam, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Theatre, April 4/09
  
• Pendlerdrom, Island, Temple, Chalice Well, Goldsmiths College, London, March 18/09
  
• Temple, The Shaman Ascending, Chalice Well, Tranients & Resonances, Keele University, March 17/09
  
• Temple, The Shaman Ascending, Chalice Well (premiere), Tranients & Resonances, SARC, Queen's University, Belfast, March 16/09
• Pendlerdrom, Basilica, Island, Temple, LICA, Lancaster, March 14/09
  
• The Shaman Ascending, Durham University, Durham, March 11/09
  
• The Shaman Ascending, Manchester University, Manchester, March 7/09
  
• Riverrun, Temple, The Shaman Ascending, Sediment, Huddersfield University, Huddersfield, March 5/09
• Riverrun, Temple, The Shaman Ascending, University of Birmingham, March 4/09
• Island, SARC, Queen's University, Belfast, March 3/09
• The Shaman Ascending, International Electroacoustic Music Festival, Conservatory of Music S. Cecilia, Rome, Nov. 26/08
  
• The Shaman Ascending, Montreal Music Conservatory, Maison de la culture Mont-Royal, Oct. 7/08
• Northwestern University, May 4/08 (Island, Temple)
• Island, March 28/08, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Theatre
  
• Concordia University, Feb. 6/08 (Basilica)
• Eight-channel concert, Concordia University, Oct. 3-4/07 (Temple, Prospero's Voyage, Shaman Ascending, Way of the Spirit, Riverrun) and student works (Czink, DeTar, Husejnagic, Mettlewsky, Herring, Wilson)
• Riverrun, Rivers concert, Lynn Creek, North Vancouver, Sept 30/07
• Eight-channel concert, Sound Travels, Toronto, August 10/07 (Bamboo Silk & Stone,Temple, Shaman Ascending,Way of the Spirit)
• Temple, ICAD conference, McGill University, Montreal, June 28/07
• Eight-channel concert, The Art of Immersive Soundscapes, Regina, June 20/07 (Temple, Prospero's Voyage, Shaman Ascending, Way of the Spirit)
• The Way of the Spirit, Bamboo Silk & Stone (with Randy Raine-Reusch), International Festival of Electroacoustic Music, Bourges, June 7/07
• Island, Music Department, College of Santa Fe, April 22/07
• The Shaman Ascending, Riverrun, Island, Bellingham (WA) , Dec.1, Dec. 3/06
• Pendlerdrom, Prospero's Voyage, Ear to the Earth Festival, New York City, Oct. 11/06 Octophonic concert, De Montfort University, Leicester, June 20/06
• Riverrun (8-ch.version) &The Shaman Ascending, SoundAxis, Toronto, June 10/06
• The Shaman Ascending, University of California, Riverside, May 11/06
• The Way of the Spirit (with Randy Raine-Reusch), Sonic Boom, Vancouver, March 19/06
• Octophonic concert, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, March 10/06
• Riverrun (8-ch.version), ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV 40 retrospective concert, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, Nov. 11/05
• Riverrun, Nucleo Musica Nueva de Montevideo, Uruguay, Oct. 19/05
• Octophonic concert, New Music Festival, Barcelona, Oct. 2/05 (works by Truax, Westerkamp, Manning, Wilson, Copeland)
• Sonic Research Studio concert, International Festival of Electroacoustic Music, Bourges, France, June 9/05 (works by macCormac, Husejnagic, Czink, Thomson, Wilson); The Shaman Ascending, June 11/05
• The Shaman Ascending, Simon Fraser University, March 18/05
• 16-channel concert, ZKM, Trans-Canada Festival, Karlsruhe, Germany, Feb.12/05 (Island, Prospero's Voyage, Shaman Ascending)
• Temple, Happenings New Music Festival, Calgary, Jan. 27/05
• Riverrun, Music Department, Tulane University, New Orleans, November 21/04
• Nightwatch, Western Front, Vancouver, Nov.6/04
• Riverrun, SONUS concert, Concordia University, Montreal, September 30/04
• Octophonic concert, Art of Immersive Soundscapes, University of Regina, July 15/04
• POWERS OF TWO, opera production, Modern Baroque Opera, Vancouver, June 2-6, 2004
• Octophonic concert, Sonorities Festival, Belfast, May 1/04
• Octophonic concert, Evergreen State University, Olympia, WA, April 1/04
• Prospero's Voyage, Simon Fraser University, Mar.31/04
• Temple, Rien a Voir concert, Montreal, Feb. 12/04
• Octophonic concert, Western Front Lodge, Vancouver, Oct. 3 & 5/03
• Octophonic concert, International Symposium on Music & Science / Musica Viva 2003, Coimbra, Portugal, Sept. 12-18/03
• Island, Melbourne Symposium on Acoustic Ecology, Melbourne, Australia, March 19-23/03
• Vancouver Pro Musica "Sonic Boom", Feb. 26/03
• Temple, Concordia University, Feb. 14/03, and ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, March 14/03 Pendlerdrom, San Francisco Tape Music Center, Aug. 18/02
• Octophonic concert, Durham University, Durham, May 1/02
• Octophonic concert, Music Without Walls conference, De Montfort University, Leicester, June 23, 2001
• Octophonic concert, International Festival of Electroacoustic Music, Bourges, June 12/01
• Pendlerdrom, 3-D spatialization concert, Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, June 7/01
• Octophonic concert, CCRMA, Stanford, May 11, 2001
• Octophonic concert, Open Ears Festival, Kitchener, May 6, 2001
• solo concert, including Wings of Fire, with Frances-Marie Uitti, and Androgyne, Mon Amour, with Robert Black, plus new octophonic works, Engine 27, New York City, March 23, 2001
• ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, Island and 8-channel works by J. Herring & P. Manning, March 16, 2001
• Basilica, Goldsmiths College, London, Dec. 2000
• Listening session, International Computer Music Conference, Berlin, August/00
• Pendlerdrom, SoundEscape conference, Trent University, Peterborough, June 30/00
• Basilica, City University, London, Electroacoustic concert, May 9/00
• Basilica, premiere of 8-channel version, Vancouver, Leaps concert, April 29/00
• Listening session, 9th Annual Electroacoustic Music Festival, University of Florida, Gainesville, April 6-8/00

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