Sounds Provocative: Experimental Music Performance in Canada -- pnp

People and Places

This is a list of musicians who perform experimental music in Canada. We want the list to grow! To add a name or make a correction please contact us: souxxxgfhends@uoguxzzxoiuuoasduphjkbnj.hyufelph.ca.

Some other aspects of Canadian new music are well documented at the following links:

Canadian Composers: http://www.musiccentre.ca
Canadian Music (General): http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=EMCSubjects&Params=U2
Canadian Electroacoustic Music: http://cec.concordia.ca/
Canadian Women Sound Artists: http://www.andrasound.org

Contents
Performers
[A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z]
Ensembles
[A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z]
Other

Experimental Music Performers
[A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z]

A

Aitken, Robert(Composer, flutist, conductor, electronics, co-founder and artistic director of New Music Concerts)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000030

Aldcroft, Ken (guitar)
http://mypage.direct.ca/a/aldcroft/

Allen, Gordon (trumpet, improviser, Powerbuch, Woodchoppers Assoc)

Anson, Peter (Guitar, synthesizer, poet, Original member of CCMC)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000640

Anthony, Colin (pianist, composer, and storyteller)

Arcand, Pierre-Andre (multi-media works of voice, sounds, visual poems, animated slides and video noise, membre de Le grand orchestre d'Avatar)
http://www.actuellecd.com/bio.f/arcand_pi.html

Armin, Adele (violinist, Raad Violin, Hemispheres, electroacoustics)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0003963

Armin, Richard (Cellist, electronics, The Armin Electric Strings, Lighthouse, Hemispheres)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0003962

Arnold, Martin (Composer, Improviser, Arcana Ensemble)
http://www.wavelengthtoronto.com/article.php?p=88

Attariwala, Parmela (Composer, violinist, violist, contemporary, cross-cultural, performance art, Ensemble Noire, Ergo Ensemble, Esprit Orchestra)
http://www.parmela.com/

Azzaria, Georges (Instrument Inventor, Sound Sculpture, QC)
http://www.electrocd.com/cat.e/avtr_028.html

B

Baker, Michael J.(1949-2000, Composer, conductor, trumpet player, Glass Orchestra, NUMUS, Arraymusic)
http://www.musiccentre.ca/apps/index.cfm?fuseaction=composer.FA_dsp_biography&authpeopleid=10853&by=B

Barreto-Rivera, Raphael (sound poet, Four Horsemen)

Barroso, Sergio (Composer, keyboard, electroacoustics,founding member of Canadian Electroacoustic Community)
http://www.musiccentre.ca/apps/index.cfm?fuseaction=composer.FA_dsp_biography&authpeopleid=11764&by=B

Bartlett, Martin (1939-1993, Composer, Instrument inventor, electronics performer, computer-controlled synthesizer, founding member of the Western Front, Javanese Gamelan)
http://www.musiccentre.ca/apps/index.cfm?fuseaction=composer.FA_dsp_biography&authpeopleid=10246&by=B

Barwin, Gary (Composer, performer-poet)
http://www.garybarwin.com

Bateman, Victor (Electric and accoustic bass, contemporary, free improvisation, Hemispheres)
http://www.victorbateman.com/

Bernard, Jonathan (Percussion, gamelan, marimba, Orchid Ensemble, The Symposium Ensemble, TandavaC)
http://www3.telus.net/ensemblesymposium/ensemble.html

Bichan, Dougal (Fiddle, bamboo flute, harmonica, voice, guitar, bagpipes, DX-7, creator of group bitchin', organizer for improv series bitchin' sessions)
www.dougal.ca

Birse, Ian (composer, improviser audio/video, kavanaugh/birse projects)
http://www.instantplaces.ca/

Bley, Paul (piano)
http://www.improvart.com/bley/bley.htm

Bloor, Alan (sound artist, Knurl, Pholde, member of Bitchin')
http://www.pholde.com

Bolton, Rose (composer, violin, live computer music, Canadian Electronics Ensemble, Inner Working)
http://www3.sympatico.ca/larry_lake/cee.htm

Bouchard, Christian (composer)
http://www.rien.qc.ca/bio.f/bouchard_ch.html

Bouchard, Jean Marc (Quasar Saxophone Quartet)
http://www.quasar4.com

Bourne, Anne (Composer, cellist, vocalist, Sonar Mara)
http://www.deeplistening.org/DLArtists/bourne/bourne.html

Boyko, DB (Voice, extended techniques, Western Front)
http://www.front.bc.ca/

Boyle, John (electric kazoo, electric thumb piano, drums, Nihilist Spasm Band)
http://www3.sympatico.ca/pratten/NSB/

Bozzini, Isabelle (Cellist, Bradyworks, Ensemble KORE)
http://www.quatuorbozzini.ca/

Bozzini, Stephanie (Violist, Quatuor Bozzini, Bradyworks, Ensemble KORE)
http://www.quatuorbozzini.ca/Stephanie.html

Brady, Tim (Composer, guitarist,improviser, Bradyworks)
http://www.timbrady.ca/

Brennan, Bill (percussionist, pianist, Hemispheres, Chesterfield Inlet, Vuja De, Arcana Ensemble, Batterie Park)
http://www.billbrennan.ca

Brennan, Gregg (composer, drummer, improviser, educator and painter, Viewfinder)
http://www.greggbrennan.com

Buczynski, Walter (Composer, pianist)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTU0000479

Burgoyne, Diana (performance, installation, society/technology/environment)
http://www.eciad.bc.ca/~dburg/

Burton, Dennis (Alto saxophone, visual artist, Artists' Jazz Band)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000124

Butterfield, Christopher (Composer, performance-art, sound poetry)
http://www.musiccentre.ca/apps/index.cfm?fuseaction=composer.FA_dsp_biography&authpeopleid=9030&by=B

C

Cadesky, V. Eric (Composer, percussionist, glass instrument maker, The Glass Orchestra)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0001376

Calon, Christian (composer)
http://www.electrocd.com/bio.e/calon_ch.html

Cameron, Allison (Composer, Improviser, small amplified objects, Artistic Director of Arraymusic, Founder of Arcana Ensemble, Co-founder of Drystone Orchestra)
http://www.musiccentre.ca/apps/index.cfm?fuseaction=composer.FA_dsp_biography&authpeopleid=12109

Cappadocia, Rufus (cello)
http://www.rufusmusic.com/

Cartier, Pierre (Composer/performer, double bass, electric bass, vocals)
http://www.actuellecd.com/bio.e/cartier_pi.html

Chartier, Marie-Josee (vocalist, dancer, choreographer, URGE)
http://www.vex.net/rikscafe/Urge/marie1.htm

Charuest, Pierre (EMIM/ADMO)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0001126

Chenaux, Eric (Guitarist, improviser, A Choire Invisible)
http://www.wavelengthtoronto.com/article.php?p=88

Clark, Dave (drums, guitar, bass, keys,soundscapes, voice, Woodchoppers Association)
http://www.woodchoppers.com/

Clarke, Stephen, (piano)
http://www.arraymusic.com/video/piano/right_piano.html

Claude, Stéphane (electroacoustic audio and video artist)
http://framework.v2.nl/archive/archive/node/actor/.xslt/nodenr-66397

Clément, Joda (sound artist, composer, field recordist, improvisor, presenter)
http://www.jodaclement.com

Clement, John (Guitar, drums, Nihilist Spasm Band)
http://www3.sympatico.ca/pratten/NSB/

Clutton, Rob (Double Bassist, Composer, Improviser)

Costes, Therese (voice)
http://www.gswell.ca/current/index.html

Coughtry, Graham (trombonist, visual artists, co-founder of the Artists' Jazz Band)
http://www.robertfulford.com/Coughtry.html

Couroux, Marc (Composer, pianist, video artist, Ensemble Kore, Free Radicals Festival)
http://pages.infinit.net/kore/couroux.html

Cram, Paul (composer, saxophonist/clarinetist, bandleader, artistic director of Upstream Music Association, co-founder of NOW, Hemispheres and Upstream))
http://www.paulcram.com/

D

Dallaire, Carol (Computer arts, multi-media)
http://www.sagamie.org/artistes/dallaire_carol/fiche-DallaireCarol.html

Datl, Evelyne (Film Composer, keyboards, accordion. free improvisation, Hemispheres.)
http://www.evelynedatl.com/
http://www.myspace.com/evelynedatl/

Davison, William A. (composer, performer, solo experimental music/performance art, New Erotics, Urban Refuse Group, Six Heads, Phycus, Quincunx, Brutt Luddite, Gastric Female Reflex)
http://www.recordism.com

Derome, Jean (Composer, multi-instrumentalist-flute, saxophone, voice, improviser co-founder of Ambiences Magnetiques)
http://www3.sympatico.ca/jean.derome/

Deschenes, Marcelle (Composer, pianist, electroacoustic, theatre arts, media arts)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000940

D. Kimm
http://www.electriques.ca

Dobinson, Michael (Composer, improvisor, electronics)
http://www.mrde-music.ca

Dolden, Paul (Composer, electric guitarist, violinist, cellist)
http://www.electrocd.com/bio.e/dolden_pa.html

Dontigny, Aime (Composer, improviser, trumpet, computer, prepared CDs, electronic percussions, Napalm Jazz, morceaus de machines)
http://www.electrocd.com/bio.e/dontigny_ai.html

Dorion, Erick (electronics, improviser, morceaux_de_machines, radio Napalm Jazz, l'Orchestre de dance (L'ODD))
http://www.electrocd.com/bio.e/dorion_er.html

Dubin, Larry (percussionist, born in New York 1931 and died in Toronto 1978, founding member of CCMC, played in Artists' Jazz Band, Imperial Jazz Band)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0001026

Duchesne, André (Composer/performer, guitar, electric guitar, Conventum, Les Quatre Guitaristes de l'Apocalypso Bar, Locomotive)
http://www.actuellecd.com/bio.e/duchesne_an.html

Dufort, Louis (composer)
http://www.louisdufort.com/

Duggan, Mark (percussionist, composer, Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan, Esprit Orchestra, Vuja dé)
http://www.markduggan.com

Dumas, Chantal (Composer, radio-artist, Le grand orchestre d'Avatar)
http://www.actuellecd.com/bio.f/dumas_ch.html

Duncan, Christine (Vocalist)
http://vancouverjazz.com/cduncan/index.shtml

Duncanson, Katherine (singer, dancer, interdisciplinary artist, URGE, Sonic Body, Cliq)
http://www.vex.net/rikscafe/Urge/kathern1.htm

Dutton, Paul (vocal sound artist and poet, Four Horsemen, CCMC)
http://www.actuellecd.com/bio.e/dutton_pa.html

E

Eagle, David (composer, electroacoustic, live electronics performer with Ensemble Resonance)
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~eagle/

Egoyan, Eve (pianist, Arcana Ensemble)
http://www.eveegoyan.com/

Exley, Bill (Nihilist Spasm Band)
http://www3.sympatico.ca/pratten/NSB/

F

Falaise, Bernard (guitar)
http://www.actuellecd.com/bio.e/falaise_be.html

Farah, John Kameel (composer, improvisor, electronic producer, pianist, visual artist)
http://www.johnfarah.com

Favro, Murray (guitar, Nihilist Spasm Band)
http://www3.sympatico.ca/pratten/NSB/

Firquet, Boris (multi-media, video, Le grand orchestre d'Avatar)

Francavilla, Nadia (Violinist, Quatuor Bozzini, Bradyworks)
http://www.actuellecd.com/bio.e/francavilla_na.html

Freedman, Lori (composer, clarinet, bass clarinet, Queen Mab)
http://www.lorifreedman.com

Friedman, Dan (Composer, improviser, saxophone)
http://www.boywithmachine.org/

Friz, Anna (sound artist, interdisciplinary art)
http://www.kunstradio.at/BIOS/frizbio.html

Gardner, Soressa (voice and electronics)
http://www.soressa.com

Gates, Carrie (electronic musician, prepared vinyl and turntables, contact microphone, sampling keyboards, vocals, The Vinyl Interventions Trio, an organizer of DIGIDOME and Phantom Power festivals)
http://www.myspace.com/thesoundsofcarriegates

Gennaro, Mike (percussionist, improviser, Wrist Error)
http://audiolab.uwaterloo.ca/~ulterior/gennaro/

Godot, Gogo (Collage Improvisation Ensemble Mannlicher Carcano)

Goldstein, Malcolm (Composer, improviser, violinist)
http://www.philmultic.com/artists/goldstein/

Gotham, Nic (composer, saxophone player, founder of Hemispheres)
http://www.lmuza.lv/gotham/

Gray, D'Arcy Philip (percussionist, electronic instruments, Ensemble KORE, Motion Ensemble)
http://www.unb.ca/FineArts/Music/artists/bio_DG.html

Green, Marvin (contrabassist, founder of the Glass Orchestra, Double Wind Cello Trio)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0001376

Gregory, Ken (creative performance, installations)
http://www.cheapmeat.net/

Guibord, Simon (glitch and minimal techno influenced electronica, Hull)
http://www.sulpont.ca/english/artists_Simon_Guibord.html

Gzowski, John (Composer, new music, Guitarist, instrument maker, sound desinger, Critical Band, Hemispheres)
http://www.johngzowski.com

H

Hall, Glen (composer, multi-instrumentalist, OutSource, Powerbuch, Sonora, The Woodchoppers Association)
http://www.glenhall.com/

Hall, Porter (Collage Improvisation Ensemble Mannlicher Carcano)

Hammet-Vaughan, Kate (voice, NOW)
http://katehv.com/

Hammock, Janet (Composer, pianist)
http://www.deeplistening.org/DLArtists/hammock/hammock.html

Han, Mei (zheng, world, electronic, improvised music, Crossing Border Ensemble, Orchid Ensemble)
http://www.asza.com/mh.shtml

Hansen, Mike (audio and visual artist, DJ, improviser)
http://www.whynotjazz.com

Happening, Really (Collage Improvisation Ensemble Mannlicher Carcano)

Heble, Ajay (pianist, harmonium, founder/creator of the Guelph Jazz Festival)
http://www.uoguelph.ca/englit/staff/aheble.shtml

Hecker, Tim (Composer, laptop performer, DJ Jetone)
http://www.alien8recordings.com/subsf03.php3

Heimbecker, Steve (audio art, electroacoustics, installations,improviser)
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=370

Hetu, Joane (Composer, performer, alto saxophone, vocals, Castor et Compagnie, Nouse percons les oreilles, founding member of Justine and Wonderbrass, director of DAME record label and co-director of Productions SuperMusique)
http://www.actuellecd.com/bio.e/hetu_jo.html

Hornsey, Philip (Percussionist, Kovalis Duo, Ensemble Contemporain, Bradyworks, KORE Ensemble, Ramasutra, Duo Frank)
http://www.jeunessesmusicales.com/en/jmc/programmation/artiste.asp?id=27

Houle, Francois (Soprano saxophone, clarinet, improviser)
http://francoishoule.ca

J

Jackson, Janice (Voice, Inner Workings, Vocalypse Productions)
http://www.janicejackson.ca/

Jaeger, David (Composer, live computer music, Canadian Electronic Ensemble, CBC's program Two New Hours)
http://www3.sympatico.ca/larry_lake/cee.htm

Jean, Monique (composer)
http://www.electrocd.com/bio.e/jean_mo.html

Jurgensen, Arnd (guitar, saz, trumpet, part of groups Montglofiere and Sauna)

K

Kamevaar, John (percussion, electronics, CCMC)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000640

Kasemets, Udo (Composer, electroacoustic, experimental, pianist, organist)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0001813

Kavanaugh, Laura (composer, improviser audio/video, kavanaugh/birse projects)
http://www.instantplaces.ca/

Keith, Michael (guitarist improviser)
http://www.geocities.com/alexiteric/

Kennedy, Kathy (Sound artist, installations, vocalist, community art, sonic choreographies, founder of The Digital Media Centre for Women in Canada, Choeur Maha and Esther)
http://www.kathykennedy.ca/

Kiik, Tiina (Accordionist, former member of the Polka Dogs, Arcana Ensemble)

Krakowiak, Tomasz (improvisor, composer, percussionist)
http://tmhniyl.net/kathode/

Krucker, Fides (vocalist, interdisciplinary, URGE)
http://www.fideskrucker.com

Kubota, Nobuo (artist, musician, sound poet, sonic sculpture, sound installations)
http://www.ccca.ca/artists/artist_info.html?languagePref=en&link_id=907&artist=Nobuo%20Kubota

L

Labrosse, Diane (Composer, performer, sampler, accordion, vocals, Justine, artistic co-director of Productions SuperMeme)
http://www.electrocd.com/bio.e/labrosse_di.html

Ladano, Kathryn (Bass clarinet)

http://www.kathrynladano.com

Laliberte, Mark (visual artist, computer-based sound composition, Thinkbox)
http://www.marklaliberte.com/

Lan Tung, (Erhu, world music, new music, jazz, Orchid Ensemble)
http://orchidensemble.com/musicians.shtml

Laplante, Chantale (Composer, performer (laptop), acoustic, electroacoustic)
http://www.cam.org/~laplante/

Leclair, Marie-Chantal (Saxophone, Quasar Saxophone Quartet)
http://www.quasar4.com

Leclair, Mathieu (Saxophone, Quasar Saxophone Quartet)
http://www.quasar4.com

Lee, Hope (Composer, pianist, electroacoustic, chamber, vocal)
http://www.acwc.ca/members-info.php?id=40

Lee, Peggy (cellist, composer, NOW orchestra)
http://www.noworchestra.com

Leriche, Robert (Saxophonist, founder of EMIM)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0001126

Lerner, Marilyn (Composer, pianist, improviser, audio art)
http://www.actuellecd.com/bio.e/lerner_ma.html

Leroux, Andre (Saxophones, new music, jazz and popular music, Bradyworks, Quasar)
http://www.timbrady.ca/BW_bios.html

Luciani, Jeff (drums, percussion, etc...)
http://www.myspace.com/jeffluciani

Lussier, Rene (Composer, electric guitar, electric bass, daxophone, vocals, co-founder of Ambiences Magnetiques)
http://www.renelussier.com/

Lutek, Peter (Composer, saxophonist, Hemispheres)
http://www.peterlutek.com/

M

MacDonald, Colin (Composer, saxophonist, Ensemble Symposium)
http://www3.telus.net/ensemblesymposium/ensemble.html

MacDonald, Laurel (Composer, singer, Somnambuland, 3 Our Tour)
http://www.6q.com/laurel/index.html

Macerollo, Joe (accordionist)
http://janpress.freeservers.com/LCjoem.htm

Magnanensi, Giorgio (Composer, live electronics, multi-media, conductor, principal conductor of the Vancouver New Music Ensemble)
http://composers21.com/compdocs/magnaneg.htm

Manniche, Finn (Cellist, The Symposium Ensemble)
http://www3.telus.net/ensemblesymposium/ensemble.html

Marchand, Claire (flutist, contemporary music, Montréal, QC)
http://www.clairemarchand.net

Martin, Jean (percussion, electronics, Barnyard Drama)
http://www.ottawajazzfestival.com/en/events/2003/performers/artistDetail.asp?artistID=201

Mattes, Al (bass, bass guitar, electronics, improviser, CCMC)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000640

McCaffery, Steve (Sound poet, Four Horsemen)
http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/mccaffery/

McGregor, Mark (Flutist, Aventa Ensemble)
http://www.markmcgregor.ca

McIntosh, Diana (Theatrical performer, pianist, composer)
http://www.dianamcintosh.com/

McIntyre, Hugh (Nihilist Spasm Band)
http://www3.sympatico.ca/pratten/NSB/

McKeough, Rita (Installation artist, musician, composer, disc-jokey, Radio-Rethink)
http://www.radiosite.ca/fullmoon/artists.html

McKittrick, Cam (Composer, performer: percussion, electronics, Finger)
http://www.guelphschoolofmusic.com/cammy/cam.html

Melnyk, Lubomyr (Composer, pianist, continuous music)
http://www.lubomyr.com/

Merkel, Clemens (Violinist, contemporary, Bradyworks, Ensemble KORE, Quatuor Bozzini)
http://www.actuellecd.com/bio.e/merkel_cl.html

Michaud, David (Composer, performer, electronics, Le grand orchestre d'Avatar, Eltractor)
http://www.rien.qc.ca/bio.f/michaud_da.html

Migone, Christof (Composer, performer: vocals, electronics, head of the Centre for Radiotelecommunication Contortions)
http://www.electrocd.com/bio.e/migone_ch.html

Ming, Lee Pui (Composer, pianist)
http://www.leepuiming.com

Molnar, Mark (contemporary classical, improvisation)
http://www.sulpont.ca/english/artists_Mark_Molnar.html

Monahan, Gordon (Composer, Pianist, sound installations, performance art)
http://www.gordonmonahan.com

Montal, Fabrice (electronics, Eltractor, Le grand orchestre d'Avatar)
http://www.champlibre.com/desert/uk/participants/commissaires_montal.html

Montgomery, James (Composer, live computer music, Canadian Electronic Ensemble, artistic director of the Music Gallery)
http://www3.sympatico.ca/larry_lake/cee.htm

Morse, Michael (Composer, bassist)
http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/user_page.pl?url=mmorse

Mott, David (composer, baritone saxophonist, David Mott Quintet, bari bari, Mott/Geggi duo)
http://www.davidmottmusic.com

N

Neil, Al (pianist, jazz)
http://www.rickmcgrath.com/al_neil.html

Newman, Kurt (guitar, free improvisation, experimental, Wrist Error, A Choir Invisible, Marmots, Golden Meloday Awards)
http://audiolab.uwaterloo.ca/~ulterior/newman/

Nichol, bp (sound poet, concrete poetry, The Four Horsemen)
http://www.chbooks.com/tech/biographies.cgi?n=nichol_bp

Nobles, Jordan (Composer, performer: guitars, electric bass, percussion, piano)
http://www.jordannobles.com

O'Hara, Alexis
http://www.dyslex6.com/

Olson, Daniel (audio, video installation and performance, NS, Toronto ON)

Oliver, John (composer, guitarist, electroacoustics, live computer music, co-founder of GEMS, co-founder of earsay CD label)
http://www.experimentalperformance.ca/pages/pnp.html/

Oswald, John (Composer, electroacousmatics, sound art, performer: saxophone)
http://www.plunderphonics.com/

P

Parkinson, Stephen (electric guitar, mandolin, improviser)
http://kalvos.org/parkins.html

Pauk, Alex(Composer, conductor, contemporary classical, Esprit Orchestra)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0002739

Peebles, Sarah (composer: electroacoustic, live electronics, sho, interdisciplinary, violinist, broadcaster, performance art, installations, video, Cinnamon Sphere, Smash and Teeny)
http://www.sarahpeebles.net

Peet, Shannon (Composer, performer, bassoon, Hemispheres)
http://www.actuellecd.com/bio.e/peet_sh.html

Perera, Nilan(Composer, guitarist, Ferrobaci, Smash and Teeny, hum dansoundart, FaMished AMerica)
http://www.sarahpeebles.net/cinn_bio_perera.htm

Petric, Joseph (accordion, Erosonic, Petric-Forget Duo)
http://www3.sympatico.ca/jpetric/

Pinchbeck, Shawn (Composer, performer electronics, intermedia, Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society-BEAMS)
http://www.beams.ca/shawn.html

Plimley, Paul (pianist, composer: multi-media, ensembles, text, improviser)
http://www.paulplimley.com/

Pratten, Art (fiddles, invented instruments, Nihilist Spasm Band)
http://www3.sympatico.ca/pratten/NSB/

Prévost, Hélène (composer, writer)
http://www.electrocd.com/bio.e/prevost_he.html

Pridmore, Helen (vocalist, improvisor)
http://www.motionensemble.com

Pritchard, Barbara (pianist, contemporary)
http://www.musiccentre.ca/apps/index.cfm?fuseaction=search.dspItemDetails&buyItemsID=135

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Racine, Rober (radio art, writer)
http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/artist_e.jsp?iartistid=4517

Raine-Reusch, Randy (Composer, multi-instrumentalist, New music, world music, jazz, ASZA)
http://www.asza.com/r3hm.shtml

Ratte, Michel (Composer, drummer, new music, jazz, improviser)
http://www.actuellecd.com/bio.e/ratte_mi.html

Reason, Dana (pianist, composer, improviser)
http://www.danareason.com/

Ritter, Don (new media artist, interactive installations, performaces, video tapes)
http://aesthetic-machinery.com/

Robert, Jocelyn (sound artist, art installations, interactive computer pieces, producing performances, videos, writings)
http://www.lenomdelachose.org/jrobert/

Rogalsky, Matt (media artist, sound installations, performance with live electronics)
http://www.mrogalsky.net/

Roger, Danielle Palardy (Composer, drummer, electronic percussionist, vocalist, Justine, Wondeur Brass, Les Poules, Director of Productions Supermeme)
http://www.actuellecd.com/bio.e/roger_da.html

Ruryk, Brian (guitar flailings, trash flinging, folley editing)
http://individual.utoronto.ca/ruryklitter/
http://www.myspace.com/ruryk

S

Sabat, Marc (Composer: orchestral, chamber, solo, computer, electronic works, violinist, The Modern Quartet)
http://www.plainsound.org/

Sacks, Rick (percussionist, composer, multi-media artist, ARRAYMUSIC, The Evergreen Club Gamelan, the Glass Orchestra)
http://www.vex.net/~rixax/

Sait, David (Improviser, Guzheng)
http://www.davidsait.com

Samworth, Ron (Composer, performer: guitar, improviser, Talking Pictures, co-leader and artistic director of NOW)
http://www.actuellecd.com/bio.e/samworth_ro.html

Sankaran, Trichy (mrdangam maestro, composer, new, world music)
http://www.trichysankaran.com/

Smith, Bill (Saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, CCMC, Artists' Jazz Band, New Art Music Ensemble, Duck Soup)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0003240

Smith, Linda Catlin (Composer, contemprary classical concert music, performer: dancer, singer, URGE)
http://www.catlinsmith.com/

Snow, Michael (pianist, visual artist, filmmaker, composer, writer, sculptor, CCMC)
http://www.actuellecd.com/bio.e/snow_mi.html

Sokol, Casey (Pianist, Composer, improviser, founding member of Toronto's Music Gallery and the Canadian Contemporary Music Collective, Sound Pressure)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0003261

Sorbara, Joe (Percussion, Association of Improvising Musicians Toronto)
http://www.ovalwindowmusic.org/joesorbara/

Stevenson, Robert (composer, clarinetist, Arraymusic)
http://www.arraymusic.com/textsite/biographies_txt.html

Stewart, Jesse (Composer/performer: percussion, improviser, instrument inventor, Guelph ON)
http://www.msac.uoguelph.ca/stewart.htm

Stillwell, Paul (Composer, live computer music, Canadian Electronics Ensemble)
http://www3.sympatico.ca/larry_lake/cee.htm

Storring, Nick (composer, cellist, laptop performer, I Have Eaten The City)
http://www.nickstorring.com

Sutherland, W. Mark (language-based poet, musician, artist)
http://www.bjcc.ca/content/Koffler/Past%20Exhibits/Scratch_Mark_Sutherland.htm

Szlavnics, Chiyoko (Composer for dance, ensembles, performer: flute)
http://www.jccc.on.ca/heritage/five_gen/stories/szlavnics.html

T

Tanguay, Pierre (Composer, percussion, voice, Dangereux Zhoms, Évidence, Castor et compagnie and Karen Young, Strada, Midi Tapant, Derome Tanguay Danse)
http://www.actuellecd.com/bio.e/tanguay_pi.html

Tetreault, Martin (Composer/performer, DJ, improviser, electronics)
http://www.actuellecd.com/bio.e/tetreault_ma.html

Thomson, Scott (Trombonist, improviser, Association of Improvising Musicians Toronto)
http://www.aimtoronto.org/board.php#scott

Timar, Andrew (Composer,improviser, suling, Evergreen Club Gamelan, GamTor: Gamelan Toronto)
http://www.evergreenclubgamelan.ca

Tobin, Nancy (sound designer)
http://artsandscience.concordia.ca/facstaff/m-o/mccartney/inandout/html_pages/nancy_tobin/nancy_home.html

Tremblay, Annie (Soprano, contemprorary, Bradyworks)
http://www.timbrady.ca/BW_bios.html

Truhlar, Richard (Composer, performer, electroacoustic, text/sound)
http://www.richardtruhlar.com/

Turvey, Tim (drums, improvisation, AIMT)
http://www.turvey.ca

Twomey, Chris (Sound/radio artist, Drone Mix)
http://www.rhizome.com/member.rhiz?user_id=1033000

V

Vaillancourt, Lorraine (Pianist, conductor, Evenements Neuf, Nouvelle Ensemble Moderne)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0003551

Vaillancourt, Pauline (soprano, contemporary vocal music, improvisor, founder and artistic director of Chants libres)
http://www.chantslibres.org/

Van der Schyff, Dylan (Improviser, drums, sampling, Talking Pictures)
http://www.spoolmusic.com/biovanderschyff.html

Van Veen, Tobias C.(Sound and net artist, DJ)
http://www.quadrantcrossing.org/

W

Walsh, Tom (Composer,trombone, sampler, NOMA, Hemispheres)
http://www.electrocd.com/bio.e/walsh_to.html

Wannamaker, Rob (Composer, improviser, instrument builder, music theorist, live electronics, electroacoustics, algorithmic, instrumental music)
http://www.robertwannamaker.com/

Waterman, Ellen (flutist, improviser)
http://www.ellenwaterman.ca/

Weaver, Carol Ann (Composer, pianist)
http://watserv1.uwaterloo.ca/~caweaver/

Wherry, Don (1935-2001, Percussionist, founding member of The Black Auks, The Schruncheons, Fusion, NF Sound Symposium)
http://www.soundsymposium.com/about/don.html

Wiernik, Neil (laptop artist, co-curator and co-editor of Vague Terrain)
www.phoniq.net

Wilcox, Laura (Violist, Ensemble Contemporain)
http://www.electrocd.com/bio.e/wilcox_la.html

Wilson, Ben (laptop, percussion, guitar, clarinet, New Tiny, Bertuzzi, Cream Corn Barf Extravaganza, Particle Burn, Hospital)
http://www.members.shaw.ca/benjaminfranklinwilson/

Windeyer, Richard (composer, audio-artist, designer, Finger, Bluemouth Inc)
http://www.richardwindeyer.com

Worden, Chris (vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, C3R label, assistant director of Electric Eclectics Festival)
http://www.c3r.ca/worden/

Wyber, Leslie (pianist, founding member of the Standing Wave Ensemble, Finger)
http://www.wlu.ca/homepage.php?grp_id=1247&ct_id=1096&f_id=29

Y

Yearwood, Kathleen (Vocalist, guitar, celtic influences, industrial noise, found sounds)
http://acmi.canoe.ca/IndieBands/band1111.html

Young, Gayle (Composer, electroacoustic, performer, desinger of instruments, editor of Musicworks)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0003757

Ensembles
[A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z]

A

A Choir Invisible (Improvising Ensemble, Kurt Newman and Eric Chenaux, ON)
http://audiolab.uwaterloo.ca/~ulterior/newman/

Aelab
http://www.aelab.com/

Arcana Ensemble (Experimental music, Allison Cameron, Tiina Kiik, Eve Egoyan, Bill Brennan, Martin Arnold)
http://kalvos.org/cameron.html

The Armin Electric Strings (electric sting ensemble, Dick, Otto, Paul Armin)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0003962

Arraymusic (Contemporary music, Allison Cameron, Stephen Clarke, Henry Kucharzyk, Blair Mackay, Peter Pavlovsky, Richard Sacks, Robert W. Stevenson, Rebecca van der Post, Michael White, Toronto ON)
http://www.arraymusic.com/

Artists' Jazz Band (Free Jazz by visual artists, abstract-expressionist, Dennis Burton, Bill Smith, Richard Gorman, Graham Coughtry, Nobuo Kubota, Robert Markle, and Gordon Rayner)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000124

Aventa Ensemble (Contemporary Music, Bill Linwood, Mark McGregor, AK Coope, Darnell Linwood, Muge Buyukcelen, Mieka Kohut, Alisdair Money)
http://www.aventa.ca

B

Barnyard Drama (Christine Duncan, Jean Martin, Toronto ON)
http://www.actuellecd.com/bio.e/barnyarddrama_.html

Benghazi Sax Quartet (Don Palmer, Paul Cram, Chris Mitchell, Kenny MacKay)

Bitchin' (Dougal Bichan, Alan Bloor, Rod Campbell, Elliott Chapin, Bryan Dennis)
http://www.dougal.ca

Black Auks (collaborative improvisational ensemble, Wallace Hammond, Neil Rosenberg, Craig Squires and Mike Zagorski, founded by Don Wherry and George Langdon, NF)
http://www.abandonstream.net/blackauks/

BlueCity (new music/new jazz, avant-garde music sextet, John Celona, Rich Lang, Don McDougall, Bruce Hurn, John Wright, Wendell Clanton, BC)
http://www.bluecityjazz.com

Bokker Buckle Band (free improv/indie rock, Kevin Shutterbug, Don Scott, Michael Herring, Toronto ON)
http://www.wavelengthtoronto.com/article.php?p=70

Bradyworks (contemporary chamber music, jazz, rock and electroacoustic music, Tim Brady, Andre Leroux, Philip Hornsey, Annie Tremblay, Clemens Merkel, Nadia Francavilla, Stephanie Bozzini, Isabelle Bozzini, Morris Apelbaum, Montreal QC)
http://www.timbrady.ca/Bradyworks.html

Bruit TTV (music/non-music, sound poetry and other noise compositions, Gilles Arteau, Georges Azzaria, France Deslauriers, Robert Faguy, Fabrice Montal, Louis Ouellet, Quebec QC)
http://www.lenomdelachose.org/jrobert/pages/page_cds/detais_cds/TTV/TTV.htm

C

Castor et Compagnie (Joane Hetu Jean Derome, Diane Labrosse and Pierre Tanguay, QC)
http://www.actuellecd.com/cat.e/am_037.html

CCMC (Canadian Creative Music Collective) (free music orchestra, electroacoustics, Peter Anson, Graham Coughtry, Larry Dubin, Greg Gallagher, Nobuo Kubota, Allan Mattes, John Oswald, Casey Sokol, Bill Smith, Michael Snow, John Kamevaar, Paul Dutton, Toronto ON)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000640

CEE (Canadian Electronics Ensemble) (live-electronic group, electroacoustics, Paul Stillwell, Rose Bolton, David Jaeger, Jim Montgomery, Larry Lake, Michael Dobinson, Toronto ON)
http://www3.sympatico.ca/larry_lake/cee.htm

Choeur Maha (group of 30 women-vocalists/singers, Kathy Kennedy, Montreal QC)
http://www3.sympatico.ca/kathykennedy/choral.html#maha

Cinnamon Sphere (mixed media, calligraphy performance with improvised soundscapes, Sarah Peebles, Chung Gong Ha, Nilan Perera)
http://www.sarahpeebles.net/cinnamon.htm

Codes d'acces (dedicated to playing new music by young composers, Montreal)
http://www.codesdacces.org/

Continuum Ensemble (contemporary music, Jennifer Waring, Anne Thompson, Peter Stoll, Benjamin Bowman, Paul Widner, Graham Hargrove, Ryan Scott, Laurent Phillippe, Rosemary Thomson, Patrick Gallois, Toronto, ON)
http://www.continuummusic.org

Critical Band (performance and creation of microtonal music, Toronto)
http://www.vex.net/~rixax/critical.html

D

David Mott Quintet (improvisation, Gordon Allen, Rob Clutton, Justin Haynes, Jesse Stewart, Toronto)
http://www.davidmottmusic.com/

Deep Dark United (indie/ experimental rock)
http://www.deepdarkunited.com

DreamSTATE (ambient electronic soundscapes, Scott McGregor Moore, Jamie Todd, Toronto)
http://www.dreamstate.to/

Drystone Orchestra (performer/composer ensemble, pre-cursor to Arcana, Allison Cameron, Martin Arnold, Stephen Parkinson, John Abram, Toronto)
http://www.arraymusic.com/groupbios.html

Double Wind Cello Trio (improvisation, Tiina Kiik, Anne Bourne, David Prentice, Marvin Green, Andrea Nann, John Oswald)

DUCT (improvisatory vocal art and music ensemble, Steven Ross Smith, Roy Sydiaha, Lia Pas, David Grosse, Wilf Tucker)
http://www.quadrant.net/sydiaha/duct.html

Duo Frank (percussion duo, Philip Hornsey)
http://www.jeunessesmusicales.com/en/jmc/programmation/artiste.asp?id=27

E

Eltractor (improv, multi-media ensemble, Boris Firquet, David Michaud, Fabrice Montal, Quebec, QC)
http://www.actuellecd.com/cat.e/avtr_024.html

EMIM (Ensemble de musique improvisée de Montréal) (informal association of free improv and jazz musicians)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0001126

Ensemble Contemporain de Montreal (Ensemble of young contemporary musicians dedicated to playing young composers work. Conductor: Véronique Lacroix, Montreal)
http://www.ecm.qc.ca/

Ensemble Kore (perform contemporary composers' work, Marc Couroux, Michael Oesterle, Justin Mariner, Marie-A. Beliveau, Michiel Schrey, Claire marchand, Mark Simons, Jerome Ducharme, D'Arcy Gray, Philip
Hornsey, Clemens Merkel, Isabelle Bozzini, Stephanie Bozzini, Eric Chappell, Andriy Talpash, Mathieu Gaulin Isabelle Choquette, Montreal)
http://www.ensemblekore.ca/

Ensemble Noir (dedicated to presenting and promoting contemporary music that reflects cultural diversity and inclusiveness, Bongani Ndodana, Dawn Padmore, Todd Skitch, Parmela Attariwala, Sanya Eng, Ryan Scott, Rick Sacks, Toronto)
http://www.ensemblenoir.org

Ensemble Resonance (acoustic - electroacoustic - interactive - multimedia, Michelle Todd, Colleen Athparia, Stan Climie, Olga Kotova, David Eagle, Hope Lee, Calgary AB)
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~eagle/Resonance.html

Ensemble Symposium (new compositions by young composers and unusual masterpieces from the contemporary music repertoire, Jonathan Bernard, Devon Jung, Colin MacDonald, Finn Manniche, Jordan Nobles,
Ben Wilson, Scott Wilson, Vancouver BC)
http://www3.telus.net/ensemblesymposium/

Ergo Ensemble (association for the promotion of contemporary music and its' related art forms, Philipp Jundt, Dorothee Binding, Peter Stoll, Corey Gemmell, Mary-Katherine Finch, Erica Goodman, Richard Moore, Stephen Clarke, Barbara Bolte, Tania Miller, Parmela Attariwala, Camile WattsToronto ON)
http://www.torontohearandnow.com/presenters/presergo.htm

Erosonic (improvisational, Joseph Petric, David Mott)
http://www.actuellecd.com/bio.e/erosonic_.html

Esprit Orchestra (commissions, performs and promotes Canadian composers, Music Director and Conducter: Alex Pauk, Toronto ON)
http://www.espritorchestra.com/index.html

Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan (commssions and performs contemporary work on the Gamelan, Toronto ON)
http://www.evergreenclubgamelan.ca/

F

Finger (exploration of performance site and the performance applications of new technology within a framework of deep creative collaboration, Richard Windeyer, Leslie Wyber, Cam McKittrick, Guelph ON)
http://www.guelphschoolofmusic.com/finger/collaborators.html

Full Metal Booty (noise band, Pilot K-9, Porter Hall, Mr. Reuben Kinkaid, Hartley, Stuart Chamberlain, Wayne Elliot, Peterborough)
http://www.originalplastic.blogspot.com/2002_09_29_originalplastic_archive.html

Gastric Female Reflex (noise/ collage etc.)
http://www.myspace.com/gastricfemalereflex
http://www.geocities.com/gastric_influence/

The Glass Orchestra (modern music on 1/2 ton of glass musical instruments of their own design, Toronto ON)
http://www.glassorchestra.com/

Le grand orchestre d'Avatar (audio art collective, Pierre Andre Arcand, Chantal Dumas, Boris Firquet, David Michaud, Fabrice Montal, Jocelyn Robert)

H

Hard Rubber Orchestra (17-piece, post-modern, new music ensemble, Conductor: John Korsrud, Vancouver,BC)
http://www.hardrubber.com/

Hemispheres (New music ensemble, Bill Brennan, Evelyne Datl, Stephen Donald, Alan Hetherington, Peter Lutek, Shannon Peet, Toronto ON)
http://www.musiccentre.ca/apps/index.cfm?fuseaction=search.dspItemList&searchType=ensemble&authOrgsID=13072

Hum (interdisciplinary sound exploration group/company, Susanna Hood)
http://www.humdansoundart.ca/

I Have Eaten The City (free improvisation/ electronica, Nick Storring, Colin Fisher, Brandon Valdivia, Kitchener/ Toronto/ Stratford, ON)
http://www.myspace.com/ihaveeatenthecity

if then do (electroacoustic, glitch, ambient, pop and noise ensemble, Ottawa)
http://www.ifthendo.ca

J

Jean Derome et les Dangereux Zhoms (Pierre Cartie, Jean Derome, Guillame Dostale, Rene Lussier, Pierre Tanguay, Tom Walsh, Montreal QC)
http://www.actuellecd.com/bio.f/deromeetlesdangereu_je.html

Justine (Joane Hetu, Diane Labrosse, Danielle Palardy Roger, Marie Trudeau)
http://www.actuellecd.com/bio.f/justine_.html

The Kitchener-Waterloo Improvisors Collective

http://www.myspace.com/kwicmusic

The Knot (improvising cello duo: Nick Storring/ Tilman Lewis)
http://www.myspace.com/theknotcelloduo

Laconnor (imrpovisation/ electroacoustic, Jean Martin, Jesse Zubot, Francois Houle)
http://www.dripaudio.com

Le Lecteur (electroacoustic improv, Ottawa/Hull)
http://www.sulpont.ca/english/artists_LeLecteur.html

Locomotive (André Duchesne, Claude Fradette, Francis Grandmont, Rémi Leclerc)
http://www.actuellecd.com/cat.e/am_027.html

M

Männlicher Carcano (sound art improv group, ON)

Molinari Quartet (Chamber ensemble that performs 20th, 21st century music, Olga Ranzenhofer, Johannes Jansonius, Jasmine Schnarr, Julie Trudeau, Montreal QC)
http://www.quatuormolinari.qc.ca/indexa.html

Montglofiere (Arnd Jurgensen, guitar, saz, trumpet; Harry Simpson, drums; Guy Leblanc, trombone, b. clarinet etc.; Rob Clutton, bass)

morceaux_de_machines (improvisers, electronics, Aime Dontigny, Erick Dorion, QC)
http://www.electrocd.com/bio.e/morceaux_de_machines_.html

Motion Ensemble (chamber ensemble eclectic mix of post-classical and experimental music, D'Arcy Philip Gray, Andrew R. Miller, Nadia Francavilla, Karin Aurell, Helen Pridmore, Richard Hornsby, Fredericton, NB)
http://www.motionensemble.com/

N

Napalm Jazz (improv collective,Aime Dontigny, Erick Dorion, QC)
http://www.electrocd.com/bio.e/napalmjazz_.html

New Orchestra Workshop (NOW Orchestra, Vancouver BC)
http://www.noworchestra.com/

Nexus (percussion ensemble, Bob Becker, Bill Cahn, Robin Engelman, Russell Harenberger, Garry Kivstad, Toronto ON)
http://www.nexuspercussion.com/

The Nihilist Spasm Band (improv band, Hugh McIntyre John Clement John Boyle Bill Exley Murray Favro Art Pratten, ON)
http://www3.sympatico.ca/pratten/NSB/

NOMA (jazz, Tom Walsh, Guy Kaye, Alan Baculis, François Chauvette, Rainer Wiens, Miles Perkins, Thom Gossage)
http://www.tomwalsh.ca/four.htm

Nous percons les oreilles (Joane Hetu, Jean Derome, Montreal QC)
http://www.actuellecd.com/bio.e/nousperconslesoreill_.html

Nouvelle Ensemble Moderne (perform 20th and 21st century compositions, artistic director: Lorraine Vaillancourt, Montreal QC)
http://www.nem.umontreal.ca/

O

Orchid Ensemble (New Music, World Music and Jazz, Lan Tung, Mei Han and Jonathan Bernard, Vancouver BC)
http://www.orchidensemble.com/

P

The Paul Cram Orchestra (avant-jazz advance band, Paul Cram, Don Palmer, Jeff Reilly, Christoph Both, Richard Simoneau, Tom Walsh, Steven Naylor, John Gzowski, Alan Baculis, David Burton, Dartmouth NS)
http://www.paulcram.com/

Penderecki Quartet (classical, contemporary chamber ensemble, Jeremy Bell, Jerzy Kaplanek, Christine Vlajk, Simon Fryer, Kitchener ON)
http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwpsq/

Phh!k (electronic duo, Peter Hannan, Henry Kucharzyk)
http://phhk.com/

Les Poules (Joane Hétu, Diane Labrosse et Danielle Palardy Roger, Montreal QC)
http://www.actuellecd.com/bio.f/poules_le.html

P.O.W.E.R (Éric Normand, Catherine Savard-Massicotte, Dominic Gagnon)
http://www.actuellecd.com
http://www.bandeapart.fm/critiques.asp?id=243

Les Projectionnistes (hybrid of new jazz, alternative rock, tango inflections, free improvisations, popular music, the ambiance of film music and electric fanfare, Claude St-Jean, Bernard Falaise, Pierre Labbé, Tommy Babin, Rémi Leclerc, Montreal QC)
http://www.actuellecd.com/bio.e/projectionnistes_le.html

Q

Quasar Saxophone Quartet (new music, Marie-Chantal Leclair, Mathieu Leclair, Andre Leroux, Jean Marc Bouchard, Montreal QC)
http://www.quasar4.com/

Queen Mab (piano, clarinet duo, Marilyn Lerner, Lori Freedman)
http://www.spoolmusic.com/spl111info.htm

Queen Mab Trio (piano, clarinet and viola, Marilyn Lerner, Lori Freedman, Ig Henneman)
http://home.tiscali.nl/~stwig/Wig/QM3.html

Quatuor Bozzini (avant-garde to traditional, Clemens Merkel, Nadia Francavilla, Stephanie Bozzini, Isabelle Bozzini, Montreal QC)
http://www.quatuorbozzini.ca/

R

Ramasutra (Philip Hornsey)
http://www.ramasutra.com/

Robert Minden Duo (storytelling, song, urban junk and children's toys, Robert Minden, Carla Hallett, Vancouver BC)
http://www.lostsound.com/index.html

Sauna (Arnd Jurgensen, Mike Hansen, Thomaz Krakoviak, Guy Leblanc)

Sbot n Wo (voice/electronics/laptop duo with Helen Pridmore and WL Altman)
www.sbotnwo.com

Scruncheons (percussion ensemble, Founder: Don Wherry, St. John's NF)
http://www.mun.ca/music/ens/per.htm

The Shuffle Demons (performance art/jazz band, Richard Underhill, Dave Parker, Stich Wynston, Toronto ON)
http://www.shuffledemons.com/

Smash and Teeny (electroacoustic/improv duo, Nilan Perera and Sarah Peebles)
http://www.electrocd.com/bio.e/smashandteeny_.html

Somnambuland Band (vocal, multi-instrumental band, Laurel MacDonald, Toronto ON)

Sonar Mara (women's improvising choir, initiated by Anne Bourne, Toronto ON)
http://www.deeplistening.org/DLArtists/bourne/bourne.html

Sound Pressure (Adele Armin, Richard Armin, John Brownell, Bruno Degazio, Don Hutton, David Mott, Shannon Peet, Richard Sacks, Casey Sokol)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0002565

Standing Wave Ensemble (contemporary chamber ensemble, A-K Coope, Rebecca Whitling, Peggy Lee, Allen Stiles, Vern Griffiths, Vancouver BC)
http://www.standingwave.ca/

S.W.A.R.M. (experimental, action drum/percussion group: Bill Wallace, Sacha Levin, Curtis Mathewson, Marc Ruel, Lauren Weisler, Harold Haard)
http://www.swarmweb.com/

T

Tandava (Contemporary World Music Ensemble, Prashant John, Jonathan Bernard, Lan Tung, Stefan Cihelka, Vancouver BC)
http://www.tandava.com/

Teresa Transistor (improvised electroacoustics)
http://www.electrocd.com/news.e/7636000.html

Thinkbox (audio/media/sound art, Christopher Bissonnette, Mark Laliberte, Christopher McNamara, Steve Roy, Rob Theakston, Bill Van Loo, Windsor ON)
http://www.thinkbox.ca/

Trio Fibonacci (performance of new music, Julie-Anne Derome, Gabriel Prynn, André Ristic Montreal QC)
http://www.triofibonacci.com/

U

Upstream orchestra (hybrid improv/orchestra Halifax NS)
http://upstream.squarespace.com/upstream-orchestra/

Urge (women's collective: musically-driven performance works, Marie-Josee Chartier, Fides Krucker, Linda Catlin Smith, Katherine Duncanson, Joanna McIntyre)
http://www.vex.net/rikscafe/Urge/index.html

Viewfinder (Gregg Brennan, Tom Richards, Avi Granite)
http://www.viewfindermusic.com

The Vinyl Interventions Trio (experimental turntablism, Carrie Gates (Saskatoon), Esther Bourdages (Montreal), and Marinko Jareb (St. Catherines))
http://www.vinylinterventions.com

Vuja De (contemporary jazz and latin traditions, Mark Duggan, Bill Brennan, Mike Murley, Rick Shadrach Lazar, Kenny Kirkwood, Richard Brown, Alan Hetherington)
http://www.markduggan.com/Vuja_de/index.html

W

Wondeur Brass (Joane Hétu, Diane Labrosse and Danielle Palardy Roger)
http://www.actuellecd.com/bio.e/wondeurbrass_.thm.html

The Woodchoppers Association (freestyle improvisation, multi-disciplinary presentations, Toronto ON)
http://www.woodchoppers.com/

Wreck's Progress (collective musical improvisation, Michel Ratte)
http://www.uqtr.uquebec.ca/AE/vol_2/ratte_en.html

Wrist Error (free improvisation duo, Kurt Newman, Mike Gennaro, Toronto ON)
http://www.spoolmusic.com/wristerrorinfo.htm

Other

Labels/Producers/Distributors
Journals/Magazines/Book Publishers
Presenters
Symposiums/Festivals
Radio
Online Section

Labels/Producers/Distributors

Alien8 Recordings
http://www.alien8recordings.com/index.php3

Ambiance Magnetiques
http://www.ambiancesmagnetiques.com/

Arcana Editions
http://www.patria.org/arcana/

Art Metropole
http://www.artmetropole.com

Artifact Music
http://artifactmusic.com

Avatar
http://www.lenomdelachose.org/en/avatar_pres.htm

BricoLodge
http://www.notype.com/bricolodge

Canadian Music Centre Distribution Service
http://www.musiccentre.ca/

CBC Records
http://cbcrecords.ca/

C3R Label
http://www.c3r.ca/

DAMES
http://www.actuellecd.com

DIFFUSION i MéDIA
http://www.electrocd.com

Drip Audio
http://www.dripaudio.com

Done Records
http://www.ovalwindowmusic.org/home.htm

Les Disques VICTO
http://victo.qc.ca/

empreintes DIGITALes
http://www.empreintesDIGITALes.com

Fony
http://www.pfony.com/

Hornblower Recordings

IntrepidEar
http://www.guelphjazzfestival.com/

Justin Time Records
http://www.justin-time.com/

New Music Concerts
http://www.newmusicconcerts.com

No Type
http://www.notype.com

Ombu Records - Montreal
http://ombu.ca/

Oval Window Records
http://www.ovalwindowmusic.org/home.htm

Productions Super Meme-Super Musique
http://www.supermusique.qc.ca/

Rat-Drifting
http://www.rat-drifting.com

Shelan (alcides@music.mcgill.ca)

Spool Records
http://www.spoolmusic.com

Standback Records
http://www.standbackrecords.com

Stonehouse Sound
http://stonehousesound.com

Verge
http://www.vergemusic.com

Journals/Magazines/Book Publishers

Canadian University Music Review
http://www.cums-smuc.ca/

Circuit: Circuit, musiques contemporaines
http://www.revuecircuit.ca

Critical Studies in Improvisation
http://www.criticalimprov.com

FUSE Magazine
http://www.fusemagazine.org

Indie Workshop
http://www.indieworkshop.com/

Jeu de temps-Times Play
http://cec.concordia.ca/jttp/

MIX Magazine
http://www.MIXMagazine.com

Musicworks
http://www.musicworks.ca/

La Scena Musicale
http://www.scena.org/

Stylus Magazine (Winnipeg)
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/

Vague Terrain
http://www.vagueterrain.net/

Wholenote
http://www.thewholenote.com/

Presenters

Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society (Edmonton)
http://www.amaas.ca/

The Ambient Ping
http://www.theambientping.com/

Arraymusic (Toronto)
http://www.arraymusic.com/

L'Arsenal a musique (Montreal)
http://www.arsenal.ca/

ARTSPEAK (Vancouver)
http://artspeak.ca/

Association of Improvising Musicians Toronto - AIMT
http://www.aimtoronto.org

Association de Repentigny pour l'avancement de la musique
http://www.aram-qc.ca/

The Banff Centre (Alberta)
http://www.banffcentre.ca/

Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society
http://www.beams.ca

Canadian Electroacoustic Community
http://cec.concordia.ca/

Casa del Popolo (Montreal)
http://www.casadelpopolo.com/

Coastal Jazz & Blues Society (Vancouver)
http://www.coastaljazz.ca

Codes D'Acces (Montreal)
http://www.codesdacces.org/

Continuum (Toronto)
http://www.continuummusic.org/

Groundswell (Winnipeg)
http://www.gswell.ca/

Guelph Jazz Festival
http://www.guelphjazzfestival.com

Innovations en concerts (Montreal)
http://www.innconcert.ca/

Jazz East (Halifax)
http://www.jazzeast.com/

Music Gallery (Toronto)
http://www.musicgallery.org/

New Adventures in Sound Art (Facilitated by Sound Travels)
http://www.soundtravels.ca/

New Music Concerts
http://www.newmusicconcerts.com

New Music North
http://www.geocities.com/newmusicnorth

NUMUS (Kitchener ON)
http://www.numus.on.ca/

Peterborough New Dance (Peterborough)
http://www.publicenergy.ca/

Reseaux: Rien a Voir (Montreal)
http://www.rien.qc.ca/

La Societe des arts technologiques
http://www.sat.qc.ca/

Suddenly Listen (Halifax)
http://www.suddenlylisten.com/

Theatre la Chapelle (Montreal)
http://www.lachapelle.org/

Toronto Coalition of New Music Presenters
http://www.torontohearandnow.com/

Traquenart (Montreal)
http://www.traquenart.ca

The Upgrade! Montreal
http://theupgrade.sat.qc.ca/

Upstream Music Association (Halifax)
http://www.upstreammusic.org/

Vancouver New Music
http://www.newmusic.org

Video Pool Media Arts Centre (Winnipeg)
http://www.videopool.org

Vocalypse Productions
http://www.janicejackson.ca/vocalypse/index.html

Voix d'Amériques
www.fva.ca

Western Front Music (Vancouver)
http://www.front.bc.ca/

Symposiums/Festivals

Deep Wireless
http://www.deepwireless.ca/

Digidome
http://www.vinylinterventions.com/events/digidome.html

Electric Eclectics Festival
http://www.electric-eclectics.com/

Festival les Coups de Theatre
http://www.coupsdetheatre.com/

Festival International de Musique Actuelle Victoriaville
http://www.fimav.qc.ca/

Festival North (North Bay)

Guelph Jazz Festival (Guelph)
http://www.guelphjazzfestival.com/

International New Music Festival (Winnipeg)
http://www.wso.mb.ca/nmf/index.php

Jeu de temps-Times Play (Montreal)
http://cec.concordia.ca/jttp/index.htm

Montreal Jazz Festival (Montreal)
http://www.montrealjazzfest.com/

Montreal Nouvelles Musiques (Montreal)
http://www.festivalmnm.ca/

Mutek: Music Sound and New Technologies (Montreal)
http://www.mutek.ca/

New Forms Festival (Vancouver)
http://www.newformsfestival.com/

No Music Festival (London-Ben Portis 914-758-4491)

NUMUFest Contemporary Music Festival

L'Off Festival de Jazz
http://www.lofffestivaldejazz.com/

Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound
http://www.openears.ca/

Peterborough New Dance Festival (Peterborough)
http://www.publicenergy.ca/

Rien a Voir (Montreal)
http://www.rien.qc.ca

Sea of Sound: Edmonton Intermedia Arts Festival
http://www.beams.ca/SeaofSound.htm

Send+Recieve: A festival of sound
http://www.sendandreceive.org

SMCQ (Societe Musique Contemporaine de Quebec) (Montreal QC)
http://www.smcq.qc.ca/

Sonic Courage Festival
http://www.upstreammusic.org

Soundstreams Canada
http://www.soundstreams.ca/

Sound Symposium, St. John's Newfoundland
http://www.soundsymposium.com

Sound Travels
http://www.soundtravels.ca/

Suoni Per Il Popolo (Montreal, QC)
http://www.casadelpopolo.com/suoni/about.htm

Then, Now and Beyond...a Festival of Music by Women (Ottawa)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000142

Toronto Dominion Vancouver International Jazz Festival (Vancouver)
http://www.coastaljazz.ca

University of Calgary New Music Festival (Calgary)
http://newmusic.ffa.ucalgary.ca/

Vancouver International Jazz Festival
http://www.coastaljazz.ca/

Vancouver New Music Festival
http://www.newmusic.org

World Electronic Music Festival
http://www.damndjs.com/wemf/

X AVANT new music festival
http://www.musicgallery.org/

Radio

Bandeapart.fm
http://www.bandeapart.fm

Brave New Waves
http://www.bravenewwaves.ca/

The Canadian Society for Independant Radio Production, CSIRP

Deep Wireless
http://www.deepwireless.ca/

Dig Your Roots
http://www.digyourroots.ca/

The Full Moon Audio Art Camp, FMOK
http://www.community-media.com/fullmoon/

The National Campus and Community Radio Association
http://www.ncra.ca/

New Music Canada
http://www.newmusiccanada.com

Radio 3
http://www.cbcradio3.com/issues/2004_07_02/index.cfm

Two New Hours
http://www.cbc.ca/2newhours/

ZeD
http://zed.cbc.ca

Online section

Canadian New Music Network
http://www.newmusicnetwork.ca

eContact! (online Journal of CEC)
http://www.eContact.ca

Jazz Word
http://www.jazzword.com/

Laliste
http://www.laliste.qc.ca/

Moving Music Network
http://www.movingmusicnetwork.org/

Sonus Listing Catalogue
http://sonus.ca/

SoundList
http://www.soundlist.ca

Sul pont
www.sulpont.ca

UbuWeb
http://www.ubu.com

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