Sounds Provocative: Experimental Music Performance in Canada
Welcome
Welcome to Sounds Provocative - a research project on experimental music performance at festivals and concert venues across Canada. From St. John's to Vancouver, we are documenting and studying wonderfully diverse and dynamic performances by a wide array of artists: creative improvisers, live electronic and computer musicians, composer/performers, and intermedia artists. Our main focus is live performance because we believe that it is in the interactions among musicians and with audiences, presenters, technicians, and critics in what Edward Said has called the "extreme occasion" of performance that music's cultural effects are best observed. Our project covers three main areas: documentation, performance analysis, and dissemination. The website will grow over the duration of the project to provide a comprehensive resource for scholarship on experimental music in Canada.
Contact Us:
sounds@uoguelph.ca
Current Sounds Provocative Team:
- Dr. Ellen Waterman, Project Director, School of Fine Arts and Music, University of Guelph
- Scott Irving, Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Martin Eckart, Graduate Research Assistant
Past Members:
- Tegan Ceschi-Smith, Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Martin Eckart, Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Taylor Moran, Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Megan-Fay Rothschild, Graduate Research Assistant
- Thomas Silvani, Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Scott Thomson, Graduate Research Assistant
Disclaimer: This site has been designed with only non-commercial, academic uses in mind. Links may be made to our site but under no conditions are the texts and images to be copied and mounted onto another site server. Researchers using the site should accredit it following standard MLA guidelines on how to do so. Correct citation of information from the site is as follows:
This research has been approved by the Research Ethics Board at the University of Guelph who can be contacted at 519-824-4120 x 56606. The project is generously supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the College of Arts, and the School of Fine Art and Music, University of Guelph.
Copyright 2005 Waterman, Ellen. Sounds Provocative: Experimental Music Performance in Canada. University of Guelph. All Rights Reserved