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Conseil des arts de la Communauti urbaine de Montreal, l'Universiti
Concordia (bureau du recteur, la Faculte des beaux-arts et Ie Departement
de musique) et surtout les coinpositeur(e)s et interprctes qui ont fait en .
sorte que ces Journees e1ectr~coustiques CEC soient unereussite sur
tous les plans.
Kevin Austin, Montreal .
communauti urbain de Montreal, the CEC, Queen's University,
Concordia University (Rector's Office, Faculty of Fine Arts, and
Department ofMusic), and most ofall the composers and performers
who made this the most broadly successful CEC Electroacoustic Days
so far.
Kevin Austin, Montreal
it ·I'ecoufe de l'Ontario
En tant que membre du conseil d'administration de laCEC, je me suis
interessee aU'developperrient de I'activite elcctroacoustique de la region
de Toronto etde l'ensemble de la province d'Ontario. Bien qu'il yait
plusieurs electroacousticiens a.ctifs qui resident dans la region
metropolitahte de Toronto, la communication a etc quasi-inexistente. pe
plus, Ie reseau pour la presentation de nos oeuvres reste toujours a I'ctat
embryonnaire, Nous avons donc 9rganise, en fevrier demie:r, UJie reunion
a la M~sic Oallery de Toronto afm de discuter de la mise sur pied d'un
studio d'enregi;trement, d'une seriede concerts, d'ateliers et de seances
d'ecoute. Nousnous sommes d'abord re~cigncsau sujet de racccssibilitc.
de studios d'enregistrement.
Dans un autre temps, DavidMott de I'universite Yorknous a offert
I'utilisation liventuelle des installations du departement de musique, pour
fin de concert, Jim Montgomery du Music Gallery a discuter de la
creation d'un studio d'enregistrement voue a larccherche, tandis que
d'autres intervenants ont proposes qu'une entente soit prise avec certainS
studios d'enregistrement commerciaux de Toronto dans Ie but de les _
rendre plus accueillant envers les projets qui ne necessitent qu'un mixage
final. Au terme de: la reunion, pIusieurs personnes ont signtS une lettre
demandant au gouvemement NPD de I'Ontario d'augmenter l'octroi au
Conseil deS Arts de I'Ontario.Lc 29 avril, Ie gouvemement de l'Ontario
annonc;ait I)n octroi suppIemtlUtaire de $7.5 millionS ace meme
organisme~
. Les reunions suivantes se sont derouIces Ie 26 marset Ie 7 mai ala
Music.Gallery. Cesreunions ont servi aI'Ccoute d'oeuvres completes ou
. en co~rs. No.us avions a notre disposition un systeme de son de.himte
gaffime. Nous enavons aussi profile pour discuter longuement, si bien que
qu'a Ia suite d'une session marathon plusieurs auditeurs ont developpc
une "fatigue d'Ccoute". John Oswald a remarquc qu'il entend souvent les
memes commentaires soit qu'une oeuvre eSt trop longue ou qu'elle est
jouec aun volume trop eleve ou trop faible. Ces commentaires sont
gencra:Iement rcitcres lors des Journees CEC. Ces.questions pourrai¢nt.
porter sur les formes de presentations de notre artct sur l'utilisation des
moyens technologiques,
Ontario musings
As part ofmy responsibilities of being a board member of the CEC, I
have undertaken the development of electroacoustic activity in the
· Toronto area, which will help to build theCEC profile and presence in
Ontario. Allhough there arc many active electroacoustic composers
who live in the larger Toronto region, we have h·ad little
communication, and there are very few local performance possibilities
for our work, I sent out a mailing in February which ant:Jounced a
meeting to be held at the Music Gallery [Toronto] to discuss such
items as the developmentofstudio facilities, a concert series,
educational workshops, and regular listening sessions. The resportse
Was positive and during the first mceting, many suggestions for $tud~.;;:.
· access were offered, .'fi!!Jl}}
I received contact from David Mott of York University expressing
his support and potential use of the concert facilities'in the music
department. Jim Montgomery of the Music Gallery discussed the
possible development of a research oriented studio at the Gallery;
Others'suggested arrangements be·made with the many commercial
studios in the city, particularlyfor the purpose of creating a final mix
of a work. At the end of this frrst meeting, several people signed a
letter which was mailed to several cabinet ministers of the Ontario
NDP goverrunent requesting that they support the proposal to provide
additional funds for the Ontario Arts Council. The good news is that
an additional $ 7.5 million has been added to the base operating grant
· of the OAC, as aImounced in the budgetspeech on April 29.
The next two sessions, held on March 26 and May 7, were primarily
for listening to compositions - both completed works and .
works-in-progress. The MusiC Gallery was our host, and we had
access to good quality playback equipment. Several works were·
· played and good discussion was generated, so much so that after one
marathon session, people developed "listening fatigue", One
interestingpoint raised by John Oswald was that he often hears
cOlrunents that a work is "too long",or "tooloud", or played "too
soft". No doubts these points will be raised again at
· »PERSPECTIVES->->, as they tend to haunt each festival held so
far. Perhaps what is at stake is a fundamental qucstioning regarding
how tIllS arlform is to be presented, and how to usc technology to
enrich rather than to dominate.
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