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AMP ARCHIVE 2010



BOOK RELEASE:  Performative Body Spaces. Corporeal Topographies in Literature, Theatre, Dance, and the Visual Arts. Hallensleben, Markus (Ed.)

   Contains a chapter by Bob PRITCHARD - “The Body as Object: From Body Image to Meta-Body.”  
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BOOK RELEASE: "Xenakis: His Life in Music", by James HARLEY, is now available in paperback.  INTERVIEW:  RJ1200 interview with Bob PRITCHARD from NIME 2010 in Sydney, Australia.  
   WIKIPEDIA ARTICLES on Keith HAMEL, Gordon FITZELL, Bob PRITCHARD, André RISTIC, James HARLEY, Howard BASHAW, and Paul STEENHUISEN.  NEW CD:  ELEKTROLOGOS,  by accordionist Joseph Petric.  
   Features "Breathe on Me" by Bob PRITCHARD, and works by Christos Hatzis and Larry Lake.  RECORDING ONLINE: CBC Radio's Concerts on Demand.  Paul STEENHUISEN - “Every Joy Pop Turbo”;  Howard BASHAW -    
   “Form Archimage”.  RECORDING ONLINE:  CBC Radio’s Concerts on Demand.  James HARLEY's "Chaotika", Ben Reimer, percussion.  RECORDING ONLINE:  CBC Radio’s Concerts on Demand.  Gordon FITZELL -    
   “evanescence”;  eighth blackbird at the 2010 WSO New Music Festival.  André RISTIC's piece "Étude-patente (nature morte avec molecules)" is nominated for Best New Work, OPUS PRIZE.  
    Paul STEENHUISEN's book "Sonic Mosaics: Conversations with Composers" is reviewed by composer John Oliver on Sequenza21. com.
DECEMBER 9 – PERFORMANCE:  James HARLEY - "Étude pour une fête (Jazz II)"; Ensemble Musique Avenir, Véronique Lacroix - conductor, Montreal.
DECEMBER 3, 2010 – James HARLEY is invited participant in "Round-Table -- The Electroacoustic Music of Iannis Xenakis."  Université de Paris 8, France.
DECEMBER – NEW ADDITION TO AMP:  Aaron Gervais.  MUSICWORKS Magazine ISSUE 108, Winter 2010: "VISIONS OF SOUND" features Paul Steenhuisen's and dECOi Architects' interactive kinetic display, Hyposurface. 

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NOVEMBER 26 – PERFORMANCE: Howard BASHAW - Three sections from "Preludes, Book I". Performed by Chris Morano, Ancient Music from the 20th Century. UBC School of Music.  
   PODCAST:  Paul STEENHUISEN releases SOUNDLAB New Music Podcast  interview with Elliott Carter.  
NOVEMBER 25 – LECTURE-PERFORMANCE by pianist Roger Admiral.  Howard BASHAW - "Form Archimage", and Paul STEENHUISEN - "Every Joy Pop Turbo".  Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, Hungary.
NOVEMBER 19 – Bob PRITCHARD and Keith HAMEL will perform as part of the laptop orchestra "Vox Laptopicacophony", a concert of works for laptops and sensors. LOCATION: Barnett Recital Hall, Vancouver. 12 noon.

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Bob PRITCHARD and Keith HAMEL preparing for "Vox Laptopicacophony".
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HAMEL and PRITCHARD using wrist accelerometers in performance.

NOVEMBER 12 – LECTURE: Paul STEENHUISEN, MIT Department of Architecture. Cambridge MA, USA. "Paradigm". 
NOVEMBER 3 – Howard BASHAW: "Form Archimage", Paul STEENHUISEN: "Revolutions per minute", "plea", and "Every Joy Pop Turbo". Performed by Roger Admiral, piano.  Kodaly Institute, Kecskemet, Hungary. 
OCTOBER 24 – PREMIERE:  Aaron GERVAIS - “Halo Ballet (Bipolar Disorder NOS)”.   For live performers (piano, keyboard, percussion, harp or guitar) and electronic dancers, performed in real time within the Halo videogame 

   environment.  X AVANT Festival’s all-dance programme.
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OCTOBER 17 – PREMIERE: André RISTIC's "Six apparitions de Lénine sur un piano".  Aventa Ensemble, Bill Linwood, conductor.  Phillip T Young Recital Hall (University of Victoria, MacLaurin Building), Victoria, BC, Canada.
OCTOBER 16 – CONCERT: BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA. Howard BASHAW: "Form Archimage", Paul STEENHUISEN: "Revolutions per minute", "plea", and "Every Joy Pop Turbo". Performed by Roger Admiral, piano.  

   Music Centre Slovakia.
OCTOBER 8 – CD RELEASE: "Neue Bilder", featuring the music of James HARLEY. 7 pm, this coming Wednesday, October 13, 2010. Gallery 345, Toronto.  Read a review of the CD.  Performed by New Music Concerts.

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OCTOBER 7 – PERFORMANCE: "Orb of the Sun", by Gordon FITZELL.  Henri Selmer. Paris, France.  Allen Harrington, tenor saxophone.
OCTOBER 6 – LECTURE:   James HARLEY: "Iannis Xenakis: Electroacoustic music and polytopes." UNIVERSITY OF TORINO,  Laboratorio G. Quazza.
OCTOBER 4 – PODCAST: Paul STEENHUISEN releases SOUNDLAB New Music Podcast interview with Rick Sacks.   PERFORMANCE: "Orb of the Sun", by Gordon FITZELL. Eva Clare Hall, Winnipeg, MB.  

   Performed by Allen Harrington, saxophone.
SEPTEMBER 30 – PREMIERE: "TreDue Sextet" - James Harley. Ensemble Transmission: Centre for Canadian Architecture, Montreal.  
SEPTEMBER 8 – PERFORMANCE: Keith HAMEL: "Krishna's Flute", for flute and live electronics. CMC BC Region Office, Vancouver, 2-4 pm as part of the CMC Score Reading Club. Paolo Bortolussi, flute.
AUGUST 26 – PERFORMANCE: Howard BASHAW, "Minimalisms II, 3rd Movement", performed by Gabriella Smart, Soundstream New Music Festival, Adelaide, Australia, on the concert "The Visionaries".   

   Live broadcast by ABC FM, hosted by Julie Howard and Julian Day.  Excerpt of review from "Australian Stage", by Daniela Kaleva:  "The third movement of Bashaw’s ‘Minimalisms II’ was delivered with technical luminosity and 
   interpretative depth by Gabriella Smart. The apparent external simplicity in this piece is based on subtle shifts in melodic, rhythmic and dynamic shapes which are difficult to execute. Smart succeeded to produce 13 minutes of 
   pure bliss. The meditative mood was visually represented by a single blue stream of light."
JULY 5 – BROADCAST: Bob PRITCHARD - "Strength", Gordon FITZELL: "!Zip (a.k. Zipper Music 2)", Paul STEENHUISEN - "Frank O. Lunaire #10: Raub".  Perdidos en el Espacio, Santiago, Chile. Jaime Baeza, host.
JUNE 15 – What Does A Body Know? music by Bob PRITCHARD, text by M. Cadell.  Marguerite Witvoet, DIVA will be performed at NIME '10 Sydney, Australia.
JUNE 8 – Howard BASHAW - "Form Archimage", performed by Roger Admiral. Gallery 345, Toronto.
MAY 30 – PERFORMANCE:  James HARLEY’s work “Icefancy” and Paul STEENHUISEN’s “Poland is not yet lost” have been selected for the  Canadian 60x60 of 2010 will be launched on May 30th 2010 at 11:00 AM with dance 

   and video at the FoFA gallery of Concordia University as part of Congress 2010 - the largest interdisciplinary conference in North America, which welcomes over 8000 scholars this year.  The FoFA Gallery is located right in the center of things at the ground floor of Concordia's EV building.  BROADCAST: James HARLEY - "Wild Fruits 3: Chestnuts" (electroacoustic).  Difficult Listening, Perth, Australia.
MAY 15 – PREMIERE PERFORMANCE:  Gordon FITZELL’s “Pangaea Ultima” was premiered in Montreal by ECM+ and Bradyworks as part of 6 Team League, a collection of simultaneous concerts across Canada. 

   (Fredricton, Montreal, Toronto, Edmonton, Vancouver).  “Pangaea Ultima was recorded for broadcast on CBC’s The Signal.
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MAY 6 – PREMIERE PERFORMANCE:  André RISTIC - A Comic Book Opera, "Les Aventures de Madame Merveille". May 6, Maison de la culture Frontenac, Montréal.  Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal.  
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photos by Laurent Castellucci
MAY 3 – PREMIERE PERFORMANCE:  Paul STEENHUISEN - "Copralite Culture and Analysis Results #1-20;  Subject - Mozart, Symphony in G Minor, K. 550".  World New Music Days, Sydney, Australia, 
   performed by Ensemble Offspring.
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Promotional image for Copralite Culture & Analysis Results #1-20.

APRIL 30 – PERFORMANCE:  James HARLEY - Kitchener-Waterloo Kiwanis Festival "Dance Set" for student cello duo, performed by students of Amber Ghent
APRIL 20 – BROADCAST:  Howard BASHAW - “Music for Trumpet and Piano”;  Outside the Lines, CHSR, Calgary.  LECTURE:  Gordon FITZELL - McNally Robinson Booksellers’ “Meet the Composer Series”, Winnipeg.
APRIL 19-23 – PRESENTATION:  Bob PRITCHARD - “DIVA” project.  Poster presented at the 159th ASA meeting/NOISE-CON 2010 in Baltimore, MD.  

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APRIL 15 – BROADCAST:  Howard BASHAW - “TMHRO” - Foldover, Oberlin Ohio.  Tom Lopez, host.    
APRIL 13 – BROADCAST:  Howard BASHAW - “Music for Alto Saxophone + Piano”;  Outside the Lines, CHSR, Calgary.
APRIL 11 – LECTURE:  Bob PRITCHARD - SONIC BOOM FESTIVAL.  "Voicings: Body, Gesture and Digital Transformation".  Western Front, Vancouver.  
APRIL 6 – BROADCAST:  Howard BASHAW - “Minimalisms II”;  Outside the Lines, CHSR, Calgary.
APRIL 4 – BROADCASTS: Electric Sense, CKLN Toronto.  James Bailey, host.  James HARLEY - "re: Reckoner", "Ariel Fragments";   Gordon FITZELL - "Metropolis";   Keith HAMEL - "Refraction", "Traces II",   

   Bob PRITCHARD - "Breathe on Me";   Paul STEENHUISEN - "Toneland Security";   Andre RISTIC - "Motel Infinity".
APRIL 2 – BROADCAST: Howard BASHAW - "Eolian Braid". Radio-Ultra, Moscow.  Artemiy Artemiev, host. April 2. 
MARCH 30 – GUEST LECTURE:  Gordon FITZELL - University of California at San Diego, Interdisciplinary Arts program. 
MARCH 26 – BROADCAST: "New Rage for the Now Age", by Howard BASHAW. Performed on Radio Kolomna, Russia. Artemiy Artemiev, host. MArch 26, 2010.  PERFORMANCE: Bob PRITCHARD -  

   "Strength", performed by Ian Smith, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Phoenix, Arizona.  
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Composer Bob PRITCHARD and Saxophonist Ian Smith, rehearsing "Strength", Arizona State University.
MARCH 25 – PERFORMANCE: Keith HAMEL - "Traces II", for clarinet and electronics.  New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival.  Francois Houle, clarinet.
MARCH 23 – BROADCAST:  Gordon FITZELL:  “Evanescence”;  Outside the Lines, CHSR, Calgary.
MARCH 22 – BROADCAST:  Howard BASHAW:  “Music for Alto Saxophone + Piano, Mvmt VI”; CHSR, Calgary.
MARCH 21 – BROADCAST:  art@radio and Neighbourhood Public Radio, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland.  Gordon FITZELL - “!Zip”;  Keith HAMEL - “Krishna’s Flute”;  James HARLEY - “Wild Fruits 3”, 

   “re: Reckoner”;  Bob PRITCHARD - “Strength”;   André RISTIC - “Catalogue de Bombes Occidentales”;   Paul STEENHUISEN - “Frank O. Lunaire #10: Raub”;
MARCH 20 – PERFORMANCE:  Keith HAMEL - The Hard Rubber Orchestra presents "ICE AGE”. www.hardrubber.com
MARCH 19 – BROADCAST: Howard BASHAW - “Timepieces, 17 Miniatures”.  Radio Neva-3, St. Petersburg, Russia. Artemiy Artemiev, host.
MARCH 18-20 – FESTIVAL: Gordon FITZELL is the guest composer of the 2010 Cluster Festival of New Music and Integrated Arts, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Five of his works will be performed at various venues 

   - he will also be performing and giving public talks about his work.  Funded in part by a SOCAN Foundation Outreach grant.
MARCH 16 – LECTURE:  James HARLEY - "Xenakis in Canada".  The Drawing Centre, New York, NY.   http://www.drawingcenter.org/about_visit.cfm
MARCH 12 – BROADCAST: Howard BASHAW - “Hosu. (Part I-III)”, Radio Ultra, Moscow. 
MARCH 11 – BROADCASTS: Bob PRITCHARD - "Strength", for Saxophone and Interactive Electronics, and !Zip (a.k.a. Zipper Music 2), by Gordon FITZELL.  FOLDOVER, WOBC 91.5, Oberlin, Ohio. Tom Lopez, host.
MARCH 8 – BROADCAST:  Howard BASHAW - “TMHRO, Mvmt II”;  Outside the Lines, CHSR, Calgary.
MARCH 5 – BROADCAST: Howard BASHAW - “Preludes. (Part I-VIII)”; Radio Kolomna, Russia. Artmiy Artemiev, host.
FEBRUARY 26 – PERFORMANCE:  Bob PRITCHARD - "Strength"; Shaw Tower Site (beside the Olympic flame), Vancouver.  With Julia Nolan, saxophone, and Kathryn Ricketts, dance, and Bob Pritchard, video.  

   BROADCAST:  Gordon FITZELL - "evanescence".  CBC Radio Two, "The Signal", hosted by Laurie Brown.
FEBRUARY 22 – BROADCAST:  James HARLEY - “Wild Fruits 3”;  Acoustic Frontiers, Ottawa, Ralph Hopper, host.
FEBRUARY 19 – BROADCAST: Howard BASHAW - "Music for Tuba and Piano"; Radio Ultra, Moscow.
FEBRUARY 17 – BROADCAST: Gordon FITZELL's - “!Zip (a.k.a. Zipper Music)”;  Runny Noise, Montreal.  Danielle Jakibiak, host.
FEBRUARY 14 – BROADCAST:  Keith HAMEL - “Krishna’s Flute”;  Acoustic Frontiers, Ottawa, Ralph Hopper, host.
FEBRUARY 12 – BROADCAST: Howard BASHAW - "Seven Spheres", Radio Kolomna, Russia.
FEBRUARY 11 – PERFORMANCE:  Gordon FITZELL  - "evanescence", for chamber ensemble/live electronics;  eighth blackbird, Winnipeg New Music Festival.
FEBRUARY 6 – PRESENTATION:  Paul STEENHUISEN - will be a presenter at the Canadian League of Composers "Cultivating Your Career" workshop. Cantos Music Foundation, Calgary, Alberta.  
FEBRUARY 5 – PERFORMANCE:  Paul STEENHUISEN - "Every Joy Pop Turbo", Howard BASHAW - "Form Archimage"; Roger Admiral, piano.  Camrose, Alberta.  PERFORMANCE:  

   Gordon FITZELL’s eXperimental Improv Ensemble (XIE) will perform at the Winnipeg New Music Festival using WallBalls, a locally developed smart table interface for collaborative spatial improvisation. 
JANUARY 29 – Radio Ultra, 70.19 FM, Moscow: Artemiy Artemiev, host. Broadcast of "Strength",(for alto saxophone, sound and video files, and interactive processing), by Bob PRITCHARD. 
JANUARY 28 – James HARLEY Lecture: "Kraanerg: A History", Thursday, January 28, 2:30 p.m. Part of XENAKIS Past, Present, and Future. Brookyn eXperimental Media Center/ NYU Polytechnic, 

   Six Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY. 
JANUARY 23 – BROADCAST: "Krishna's Flute", by Keith HAMEL, was heard tonight on Radio Kolomna, Russia. Artemiy Artemiev, host. 
JANUARY 19 – Gordon FITZELL - "violence" will performed by eighth blackbird. 8 pm, Wentz Concert Hall, North Central College, Naperville, Illinois, USA.
JANUARY 17 – Art's Birthday 24 hour broadcast. 0500-0800 (Vancouver) 0700-1000 (Toronto) 1300-1600 (Paris)2100-0000 (Tokyo). HAMEL - Faded Memories, Faded Jeans; STEENHUISEN - Blueblood Soundtrack;    

   STEENHUISEN - Wonder; BASHAW - Eolian Braid; RISTIC - Catalogues de Bombes Occidentales; RISTIC - Information; HARLEY - Sabbath; FITZELL - airports; PRITCHARD - ...flow mingled down
JANUARY 15 – "Catalogues de Bombes Occidentales”, by André RISTIC, broadcast on Radio Neva-3, St. Petersburg: Artemiy Atermiev, host.
JANUARY 8 – Radio Ultra, 70.19 FM, Moscow: Artemiy Artemiev, host. Broadcasts of "Metropolis" by Gordon FITZELL, "re: Reckoner" by James HARLEY, and "Circumnavigating the Sea of Shit", by Paul STEENHUISEN.
JANUARY 3 – RTQE, Hosted by Gregory Taylor. The Sunday, January 3, 2010 episode included broadcasts of "Strength" by Bob PRITCHARD, and "Frank O. Lunaire #10: Raub", by Paul STEENHUISEN.