Recent projects...
I am part of a collective that presents a weekly show called "Auditory Transitory' on radio art and soundscape composition, CIUT radio 89.5 Toronto. Monday nights at midnights. I have taken a year's sabbatical to finish my Ph D dissertation.PERFORMANCES
On October 30, 1996, I performed two multimedia works at the Back Room, the Rivoli (Queen St., Toronto), as part of the Sonic Circuits Music Festival.Swimming the Reef, 1990-96. For Patrick.
This piece has recently been released on a CD compilation called "Presence" by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community.
Coiled Chalk Circle
Selena Cryderman, Catherine Keenan and Andra McCartney
Meta-Composition: The Composer and the Computer. Music Gallery, Toronto, May 9, 1995. With Chris Devonshire, Chester Jankowski, Henry Kucharzyk, Sarah Peebles, David Rokeby, Trevor Tureski, Michael White.
Produced, directed, and performed in Peace (pi): A Slick Circus On A Discord Of Flags, premiered at Union Theatre, Peterborough, Ontario, August 12, 1993; subsequent Oct. 6, Dacary Hall, York University; Oct. 23, Peterborough New Music Festival: a multi-media performance based on the Cage Circus On... score. A review of this work, and score excerpt can be found in Musicworks 59:53. Here's a photo of the performance.
Vocalist, Cosmic Egg, Lia Pas, (premiere) SCUM concert, Dacary Hall, York U, April 1993.
Performed in Imaginary Landscape #4; Songbooks; composed tapes for Rozart Mix; "Cagewake", Du Maurier Theatre, Harbourfront, November 30, 1992.
AUDIO
Music for Mixed Reactions, a dance performance in The Festival for New Choreography, York University, Toronto, March 1996.Occasional guest host for The Audible Woman at CIUT radio 89.5 Toronto.
Arcade '94. Discontact! II CD. Montreal: Canadian Electroacoustic Community, 1995. Broadcast in Toronto; Banff, Alberta; Madison, WI; and selected for the Listening Room, Sound Culture '96 [San Francisco].
Music for Three Stones, a film produced and directed by Paul Holyoke, Toronto, 1995.
Swimming the reef, 1994, tape and voice, premiered at York University, Dacary Hall, Feb. 25, 1994. Subsequent: CIUT, Classical Women, April 7, 1994.
Hosted and produced "Classical Women," CIUT, Toronto, Summer 1993.
Inventing Metaphors, 1993, tape, premiered at York University, Fine Arts Faculty Lounge, April 23, 1993. Subsequent: CIUT, Classical Women, Dec. 13,1993.
beneath the surface, 1992, tape, premiered on Trent Radio, October 8, 1992.
Solar Cycle: Sunrise and Sunset, 1992, with Jody Berland, tape. Soleil Sonore, 7ieme Printemps Electroacoustique, Montreal, June 20, 1992, CKUT radio.
WORDS
"Maggie Bamford's Nightdress Case" (poem), Poke out her eye and other stories, Museum for Textiles, Toronto, October-December 1992."Grenada Poems" (word collage) and "Beneath the surface" (tape collage) The Living Reef, Kaos Cafe and Revue Cinema, Peterborough, September 1992.
"Misogyny" (poem) Don't Be Silent Commemorative Art Show, ASpace, March-April, 1991; The Woman's Common, Toronto, June 1990.
"The Young Men Playing on the Sand", A Discord of Flags: Canadian Poets Write About the Persian Gulf War. (2nd ed.) S. Heighton, P. Ormshaw, M. Redhill, eds. Authors: Toronto, 1992.
And not so recent...
Birthsounds, 1990, tape.Produced, directed, and performed as Anne Boleyn in Henry's Court, Trent University, February, 1990.
Postcards, an improvisatory performance organized by Australian composer Richard Vella, Robinson College, Trent U., May 1983.
The Nuclear Family Goes to New York (multi-media performance; keyboards & vocals), Peter Robinson College, Trent U., June 1983.
"Nuclear Peterborough" (photography collage), Windowspace, Peterborough, May 1983.
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