The Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) is Canada's national arts organization for all matters electroacoustic. The CEC, formulated here at Concordia, enjoys a special relationship with this university. It was in the running up to 1986 that Kevin Austin and Jean-François Denis wrote the CEC's by-laws and presented to Canadian composers working in this field the infrastructural direction and vision needed to set up an organization which was to aid composers and sound artists, bring them together 'out of the cold' and build the ties which form a community.

The CEC's early days were centered largely around communications, making sure people across the country could learn who their colleagues were, what they were doing and where electroacoustic activities were taking place.

With the advent and popularization of electronic media and internet based communications, the CEC transformed itself from a principally paper based institution into an organization which seeks to continue to foster communications, but which also promotes specific areas within this broad community.

The concert today features works from one such area, one of great importance to the CEC: the young and emerging sound artist. The pieces of today's concert came from the Jeu de temps / Times Play project 2001 and are the top 11 pieces from the competition section of the project. The pieces are all by young and emerging sound artists, and will, pending funding, be pressed to a CD called Cache 2001 and distributed across Canada and to international radio stations. Biographical information and program notes can be viewed on the CEC's website: https://jttp.sonus.ca.

Ian Chuprun
ÉuCuE Concert Manager