The Society of ElectroAcoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) every November organizes a concert listing of participating venues. The ÉuCuE series, in conjunction with the CEC, is happy to participate in this international effort to celebrate and promote the works of artists and composers working in this field.

The pieces played in tonight's concert are a selection of works from some of the past recipients of the ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission (the pieces themselves may not be the actual works which won the award). Due to time restrictions, not all the recipients of this award are represented here.

More information regarding SEAMUS can be found here: http://seamus.lsu.edu/

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 manages to feature two areas of importance to the CEC: profiling works by young and emerging sound artists and composers, and creating ties with other national arts organizations such as the Society for ElectroAcoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS). The CEC, in conjunction with EuCuE is happy to host this concert of works from recipients of the SEAMUS/ASCAP Student Commission.

Ian Chuprun
ÉuCuE Concert Manager