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Workshops, Lectures & Presentations

2011. Coordinator, Toying with Sound Workshop Jam at RPL Theatre, as part of Culture Days

  • Oct 1. Public jam and performance of graphic scores by workshop participants.

2011. Instructor, Toying with Sound electronics and sound workshop at Dunlop Art Gallery

  • Sept 24. Workshop with simple electronics to build microphones and modify noisy toys.

2011. Featured Artist, on TV program Prairie Postmodern, hosted by Curtis Collins

  • Sept 14. Interview and clips of installation and music performance work, as one of many featured artists in the series produced by the Dunlop Art Gallery and Access Cable, Regina.

2011. Presenter, Toys Gone Rogue Artist Talk in the Dunlop Art Gallery

  • Aug 13. Artist talk around concepts and functionality of the installation piece All the Horses and All the Egg, featured in the exhibition.

2011. Featured Artist, interview by Charles Sheppard for Prairie Dog Magazine

  • Aug 11. Interview and discussion about media and performance with electronics, improvised musical forms, and performance practice..

2011. Instructor, circuit-bending Workshop at SAW Video, Ottawa, ON

  • April 26. Participants build instruments and form an ad hoc ensembles to perform original compositions and improvisations.

2011. Instructor, Live broadcast workshop, Composition, Notation, and Moving Images

  • April 15. Live broadcast to schools across Saskatchewan, including creation of ad hoc ensemble and notation and performance of live soundtracks for a silent film with found objects.

2011. Instructor, Music, Electronics, and Performance

  • Mar 26 – Apr 2. Instrument and microphone building workshop at the Balkwill Centre, Regina, SK.

2011. Instructor, MaxMSP Workshops at the IMP Labs, University of Regina

  • Mar 1 – 22. Four-part workshop for interactive audio and video programming with MaxMSP.

2010. Lecturer, Humour and Musical Form

  • Nov 5. Lecture presentation in Moose Jaw about music notation and self-reference in musical form and composition.

2010. Workshop Leader, Microphone Lab at PAVED Arts

  • Aug 16. Workshop exploring hi-fi microphones as well as creative techniques with low-fi microphones, with performers Amy Horvey, trumpet, and Isak Goldschneider, clarinet.

2010. Workshop Leader, Contact Microphone and Circuit-Bending at IPAC

  • July 23. Design and delivery of a one-day circuit-bending and contact microphone workshop at the Indigenous  Peoples’ Artist Collective in Prince Albert, Sk.

2009. Visual Arts Instructor, Balfour Collegiate workshop

  • Dec 11. Design and presentation of visual arts workshop at Balfour Collegiate, around techniques for projecting 3-dimensional space for painting onto 2-dimensional planes.

2009. Instructor, Bent’d: Circuit-Bending Workshop

  • Dec 5. A one-day hands-on circuit-bending workshop to deconstruct, rewire, solder, and reassemble electronic noise-making toys and objects to form new electronic instruments.

2009. Instructor, SCES Workshop Tour, Composition and Music Notation

  • Sept 14 – Nov 6. Design and delivery of sound art workshops for students (K-12) in over twenty-five schools across Saskatchewan.

2009. Panel Presenter, Z-Axis Panel Discussion at PAVED, Saskatoon, Sk

  • July 25. Presentation about artistic practice and projects as part of the Z-Axis Exhibition Panel Discussion at PAVED in Saskatoon.

2009. Instructor, Pure Data Workshop at PAVED, Saskatoon, Sk

  • July 4. Design and delivery with Leeane Berger of a three-hour workshop in live audio and video performance using open-source programming language Pure Data.

2009. Instructor, Pure Data Workshop at PAVED, Saskatoon, Sk

  • June 13. Design and delivery of a three-hour introductory workshop in audio production and performance using open-source programming language Pure Data.

2009. Instructor, Jazz Percussion Workshop at MacKenzie Art Gallery

  • May 10. Design and delivery of a multimedia participatory jazz percussion workshop for children and adults.

2009. Instructor, 5th Parallel Art Gallery Workshop Series

  • January 21 and 23. Design and delivery of two workshops on visual programming languages MaxMSP and Pure Data, and basic techniques of circuit-bending electronic objects.

2008. Instructor, Home Recording Workshop, Long & McQuade, Regina

  • November 3-24. Four workshops as an introduction to digital recording techniques with open source software and a wide variety of microphones and recording interfaces.

2008. Instructor, Ableton Live workshops at IMP Labs, University of Regina

  • September 9 and 18. Two 2-hour workshops providing an introduction to music production with Ableton Live software.

2008. Instructor, Circuit-Board Band Camp.

  • April 19. Circuit-bending workshop and jam session at Fernwood Community Centre, Victoria.

2008. Instructor, Contact Microphone / Circuit-Bending Workshop, Open Space, Victoria, BC

  • January 29. Participants learned to build simple and cheap microphones as well as how to modulate circuit boards in electronic music devices to produce unique musical instruments.

2007. Instructor, Noise With Toys — Circuit-Bending and PureData Workshops, Saskatoon

  • May 20/27. Two workshops involving disassembly, modification, and reconstruction of toy instruments, electronic equipment, and other circuitboards, as well as PureData visual programming.

2005. Lecturer, Re:mote Regina Symposium

  • Lecture entitled “Spectral Analysis and Image-to-Sound Technology: Implications for Audio Artists and Composers,” presented at Neutral Ground Artist Centre in Regina, Saskatchewan.

2001. Lecturer-Performer, CUMS Conference, Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec

  • May 1. At the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, entitled “A Lecture Recital to Illustrate the Changing Relationship Between Composer and performer in Two Works by Christian Wolff.”

2000. Lecturer-Performer, Christian Wolff Recital

  • September 30, 2000, on the occasion of Dr. Christian Wolff visiting the Music Department at the University of Saskatchewan. Works for two pianos, co-performed with Jan Janovsky.