John Luther Adams has created a unique musical world grounded in wilderness landscapes and natural phenomena, from the songs of birds to elemental noise. His music includes works for orchestra, small ensembles, percussion, and electronic media. Adams studied composition with James Tenney at the California Institute of the Arts, graduating in 1973. Adams has composed more than 40 pieces, including Among Red Mountains (2001), The Far Country of Sleep (in Memoriam Morton Feldman) (1988), and The Immeasurable Space of Tones (1998/2001). Adams has worked with many prominent performers including, Bang on a Can, the EAR Unit, and the Paul Dresher Ensemble. He has been composer-in-residence with the Anchorage Symphony, Arctic Chamber Orchestra, and the Alaska Public Radio Network. He has taught at the University of Alaska, Bennington College, and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. As well, he is a prolific writer and has published essays in Ear Magazine and the Utne Reader, and has published several books including Winter Music: Composing the North (Wesleyan University Press, 2004) and The Place Where you Go to Listen: In Search of an Ecology of Music (Wesleyan, 2009).
Lynn Davies’s remarkable debut collection, The Bridge that Carries the Road, was a finalist for both the 1999 Governor General’s Award and the Gerald Lampert Award. Her poems are frequently broadcast on CBC Radio and have appeared in magazines such as The Fiddlehead and The Malahat Review and in anthologies such as Why I Sing The Blues, An Orange From Portugal, Listening With The Ear Of The Heart, Coastlines, and New Canadian Poetry.Originally from Moncton, NB, she lived in Dartmouth, NS, for more than a decade, where she obtained a BA in Honours English from the University of King’s College. An alumnus of both the Banff Writers’ Studio and St. Peter’s College in Saskatchewan, Lynn Davies now resides near Fredericton.
ROBERT ETCHEVERRY Depuis plus de 25 ans, je suis associé au milieu de la culture par le biais de la photographie de théâtre et de la danse, au milieu du magazine, en reportages et portraits divers ainsi qu’au milieu de l’architecture et des communications.
Aujourd’hui, je collabore toujours sur une base régulière dans les milieux de la danse, du théâtre, et de l’architecture. Et, sur une base occasionnelle, avec des entreprises privées ou organismes, magazines et maisons d’édition sous forme de reportage, d’édition et de portrait. Mes dernières collaborations ont été avec le regretté Jean Pierre Perreault suivies par la suite d’une reprise avec entre autres Fortier Danse Création et Sylvain Émard Danse.
La passion ne m’a jamais quitté.
Denton Fredrickson is an artist whose recent practice explores relationships between sound, objects, technology, and architectural space. His installations have been exhibited across Canada, in the U.S., The Netherlands, France, and Japan. Denton currently works out of Lethbridge, Alberta where he is an assistant professor in the art department at the University of Lethbridge.
John Granzow is a cognitive scientist, and puppet maker. He is presently doing research in auditory perception in the lab of Dr. John R. Vokey at the University of Lethbridge while teaching in the psychology department at Lethbridge College.
Kate Hartman is an artist, researcher, and educator whose work spans the fields of physical computing, wearable electronics, and conceptual art. She is the co-creator of Botanicalls, a system that allows thirsty plants to place phone calls for human help, and the Lilypad XBee, a sewable radio tranceiver that allows your clothing to talk. Her work has been exhibited internationally and has been featured by the New York Times, BBC World Service, NPR, in the recently published book “Fashionable Technology”. Hartman is currently based in Toronto where she is the assistant professor of Wearable & Mobile Technology at the Ontario College of Art & Design.
Gerald Hill is a writer, editor, and teacher in Regina. His 5th poetry collection, 14 Tractors, appeared in spring, 2009 from NeWest Press. He teaches English and Creative Writing at Luther College, University of Regina.
Daniel Laxer studied history and music for his undergraduate degree at the University of Alberta and completed his M.A. at York University in History. Daniel is now a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. He is interested in the cross-cultural musical encounters of European explorers and fur traders with Aboriginal peoples from the 17th to the early 19th-centuries. Focusing on the social and cultural implications of musical interactions, he studies the repertoires of French Canadian, Aboriginal, Métis, and British peoples.
One of Britain’s outstanding rock-climbers in his youth,
James Perrin is a writer now based in the Pyrenees whose books have won many awards, including the Boardman Tasker Prize twice, and the Mountaineering History and Mountain Literature Prizes at Banff Mountain Book Festival. He has been a Fleck Fellow at The Banff Centre and has tutored here in the Mountain Writing program.
Paolo Pietropaolo is a documentary producer, broadcaster, writer, and musician based in Vancouver. Paolo’s productions have been awarded a Peabody Award, the Prix Italia, and several other international awards. Recent documentary work has included a series called “The Nerve: Music and the Human Experience” for CBC Radio’s Inside the Music and The Sound and the Sea, a documentary about the Salish Sea for CBC Radio’s The Current.
Paolo is currently the interim host of Hot Air on CBC Radio One in British Columbia.
For the past 30 years, as a performer and teacher,
Steven Schick has championed percussion music. He is professor of music at the University of California, San Diego and lecturer in percussion at the Manhattan School of Music. Schick was the percussionist of the Bang on a Can All-Stars of New York City from 1992-2002. From 2000-2004 he served as the artistic director of the Centre International de Percussion de Genève in Switzerland. Steven Schick is the founder and artistic director of the percussion group, red fish blue fish. He has commissioned and premiered more than 100d new works for percussion and has performed at such as the Lincoln Centre’s Great Performers, and the Holland Festival. In 2006 he released a book on solo percussion music, The Percussionist’s Art: Same Bed, Different Dreams, published by University of Rochester Press. That same year, his recording of John Luther Adams’ The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies, was released. Schick served as program director of Roots and Rhizomes, a percussion program at The Banff Centre, in 2009
Eva Schindling embarked from the design scene into the interdisciplinary world of art and technology. Her interests lie in artificial life, complex system theory, and computational design techniques. After stops in Spain, Sweden, and Hong Kong she is currently active as a research associate at the Advanced Research Technology Lab at the Banff New Media Institute at The Banff Centre and investigates the emergence of complex behavior from electronic circuits.
Montreal born Michael Slobodian graduated from Concordia University with a BA in Communication Studies, and shortly after became a studio assistant and manager for a commercial photographer. He has been a professional photographer working in Montreal since 1984. He has developed a commercial practice shooting for advertising agencies, record companies, direct clients as well as portraits, and his love of dance has led him to work with many dancers and companies in Canada and abroad.
His work has been published in Canada and abroad in commercial brochures, magazines, posters, books, and web sites. He has exhibited his dance images at various venues in Canada and abroad and his work has been described by colleagues as having a romantic, poetic quality.
For Slobodian the ideal dance image articulates the explosive quality of the motion and the physical intensity of the dancer, but above all else, it documents with conviction the fierce commitment of these artists. Equally at ease in the studio or on the set, he prefers the excitement of live performance in which compositional questions must be resolved quickly, under less than perfect conditions.
Recently he has delved into the field of video and has collaborated with dance choreographers to create visual landscapes for their works. A critic described his projected video imagery as, enhancing the dance where so often such effects are a distraction.
A recent short video entitled Multiplicity was presented at the 2006 Vancouver International Film Festival, the 2007 Festival International des Films sur l’Art in Montreal and the 2007 online Portable Film Festival in Australia.
Michael continues to work in the commercial photography field and pursues his love of the dance image.
Jennifer Still’s first book of poetry, Saltations (Thistledown Press, 2005), was nominated for three Saskatchewan Book Awards. Her poetry has been published in journals across Canada, broadcast on CBC radio and anthologized in portfolio milieu and Fast Forward: Saskatchewan’s New Poets. In 2008 she was a regional winner in the CBC Poetry Face-Off and received an inaugural Saskatchewan Emerging Artist Award. Jennifer’s second collection, Girlwood, is forthcoming spring 2011 with Brick Books and was first prize winner in the 2008 Saskatchewan Writers Guild John V. Hicks Manuscript Awards. Two poem sequences from Girlwood were finalists in the 2008 CBC Literary Awards. Another long poem from this collection received honourable mention in the 2008 Matrix LitPop Awards. Co-founder of Saskatoon chapbook publisher JackPine Press, Jennifer has recently returned to her Winnipeg roots where she is setting foot once again in the reptile house.
Since immigrating to Canada in 1981 from Germany,
Cylla Von Tiedemann has developed an impressive body of work both as a visual artist and as a photographer working with well established clients in all the various disciplines of the Performing Arts.
She has photographed dance, theatre, music, visual art and film. Her work has ranged from portraits of dancers and performers, to creative Interpretations of productions from the National Ballet of Canada, the Stratford Festival, Mirvish Productions, Toronto Dance Theatre, the Toronto Symphony or the SILK Road Project by Yo-Yo Ma.
Currently she is working on three theatre productions with Margie Gillis, Peter Chin and again Hari Krishnan.
Peter von Tiesenhausen’s practice includes painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, event, video and on occasion, performance.
In the words of Clint Roenisch of Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto:
“Peter is a sculptor, painter, video and installation artist.”
Von Tiesenhausen’s projects evoke the majesty and violent perfection of the natural world and itís rhythms. He is interested in investing contemporary existence with a more profound connection to the radiant of nature in a manner that is neither pure ecology nor distanced irony.
Cory Zaradur is a self-taught photographer with a deep passion for nature and the outdoors. He is currently a student of the University of Calgary majoring in physical geography, studying the science and mechanisms of Earth’s natural systems. He feels that photography is the perfect medium for sharing knowledge, ideas and inspiration about our world, and plans to spend a lifetime exploring the art and its powerful potential.
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