Situated Sounds, Biologies

Situated Sounds is a series of curated performances of sound art through an online platform that will present commissioned new work from a combination of established and emerging artists, both local and international, from various disciplines as they respond to themes in relation to sound.

Situated Sounds, Biologies features artsits: Andrew Raffo Dewar, Dan Tapper, Adam Tindale and Colin Clark.

Andrew Raffo Dewar

Andrew Raffo Dewar, Ph.D. (b.1975 Rosario, Argentina) is a composer, soprano saxophonist, electronic musician, and ethnomusicologist whose music spans the spectrum of through-composed chamber music, aleatoric composition, electroacoustic music, and open improvisation. He studied with experimentalist composer/performers Steve Lacy, Anthony Braxton, Alvin Lucier, and Bill Dixon, and has performed regularly in Braxton’s ensembles since 2005.

Recent publications include original music for his ensembles in San Francisco, New York City, and Hamburg, music for film, compositions incorporating ethnographic interviews, biofeedback, installations or performances utilizing 3D spatial audio, ethnographic writing on 1970s intermedia art in Argentina during a military dictatorship, 1960s electronic music collective the Sonic Arts Union, and philosophical issues of ontology in jazz performance and music technologies. Recordings of Dewar as a composer and performer are available on over two dozen albums published by record labels throughout the United States and Europe.

Dewar has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music America, NewMusicUSA, ASCAP, the Getty Foundation, Arts International, Meet The Composer, The San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Fulbright Scholars Program.

He is Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts in New College and the School of Music at the University of Alabama, USA, and serves as the Winter 2022 Fulbright Canada Research Chair at York University in Toronto, Canada.

Dan Tapper

Dan Tapper is an artist and creative technologist interested in the intersection between information and experience. His current projects include building sonic VR environments and using machine learning to create new forms of divination.

@visualcodepoetry

Artist websites:
www.dantappersounddesign.com
www.visualcodepoems.tumblr.com

Adam Tindale & Colin Clark

Colin Clark is a computational media artist, design researcher, and composer. His work explores the ways that technologies produce new temporalities and senses of time, often by combining and repurposing sonic processes in the production of visual media. Colin develops his own video and audio software to probe the relations between digital, natural, and human systems. His open source creative coding frameworks are used by artists, musicians, researchers, and commercial software companies worldwide. Colin’s music has been performed by Arraymusic, the neither/nor collective, the Draperies, and his own ensembles, Lions and Fleischmop. He has composed soundtracks for films by Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof and R. Bruce Elder. Colin is currently the Associate Director of the Inclusive Design Research Centre and Adjunct Professor at OCAD University.

Artist website: http://colinclark.org/

Adam Tindale is an electronic drummer and digital instrument designer. He is an Associate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the Digital Futures Initiative at OCAD University. Adam performs on his E-Drumset: a new electronic instrument that utilizes physical modeling and machine learning with an intuitive physical interface. He completed a Bachelor of Music at Queen’s University, a Masters of Music Technology at McGill University, and an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Music, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Victoria.

Artist website: https://www.adamtindale.com