I’m glad to say that I successfully defended my doctoral thesis at the University of Toronto and passed with no changes required to my thesis composition.

Consider checking out the score to my thesis composition, [STATIC] Desire for Amplified Chamber ensemble.

I was lucky enough to get to travel down to Morelia, Mexico this month to present my piece, iSAD at CMMAS (Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras) as part of the JTTP prize package.

Morelia was a beautiful city, and I greatly enjoyed my time exploring the city and discovering its culture.

I was asked to compose a piece by Tsz (Fish) Long Yu for his Master’s album, entitled ‘Sounds of the City’. Composed with Dolby ATMOS mixing technology in mind, and scored for alto flute and fixed electronics, Breathing Room is a sonic collage comprised of recorded sounds I made of the environment around me over the past seven years living in Toronto, Ontario.

Throughout these seven years, the sounds of my city have changed drastically. In 2020, the global pandemic disrupted the the sonic landscape, with much of the vibrancy and life being leeched from the city's character as we all retreated into our homes. Learn more and listen here.

I had the pleasure of curating the first 8-channel surround electroacoustic concert in Macmillan Theatre, entitled ‘Concert 0’. In addition to featuring my piece, iSAD, the concert featured other JTTP winners, UofT composers, and composers such as Manuela Blackburn and James O’ Callaghan.

In addition to this concert, my video piece ‘This [BLANK] has been deleted.’ was performed as part of the festival. You can view it here.

I’m very pleased to announce that my piece iSAD is among this year’s winners for the annual JTTP (Jeu de temps / Times Play) award for electroacoustic music excellence given out by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC).

The piece will be performed at upcoming concerts and festivals in Canada and Mexico. More details to follow.

You can watch a video of the winning piece here.

I’m really pleased to announce the launch of my most technologically ambitious project to date, entitled Plant Music.

Plant Music began as a pedagogical exercise in learning how to work with Arduino microcomputers, and to achieve a modest artistic outcome from this process. The piece soon burgeoned into a larger multimedia project involving video, live electronics, multiple found percussion instruments, and touch sensitive houseplants. Additionally, the pedagogical nature of the piece grew, with explorations into graphic notation, aleatoric writing, and live-sampling all adding to the overall creation of the work.

Movement 1: Seeds is a textural exploration into the emergence of life.

Movement 2: Growth is a dynamic conversation between performer and electronics. An erratic burst of energy and strength as plant speaks to wood.

Movement 3: Photosynchosis is a corrupted process. A dark and glitched version of what was once perfectly balanced. Now forever changed from human interference.

Performed by: Tim Roth

Recorded by: Yu Tsz Long

Filmed by: Zakriya Bashir-Hill

Video Editing/Projection: Steven Webb

Mixing/Mastering: Steven Webb