The CEE presented the Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University on February 26, 2020. The event, moderated by Prof. Alexa Woloshyn, provided background on current members and some individual takes on the creative process.
News
The CEE 50th Approaches
It seems like only yesterday (actually, it seems like a hell of a long time ago) that the CEE presented its first-ever concert to a large group of startled, bemused and enthralled junior-high students in the spring of 1972. Our plans to celebrate have just begun, but the centerpiece will be a 5-album set featuring unreleased material from the intervening years, new projects and new individual projects from all the current members. Given the time-honored traditions of such an august group, there will have to be at least one major performance and subsequent drink-em-up, but the shape of said event will depend on how soon we escape the COVID cave. Stay tuned, or logged on, or whatever it is you kids say today.
While we’re discussing things historical, check out David Jaeger’s concise history of new music in Toronto in the ‘70’s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3aHkaMsVAk
PS: a closing historical note. To our American friends: condolences on the events of January 6 and following, and a gentle suggestion: if you are going to insist on having Republicans, please ensure they come equipped with spines.
Whole Note covers CEE’s residency at CMU
Whole Note Magazine, Toronto’s go-to for news about musics old, new and in-between, asked David Jaeger to recap our residency at Carnegie Mellon University and it’s COVID-inspired result: the PtT Project (Pass the Track). You can read it here: https://www.thewholenote.com/index.php/newsroom/feature-stories/30319-lessons-learned-from-the-cee-s-covid-era-experiences
New Album Release
Our own David Sutherland releases a new album under the moniker Simple Sineman. Check it out on BandCamp:
CEE Residency at Carnegie Mellon University School of Music
It was an intense, eye-opening, tremendously satisfying four days, beginning with rehearsals with the Exploded Ensemble in the magnificently equipped Media Center and ending with a concert in the equally well-equipped Kresge Theatre. A great treat was the addition of the brilliant improvising violinist Pauline Kim Harris (whose concert with Jesse Styles, guru of the EE, packed the club where they performed the previous evening. Pretty cool scene in Pittsburgh). We were very pleased that the concert included, as well as our collaborations with the EE, beautiful performances of Larry Lake’s Psalm for oboe and tape with Hannah Senft as soloist and David jaeger’s Sarabande for viola and live delay processing with violist Sara Frankel. Along the way, we collectively presented the Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry and four workshops:
Rose Bolton: Electronic Music making for Women and non-binary Individuals
John Kameel Farah: Approaches to Piano Improvisation
David Jaeger and Jim Montgomery: Composing with Electronic Instruments
Paul Stillwell and David Sutherland: Modular Synthesis 101
The CEE concert performances and our collaborations with the EE are being prepared for release. We’ll let you know.
The CEE: 2020 edition
Rose Bolton was back from her very productive leave of absence just in time to prepare for our residency at Carnegie Mellon University in February. David Sutherland has become an integral voice in the group and so the full sextet set off to Pittsburgh in February. Some amazing music happened in and around the seminars and workshops especially our collaborative performances with CMU’s Exploded Ensemble. The results of those sessions are being prepared for release.
Announcing a Residency at CMU
It’s been a loooong time since we posted anything… But that doesn’t mean we’ve been silent!
We have begun an intense rehearsal schedule in preparation for a 4 day residency at Carnegie Mellon University! While there we will be performing and working with students sharing our techniques on composition, improvisation, synthesis and more.
We are grateful and excited for this opportunity and are looking forward to meeting the faculty and students at CMU!
We will be posting selected tracks from our rehearsals over the next little while. Here’s the first one which is actually the second one from our January 10th rehearsal:
CEE in this month’s Whole Note magazine.
Here is the piece by Wendalyn Bartley in Whole Note Magazine.
John Kameel Farah Releases a New Album: Time Sketches
Fellow ensemble member, John Kameel Farah has released his latest album called Time Sketches! It is now available for purchase and streaming.
CEE Performing at the Arts & Letters Club March 28, 2017
We are very happy to announce that we will be performing at the Arts & Letters Club Music Salon on March 28, 2017! Joining us will be the amazing Andréa Tyniec – solo violin, and Jonathan Krehm – Clarinet.
Beginning at 8 PM with Andréa Tyniec, followed by Jonathan Krem at 8:20 and The Canadian Electronic Ensemble at 8:30 it promises to be an amazing evening of diverse works and sounds.
Hope to see you there!