Barry Truax

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"Recent performances"

* Concordia University, Feb.6/08 (Basilica)
* Love Songs from Powers of Two, SFU Theatre, November 9/07
* Eight-channel concert, Concordia University, Oct. 3-4/07 (Temple, Prospero's Voyage, Shaman Ascending, Way of the Spirit, Riverrun)
* Riverrun, Rivers concert, Lynn Creek, North Vancouver, Sept 30/07
* Eight-channel concert, Sound Travels, Toronto, August 10/07 (Bamboo Silk & Stone,Temple, Shaman Ascending,Way of the Spirit)
* Temple, ICAD conference, McGill University, Montreal, June 28/07
* Eight-channel concert, The Art of Immersive Soundscapes, Regina, June 20/07 (Temple, Prospero's Voyage, Shaman Ascending, Way of the Spirit)
* The Way of the Spirit, Bamboo Silk & Stone (with Randy Raine-Reusch), International Festival of Electroacoustic Music, Bourges, June 7/07
* Island, Music Department, College of Santa Fe, April 22/07
* Thou & I, SFU Theatre, April 5/07 (premiere)
* Prospero's Voyage, Shakespeare concert, MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, April 2/07
* Steam, De Montfort Univer, UK, March 14/07
* The Shaman Ascending, Riverrun, Island, Bellingham (WA) Electroacoustic Music Festival, Dec.1, Dec. 3/06
* Pendlerdrom, Prospero's Voyage, Ear to the Earth Festival, New York City, Oct. 11/06
* Solar Ellipse, Festival of New Music, Barcelona, Aug. 16/05
* Octophonic concert, De Montfort University, Leicester, June 20/06 (Prospero's Voyage)
* Riverrun, SoundaXis, Toronto, June 10/06
* Sonnet to Orpheus, Vancouver East Cultural Centre, SFU concert, May 29/06
* The Shaman Ascending, University of California, Riverside, May 11/06
* Pendlerdrom, York University, U.K., School of Music, April 27/06
* The Way of the Spirit (with Randy Raine-Reusch), Sonic Boom, Vancouver, March 19/06; SFU, March 10/06
* Riverrun (8-ch.version), SFU 40 retrospective concert, Simon Fraser University, Nov. 11/05
* Riverrun, Nucleo Musica Nueva de Montevideo, Uruguay, Oct. 19/05
* Island, Festival of New Music, Barcelona, Oct. 2/05
* Androgyne, Mon Amour (video), In and Out of the Studio conference, Concordia University, Montreal, July 28/05
* The Shaman Ascending (in the magnificent Palais Jacques Coeur) and Androgyne, Mon Amour (video),International Festival of Electroacoustic Music, Bourges, June 9,11/05
* Song of Songs, University of Texas, Austin, International Double Reed Society Convention, June 7/05
* Pacific Fanfare, opening of the Canadian Embassy, Berlin, April 29/05
* The Shaman Ascending, Simon Fraser University, March 18/05
* 16-channel concert, ZKM, Trans-Canada Festival, Karlsruhe, Germany, Feb.12/05 (Island, Prospero's Voyage, Shaman Ascending)
- Cambridg Street Publishing

"Recent performances"

Discography

DISCOGRAPHY
(Produced by the Composer)
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Sonic Landscapes

Melbourne SMLP 4033 (She, a Solo, Trigon, Sonic Landscape No. 3, Nautilus) 1977

Androgyne

Melbourne SMLP 4042/43 (Love Songs, Androgyny, The Blind Man, Aerial, Ascendance, Arras) 1980

Sequence of Earlier Heaven

Cambridge Street Records CSR 8501 (East Wind, Nightwatch, Wave Edge, Solar Ellipse) 1985

Digital Soundscapes

(Compact Disc) Cambridge Street Records CSR CD-8701 & Wergo Records WER 2017-50 (The Blind Man, Aerial, Wave Edge, Solar Ellipse, Riverrun) 1987

Pacific Rim

(Compact Disc) Cambridge Street Records CSR CD-9101 (East Wind, Arras, The Wings of Nike, Pacific) 1991

Song of Songs

(Compact Disc) Cambridge Street Records CSR CD-9401 (Basilica, Song of Songs, Sequence of Later Heaven, Nightwatch) 1994

Inside

(Compact Disc) Cambridge Street Records CSR CD-9601 (Powers of Two: The Artist, Bamboo Silk & Stone, Inside, Beauty and the Beast) 1996

Soundscape Vancouver

(Double Compact Disc) Cambridge Street Records CSR-2CD 9701 (Pacific Fanfare) 1997

Islands

(Compact Disc) Cambridge Street Records CSR CD-0101 (Pacific Fanfare, Pendlerdrøm, La Sera di Benevento, Dominion, Island) 2001

Twin Souls

(Compact Disc) Cambridge Street Records CSR CD-0102 (Wings of Fire, Androgyne, Mon Amour, Patterns, She, a Solo, Twin Souls) 2001

Powers of Two (Opera)

(Double Compact Disc) Cambridge Street Records CSR 2CD-0401 (Powers of Two, Sequence of Earlier Heaven, Sequence of Later Heaven) 2004.

SFU 40

(Compact Disc) Cambridge Street Records CSR CD-0501 (Androgyny, and works by other SFU composers) 2005

Spirit Journies

(Compact Disc) Cambridge Street Records CSR CD-0701 (Steam, Temple, Prospero's Voyage, The Shaman Ascending, The Way of the Spirit) 2007

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Barry Truax is a Professor in both the School of Communication and the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University where he teaches courses in acoustic communication and electroacoustic music.

He has worked with the World Soundscape Project, editing its Handbook for Acoustic Ecology, and has published a book Acoustic Communication dealing with all aspects of sound and technology.

As a composer, Truax is best known for his work with the PODX computer music system which he has used for tape solo works and those which combine tape with live performers or computer graphics.

A selection of these pieces may be heard on the recording Sequence of Earlier Heaven, and the Compact Discs Digital Soundscapes, Pacific Rim, Song of Songs, Inside, Islands, and Twin Souls, all on the Cambridge Street Records label, as well as the double CD of the opera Powers of Two and the latest CD, Spirit Journies.

In 1991 his work, Riverrun, was awarded the Magisterium at the International Competition of Electroacoustic Music in Bourges, France, a category open only to electroacoustic composers of 20 or more years experience. He is also the recipient of one of the 1999 Awards for Teaching Excellence at Simon Fraser University.

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