CEE 50: A Hybrid Symposium Celebrating the Canadian Electronic Ensemble’s History & Legacy

Date: Saturday, October 8, 2022 at Carnegie Mellon University and online (register here)

The symposium program can be found here.

Fifty years ago, on May 15, 1972, four young University of Toronto graduate music students officially debuted as the Canadian Electronic Ensemble (CEE). With a commitment to electronic timbres and experimentation, collective music-making, live performance, improvisation, and composition, the CEE joined the bastion of live electronic groups worldwide (e.g., Stockhausen Ensemble, Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, and Musica Elettronica Viva) and advanced electronic music-making in Canada. Electronic sounds and technologies proved to be a seemingly endless universe of exploration for the CEE. After decades of concerts and tours across Canada, notable tours and performances in the United States and Europe, several albums, and numerous commissions, collaborations, and residencies, the CEE remains committed to its core values through performances and recordings.

This symposium is dedicated to the CEE’s history and legacy. It also aims to contextualize the CEE within broader and ongoing histories of electronic sound technologies, improvisation, and composition.

The STUDIO for Creative Inquiry (CFA 111) is hosting the event in person and online. Accessible access to the STUDIO can be found here.

Send any questions or concerns to Alexa Woloshyn: awoloshy@andrew.cmu.edu

See full CFP here.

Note on COVID-19:

COVID-19 continues to require flexibility with plans. Currently, CMU’s campus is open and hosting some in-person events. Event organizers will communicate with presenters and attendees immediately if there are any developments regarding masking and entry by non-CMU-affiliated individuals.

Masks are not required but strongly encouraged for in-person attendees.

Financial and material support offered by the Cooper-Siegel Professorship and the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry.