CEE at CMU – Alexa Woloshyn

Canadian Electronic Ensemble Residency at Carnegie Mellon University (Feb 24-27, 2020)

During the group’s visit to CMU, the Canadian Electronic Ensemble (CEE) presents a concert with CMU faculty and students, delivers a series of workshops, visits School of Music classes, and discusses the past and future of live electronic music-making in a Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry.

Founded in 1971, the Canadian Electronic Ensemble (CEE) is the oldest continuous live-electronic group in the world. The CEE started touring Canada in the mid-1970s, and the group had its first European tour in 1979. In the years since, the group has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe. CEE’s concerts have become a major venue for new electroacoustic works by artists from every province in Canada, as well as international artists from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and the United States. Almost fifty years after its first concert, the CEE is still at the forefront of live electronic music. Using old (and new) analog instruments, laptop computers, standard instruments, found sound, field recordings, and in fact anything electronic, they continue to cut a sonic swath through the ears of the world.

Residency Schedule:

Monday, February 24, 2020

Group Workshop – 4:30pm-6:30pm, Media Lab (Hunt Library)

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Four specialized workshops led by individual members of the CEE:

EQ: Electronic music-making for Women and Non-Binary individuals – 5pm-7pm, CLP (Oakland), Music Department (2nd floor)
Modular Synthesis 101 – 5:30pm-7:30pm, Media Lab (Hunt Library)
Student Composers Seminar – 6pm-8pm, Hall of the Arts, 225
Approaches to Piano Improvisation for Classical Musicians – 6:30pm-8pm, ACH, CFA

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry – 5-7pm, Room 111, CFA

Thursday, February 27, 2020

School of Music Convocation – 1:30-2:20pm, Kresge, CFA

Concert – 7-9pm, Kresge, CFA

For accessible entry to Kresge and ACH in the College of Fine Arts, park on Frew Street and enter through the front of the building. There are bathrooms on this entry level (without automatic doors). The nearest gender inclusive bathroom is in Margaret Morrison (Floor 1, 125).

For accessible entry to Hunt Library, park on Frew Street. Hunt Library’s only entrance has automated doors. Take the elevator down to the basement, where you will find the Media Lab. The nearest gender inclusive bathroom is in Baker-Porter Hall (Floor A, A 65).

For more information, contact Alexa Woloshyn.