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CNMN Bulletin
November 2010 Volume 4, issue 2
IN THIS ISSUE Regional Meetings 2011
Reports From The Committees
• Youth Committee
• Recording Committee
• FORUM 2012 Committee
Members Corner
• Radio Interviews (Eric Lemieux)
• Generation 2010 (ECM+)
• How to submit
Regional Meetings 2011 Maritimes Quebec Ontario Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta British Columbia
he CNMN is working to build a strong, united and effective voice for all members of the new music
community across Canada. Composers, performers, improvisers, educators, administrators, music lovers - everyone who loves any of the many forms of new music has a place in the CNMN. The 2011 meetings are a brand-new initiative for CNMN, aiming to facilitate communication within the new music community on a regional level. Seven meetings will be held across Canada (Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia), allowing people within each region to get to know each other better, talk about what they value and need, share knowledge, stories, challenges and solutions, and organize thoughts. The meetings also act as a cross-country checkup for the new music community on a national level. The reports from the seven meetings will allow the CNMN to better understand not only what is shared in common across all regions but also what is unique to each region. CNMN will have a better portrait of the scope of activity across the country, and will be
able to articulate our needs and ideas more accurately and more forcefully. Meetings in English Canada will be facilitated by veteran arts administrator Jane Marsland, and in Montréal by Esther Charron, and will be open, informal and geared towards communication, interaction and discovery. We are planning to have a wide range of participants at these meetings – orchestras, ensembles, composers, improvisers, independent artists, educators, funders, administrators – so it will be a great way to get to know people in your region on a personal level.
We need your input! Please think about what you want to talk about at your regional meeting, and come with your ideas. Additionally, if you let us know in advance (before Christmas or sooner), your ideas could help inform the planning of more than just your regional meeting. We are also looking for project ideas and input on ways to improve the CNMN. Send your ideas to Emily Hall at: [email protected] The CNMN regional meetings are made possible in part by the generous support of the SOCAN Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts.
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SEVEN REGIONAL MEETINGS
AT A GLANCE
Feel free to communicate with the contact person in your region.
Marit imes • Saturday, January 8th, 2011
(time TBA) • Halifax, Nova Scotia • Venue TBA • In conjunction with the
annual Winter Summit • Contact: Paul Cram -
Quebec • Saturday, February 26th, 2011
9:30 am - 12:30 pm ~ lunch included
• Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur, 100 Sherbrooke St. East, Montreal
• In conjunction with MNM • Contact: Emily Hall –
Ontario • Thursday, April 28th and/or
Friday, 29th, 2011 • Conrad Centre, 36 King St
W, Kitchener • In conjunction with the Open
Ears Festival • Contact: Jerry Pergolesi -
Manitoba • Friday, March 25th, 2011 • Winnipeg • Venue TBA • In conjunction with the
Cluster Festival • Contact: Karen Sunabacka -
Saskatchewan • Saturday, March 26th, 2011
(time TBA) • University Theatre, William
Riddell Centre, University of Regina (3737 Wascana Parkway) Regina
• In conjunction with the University of Regina New Music Ensemble concert at 8 pm, same day and location
• Contact: Alain Perron - [email protected] / (306) 585-5201
Alberta • Saturday, January 29th, 2011,
10 am - 3:30 pm ~ lunch included
• Rozsa Centre on the University of Calgary Campus, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary
• In conjunction with the Happening Festival of New Music and Media
• Contact: Lindsey Wallis - [email protected] 403-220-7403
Brit ish Columbia • Friday, February 4th, 2011,
6-8 pm, followed by regional concert, and Saturday, February 5th, 11 am - 4 pm ~ lunch included, followed by evening regional concert
• CMC Vancouver, 837 Davie St., Vancouver
• In partnership with Canadian Music Centre, BC Region
• Hosted by Randy Raine-Reusch, Tina Pearson - CNMN Reg. Reps; Bob Baker (CMC)
• Contact: Tina Pearson – [email protected]
About our moderators Jane Marsland has been an articulate advocate for the arts for over 40 years. Since 1999, Jane has worked with more than 90 arts organizations as a free-lance arts consultant. In 1995, she received the first M. Joan Chalmers Award for Arts Ad-ministration for outstanding leadership in the arts. Esther Charron (Pôles magné-tiques) is a Quebec-based musi-cian and arts administrator. Working in the fields of the arts, diplomacy, international relations and politics, her strengths, among others, lie in the following: stra-tegic planning, management, ne-gotiation, communication and international market develop-ment.
Esther Charron
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Reports From The Committees
hat are committees and who is on them? Since 2009, various
committees have formed, sometimes on a casual basis, sometimes on a more continuous basis. They exist to focus-in on particular issues – around areas of concern for the new music community at large (such as the Recording Committee, Music Education Committee and Youth Committee) or CNMN in particular (such as the Web Committee). Or, they can be based around a particular upcoming activity (such as the FORUM 2012 Committee and the Regional Meeting Committee). Anyone can be on a committee, but one representative from the Board of Directors (see our web site) is required. Members can propose other committees to a member of the board.
YOUTH COMMITTEE Report: The CNMN youth committee was formed during the 2009-10 season on Alex Whyte’s initiative, and is made up of trombonist Alex Whyte and clarinetist and CNMN board member Louise Campbell. Alex Whyte’s passion for community and fringe musics is well complimented by Louise Campbell’s interest in making music with untrained and ama-teur musicians and in music edu-cation as arts advocacy.
We use the term ‘youth’ in refer-ence to emerging artists as de-fined by the Canada Council for the Arts and to amateur musi-cians from 0-35 years of age. Emerging artists are young pro-fessional musicians who are just learning the ropes and finding their place within the music community. Amateur musicians is a broad term that includes se-rious amateurs who pursue music as a dedicated hobby, to children, teens and adults who may have never had the opportunity to make music. We are taking two initiatives to reach these popula-tions this year: facilitating crea-tive music within the school sys-tem and outreach to emerging artists. The Youth Committee of the CNMN is taking two initiatives this year: facilitating creative mu-sic within the school system and outreach to emerging artists.
Creative music in the classroom is a means of fostering a life-long interest in music starting at a young age, thus expanding and securing the place and relevance of new music in the larger com-munity. As part of the regional meetings taking place in the 2010-2011 season, we are putting together a reference list of people working in the school system who support creative music in the classroom. We are looking to involve Ministry representatives at the provincial level, school board representatives and schoolteachers who can speak to the daily realities of what goes on in the classroom. If you have any suggestions of people already fa-cilitating this kind of work, par-
ticularly at the Ministry and School board levels, please contact Louise Campbell at [email protected]
Do you feel a sense of community? What are your aspirations as an artist? What’s going on in your community? What kind of resources would help you?
Emerging artists making new music in Canada face a unique set of issues, not the least of which is finding out what’s happening out there and meeting like-minded artists. Community is essential in art making and sharing; it is in-valuable to the sustenance of and promotion of new musics that emerging artists become aware and engaged with one another. To address this issue, we are leading a membership drive tar-geted at emerging artists, per-formers and creators making mu-sic in Indie- and fringe music scenes. Here are some of the questions we hope to address in the future: As an emerging artist, how do you situate yourself in the new music community (what kind of work are you doing and where are you doing it)? Do you feel a sense of community? What are your aspirations as an artist? What’s going on in your commu-nity? What kind of resources would help you in these endeav-ors?
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Given the underground nature of Indie- and fringe musics, we need your help! If you have any sug-gestions of musicians, venues, series or communities in your area we can tap into, please contact Alex Whyte at [email protected]. Louise Campbell and Alex Whyte
RECORDING COMMITTEE Report:
CNMN working on Specialised Sound Recording Cuts Since the cancellation of the "Specialised Sound Recording" programme in August 2009 at the Canada Council the CNMN has been working with many partners to try to find a solution to this vital issue. We simply cannot stop making recordings of new music in Canada - it is not an option! CNMN immediately formed a committee to deal with this issue included myself (Tim Brady - Montréal), Paul Cram (Upstream - Halifax), Jean-François Denis (empreintes Digitales - Montréal), Joane Hétu (Ambainces magnétiques / DAME - Montréal) and, added at a slightly later date, Tony Reif (Songlines Records - Vancouver). We have been having ongoing discussions with both FACTOR and MusicAction - the only remaining funders of recordings in Canada though they are more designed around an "industrial" model. Both agencies are aware of the
problem, they have been very open and cooperative, and are trying to do what they can to help the new music community. However, there is NO new production money (to replace the 1.35 million which was cut) and their structure and criteria can only bend so far. “Specialised music" is not their primary focus. Results of the last round of grants/loans from FACTOR and MusicAction saw some "specialised music" projects funded: 8 by Factor, 4 from MusicAction. This is, however, a far cry from the 51 projects that were funded by the last round of the Canada Council programme in October 2009. The Canada Council is also acutely aware of the pressing need for recording funding in the "specialised music" community. CNMN continues to talk to them and encourage them to find a solution to this truly critical issue. They are listening, but finding new money is never easy, and never fast. Now that we have hard numbers, and we can see that this programme change has had a definable, quantifiable and very negative effect on our community and on its vitality, we can move forward. In late October, CNMN will be sending a letter to all parties involved in this issue, asking for a special discussion group to be set in place to find a realistic, durable, efficient and viable solution to this problem. And to find it soon - we need something in place for 2011. Every year that
goes by without our music being heard makes it harder for us to connect with our public, and to continue making and presenting the extraordinary music that is made by members of the CNMN. Tim Brady, CNMN president
FORUM 2012 COMMITTEE Report:
Connecting Practices, Geographies and Cultures
FORUM 2012 takes place in Vancouver in early 2012. Build-ing on aspirations of the past four CNMN Forums, the 2012 Forum Advisory Committee is developing a Forum that will in-vite ideas for creating and main-taining stronger connections with new music communities across the country. Discussions and demonstrations about multidisci-plinary collaboration, networked performance, and communicat-ing within local communities are in the planning stages. Stay tuned for more information in the next CNMN Bulletin. The CNMN Forum 2012 Advi-sory Committee is Mark Arman-ini, Bob Baker, DB Boyko, Coat Cooke, Kara Gibbs, David Pay and Randy Raine-Reusch in Vancouver; Janice Jackson in Halifax and Tina Pearson in Victoria. Tina Pearson, FORUM 2012 committee facilitator
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Members Corner n September 1st, there was an invitation emailed to all members
welcoming suggestions for ideas or issues they would like to raise or inform others - to be published in this November bulletin. We received the following two submissions:
GENERATION 2010 6th Canadian Tour
Under the artistic direction of Véronique Lacroix, the Ensemble contemporain de Montréal (ECM+) is embarking on its sixth Canadian tour, which will bring to a spectacular close its Genera-tion 2010 project. The ECM+ in-vites music lovers across the country to discover new works by four of the most brilliant up-and-coming Canadian compos-ers. Conductor Véronique Lacroix, violin soloist Véronique Mathieu, and the ten musicians of the ECM+ will be on stage with composer and writer Nico-las Gilbert, who will guide the audience through four new works that are as unique as they are fas-cinating.
From the timbral refinement of Simon Martin to the raw emo-tionality of Cassandra Miller, the astonishing virtuosity of Christo-pher Mayo to the overflowing invention of Gordon Williamson, listeners will discover there are as many different methods of com-posing as there are composers. Tour dates For more info visit www.ecm.qc.ca BANFF November 5, 2010 – 7:30 pm VICTORIA November 7, 2010 – 8 pm VANCOUVER November 9, 2010 – 8 pm MONTREAL November 11, 2010 – 7 :30 pm OTTAWA November 13, 2010 – 8 pm TORONTO November 14, 2010 – 8 pm ST-JOHN'S November 16, 2010 – 8 pm
RADIO INTERVIEWS Eric Lemieux
I am presenting a monthly inter-view series about career and ca-reer development for independ-ent artists on CKUT 90.3 FM Montreal on the “Tuesday Morning After” program. Downloadable audio links are available online, so you can listen anywhere, anytime at: http://www.ckut.ca/cgi-bin/ckut-grid.pl The inaugural interview features Frank Horvat, a brilliant pianist-composer from Toronto (aired Tuesday, September 7 at 7 a.m.). The second interview features Tim Brady, Montreal’s great gui-tar innovator and composer (aired Tuesday, October 12 at 8:20 a.m.). The interviews focus on inde-pendent artists (mainly compos-ers) who are truly successful at running their career themselves and who are open to share their path with us. I’m open to your suggestions for future guests, so please feel free to contact me. Eric Lemieux composer-guitarist, Montreal
[email protected] http://www.ericlemieux.com/ http://www.myspace.com/ericlemieuxmusic
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Photo: Julie Taxil
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