David Eagle
David Eagle composes chamber, orchestral and electroacoustic music and in recent years, has explored computer applications to composition, improvisation and multimedia. He teaches theory and composition and is Director of the Electroacoustic Music Studio at the University of Calgary. Born in Montréal in 1955, he studied music at McGill University the Hochschule für Musik, Freiburg, Germany, and at the University of California, Berkeley (PhD 1992).
Performances in Canada and abroad include Sound Travels, Arraymusic & New Music Concerts (Toronto), New Works Calgary, Calgary Philharmonic, Vancouver New Music, Windsor Symphony, Canadian Electroacoustic Community 'Perspectives' (Montréal), Computer Music 90 (Tokyo), Glenn Gould Conference (Toronto), Tuning of the World (Banff), Calgary International Organ Festival, Computer Music Conferences (ICMA) 95 & 96, International Society for Electronic Arts 95, the 2nd International Conference on Music and Multi-media at Fu Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan.
In Ensemble Resonance, he performs the aXiØ, a new digital instrument designed to allow greater expression in interactive electroacoustic music. A recent project is ‘one thousand curves, ten thousand colours’, a collaborative multimedia concert integrating live acoustic and electroacoustic music with computer-generated images. In August 2001, Ensemble Resonance performed the work again, this time with choreography at the Cantai Festival in Taipei Taiwan.
With Sound Travels, David Eagle performed the aXiO at electroacoustic festivals in Denmark (MIX.01 International Festival for Electronisk Musik, Dansk Institut for Elektroakustisk Musik (DIEM), Musikhuset Aarhus) and Rome (Musica Scienza 2001, Centro Ricerche Musicali). Currently he is working on a sound installation/performance called Paths for New Adventures in Sound in Toronto, 2002.
Eagle's work can be heard on New Concert Discs, Clef, UNICAL and isodart recording labels.
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