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Peter Chapman
http://www.peterchapman.ca/
It's no surprise Peter Chapman has one of the most impressive
portfolios of any Canadian composer his age - his career started at 19,
when he sold several short pieces to hit consumer TV show Street Cents.
More recently, his work has appeared on Sesame Street segments around
the world.
Now at 29 years old, Chapman is the lead composer for the Gemini
Award-winning television show Durham County. Recently he's written
music for the much anticipated Playstaion 3 game Mod Nation Racers, and
the retro kitch scifi game About a Blob as well as the music
documentary series City Sonic, and kids show Nunbory.
His music has been featured in ads for Primus Mobility, M&Ms,
Dodge, Petro Canada, Chlorox, Saturn, Black Diamond Cheese Strings and
RBC, and his self-produced solo work has charted in the top 5 on
several Canadian charts.
Chapman's course has been clear even before he bought his first 4-track
recorder at age 17. He spent his teen years writing music for his surf
band, the Shysters, and since then he's been playing, writing,
recording and remixing some of Canada's most exciting artists
(including the Meligrove Band, Woodhands, and The Bicycles).
Chapman spends most of his time in his studio surrounded by vintage
synthesizers, guitars and samplers, which he combines with modern
recording technology and production techniques to form his signature
sound. Even when not working to a deadline, he can still often be found
in his composing chair, putting together tracks for his electronic act,
Peter Project.
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Julian (Jules) Daboll
http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/julian-daboll/5/95/747
Jules heads u p the
Media Services department at Technicolor's Toronto post facility, where he
specializes in digital audio and video workflows.
Here are some
interesting facts about Jules:
- Jules comes from a
very musically talented family. Jules loves music. Jules has no musical talent.
Jules collects records.
- Jules spent seven
years in Campus Community Radio, which says something about his university
education in English Literature.
- Jules graduated from
Recording Arts Canada, which does not have a radio station.
- Jules began his
career at Master's Workshop as an audio assistant and later as an audio editor
and engineer.
- Jules has worked in
post on both sides of the border - in Toronto and Montreal. He has also taught
Digital Audio and workflow theory in both cities, at Recording Arts Canada and
CEGEP Vanier.
- Jules eventually
became a Technical Engineer, which says something about his talents as an
editor.
- Jules has had the
good fortune to have worked for Command Post and Transfer under 3 names
(Medallion PFA, Manta DSP, and Toybox), and Technicolor, all in the same
facilities.
- Jules is an
internationally recognized expert on location recording and post workflow, and
has consulted for and advised most of the manufacturers who make location
recording equipment worldwide.
- Jules is a recovering
audio engineer who moved to video so he could also blame audio for all his
problems.
- Jules can talk
authoritatively about timecode for at least 10 minutes before he confuses
himself.
- Jules can use more
acronyms before breakfast than your average NASA scientist.
- Jules agrees that
referring to himself in the third person all the time is a bit
strange.
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Dave Dysart, HHB Canada
http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/david-dysart/11/148/248
Dave is the President of HHB Communications Canada Limited, one of the
top professional audio distribution companies in Canada. Dave founded
HHB in Canada in 1997.
A life long music and audio nut, Dave saw his first Revox open reel
tape recorder at Expo 67. It was his first exposure to high quality
audio. Through a stroke of luck, (and good timing), he later ended up
working for the company after a stint in the high end hifi industry.
Dave has been active in the professional audio industry in Canada since
1994. His career started at Studer Revox Canada, the preeminent
manufacturer of professional tape recorders. He was an early proponent
of non-linear recording solutions, helping to establish the Studer
Dyaxis DAW throughout the early 1990’s.
In his position at HHB he is responsible for the day to day operations
of the business, managing a team of regional sales representatives and
interfacing with suppliers, dealers and end users.
Dave is also active as a musician and studio owner, giving him a chance
to experience in real life situations how HHB’s products perform
in the performing and production of noisy rock and roll. He has
been involved in product design as well as Alpha and Beta testing the
products that HHB distribute.
Dave is a member of the MIAC Board of Directors, as well as sitting on
the Toronto AES Executive. He is a lifer in the Pro Audio business in
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Adam Faux
www.adamfaux.com
Adam Faux's "Pigfarm" Charted # 34 in the U.S. Top 10 continuously on college radio in the 80's and 90’s ...
Toured extensively.
Member of “The lost dakotas” . Publishing deal with
peermusic world wide and produced 2 top 40 country hits in canada for
"mike lynch". Produced, recorded and played on Kyp harness’s
“the Floating World” and “All her Love”,
recorded/ mixed gemini award winning film “The Film
Club”...the same plus playin' on the award winning doc “the
Jews of India” .
Has had video's
rotated on much music, ctv, and cbc among others. Been the focus of the
Dini Petty show(ctv), swinging on a star (cbc radio), much music's 'the
wedge" and countless other newspaper, tv and periodical features.
The single
“She’s Not My Girlfriend”, was released in the spring
of 2009. It has charted top 10 in Canada ,(# 8 CFBX 92.5FM - Kamloops
and #13 CHLY 101.7 - Nanaimo), and was added to mainstream stations In
the U.S, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The Video for the single
was produced independently, and Shot, and directed by Shay Schwartzman,
of Lifestyle Media.
For sale at itunes !
"Adam
Faux has a great ear for production and a wonderful board-side manner"
ron sexsmith (singer songwriter) "Adam Faux always serves the vision of
the artist he's working with, even when that artist is himself: he's an
amazing singer/songwriter, bandleader and producer/engineer." - Blair Packham (producer)
"Awesome. Straight out of The Ed Sullivan Show." - kat goldman |
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Adam Hunt
Adam joined DMDS in 2003 as a customer service rep after
graduating from the University of Windsor with a BA. He was promoted to the DMDS sales team in
2007, and was named VP Sales in 2009.
His responsibilities include sales of
DMDS audio and video services to both the major and independent record labels
and broadcasters in Canada, and has recently taken over representing DMDS audio
and video services to Nashville based labels and broadcasters.
Adam was
instrumental in working with the DMDS
development team to adapt DMDS for award shows, and DMDS now powers both
Canada’s JUNO Awards, and The GRAMMYS.
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Darryl Hurs
http://radio3.cbc.ca/#/bands/DARRYL-HURS
Over
the years Darryl Hurs has played many roles in the indie music scene,
from musician, club booker, record label, producer, artist manager and
now festival director/programmer of INDIE WEEK CANADA and INDIE WEEK
IRELAND. He has "seen it all" as they say and currently listens to
hundreds of indie bands a year.
He attended the music program at Grant MacEwan Community College in
Edmonton (where he holds the title as being the only student to score
100% on a music theory mid-term), and has taught artist management and
event management at Trebas Institute of Technology. Darryl is also
involved in graphic design, branding, and event marketing, which he
does for Live Nation, the world's largest music promoter. Their current
logo was designed by Darryl.
As an indie promoter/booker, Darryl has booked shows for countless
bands early in their careers including USS, Mobile, Birds of Wales,
Midway State, Peter Katz, Rob Szabo, Oliver Black, Evan's Blue, and
Hunter Valentine.
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Orin Isaacs
http://www.myspace.com/orinisaacs
Since the age of seventeen Orin began bass slinging his way around the
world with such artists as Salome Bey, Arrow, Devon and the Dream
Warriors after 5yrs of touring he decided to try his hand at production
and started Bassmint Productions. Never a duplicator but always the
innovator Orin’s career was launched with the release of
Devon’s 1992 Juno award winning album “In my Nature”
on EMI records. With the buzz out on this up and coming producer, came
more clients, new challenges and a worldwide publishing deal with EMI
music publishing.
Orin then tried his hand at television composition with his first major
show being Fox’s late night hit game show “Studs”.
With his clientele bass growing Orin then decided to build North 49th
St. Sound his own professional 24trk studio in downtown Toronto. The
studio attracted a whole new customer bass to include EMI Records, BMG,
Virgin, Sony, The Toronto Raptors and shows like Ooh La La,
Pumped,Stars on Ice, Catwalk, Rap City and many others.
In its 5 year run Orin and Bassmint productions produced or recorded a
total of five Juno award winning albums and received The 1997 Craft EVA
Award for best use of music in a corporate video.
In 1997 Orin once again re-invented himself. He closed the doors to
Bassmint Productions to be the Musical Director of Canada’s
longest running late night talk/variety show “Open Mike with Mike
Bullard” a position, which he held for it’s 7 year run. He
is no stranger to the bandleader position. He has been the Musical
Director /Music Producer for Canada’s biggest shows, Canadian
Idol, The Juno, Gemini, Genie, Walk of Fame, Canadian Urban Music
Awards, the CFL & NHL Awards have all asked Orin for his Funk and
Roll, Rock and Soul sound.
Orin's production and compositions can be heard on, Hockey Night In
Canada, Battle of the Blades (CBC) Canadian Idol (CTV). As well as
Project Runway Canada (Slice), Soul (Vision TV), Are You Smarter Than a
Canadian 5th grader? (Global), Canada’s Walk Of Fame (CTV), The
Jon Dore Show (Comedy Network), The Rick Mercer Report (CBC), the 2006
Torino & 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympics, CFL Football, Brier
Curling, Karcher Curling, 2004 World Cup Hockey (CBC Sports) Stars On
Ice (CBC) The Business Of Sports (TSN) Divine Design (W, HGTV US)
Colour Confidential (W) Divine Restoration (Vision,TV One) Toronto
Variety Show (SunTV), Hatching, Matching and Dispatching (CBC), Pop
Cultured (Comedy). TV Specials like Comedy Gold (CBC),Cream of Comedy,
The Nubian Disciples (Comedy) Mindtrip & Canada's Worst Driver 2
(Discovery). Orin has also composed 3 movies for the National Film
Board of Canada “Jane and Finch Again, Shinny and Flemingdon
Park” He also composed music for “My Father’s
Hands” which won the HBO Award for best short at the Acapulco
Black Film Festival.
Orin has 3 Juno Awards as well as 1 Gold and 4 Platinum selling albums to his major label record production credit.
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Mark Makoway
http://www.markmakoway.com/index.html
Mark
Makoway is a Toronto-based mixer, songwriter and multiple Juno award
winner and nominee. One of the leading mixers in the country, Makowayʼs
mixes are on the charts both in North America and abroad.
With credits covering a spectrum of artists including Evans
Blue(Hollywood Records), Elias (Wax Records), Crash Parallel (Sony
Music), Sarah Slean (Warner Music) and Buck 65 (Warner Music), Makoway
displays great versatility; mixing for the demands of different genres
and radio formats. Mixing highlights include: Evans Blueʼs “Cold
(But Iʼm Still Here)” that held steady in the top 10 for months
on American Active Rock charts and David Usherʼs “Black Black
Heart” (EMI) that topped Pop charts in Canada and Europe.
“Mixing is my first love,” says Makoway. “The
challenge - particularly with projects that were recorded on a
shoestring – is that they have to sound as good as big budget
albums by multi-platinum artists. I get a lot of satisfaction when my
mixes leave the studio sounding world-class.”
In addition to established Major Label and Independent artists, Makoway
develops new talent. Makoway has written with artists ranging from
Canadian Idol winner Kalan Porter (SonyBMG) and Chis Stoppa (Hollywood
Records) to Kyle Riabko (Aware / SonyBMG) and Alana Levandoski (Rounder
Records)
In 2002, Makoway was nominated alongside industry heavyweights Daniel
Lanois and Bob Rock for the Producer of the Year Juno. That same year
the Makowayproduced and mixed album Morning Orbit by David Usher
garnered the Juno for Pop Album of the Year.
Makoway is also author of the best-selling music industry guide: The
Indie Band Bible. Now in its 2nd printing, TIBB offers a comprehensive
look at all aspects of forming a group, performing, recording,
marketing and signing industry deals. With contributions from industry
leaders including Terry McBride (Nettwerk Management), Denise Donlon
(MuchMusic, Sony Music) and Mike McCarty (EMI Music Publishing), TIBB
has become an essential resource for musicians. In addition to its use
at music industry seminars and forums, TIBB is also used as a textbook
in several college courses and is recommended by Canadian Bar
Association.
As a member of the Canadian rock band MOIST, Mark Makoway wrote and
coproduced smash hits, toured worldwide and sold over a million albums
in Canada alone.
“I feel lucky to have such a varied and interesting career. I
managed to give my day job a long time ago,” muses Makoway.
“But the common thread is the music.”
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Jim McGrath
http://www.jimmcgrath.ca/
Jim McGrath (pronounced McGraw) is a Toronto-based composer best known
for his film and television work, which includes ThinkFilm's The Last
Mogul : The Life and Times of Lew Wasserman, Alliance Atlantis' film
Foolproof, Columbia Tristar thriller Resurrection and Odeon's Treed
Murray, which was nominated for five 2001 Genie Awards including Best
Picture and Outstanding Achievement in Music. The score for Treed
Murray went on to win Gold in the 2002 Film Festival in Mar del Plata,
Argentina.
McGrath has orchestrated and conducted film scores with the Munich
Symphony, the Salt Lake Symphony, the London Philharmonia and the City
of Prague Philharmonic. He has also written arrangements for such
recording artists as Tom Cochrane (with the Winnipeg Symphony
Orchestra), Ian Thornley and Big Wreck (with the Edmonton Symphony
Orchestra), the Tower of Power Horns, Manteca, Universal Honey, Hunter
Valentine, The Northern Pikes, Sarah Slean and Steven Page with the Art
of Time Ensemble.
Concert music includes a set of miniatures recorded by True North
Brass, a suite for horn and orchestra for Canadian Opera Company
principal horn Joan Watson and a commission for the Kitchener Waterloo
symphony:
“…both the piece and the performance were pretty much the
highlight of the whole concert. Larry Larson's trumpet was beautiful
and flawless, and the piece itself had echoes of Aaron Copland, John
Williams and even Samuel Barber. Written for trumpet solo, strings and
harp, Silent Town is a miniature
masterpiece.”
Harry Currie, The Kitchener Waterloo Record, October 4, 2002
He has just begun scoring his tenth season of the award-winning series
Degrassi:The Next Generation, for which he received the 2006 Gemini
Award for best original score for a dramatic series. He also recently
completed work on two new shows for the CBC: the Kids in the
Hall’s darkly comedic miniseries Death Comes to Town (cowriting
with Craig Northey) and the Newfoundland comedy/drama Republic of Doyle.
Feature film credits include ThinkFilm’s The Last Mogul: The Life
and Times of Lew Wasserman, Alliance Atlantis’ film Foolproof,
Columbia Tristar thriller Resurrection, Odeon’s Treed Murray, and
additional orchestrations on the recent Terry Gilliam film The
Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
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Peter J Moore
http://www.peterjmoore.com/
Originally from Hamilton, Ontario, by the age of six Peter owned a
portable reel-to-reel tape recorder. By the age of sixteen he had a
large audiophile stereo system and a small home studio.
In 1976, while at the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario,
Peter and a few other students started the campus radio broadcast
station CHRW. He was the on-air DJ for the new music program covering
the Punk Rock and New Wave scene. At that time most records from the
current artists were imported from England, which created a problem
fulfilling the radio's '33% Canadian content' ruling. Since there were
very few Canadian releases, Peter started recording the live shows of
local and touring Canadian punk rock bands at his own expense and
playing them on his radio show, 'The Simon Less Radio Program'. In
1979, while still studying for a degree in anthropology, Peter founded
a record label called Silent Head Records and provided a rehearsal
space in his own rented house for the local punk scene.
By 1981, his self taught producing/engineering skills had reached a
professional level and he branched out into other forms of music such
as jazz and classical. After graduating UWO in 1982, he founded MDI
Productions (incorporated in 1986) and moved his operation to Toronto.
In Toronto, Peter continued to produce rock, jazz, and classical
recordings as well as film and TV scores. In 1985, he was approached by
Adcom Electronics, Canada's largest professional video supplier, to
create and manage a new audio division. His duties included designing
and outfitting professional music, film, and television studios
throughout Canada such as Film House, CBC Toronto, Pathe, Manta, CBC
Montreal, Sounds Interchange, Eastern, PFA, Sound House, CBC Vancouver
(exceeding sales 1.8 million in his last year, 1989).
In 1988, Peter produced the now famous one microphone recording Cowboy
Junkies 'Trinity Sessions' which was released by RCA New York in 1989.
This became an international success story selling more than 2 million
copies in the first year. He left his employment at Adcom and has been
producing, mastering and restoring music full time ever since.
His credits include Neil Young, Garth Hudson, Joni Mitchell, James
Taylor, Oscar Peterson, Diana Krall, Neko Case, Bruce Cockburn, Murray
MacLauchlan, Finger Eleven, Sloan, and hundreds of others.
He has won 3 Grammy Awards, and was nominated for a 4th this year (Neko
Case). He has won 2 Genie’s, 2 Gemini’s and has been
nominated twice for a Juno.
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Craig Norris
http://radio3.cbc.ca/#/profile/Craig-Norris
Craig Norris can’t fix cars. He can’t paint paintings, or
even houses for that matter. No one has ever asked Craig to perform
major surgery, and there are more than a few people who can attest to
his shoddy veterinary work.
Craig has two, discernible talents; playing music and talking. And,
much to his grade 4 teacher’s chagrin, he seems to have
successfully melded the two together.
His formative years were spent studying piano at The Royal Conservatory
of Music. In high school, he added saxophone, clarinet and flute. The
past 19+ years has been spent fronting The Kramdens.
While his music has defined him, his humour and ease at the mic led him
to CTV, where he was “the music guy” on The Chatroom and
eTalk! Through karma and luck, Craig ended up at CBCRadio3, where among various other things, he hosts The Craig Norris Hour and The R3-30.
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Martin Pilchner
http://www.harrisinstitute.com/site/profile.php?id=53
http://www.facebook.com/martin.pilchner
Martin is a principal partner of Pilchner Schoustal International Inc.,
a company which provides turnkey design and engineering of
recording/broadcast facilities and critical listening environments.
Since 1986 Pilchner Schoustal has been responsible for over 500
facilities world-wide. Past projects include a ground-up music facility
in Kentucky, Post production facilities for Director M. Night Shyamalan
in Pennsylvania, and the largest film post facility to be built in
India in the last 25 years for Yash Raj films in Bombay (Mumbai).
Pilchner Schoustal received a double TEC award nomination for
architecture and acoustics for their design of Angel Mountain
Productions in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, which is a 20,000 square foot
ground up music and film post facility.
Pilchner Schoustal also developed Acoustic-X software for small room
acoustic optimization. This software is still in use world-wide by many
leading room designers and universities. Martin has written many
technical papers on the subject of acoustics and studio design and has
co-authored work presented at the AES16th International Conference on
Spatial Sound Reproduction.
Martin’s original education was in electronics, where he worked
as a engineer for Saskatchewan Telecommunications before leaving to
study recording engineering and eventually architecture. He has been a
post secondary instructor for such topics as computer science, signal
processing, digital audio, acoustics and studio design since 1986, and
is currently the associate director of the Producing Engineering
program at Harris Institute for the Arts.
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Ashton Price
http://www.myspace.com/ashtonpricemusic
http://ca.linkedin.com/in/morphproductions
http://www.morphproductions.com/
Ashton Price, hailing from Toronto Ontario, is an established,
composer, producer, and engineer, with his production company, Morph
Productions. In his ten years in the music industry, after graduating
from Fanshawe College's acclaimed Music Industry Arts program, he has
made a name for himself with his quality productions
Morph Productions caters to a variety of musicians including rock, pop
hip hop and singer songwriters. It is a full service operation using
many of Ashton's talents including being a session musician, beat
creator, and songwriter on top of engineering and producing. Artist he
has worked with landed him a publishing deal with Sony Canada. He has
also done work for Sony/Epic U.S.A., Linus Entertainment/Universal, and
Sextant/EMI.
Branching out into music licensing, half away around the world, his
compositions can be heard in the successful Malaysian TV shows
"Ghost” and “10”. He also co-wrote the theme
song to the Speed Network's internationally aired "Sports Car
Revolution". Several songs he also co-wrote have been licensed to
the hit Canadian show, "Zoe Busiek: Wild Card" and international
phenomenon "Degrassi: The Next Generation".
Video game music licensing is the next big thing and Ashton has already
tapped into its potential with one of his songs being used in the XBOX
360 game created by BugBear, "Flatout-Ultimate Carnage. He was also the
writer of music and sound effects for an online video game by
Bodog/Fiver Media.
Ashton continues to write his own music, as well as write for and with
other exciting artists covering the spectrum of rock, pop and hip-hop
music.
For more information, please contact Ashton Price at 416-535-2148,
email at ashton@morphproductions.com or to hear sample music and learn
more about him and his company, visit morphproductions.com
Ashton has worked with
Kazzer (Linus/Universal)
Lisa Swain (Juno nominated)
Kataklysm (Nuclear Blast)
Brownman (Justin Time Records/Awarded 2 National Jazz Awards)
Dayna Manning (EMI/Indie)
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Tyler Shaw
http://www.ftylershaw.com/
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ftylershaw
With over twenty years experience in composition and music production,
Tyler has had the opportunity to work with many talented artists,
including Gemini Award-winning composer Rob Carli and Juno-nominated
recording artist Danny Michel. His work has been broadcast nationally
on television and radio, and a full-length album of his compositions,
produced by Juno Award-winner Rick Hutt, was released in Canada to
critical acclaim.
Recent projects include scoring the independent feature film "Dead
Genesis" (Color Red Productions) and creating music and sound design
for a variety of video games, including a title created for the "Cops"
television series.
Tyler is a member of many industry organizations, including the Guild
of Canadian Film Composers; the Society of Composers, Authors and Music
Publishers of Canada; the American Society of Composers, Authors and
Publishers; the International Alliance of Composers, the Media
Producers Group of Ontario and many others. He has received artist
grants from the Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent on Recordings and
the Toronto Arts Council.
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Chris Stringer
http://www.myspace.com/chriswstringer
Chris Stringer is a Toronto based producer/engineer. Chris spent
10 years as an employee of Reaction Studios. Starting as an
intern he climbed the ranks, attaining the position of Chief Engineer
before his departure in 2004.
As a freelance producer/engineer, Chris has worked with a wide cross
section of Canadian talent, including The Rheostatics, David Wilcox,
Kurt Swinghammer, Martin Tielli, Luke Doucet, NQ Arbuckle, and Jory
Nash, however the majority of his time is spent working with and
developing Toronto Indie bands.
His credits in this area include, among others, Ohbijou, The
D'urbervilles, Forest City Lovers, The Coast, The Wooden Sky and Timber
Timbre's self titled album which was recently voted "2009 Album of the
Year" in Eye Magazine's Cross Canada Critic's Poll.
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Andrew Tolomizenko, LL.B.
http://www.entertainmentlaw.tv/team/andrew_tolomizenko.html
After playing in numerous bands around the
Toronto area in the early 80’s, Andrew entered Fanshawe College’s Music
Industry Arts program where he graduated in the top 5% of his class.
In 1988 he was hired as an engineer in one
of Toronto’s first digital recording studios, Evolution Sound, where he had the
privilege of working with Canadian icon Gordon Lightfoot and jazz great Guido
Basso.
In 1991 Andrew focused his attention to the
business side of the entertainment industry and entered the University of
Western Ontario’s law program. Andrew
was called to the bar in 1996 and has been practising in entertainment law
since 1997.
Since his call he has developed extensive
experience in contract drafting and interpretation and is frequently called
upon to advise on music and entertainment law issues including copyright.
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Brad Turcotte
http://www.bradsucks.net/about/
http://www.facebook.com/braad
http://twitter.com/BradSucks
Brad Sucks is the name of my one man band. I write, record and produce
songs and put them on this website for people to download and hopefully
share and enjoy. There are also some albums for sale.
In 2001, I started using the Internet (blogs, MP3s, P2P) to spread my
music and not worrying so much about copyright violation. I've even
been giving the source of my songs away for remixers to play with. I
figured that spreading my music should be the number one goal and so
far it's worked out pretty well.
Despite giving my music away for free online, my songs have been
licensed for television, played on commercial and campus radio, and I
made enough money from licensing and sales to do a real pressing of my
first CD: I Don't Know What I'm Doing. I followed that up with Out of
It in 2008.
I've also been involved in the open source community. I designed the
default sounds for the popular instant messaging client Pidgin and have
also released some open source packages for musicians: the Brad Sucks
Digital Download Store, Gimme Some Money as well as many other projects.
Most of this Wikipedia page is true.
WIKI: Brad Turcotte (born 14 November 1976), performing under the name
Brad Sucks, is a musician from Ottawa, Ontario. Turcotte releases his
songs under a copyleft license[citation needed], essentially reversing
the effects of copyright.[1] Promoting his music through sites such as
Magnatune and ccMixter, as well as MySpace and Podsafe, he has used
micropatronage to profit from his work without restricting the freedom
to share and modify it.
Turcotte received free publicity through blogs and interviews in free
culture magazines. His first full CD, I Don't Know What I'm Doing, was
released both through Magnatune and a limited "professional" printing
from his own website.
Turcotte's most recent album, released on 8 September 2008, is called Out of It.
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Dan Weston
http://www.weareblackbox.com/system/artists/danweston/
The Phenom!
Dan Weston is fueled by a passion and an unparalleled commitment to
music that can only be described as obsession. This obsession had him
recording music before he turned 12, and has propelled him into his
career in music production.
At 24, Dan has accumulated a broad range of credits, including
engineering work for City & Colour (Dine Alone/Vagrant), mixing
projects for Classified (Sony Music), Ten Second Epic (Black Box) and
The Reason (Warner), as well as production on projects ranging from
Attack In Black (Dine Alone) to Crash Parallel (Sony BMG).
With no set formula or rules to follow, Dan’s approach is to make
sure that each project evokes the artist’s unique qualities. When
you put his young age and years of experience together, you have a rare
and distinct combination. This contrast of youth and depth of expertise
somehow enable Dan to find an unusual fit with each project, blending
in both personally and professionally with the artist, yet working
objectively to push them forward and achieve their vision.
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Phil Villeneuve
Phil Villeneuve is “the music man” at Puretracks.com
For over three years he’s been taking care of all music content
programming on one of Canada’s leading digital music destinations
(and their partner sites which include MuchMusic, Palmares in QC and
Bell Sympatico).
Relationships with every major label as well as a small goldmine of
Canadian and US indies give him some pretty unique insight into music
marketing and how to sell to a wide spectrum of consumers.
He’s also a music writer (Chart Magazine) and musician himself,
which provides him with multiple angles to look at getting music
“out there”.
Phil also enjoys dancing in public to his favourite pop songs and posting them on Youtube for the world, for no reason at all.
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Michael Phillip Wojewoda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Phillip_Wojewoda
http://mpwmusic.com/bio/
Michael Phillip Wojewoda is a renowned Canadian producer/engineer. He
has recorded over 100 albums including Barenaked Ladies's Gordon,
Rheostatics's Whale Music and Melville, Spirit of the West's Faithlift
and Jane Siberry's When I Was a Boy. Three recordings produced by
Wojewoda made Bob Mersereau'sThe Top 100 Canadian Albums, published in
2007. He has received many honours including two Juno awards for
engineering and producing. The Rheostatics single Claire (produced by
Wojewoda) won a Genie award for best single for the film Whale Music.
He produced several of the most critically and commercially successful
Canadian albums of the 1990s, including Barenaked Ladies' Gordon,
Spirit of the West's Faithlift, Ashley MacIsaac's Hi™ How Are You
Today? and Rheostatics' Whale Music. Wojewoda won a Juno Award in 1994
for best engineer, in 1995, for best producer and again in 2008 for the
Barenaked Ladies' Snacktime!.
His credits also include albums for The Waltons, Doughboys, Bourbon
Tabernacle Choir, Change of Heart, Ashley MacIsaac and Great Big Sea.
He replaced Don Kerr as drummer for the Rheostatics in 2001, and
remained with the band until their dissolution in 2007. He is
currently leader of the electronic/visual ensemble The Faceless Forces
of Bigness.
He is based in Toronto, Canada.
A cursory listen to any of Michael Phillip Wojewoda’s eclectic
body of work from the last 25 years betrays a distinct aural vision and
a firm commitment to sonic excellence. Wojewoda has played an ongoing
and crucial role in the canon of Canadian music, from Toronto’s
Queen St. punk scene of the mid-’80s, to groundbreaking art rock
of the early ’90s, to some of that decade’s most
commercially successful albums.
An accomplished drummer and vocal arranger, the artistically ambitious
and Juno Award-winning Wojewoda is also an analog synth enthusiast,
equally at home with down-home acoustics and envelope-pushing
electronics. Having worked with some of the feistiest characters in the
country, his persuasive personality brings strong egos together to
produce their finest performances. Having crafted several acclaimed
album-length narratives (aka concept albums), he makes the seemingly
impossible a sonic reality, focusing large ideas into digestible
recordings.
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Toronto
AES Seminar 2010 Organizing Committee
Chair: Earl McCluskie (Chestnut Hall Music)
Vice Chair/Sponsorship: Sy Potma (Fanshawe College)
Event Moderator: Robert Breen (OIART)
Presenters: Robert DiVito (Montgomery Sound and Image Studio)
Facilities/Sponsorship: Dave Dysart (HHB Canada)
Audio: Blair Francey (Long and McQuade)
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