Deepfake was commissioned by the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players for their 2020 season. The premiere performance was displaced by the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic and was finally premiered by the SFCMP on 3 April 2022. Thanks are due to Eric Dudley, Richard Aldag, Lisa Oman and Amadeus Regucera.

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
Eric Dudley, Conductor

Jeff Anderle, bass/contrabass clarinet
Tod Brody, bass flute
Kate Campbell, piano 
David Chisholm, Electronics
Stephen Harrison, cello 
Jeff Robinson, contrabassoon 
Richard Worn, double-bass

deepfake (2022) Live Recording

David Chisholm is internationally recognized as a composer defined by diverse and hybrid collaboration and a curator and producer of vision and courage. He was composer in residence for Philip Adams’ BalletLab and an Associate Artist for Malthouse Theatre, before becoming the founder and director of the highly acclaimed Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music and its roster ensemble Argonaut. David has been an artist in residencee at HIAP in Helsinki, EMPAC in New York, Centre Intermondes in La Rochelle and Camargo Foundation in Cassis. He was the first Australian composer to be a featured guest of the Encuentro Internacional de Compositores in Santiago, Chile. David was an inaugural recipient of the Victorian Government’s Creator Grants. He holds a PhD from University of Melbourne and is currently Urumatua o te whare o ngā pukōrero pūoro|Head of the School of Music at Waipapa Taumata Rau|University of Auckland, Aotearoa|New Zealand.  A member of SOUNZ and the Australian Music Centre, David is published by Babel Scores, Paris.

deepfake (2022) Live Recording

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