BIO:
Composer/ musician/ curator/ writer. Recordings on Divorce/ Heavy Fog, Entr'acte, Orange Milk Records, Never Anything, Scissor Tail Editions, Notice Recordings.

Chamber and solo work performed by Esprit Orchestra, Eve Egoyan, Arraymusic, Quatuor Bozzini, Madawaska String Quartet. Electronic work commissioned by AKOUSMA Festival, appeared at the MoMA with installation piece Tentacle. Work also programmed at the Technische Universitat (Berlin), Sonic Arts Research Centre (Belfast), Musicacoustica Festival (Beijing), Soundplay Festival (Toronto). Harvestworks Festival (NYC)

Recipient of the Canadian Music Centre's 2011 Toronto Emerging Composer Award & Canadian Electroacoustic Community's Jeux De Temps Competition (2008). Awarded Canadian Music Centre's Norman Burgess Fund to create a work for solo harp for young performers with educational guidance from Lori Gemmell.

Piège is the pseudonym for the skewed dance/ pop project of Nick Storring (Picastro, I Have Eaten The City, The Knot).  Storring's debut album under his own name "rife" was released on Entr'acte in 2011 and exhibits strong ties to the post-concrète vein of abstract electronic music while introducing elements of ambient, first wave industrial music (:zoviet*france:, Nurse With Wound et. al), and various other forms of textural electronic musics--much of which is sourced from live instrumentation.   This employment of live instruments as the primary tool is a bridge over to the Piège project which uses a lot of acoustic instruments amidst a highly textured an elaborate beat driven sound.  Here his love of disco, house, dubstep, various branches of R&B (including new jack swing) are in full evidence--and devoid of self-conscious irony.   Cello is Storring's primary ax but he also works with various vintage keyboards (everything from Casio CZ1000 to Realistic/ Moog MG-1, from Hohner Pianet to Yamaha DX7), guitars, bass, mandola, banjo, percussion, and various eastern winds and bowed strings for a rich and idiosyncratic sound-palette.



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