Jason Doell is an acclaimed Canadian composer whose works often skirt the edges of chamber music and sound art. 
www.jasondoell.com

These are just asides + diversions that I threw up here, mostly to see how the back-end of Soundcloud works. For the real fun, and live recordings of actually talented musicians, check out my blog.

Ran out of room here, so there's more new recordings on clyp: https://clyp.it/user/3ijgk5ww

Devastatingly handsome independent record label from the city of Glasgow, Scotland.  Established in 1995, the label was created by the four members of...yeah, yeah, whatever.

The brother of Martin (Rheostatics) and John (Metal Kites), Doug has become a fixture of Toronto’s underground music scene, using his talents in a variety of local acts such as The Silt, Drumheller, and The Reveries, alongside contemporaries such as Ryan Driver and Eric Chenaux.

Tielli played, recorded and produced most of "Swan Sky Sea Squirrel" himself at an artist retreat centre on Toronto Island, set up in an old school portable for 3 months with borrowed gear and no real time limit. Doug Tielli used his multi instrumental talents to play almost everything on the record - guitars, trombone, saw, sounds, bass, drums, percussion and singing. Nick Fraser who played with Tielli in a swinging wee jazz band called Drumheller played on two of the tracks and friend Jennifer Castle sang a duet and joined 5 other people in singing in a sloppy background choir on another tune.
“There was no reason for me to make a record at the time. No one was waiting for it anywhere. So I spent most of the time in quiet, listening to and watching the animals – mostly different waterfowl and small birds, lying on the beach, looking wordlessly out to the horizon, finding interesting things to bring back to my portable like stones, beach treasures, butterflies, sticks … It is a beautiful place. It is odd too, because you feel like you are in the middle of nowhere, but you can also feel the huge energetic shadow of the big city right behind you. Agnes Martin’s (a minimalist painter) book entitled ‘with my back to the world’ comes to mind … yes, my back was turned to the world, but the world was also at my back, and over my shoulder too. And so if I went indoors to record something, and it didn’t make me shiver like a good breeze, or warm me on the inside like a crabapple in the sun, I knew that the music wasn’t ripe yet, and I just went back outside to wander.” -Doug Tielli


Barry Prophet has been teaching Ogden Public School students how to make Sound Art using Audacity in preparation for their contribution to Nuit Blanche Oct. 4-5. This project is supported by the Ontario Arts Council Artist In Education program and Toronto District School Board.



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