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Composing
Andrew Stewart's compositional activities centre on contemporary art music and composing instrumental music, musique concrète, acousmatique musique, music with live electronics and for innovative digital musical instruments. His expertise in classical acoustic compositional practice merges with his proficiency in electronic music, as a result. Traditional aspects of melody, harmony and rhythm are redeployed in relation to frequency, spectra and behavioural characteristics of the wide open sound world of electronics. Andrew's compositional projects of the last fifteen years attest to his interest in blending acoustic instrument and electronic music composition.
compositions, completed works and on-line media
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Research Interests
Andrew's current research centres on the application of new technology both in the context of the classroom and the concert hall. His interests can be classified into three primary areas:
1. Combining acoustic and electronic music composition. The goal is to create music for live musicians, who are accompanied by a computer that makes musical decisions in real-time. In these cases, traditional aspects of melody, harmony and rhythm are redeployed in relation to frequency, spectra and behavioural characteristics of the wide open sound world of electronics.
2. Interdisciplinary research that integrates music composition, performance and technology, addressing such issues as: real-time software systems design and implementation; digital instrument / controller design; human-computer interaction; gestural-controlled audio systems; gesture / sound mapping strategies. Take a closer look at digital technology.
3. Developing class curricula and course design methodologies that focus on student learning. Andrew encourages independent learning in an effort to give students the ability to teach themselves. The skill to teach oneself is highly desirable, especially in the mercurial ever-changing domain of technology. The aim is to nurture self-reliant and adaptable students, while at the same time giving them the capability of applying an appropriate methodology for learning in order to get ahead. Teaching digital studio composition.
Andrew Stewart has contributed to these fields through his demonstrations at: the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, International Computer Music Conference / International Computer Music Association, Electroacoustic Music Studies Network, ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, International Music-Gesture Conference, Society for Music Theory, Guthman Musical Instrument Competition and the Congrès de l'Association francophone pour le savoir..
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Biography
D. Andrew Stewart has been working in the field of music composition since 1994. Stewart is a composer, trained pianist, clarinettist and music theorist, as well as digital musical instrumentalist.
His educational background includes his time at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague, Holland. While in The Netherlands, he completed post-graduate studies in composition with Louis Andriessen and Martijn Padding and also trained in electroacousitcs with Gilius van Bergeijk, Clarence Barlow and Paul Berg. Andrew also holds degrees in music from Wilfrid Laurier University (B.Mus, advisor: Glenn Buhr), The University of British Columbia (M.Mus, advisor: Keith Hamel) and McGill University (D.Mus, advisors: John Rea and Sean Ferguson).
Andrew Stewart’s music has been featured in countries such as: The Netherlands, The United States, Germany, France, Mexico, Austria, Italy and his home-country of Canada. His music has been played by: l'Ensemble contremporain de Montréal, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Esprit Orchestra, Penderecki Quartet, Canadian Composers’ Orchestra, Toronto New Music Concerts, musikFabrik, orkest de ereprijs, het Malle Symen Quartet, Ensamble 3 and ROSA Ensemble.
Andrew’s residencies include: the Casalmaggiore International Festival, Italy; the composers’ course in Radziejowicach, Poland (ISCM); the Tanglewood Music Center's summer session; R. Murray Schafer’s AND WOLF SHALL INHERIT THE MOON, in which he participated annually for ten years.
biography, curriculum vitae
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Events
Digital Musical Instrument Composition: Limits and Constraints
This talk investigates the importance of understanding and establishing limits while creating music for digital musical instruments
Electroacoustic Music Studies Network
June 2009
E pluribus unum (Out of many, one) and One Ton
for solo t-stick
co-production by Codes d'accès and live@CIRMMT
December 2009
Biameral Mind, part 2
for audio-streaming clarinet-controller
January 2010
Concurrence and Counteraction in Musical Gesture and Form
Our contribution to the theme of 'music and gesture' involves describing gestural controller mapping principles from the perspective of the performer and composer.
Co-presented with Joe Malloch.
3rd International Conference on Music and Gesture
Montreal
March 2010
Soprano t-stick performance at the CHI Media Showcase
Atlanta
April 1010
Concert of new t-stick works, hosted by the EMF.
New York
May 2010
Vigorous music-making: the inherent “liveliness” of a t-stick instrumentalist, paper presentation at the 2010 ICMC
New York
June 2010
Immortal Machine
for SonicJumper and other digital musical instruments
in collaboration with percussionist João Catalão, Ida Toninato on saxophone and Jean-Guy Boisvert, clarinet
Montreal
June 2010
Performances and launching of 2010 T-Stick Composers' Workshop at Sound Travels Festival, hosted by
New Adventures in Sound Art
Toronto
August 2010
Archive
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Links
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McGill Digital Orchestra
site 1 / site 2
McGill Digital Composition Studios
Joseph Malloch,
music technology
Contemporary Art Music Events
New Adventures in Sound Art
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