Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Workshop – 3:00pm
Concert – 7:30pm

CMC Presents : Allison Cameron // Hauptmeier-Recker duo

The CMC Presents series returns with two contrasting, but equally intriguing approaches to live electronic music.

We’re delighted to be hosting Germany’s Hauptmeier-Recker duo, who have been collaborating together since 2009. Paul Hauptmeier and Martin Recker create immersive experiential spaces which manifest variously as sound installations, theatre, opera, and electroacoustics. The pair have developed their own spatialization system that allows them to intuitively include complex spatial gestures in their live performance which embraces computers, touch sensors, live sampling and an no-inputer mixer. In 2016 they won the international “Spatial Audio Competition” as part of the Genius Loci Festival. Both studied composition under Robin Minard at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar and together they are the cofounders of ZiMMT (Center for Immersive Media Art, Music and Technology) in Leipzig.

Toronto’s own Allison Cameron has been a fixture in the Canadian experimental music landscape since the 1980’s. Cameron is an innovative composer, performer, and sound artists whose work spans chamber music of a rich array of styles and instrumentations to improvisation. Her carefully crafted scores have been performed by the likes of Arraymusic, Eve Egoyan, Bang on Can, Apartment House, Contact, Ensemble Supermusique, Lori Freedman, and other key interpreters. Meanwhile, her music appears on such notable imprints as Experimental Intermedia, Redshift, Rat-drifting, and is awaiting release on celebrated English label Another Timbre. Her idiosyncratic and captivating solo performances blend the sounds of various acoustic instruments, found objects, toys, consumer electronics and field recordings to produce liminal textural spaces that both demand and interrogate the listener’s attention.

Ticket price: 
General Admission: $15 Advance / $20 at the door
CMC Members and Arts Workhttps: $12 Advance / $15 at the door
Students: $10 anytime 

Venue: 
Canadian Music Centre
20 St. Joseph Street
Toronto, ON
M4Y 1J9
416-961-6601

COVID-19 Safety Information: 

The health and safety of our staff and all visitors continues to be of the utmost importance to us. CMC Presents are masked events. 

CMC staff will be onsite to welcome you, and we ask that you kindly follow their direction and guidance at all times. 

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Allison Cameron (Toronto, Ontario)

Allison Cameron is a professional composer, performer and improvising musician in Toronto. She has been commissioned in Europe and North America by many ensembles and festivals. Since 2000, she has also been an improviser performing on electronic keyboards, ukulele, banjo, piano, mini amplifiers, radios, crackle boxes, cassette tapes, miscellaneous objects and toys.

Allison has been celebrated in Musicworks Magazine, the UK’s The Wire Magazine, I Care if You Listen and a variety of other online publications. Her reputation for writing compelling compositions for contemporary music ensembles is international. She is also a sought after improviser with a strong national following. She has completed two national solo tours in the past four years. In 2007 she founded the Allison Cameron Band with fellow musician/composers Eric Chenaux and Stephen Parkinson to explore uncharted territory in her compositions by integrating a variety of musical forms into her work.  The result has been a critically acclaimed CD on the Rat-Drifting label of several genre-defying pieces. In 2009 she formed a trio with trumpeter Nicole Rampersaud and drummer Germaine Liu called c_RL (pronounced curl) who released the CD ‘Friends’ to critical acclaim.

Never one to shy away from exploration, Allison went on a residency to Svalbard, Norway in 2013, where she spent time recording underwater sounds from icebergs in the fjords of Spitzbergen. She is also involved in creating sound installations based on her experiences in the High Arctic among others.

Her interest in graphic/instructional notation has resulted in several scores that will soon be published together. Her experimental scores have had performances by Ensemble Supermusique (Montréal), Contact (Toronto), Suddenly Listen (Halifax) and other ad hoc groups in Toronto.

www.allisoncameron.com

Duo Hauptmeier & Recker (Leipzig, Germany)

Since 2009 the composers Martin Recker (1991) and Paul Hauptmeier (1993) have been working together as an artist duo in the field of sound- and multimedia art. In addition to works for theater and opera,live electronics, radio and electro-acoustic music, their focus lies on sound installations in public spaces. In these installations, they utilize multi-channel audio systems to create immersive experiential spaces in which social issues are negotiated and made accessible to a broad public. Both studied composition under Robin Minard at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar and currently finishing their masters in composition with Maximilian Marcoll.