SONUS - v2
the unknown pedestrian (2000), 00:08:36Alexandre Burton
Nationality: Canada
Residence: Canada
Biography: Montrealer since his birth (1973), Alexandre Burton's interest has always been the positively Useless. Hesitating between arts and technology, he is constantly working under the cover of both computer science and electroacoustic musics. He made the computer his instrument, thus giving up the clarinet, somewhat limited in it's applications (and quite hard to play).
Electroacoustic composer, he has been active in a number of projets, notably Antennäe, a multidisciplinary dance performance and Communion, a multimedia show, with whom he toured Europe, North and South America. He participated in a number of electronic arts events in Paris, Brazil and Amos, amongst others.
His current theoretical research aims at meaningfully integrating sensor systems in media setups and at thinking about the process of writing in digital non-linear structures (especially in electroacoustic music). These two topics join in a questionning of the monolithic and finished"work"of art to the benefit of an open-ended approach. He formalized his thinking in the context of a master's degree at the Université de Montréal.
He taught at the Université de Montréal and is currently instructor at McGill University in Music Technology. In addition to his musical work, he pursues a number of software development projects, including Cecilia (which won an award at Bourges in 97 for Music Production Environment) and the Zeep.com products.
Program Notes: "Norlander had come across a pedestrian on a public highway in the middle of a winter night. Norlander had been informed that there was a car in the ditch in the vicinity and that the unknown pedestrian was possibly the operator of that vehicle."
-- source inconnue, février 1971
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CEC: Sonus
CEC: eContact! 3.1
