| Profile: | Claude Schryer’s electroacoustic and environmental compositions focus on spiritual, artistic, and social aspects of acoustic ecology.
He was born in Ottawa, in 1959 but raised in and around the city of North Bay (Ontario) where he was active as a pianist, clarinettist, composer, hunter and fisherman with his parents Maurice and Jeannine, and his brothers Luc, Guy, Marc, and Richard.
He studied composition with Owen Underhill at Wilfrid Laurier University (BA Mus, 1977-81), interdisciplinary arts and new music at The Banff Centre for the Arts (1981, 85, 93) and composition with alcides lanza at McGill University (Master Mus, 1982-89). He also studied with Denis Smalley and Luc Ferrari (1986-87).
His professional activities are principally in the fields of electroacoustics, interdisciplinary production, acoustic ecology and the media arts, notably: artistic director of the Inter-Arts program at The Banff Centre for the Arts (1988-90); co-founder of the production group DIFFUSION i MéDIA (1989-92); artistic director of the 7e Printemps électroacoustique festival of ACREQ (Association pour la création et la recherche électroacoustiques du Québec, 1990-92); special collaborator with the Radio-Canada cultural FM network and Musicworks Magazine (1990-); member of the organizing committee of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (1993-); director of the CEC (Canadian Electroacoustic Community, 1993-94); assistant program director of ISEA95 Montréal (1995); sound editor for the documentary film Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold (Alter-ciné, 1996); collaborator in the production of R Murray Schafer’s Winter Diary (WDR, 1997); co-founder and president of the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology (CASE, 1997-).
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