14th edition CNMN Bulletin — September 2012

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Table of Contents:

Region­al Meet­ings 2012 — 2013
Her­itage Cana­da and FACTOR by Tim Brady
Wel­come 55 New Mem­bers for 2012
New Web Site, Pay­Pal Option
Bul­letin Changes
Pre­sent­ing the new Board of Direc­tors 2012 — 2014

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• Regional Meetings 2012 — 2013

  

  Thanks to fund­ing from the Creator’s Assis­tance Pro­gramme (SOCAN Foun­da­tion), CNMN will be host­ing 7 region­al meet­ings in the 2012 – 2013 sea­son. The board is cur­rent­ly work­ing on meet­ing details and sched­ules, and we will announce the full sched­ule lat­er. Check back on our web site event page as we con­tin­ue to update and add to the information.

  The goals of these meet­ings are:

  1. To give CNMN mem­bers access to some pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties that they might not have access to otherwise
  2. To give CNMN mem­bers a chance to con­nect and meet oth­er new music artists in their region
  3. To do some out­reach to find new mem­bers in a wide diver­si­ty of artis­tic practices

  Each meet­ing will be orga­nized by the CNMN region­al board mem­ber, and we are try­ing to make each meet­ing very spe­cif­ic to your region. Cana­da is a big, com­plex coun­try, it is def­i­nite­ly not “one size fits all”. It is a high pri­or­i­ty to make sure that region­al con­cerns and region­al real­i­ties are a big part of these meet­ings. If you would like to help with your region­al meet­ing, or have an idea to present, con­tact your local CNMN board mem­ber. See the sched­ule page for con­tact details.

  The region­al meet­ings in our first round in 2011 were very infor­mal­ly struc­tured dis­cus­sions, a great way for us to get things mov­ing. How­ev­er, these meet­ings will be some­what more focused on pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment and net­work­ing, try­ing to lead to some more con­crete, tan­gi­ble actions. What those actions are will vary from region to region, but if we work togeth­er as a com­mu­ni­ty, both region­al­ly and nation­al­ly, we can have a much greater impact.

  Direct arti­cle link: Region­al Meet­ings 2012 — 2013
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• Heritage Canada and FACTOR

  

  In May 2012 CNMN Pres­i­dent Tim Brady met with Mr. Pierre Lalonde of the Depart­ment of Cana­di­an Her­itage to dis­cuss the issues around record­ing grants at FACTOR.  M. Lalonde was quite recep­tive to CNMN’s per­spec­tive, and we are cur­rent­ly work­ing with Her­itage Cana­da and FACTOR to try to improve the jury sys­tem and fund­ing struc­ture so that greater diver­si­ty of music, includ­ing new musi­cal prac­tices, are ade­quate­ly rep­re­sent­ed in the FACTOR process.

  Direct link: Her­itage Cana­da and FACTOR
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• Welcome 55 New Members

  So far, CNM­N’s mem­ber­ship has grown by fifty-five in 2012, with mem­bers hail­ing from all across Cana­da, and an empha­sis on BC due to our nation­al Forum in Van­cou­ver ear­ly in the new year. More mem­bers in our net­work means stronger rep­re­sen­ta­tion and con­nec­tion for our com­mu­ni­ty. We warm­ly wel­come all our new mem­bers, and we hope this marks the begin­ning of a long-last­ing and fruit­ful collaboration.

  The new mem­bers are list­ed below, many of which have web sites for fur­ther infor­ma­tion. We also hope all our mem­bers get a chance to check each oth­er out – you can access a full list of mem­bers on our web site, view­able by cat­e­go­ry, region or name.

  Who will be the 56th new member?

  

  New Voting Members

  Cana­di­an Music Edu­ca­tors’ Association		Nat	www.cmea.ca/
  Cir­cuit, musiques contemporaines		Nat	www.revuecircuit.ca/
  Ensem­ble Transmission		QC	www.ensembletransmission.com/
  Urban­ves­sel		ON	www.urbanvessel.com
  Hos­sein	Behroozinia	BC	www.behroozinia.com/
  Eliz­a­beth	Bergmann	BC	www.bergmannduo.com/
  Eric	Boivin	QC	http://soundcloud.com/eric-boivin
  Daniel	Bran­des	BC	http://danielbrandes.tumblr.com/
  John D.	Burge	ON	www.queensu.ca/music/faculty/burge
  James	Code	NB	www.mta.ca/music/faculty/code‑j.html
  François	Cou­ture	QC	http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/
  Mary	Ingra­ham	AB	www.ualberta.ca/~maryi
  Jeff	Mor­ton	SK	www.jeffreydavidmorton.ca/
  Navid	Navab	QC	www.navidnavab.net/
  Ellie	O’Day	BC
  Hei­di	Ouel­lette	MB	www.clusterfestival.com
  David	Pay	BC	www.musiconmain.ca/
  Christo­pher	Reiche	BC	https://sites.google.com/site/christopherreiche/
  Remy	Siu	BC	www.remysiu.com/

  New Supporting Membres

  Jonathan	Adams	BC
  Miran­da	Ander­son	AB
  Chris	Bauer	MB	Chris Bauer on Facebook
  Dániel Péter	Biró	BC	http://people.finearts.uvic.ca/~dpbiro/
  Doug	Black­ley	BC	www.soundscore.com
  Christo­pher	But­ter­field	BC	Christo­pher But­ter­field — Uni­veristy of Victoria
  Daryn	Cassie	BC	www.daryncassie.com/
  Kassie	Dobie	ON
  Pyra	Drac­ulea	BC	www.maqlu.com/
  Kristy	Farkas	BC
  Wylie	Fer­gu­son	BC	http://wylieferguson.bandcamp.com
  Joi	Freed-Gar­rod	BC
  Hen­ry	Gau­thi­er	QC	www.chantslibres.org/
  Deb­o­rah	Hui	BC
  Sarah	Jer­rom	ON	www.sarahjerrom.com
  Made	Kantawan	BC
  Njo Kong	Kie	ON	www.musicpicnic.com
  Tyler	Kin­n­ear	BC
  Cathy Fern	Lewis	BC	www.kerryview.ca/
  Robert	Mad­docks	BC	www.twotensix.com/
  Alex	Mah	BC
  John	Oswald	ON	www.pfony.com/
  Stu­art	Pater­son	ON	www.soundcloud.com/login_sounds
  Daniel	Pencer	ON
  Tony	Reif	BC	www.songlines.com
  Sílvio	Rosa­do	Por­tu­gal	www.soundcloud.com/silvio-rosado
  Christi­na	Rus­nak	USA	www.christinarusnak.com/
  Ed	Sadler	BC	www.vancouverguitarlessons.net/
  Lin­coln	Saugstad	BC
  Lisa	St. Clair	NS	www.lisastclair.ca/
  I Wayan	Sudi­rana	BC	I Wayan Sudi­rana at Game­lan Gita Asmara
  Miles	Thoro­good	BC	http://greenmeat.net
  George	Tzane­takis	BC	www.cs.uvic.ca/~gtzan
  Mike	War­ren	ON	www.everythingthatsfly.com/
  Hilde­gard	West­erkamp	BC	www.sfu.ca/~westerka/
  Car­ol	Yaple	BC	Car­ol Yaple at Bard Col­lege Con­ser­va­to­ry of Music

  Direct arti­cle link: Wel­come 55 New Members
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• New Web Site, PayPal Option

  

  The new CNMN Web Site is now up and run­ning, designed by Christo­pher Willes. If you are read­ing this, you are already here! New fea­tures include a front page with a pho­to album, as well as the new Pay­Pal option when you pay your annu­al dues using the online mem­ber­ship form.

  Got a great pho­to we can share in our front-page album? See here for more details.

  One of the com­plex­i­ties of the project was mov­ing from the pro­pri­etary Dif­fu­sion I Média site to a more stan­dard­ized Word­Press-based site. In the long run, the use of a stan­dard­ized soft­ware for­mat will give us more flex­i­bil­i­ty. But the tran­si­tion was long and com­plex, with many hours of dis­cus­sion and proof­read­ing (found an error or bug? Let us know!).

  We are plan­ning to update the site, a ver­sion 2.0, as funds and time become available.

  Direct arti­cle link: New Web Site, Pay­Pal Option
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• Bulletin Changes

  

  Along with our new web site, this 14th edi­tion of the e‑Bulletin has gone through a change as well. No longer a PDF, it is now more direct­ly incor­po­rat­ed into our web site. We’re hop­ing this new for­mat will make our sto­ries, com­men­taries and announce­ments more acces­si­ble and eas­i­er to share. We are begin­ning with a very bare-bones approach, with the hope that in the future we can put in place fea­tures and struc­tures that make it even eas­i­er to access archival con­tent. For exam­ple, we still have very worth­while and rel­e­vant mate­r­i­al that deserves to be eas­i­er to find, such as those from Forum 2009 and Forum 2010.

  Direct arti­cle link: Bul­letin Changes
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• Presenting the new Board of Directors 2012 — 2014

                

  Those who attend­ed our 2012 AGM would have heard, but we want­ed every­one to have a chance to hear the great news! Vis­it our Board of Direc­tors page to read what our board mem­bers have to say about CNMN, as well as read bios.

  Jim Mont­gomery is our sec­re­tary and Cléo Pala­cio-Quintin is our trea­sur­er. The vice-pres­i­den­cy goes to Stacey Brown, while Tim Brady con­tin­ues as president.

  Atlantic Cana­da
  • Jérôme Blais — Com­pos­er, pro­fes­sor of music, Dal­housie — Hal­i­fax (NS)
  • Paul Cram — Com­pos­er, per­former, impro­vis­er, direc­tor — Upstream Music Asso­ci­a­tion — Hal­i­fax (NS)

  Que­bec
  • Tim Brady — Com­pos­er and per­former, direc­tor — Brady­works Ensem­ble — Mon­tréal (QC)
  • Stacey Brown — Com­pos­er, edu­ca­tor, researcher — Mon­tréal (QC)
  • Cléo Pala­cio-Quintin — Com­pos­er, per­former, impro­vis­er, direc­tor — Flûtron­ique — Mon­tréal (QC)

  Ontario
  • Brent Lee — Com­pos­er, pro­fes­sor of music – Uni­ver­si­ty of Wind­sor — Wind­sor (ON)
  • Jim Mont­gomery — Com­pos­er, per­former, edu­ca­tor – Toron­to (ON)
  • Jer­ry Per­gole­si — Per­former, direc­tor — CONTACT Con­tem­po­rary Music — Toron­to (ON)

  Saskatchewan
  • Alain Per­ron — Com­pos­er, pro­fes­sor of music — Uni­ver­si­ty of Regi­na — Regi­na (SK)

  Man­i­to­ba
  • Hei­di Ouel­lette — Com­pos­er, impro­vis­er, direc­tor – Clus­ter Fes­ti­val — Win­nipeg (MB)

  Alber­ta and the North­ern Territories
  • John Reid — Direc­tor — Cana­di­an Music Cen­tre — Prairies — Cal­gary (AB)

  British Colum­bia
  • David Pay — Artis­tic direc­tor – Music on Main – Van­cou­ver (BC)

  Direct link: Pre­sent­ing the New Board of Direc­tors 2012 — 2014
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