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Peebles pursued violin, composition, and theatre studies in her native Minneapolis, MN, and received a Bachelor of Music degree in composition in 1988 from the University of Michigan School of Music at Ann Arbor. She has composed for electroacoustics, small ensemble, dance, animation, inter-disciplinary collaborations and music-theatre. Her current music focuses on computer-assisted composition and improvised performance using Max programming with internal sampling software, often together with live and/or prerecorded shô (Japanese mouth-organ). Peebles' work encompasses performance art, installation work and video production, and often explores alternative performance settings, such as museums, bamboo groves, temples and parks. Peebles developed, produced and performed collaborative works in Japan as a Japan Foundation Uchida Fellow in 1992-93 for bugaku (court dance), outdoor installation, computer music performance with visual artists, and music with video installation, which premiered at Tokyo's Studio Kinshicho, Hakushu Art Camp (Yamanashi), and Shukôji Temple (Kawasaki), and which resulted in the publication "Suspended in Amber" (innova Recordings). She periodically resided in Tokyo between 1985 and 1993, where she studied contemporary music at Toho Gakuen School of Music, gagaku (court music) with the Tokyo Association of Shinto Priests and at Hatonomori Shrine, and matsuri bayashi, kagura bayashi and shishi mai (Shinto festival music and ritual drama music, and lion dance music) with the Okada Tamigoro Guild, Saitama, under Okada Kuniaki. She is a member of the duo “Smash and Teeny” with Nilan Perera, prepared electric guitar and effects and Peebles, laptop and shô. They have performed and recording in Europe, Canada, the U.S. and Japan, and have collaborated with such exceptional artists as John Butcher, David Toop, Jin Hi Kim, Evan Parker, Kô Ishikawa, Darren Copeland, Sumihisa Arima, and Tomomi Adachi. Since 2001, they have performed at the CCA (Glasgow), the ICA and BBC3 (London), Paradox (Netherlands), Music Gallery (Toronto), The Outpost (New Mexico) and Société des Arts Technologiques (SAT, Montréal) and HearTOgo festival, Toronto. Their first formal release, "Gathering", a double-CD of audio and video with guest John Butcher, is out on Spool (May, 2004). Since 1996, Peebles has been principal producer and member of the Toronto-based mixed-media trio, Cinnamon Sphere - Korean - influenced calligraphy performance with soundscape, with Nilan Perera, prepared electric guitar and Chung Gong Ha, visuals. Cinnamon Sphere has performed in Canada, The United States and Japan, with appearances at The Kobe International Festival of Modern Music, Space Alta (Yokohama, with Ishikawa Kô, shô), the Open Ears Festival, The Music Gallery with Jin- Hi Kim (komungo), the Art Gallery of Ontario, Strange Attractors International Festival of Experimental Intermedia Art (Minnesota), and others.The trio appears on a variety of music and video recordings: MUSICWORKS #66 magazine and CD, "Whose Forest?" (Hornblower Recordings), "Hover" (demo CDR), "Cinnamon Sphere" (limited edition CDR), Kaladar Kodex (video), If You Catch a Bird (video) and Slow Life (demo video). Peebles' recent activities are posted at http://www.sarahpeebles.net/now.htm and are also detailed in the resume section. Her activities before the year 2000 included the following: L'espace du son (Radio-Canada) soundscape commission for 2000 featuring Tokyo at the turn of the century; Cinnamon Sphere trio and Peebles-Perera Duo tour of Japan in November-December of 1999; New Adventures in Sound series, "Sound Travels" commission of live-to-tape 8-channel diffusion performance-recording using the Richmond Audio Box with ABControl software, developed with the assistance of Chris Rolph at the Banff Centre for the Arts (9/99), and performed in Banff, Calgary, Ghent, London and Toronto in 1999 and 2000; music commission by David Toop for "Hot Pants Idol" CD (Barooni) for collaboration with spoken word by Toop, including live spoken word performances in London and Barcelona (spoken word and tape); and, Cinnamon Sphere videos "Kaladar Kodex" and "If You Catch a Bird" (produced by Peebles). Her activities in 1998 included solo computer-assisted performance at The Kitchen ("Music from Nature", Terra Nova Concert Festival, NYC) and at Chicago's "Mixing" (Women in Sound Art Festival); shô performance of Peter Chin's work "Language" for Yvonne Ng and dancers at DuMaurrier Theatre Centre, Toronto; and, Festival d'ondes Martenot de Montréal performance with Suzanne Binet-Audet (ondes Martenot) and Bentley Jarvis (processed theramin), recorded by and broadcast over Radio-Canada's "Le Navire Night" (Hélène Provost, producer). Among a wide variety of artists with whom Peebles has collaborated have been, in addition to those mentioned above, Renée Highway (dance/choreography), Pauline Oliveros and The Circle Trio, Xiaoyuan Tu (animation and artificial intelligence), Robert Cruickshank (new media), Tina Kiik (accordion), Christos and Nora Noranjo-Morse (poetry), Harumi Kaieda (calligraphy), Haruo Higuma (video) and Kazuko Furuya (storytelling). Peebles' music has appeared at and on the following: "The Arts Tonight", "Brave New Waves", "Le Navire Night" (CBC/SRC), "Media Television" (City TV), NHK Television News and NHK Radio (Japan), "The Listening Room" (ABC), "The Singing Loudspeaker" (Adelaide Festival-The Listening Room), Roulette Intermedium, The Merce Cunningham Studio, Sound Culture '96, The Walker Art Center and The Southern Theater (Sonic Circuits Festival-Minnesota), The Music Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, Gésu (Montréal), New Works Calgary, Sonic Residues (Linden Gallery, Australia) and SIGGRAPH '92 Electronic Theater Evening. Awards and support include the Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, the SOCAN Foundation, the Banff Centre for the Arts, International Digital Media Awards (Xiaoyuan Tu video; music by Peebles), Inter/Access Electronic Media Arts Centre, the Japan-United States Friendship Commission, the American Composers Forum (McKnight Fellowship and others), The Suitcase fund through ACF, ASCAP Annual Awards, ASCAP Grants to Young Composers award, and BMI Student Composers Award, among others. Other notable projects have included the following:
Performed at the Southern Theater and other venues, Minnesota (quartet only) August 1-10, 1996 as part of Sonic Circuits Festival of Electronic Music (Presented by the American Composers Forum), and at The Village of Yorkville Park, Toronto (quartet with dance), August 16-17, 1996, Presented by the Fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists (produced by Studio Excelo). Sarah Peebles is a member of SOCAN for Canada and ASCAP for the world except Canada. |
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SONOGRAPHY/PUBLICATIONS(see also "recordings" for updates) "Gathering", by Smash and Teeny, featuring John Butcher (May 2004, Spool records), enhanced double CD. CD I: Smash and Teeny (Nilan Perera-guitar and Sarah Peebles-laptop and shô) performing in the U.S. and Canada, 2001-2003. CD II: Smash and Teeny with John Butcher-saxophone 2003, Peebles/Perera/Gong video 'Kaladar Kodex', 1999. "Insect Groove" (Studio Excelo limited edition, September '00) solo CD, with guest artist Kô Ishikawa, Jin Hi Kim, Nilan Perera and David Toop.Contact Studio Excelo at sarahpeebles@gmail.com "Suspended in Amber", collaborations in Japan (innova Recordings 506; July '96) with guest artists Kô Ishikawa, Takashi Harada, Hiromi Yoshida, Ikuo Kakehashi and Kazue Mizushima. Innova Recordings, Bayside Music Distribution, Verge and CDeMUSIC (see bottom for distributors list). "Hot Pants Idol" (Barooni records, May '99) music with spoken word by David Toop: "White Powder/The Spiders" Peebles-Toop; with contributions by Bill Laswell, Paul Schütze, Jon Hassell with Spirit World, Scanner, John Oswald, Tom Recchion, Talvin Singh and others. Contact Barooni. "The Female of the Species" (law and auder records; March '99) compilation: "where the Wild things went". "'Whose Forest?' defending our Public lands" (Hornblower Recordings; HR 98104) benefit compilation & political action kit: "Blue Moon Spirit" (Peebles) and "Insect Groove" (Peebles, Nilan Perera, Jin Hi Kim). Web [http://www.sarahpeebles.net//whoseforest/] Verge, CDeMUSIC, The Canadian Music Centre Distribution Service. Produced by Peebles. Terra Nova, "Music from Nature" (Vol. 3, Summer '97 / journal with special CD compilation ): "Nocturnal Premonitions". MIT Press Journals, CDeMUSIC. "Music Works" (Issue #66, September '96): "High-tech vs. My-tech" article with music (various works) on accompanying CD. Music Works, CDeMUSIC. "Strange Nature" (demo video, 1997 / 12:00), collaborative performance and installation, with Bravo! TV interveiw clip. The Village of Yorkville Park / The Fringe Festival of Independant Dance, Toronto (see bio for performers, etc.). Available from [sarahpeebles@gmail.com] [www.sarahpeebles.net]. "The Aerial #5, sound journal" (March '93): "Excerpts from KAI " ("Revolving Life", version 2) The Aerial/Nonsequitur Foundation, via 0.0. Discs, CDeMUSIC. "Discontact! II 1 + 2" (3" electroacoustic works by members of the CEC): "Nocturnal Premonitions" Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC), CDeMUSIC. ACM SIGGRAPH Video Review, Issue 91 compilation (1993); Xiaoyuan Tu, Peebles: "Go Fish". "Imagina 93/94", home video & videodisk, INA Entreprise, France (93-94): Xiaoyuan Tu, Peebles: " Go Fish" animation of artificial intelligence fish research, with soundscape.
Cinnamon Sphere CDs
Cinnamon Sphere Videos
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DISTRIBUTORSCanadian Sellers/Distributors
Canadian Electroacoustic Community
Canadian Music Centres
Hornblower Recordings (HR98104)
Music Works New Music Canada Post-Concrete
The Wildlands League 87 Franklin Street, Uxbridge, Ontario L9P 1J5, Canada T/F (905) 852-9745 E-mail: info@vergemusic.com. www.vergemusic.com.
V-tape U.S. Sellers/Distributors
CDeMusicCDeMUSIC (New York), a project of Electronic Music Foundation
0.0. Discs, Inc. Earth Ear
Innova Recordings
MIT Press Journals European Sellers/Distributors
Barooni
Law & Auder Records » » » BACK TO TOP
HEAR IT ON THE WEB
Exerpts from the "Insect Groove" CD (all tracks!)
"Nocturnal Premonitions"
"The Curse of Border Vacuums"
Various exerpts |
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