--Creative Publications--
• Calling the Voice-O-Graph, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License Owen Chapman, 2009. A self-released full-length audio-CD of recent material available for free download through http://callingthevoiceograph.net. Official launch date: Oct 28th, 2009
R• Frozen Puddle - 2m36s (video), The Ice Xylophone (video) - 3m07s and Improvisation with Ice Xylophone, Ondes Martenot, Laptop and Guitar - 7m35s (audio piece - with S. Binet-Audet, K. Audet and D. Madden). These three pieces were included on a DVD accompanying Organised Sound, Vol. 14, #3 (2009). They are linked to the essay I published in Organised Sound Vol. 14, #1.
• "Selected Sounds: A collective investigation into the practice of sample-based music" © Chapman, Friz, Gallant, Houde, Morris, Moscos, Williams, 2007. A collaborative CD compiling 7 tracks composed from the same 7 samples, but by different artists. The CD is an integral component of my PhD dissertation. NB--100 copies of this CD were commissioned for a limited edition version of Pivot: An interdisciplinary graduate journal of visual culture, Vol. 1, #1 (2007)
• [and he flew toward it], Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License Owen Chapman, 2006. A self-released full-length audio-CD of sample-based music. Many of the tracks contained on this CD were produced for commissions.
• Lifted, © Owen Chapman, 2004. A self-released full-length audio-CD--with help from Fonds pour la Formation des chercheurs et l'Aide a la Recherche (FCAR) as well as the Centre interuniversitaire des arts médiatiques (CIAM)
• with Anna Friz, "Too Big For Their Beats? Audio CD", Graduate Researcher: Journal for the arts, sciences and technology, Vol. 1, #2, 2003. An analog-glitch sound-lecture.
--Curated Audio Works--
"Out My Window" and "Everyday Law" (11 mins total) -- part of the Mobile Media Gallery’s “Discoverable” campaign, exhibited so far on Oct 26 and 27 at various locations on the Concordia University Campus (Montreal) and online at http://mobilemediagallery.org.
--Commissioned Soundtracks and Audio Works--
2009
• “Bluetooth Beats” -- Commissioned by Concordia Vice Provost Ollivier Dyens for the President’s Conference Series event at Concordia entitled Every Breath You Take: Surveillance, Security and the End of Privacy (Nov 4th, 2009). This is an interactive audio composition enabled through Bluetooth file sharing and cell phones.
• "Out My Window" and "Everyday Law" (25 mins) -- Commissioned by Canada Research Chair in Law and Discourse, Desmond Manderson, McGill University, Faculty of Law. These pieces were composed as soundtracks to two image and text-based videos prepared by Desmond Manderson, Helge Dedek, Tina Piper, and Kirsten Anker and entitled "Through the Looking Glass: Art as the Mirror of Law". Presented at the Bravo McGill 2009 Showcase, Feb 10th and 12th, 2009.
2008
• "Sublimation," and "The Ice Field," © Chapman 2008 (15 mins) Commissioned by choreographer George Stamos for a contemporary dance performance in Montreal at L'Agora de la dance, Oct 15-18 2008. The title of this work is "Reservoir/Pneumatic" and features these new pieces, along with a selection of pieces commissioned from me by Stamos since 2006. I am the main composer for this dance work, in collaboration with Jackie Gallant, and perform live during its full 60 minutes.
• "Steamboat Mickey" © Chapman 2008 (5 mins) -- Commissioned by Dr. Matt Soar as an original soundtrack to a 50-person "rotoscoping" project, wherein Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" cartoon was re-sketched frame by frame. Here is the rotoscoped version with the new soundtrack.
Steamboat Mickey from intermediated on Vimeo.
2007
• "Waiting to Inhale" © Chapman 2007 (20 mins). Commissioned by choreographer George Stamos (used in "Reservoir/Pneumatic," described above).
• "Shadowlands", "Shadowbeat" and "My Eps Dream", © Chapman 2007. Commissioned by contemporary dancer Karen Bernard for her work "Dancing the Shadows", shown at the "Performance Mix Festival" in association with Joyce SoHo (New York, NY), March 29th, 2008.
• "Trut" and "For Nawaf", two tracks featured on my 2006 release [and he flew toward it], appear in a documentary video entitled "Water Walkers", produced by Liz Miller, edited by Laura Cohen, and submitted to the NFB Citizenshift initiative in Feb 2007 (http://citizen.nfb.ca).
2006
• “The Reservoir,” © Chapman 2006 (30 mins). Commissioned by choreographer George Stamos for Febuary 2006 performance at “Mini Projo”, in assoc. with the M.A.I. and Studio 303 (Montreal, QC). The show also toured with “Schatje” (see below) across Canada during the Summer and Fall of 2006. The soundtrack was used again during the 2008 performances of “Reservoir/Pneumatic.”
• Sound design and composition for “Water Warriors” © Chapman and Madden 2006—A documentary by Liz Miller about water privatization / 7 minute short--Juried Awards: * Recipient of Environmental Award, Media That Matters
Juried Screenings: *National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., *Independent Film Center, NY, *Conference, International Association of Women in Radio & Television, D.C., *Women’s Film Festival, Romania, *American Library Association, New Orleans, *Roxie Theatre, San Francisco, *McDonough Museum of Art, Youngston, Ohio, *Zeitgeist Arts Center, Oregon
• "Coupeloop Cut" © Chapman 2006, broadcast as part of "Hairwaves" event in Glasgow Scotland – Fall 2006. This FM radio project was broadcast live from Glasgow for one day only--transmitting to hair workers and their customers. Parts of this track were also used on a remix CD produced during the event.
• "Disphoria," "Euphoria," and "Newphoria," © Chapman 2006 (15 mins). Commissioned by dancer Sarah Williams and choreographer George Stamos for performances in Calgary and Montreal.
2005
• "Totally in Love", © Chapman 2005 (15 mins). Commissioned by contemporary dancer Karen Bernard for her work of the same title (performed in 2005 at "Edgy Women", in association with Studio 303 (Montreal, QC), the "First Weekends Series", in assoc. with the Brooklyn Arts Exchange (Brooklyn, NY)) and The Kitchen (New York, NY).
• with Andrea-Jane Cornell, "A Distant Silence,” © Chapman and Cornell 2005—an audio work composed from field recordings conducted at In and Out of the Sound Studio, Montreal, July 25-29, 2005 and presented in concert before the conference end.
2004
• "Trut", © Chapman 2004 (30 mins). Commissioned by choreographer George Stamos for May 2004 performance at the "Festival of New Dance", in assoc. with New Dance Alliance (St. John's, NF).
2003
• "Schatje," © Chapman 2003 (30 mins). Commissioned by choreographer George Stamos for 2003 performance in Montreal QC, and other performances in Ottawa, Edmonton, Vancouver, Calgary, and Halifax in 2006.
• “Fresco or Freeway”, © Chapman 2003. Journées sonores: Canal de Lachine, Musée de Lachine, Sept 13th-Dec 14th, 2003. Sound piece commissioned by Andra McCartney for use in gallery installation.
--Internet-based Audio Publications--
“Out My Window” and “Everyday Law” © Chapman Feb 2009 (30 mins). Originally commissioned by Desmond Manderson and Tina Piper for the McGill Faculty of Law. They were used as part of an installation entitled “Through the Looking Glass: Art as the Mirror of Law” presented at Bravo McGill, Feb 10 and 12th, 2009.
http://www.mcgill.ca/law/ (look under page 4 of the “Features” section on the bottom right hand corner of the page).
• "Coupeloop," © Chapman Oct. 2002 (20 mins). Commissioned by Anna Friz for the Austrian National radio program "Kunstradio".
-http://www.kunstradio.at/2002B/06_10_02e.html
• "Reception is Interception," July. 2002--5 pieces developed along with 7 other experimental sound producers. Also aired on Kunstradio.
http://www.kunstradio.at/2002A/14_07_02.html
Online Works:
"Out My Window" and "Everyday Law" - Both of these pieces were originally commissioned by Desmond Manderson and Tina Piper for the McGill Faculty of Law. The were used for an installation entitled “Through the Looking Glass: Art as the Mirror of Law” presented at Bravo McGill, Feb 10 + 12th, 2009. “Everyday Law” was longer in its original form (15 mins). The sound works were used to accompany two separate slideshows of images, which attempted to give the viewer/listener: "the aesthetic experience of being saturated by images and sounds with a legal content, and of this saturation as having been an important component of the lives and the legal subjectivity of all of us, throughout Western history." The slideshows are available through the following url: http://www.mcgill.ca/law/ (look under page 4 of the “Features” section on the bottom right hand corner of the page).
Steamboat Mickey - A rotoscoped version of Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie". We replaced the original cartoon soundtrack with this new track I composed. The new animation was provided frame by frame by Matt Soar's Intermedia I class in the Concordia Communication Studies Department, Spring 2008.