Pat McMaster - Pat McMaster

An introduction to the Ondes Martenot

Instrument mystérieux au riche passé et au son obsédant et évocateur, les ondes Martenot ont été l’un des premiers instruments électroniques. Que vous soyez un compositeur ou un musicien cherchant à intégrer cet instrument dans votre pratique, je serais heureux de vous aider à vous familiariser avec cet instrument remarquable.

Visual synthesis & online streaming visualisation techniques

With many years of new media and technology experience, it was a relatively smooth transition from the concert hall to the Zoom meeting for my work with live sound and music. Let my experience be of a benefit to you as you work to bring your project online.

duedo21 (2020)

21 equal temperament electroacoustic composition for eight-channels. Sound parameters and spatialisation directed through sonification of data captured from five matches of the board game Blokus Duo played between the composer and an artificial intelligence.

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The Emperor’s Visit (2020)

The Emperor’s Visit is a nine-channel fixed-media composition with live quadraphonic accompaniment and Arduino-controlled looping. It was composed and performed in the Spring of 2020 as part of the Electroacoustic program at Concordia University.

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GAS (2020)

As part of the 2020 edition of the Festival de la Bête Noire with the support of MainLine Theatre, GAS bubbles to the surface at the intersection of a TED talk, live science experiment, musical performance and storytelling soirée.

New Objectives (2019)

5.1 channel composition inspired by Paul Hindemith and the Neue Sachlichkeit movement.

Urane – Glacier (2019)

Glacier was assembled and produced following three months of recording with a minimal setup utilizing two vintage, monophonic analog synthesizers and a Moog percussion synth. The result is an album of visual music with a dark, imaginative soundtrack-like quality. Collaboration with Véro Marengère.