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VMACCH Theme Music
by David Keane
David
Keane | He is Professor
Emeritus (Theory/Composition) of the School of Music at Queen's
University, Kingston. He founded the Queen's Electroacoustic
Music Studios in 1970 and served as the Director of the EMS until
1997.
As a composer, his works have
generally combined electroacoustic instrumentation with live
performance and he has written for dance, theatre, film, and
radio, in addition to the concert hall. David Keane has had numerous
awards over the years from the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada
Council, as well as grants from the Canadian Design Council,
the CBC, the National Film Board, Ontario Science Centre, the
Bourges (France) Festival, the National Endowment for the Arts,
the Cuban Commission for UNESCO, and MAFILM (Hungary). His works
have been heard across Canada as well as in North and South America,
Europe, and in parts of Asia, and they are recorded on Music
Gallery Editions, Cambridge Street Records, Queen's Music, Centrediscs,
and Societé nouvelle d'enregistrement.
He is the author of Tape Music
Composition (Oxford), and his music is published by Universal
Edition (London) and Semar Editore (Rome) and also available
at the Canadian Music Centre.
David Keane was born in Ohio
in 1943 and he holds three degrees from Ohio State University.
Emigrating to Canada in 1967, he became a Canadian citizen in
1974.
Mr. Keane Graciously composed
a four-part theme music for VMACCH:
Quick time Required to listen to the audio clips
- Gamelan-Celeste
(MP3 format / 753KB download)0:45 min
- Koto-Harp
(MP3 format / 936KB download)0:59 min
- Asian
Reeds (MP3 format / 737KB download)0:46 min
- All
Together (MP3 format / 934KB download)0:59 min
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