This year 24 young and/or emerging sound artists submitted pieces to the CEC’s Jeu de temps / Times Play project. Each of the submissions will be played in concert at some point in 2002. The following pieces make up Concert 1.

The Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) is Canada's national arts organization for all matters electroacoustic. The CEC, formulated here at Concordia, enjoys a special relationship with this university. It was in the running up to 1986 that Kevin Austin and Jean-François Denis wrote the CEC's by-laws and presented to Canadian composers working in this field the infrastructural direction and vision needed to set up an organization which was to aid composers and sound artists, bring them together 'out of the cold' and build the ties which form a community.

The CEC's early days were centered largely around communications, making sure people across the country could learn who their colleagues were, what they were doing and where electroacoustic activities were taking place.

With the advent and popularization of electronic media and internet based communications, the CEC transformed itself from a principally paper based institution into an organization which seeks to continue to foster communications, but which also promotes specific areas within this broad community.

The concert today feature an area of high importance to the CEC: profiling works by young and emerging sound artists and composers. The CEC, in conjunction with ÉuCuE is happy to host this concert as part of its Jeu de temps / Times Play Project (https://jttp.sonus.ca).

Ian Chuprun
ÉuCuE Concert Manager