This year is the 20th anniversary of electroacoustic concerts at Concordia University, and the 30th anniversary of electroacoustics being taught here. In celebration, each evening concert in this year's series is being presented by an ÉuCuE 'host' (either past or present) who over the years has dedicated time and energy to further the experience of Concordia students involved in electroacoustics.

Tonight's presenter, Dr Mark Corwin, is one of the people who has unfailingly dedicated his thoughts, energy, patience and time to Concordia's electroacoustic program. Having come to Concordia in 1989, the dawn of the CD, Dr Corwin immediately launched into bringing the technical side of electroacoustics at Concordia up to speed. Among his duties were to oversee that all the studios were functioning, getting the new concert hall (now called the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall) set up with the latest in audio recording gear, and introducing the digital editing and mixing environments to the electroacoustic program.

His enthusiasm for electroacoustics is unbounded and contagious, and being possessed of a mind where no technical problem is too great to go unsolved, he is regularly the one to turn to when a piece of gear doesn't seem to function correctly.

He is involved in the planning group of a cross discipline and inter-university Institute in media technologies and art which will certainly increase the opportunities for high-level research in the area and focus more attention on the actual and potential uses of sound in multi-modal contexts.

He is presently Chair of the Music Department, and it is a pleasure to know that electroacoustics here at Concordia has such a strong ally.

Ian Chuprun
ÉuCuE Concert Manager