Criticism...
His musical works are exemplary models of artistic investigation, for
their depth of engagement with the grey areas of artistic practice and
fine attention to the subtle crevices through which intensely
concatenated meaning can be wondrously glimpsed. eldritch jumps
selflessly into the problematic, setting up aesthetic conjunctions
which cannot be absorbed into reductive categories, but which
resolutely unlock the floodgates of a critical listening ethic. It is
the listener in his/her capacity as co-creator (pace Duchamp and Cage)
wherein eldritch’s progressive ethics can be gleaned: art as open
dialogue, subversion, dehierarchization—a means of returning the
listener’s sense of the world to one imbued with wonder and
amazement. His eccentrically inventive forms and reconfigurations of
idioms are but two acute indicators of an unerring ability to scumble
the waters of easy semantic sailing, drawing the listener into a
convulsive, rhizomic zone of inquiry. -- Marc Couroux (2007)Happenings
Paper presentation at "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Music in Canada," Sackville, NB
28 April 2011
Paper presentation at "The Indiscernible," McGill Art History and Communication Studies Graduate Conference, Montreal, QC
22 April 2011
Premiere of Kalliphobia by Quator Bozzini, Montreal, QC
6 March 2011
Performance of the brown study, UMI Cafe, Ottawa, ON
1-3 July 2010
Paper presentation at "Bigger than Words, Wider than Pictures: Noise, Affect, Politics," University of Salford, Manchester, UK.
1 May 2010
Paper presentation at "Listening: Music and Philosophies of the Ear,"
GSIM Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, New York.