Christopher Guest - Producer

This video series was a marketing experiment in 2007. A lot of what we are doing with Team Leader was hashed out on Canine Insurgency. As it turns out Dog products garner high online advertising rates.

Meet Afie, my grumpy old dog.

This was my demo reel a few years back. It was mostly created with AfterEffects, and the clips are from various live action and animation projects.

Entropy in Century

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I wrote this in my final year at university.  After the difficulties of the large ensemble compositions I had done the previous year, I wanted to do a big work with a small number of people.  This made a rehearsal a snap, they should tell you this stuff in composition school but I had to find out the hard way.

I also wanted to explore rhythm and percussion in conjunction with electronics…and more specifically digital audio.  I didn’t have a lot of experience with recording at the time and didn’t really know where to start so I made a single recording of the word “finished”.  I then used the school’s studio to make hundreds of sounds for the peace.  Lourie Radford really guided me on this one helping avoid the mistakes of an earlier composition.

The work is all about the interaction between the very simple one performer percussion set up of 4 toms and a pitched timpani.  I had the performer, Nicholas Jacques, play all parts of the timpani while I manned the audio system for this recording.  Its a large work of over 10 minutes and the electro acoustic material is swelling and filled the hall.  One of my more successful compositions, it was programmed last and immediately brought forward commissions I never accepted.

During a difficult time just after graduating 2000-2002, a good friend of mine Brian Pare and I were working convention audio in Ottawa. We shared a place and eventually moved to Toronto together. During this time I was continuing my exploration of computer media started in university under Laurie Radford. These are some of the found audio compositions I did.

Tartus

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There is lots of good use of the theremin, original drum samples, valuevillage records.

Stay Alive

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This one prominently features an old national geographic record we found at valuevillage.

Look Up

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This is a remix of an old partially destroyed big band record.

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To make these pieced Brian and I went around and recorded sounds, and friends and digitizing old records. We used sound forge and Acid mainly, as well as keyboards, guitars, Brian also had a theremin and an effects box. Lots of good times, and bad neighbors.

So this site is undergoing a major overhall, but you can still access the old site.

Please be patient there will be piles of content on this site real soon.

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