Adam Basanta is a composer and media artist, and currently an MA candidate at Concordia University, supervised by Sandeep Bhagwati and Chris Salter. He holds a BFA from Simon Fraser University, where he studied extensively with Barry Truax.
His work transverses electroacoustic, acoustic and mixed composition, light and sound installations, and interactive laptop performance. He is particularly interested in issues related to perception, the use of compositional forms in the articulation of space and site, and unorthodox presentation practices.

His compositions have been awarded national (SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers 2008, 2010, 2011; Jeu de Temps 2010) and international prizes (Metamorphoses Acousmatic Biennale 2010, Belgium; VII International Contest of Electroacoustic Miniatures 2009, Spain; Musica Viva 2010, Portugal).

He has previously collaborated with choreographers Henry Daniel (Vancouver), Troika Ranch (NY/Berlin), and Kinesis Dance (Vancouver) as a composer, sound and interaction designer. His recent audiovisual installations have been presented at Eastern Bloc Gallery (Montréal) and the Vancouver New Music Festival (Vancouver).

His scholarship has been published in peer-reviewed journals (Organised Sound, Cambridge University Press) and independent publications, and has been presented at international conferences.

• "Contour, for a hallway". Commissioned by Vancouver New Music. Presented as part of the Xenakis 2011 Festival, Vancouver, BC, October 2011.
• "Diagonal (for Eastern Bloc)". Presented as part of the "Data: Salon" series, Eastern Bloc, Montreal, June 2011.
• "object / field". Installation viewing, Matralab, Concordia University, May 2011.
• Artist talk, CMMAS, Morelia, Mexico, May 2011.
• “a glass is not a glass”. Mexican Premiere, May 27th, 2011, CMMAS, Morelia, Mexico. Travel assistance from Canada Council for the Arts.
  
• “montreal, part I”. NAISA Deep Wireless Festival, May 7th 2011.
  
• “a glass is not a glass (mov I to VI)”. Image & Resonance, presented by Fundacion Destellos. May 5th, 2011, Mar del Plata, Argentina.
  
• Live electroacoustic performance as part of CLIEC, a symposium on live electroacoustic music, Concordia University, Montreal, March 2011.
  
• “three myths of liberalism”, acousmatic work commissioned by Codes d'accès, with assistance from the Bourse conjointe PRIM/Codes d'accès. Premiere in April 2012.
• Artist talk, as part of "Open Lab Wednesdays", Hexagram Institute and Concordia University, Montreal, January 2011.

• Sound design and live processing for interdisciplinary theatre show "Paysage Ephemeres", Foundary Darling, Montreal, December 2010.
• Live laptop and flute (Solomiya Moroz) performance, as part of Mardi Spaghetti at Cagibi, Montreal, November 2010.
• Live audio-visual improvisation. Vancouver New Music Festival Theatre for the Ears 2010. Scotiabank Dance Centre, Vancouver, BC.
• “In a station of the metro” performed at SFU student composers year end concert.
  
• “several, distinct moments” selected for Victoria Symphony reading session and mentoring session with Rodney Sharman.           
  
• “Party Hat (for a 25th birthday)” performed at Spatial Music concert co-produced by onetwothreefourfivesixseven and Vancouver New Music Society.
  
• “a glass is not a glass (mov I to VI”. Musiques et Recherches’ L’Espace du Son festival. Brussels, Belgium. Oct 2010.
  
• “a glass is not a glass (mov I to VI)”. Korean Electro Acoustic Music Symposium (KEAMS), September 2010.
  
• “a glass is not a glass (mov I to XI)”, Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium, Loop Centre for Lively Arts and Learning, Toronto, ON. August 2010.
  
• “Box4” performances, Scotiabank Dance Centre, Vancouver, BC, and subsequent European tour, July 2010.
  
• “a glass is not a glass (mov I to VI)”. International Computer Music Conference Concert. SUNY Stony Brook, June 2010.
  
• “a glass is not a glass (mov I to XI). Clamour concert series. April 2010, Western Front, Vancouver, BC.
  
• “a glass is not a glass (mov I to VI)”. Sonic Boom Festival 2010, Vancouver, BC.
  

• “a glass is not a glass (mov I to III)”. 22nd Tage Neuer Musik in Weimar (Weimar New Music Festival). Weimar, Germany. October 2009.
  
• “a glass is not a glass (mov I to III)”. Performed in finalist concert of VII Concurso Internacional de             Miniaturas Electroacousticas, Andalucia, Spain.
  
• “Écologie Matérielle”, ICMC Listening Room, McGill University, Montreal, QC.                       
• “Écologie Matérielle”, Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium, Loop Centre for Lively Arts and Learning, Toronto, ON.
  
• “Movement and Stillness” performed at SFU student composers year end concert.
  
• Commissioned interactive musical performance for Kinesis Dance Somatheatro’s “Box4”. Performed and reprised at the Scotiabank Dance Centre, Vancouver, BC. Subsequent festival performances in Vancouver, Poland and Hungary.
• Commissioned live laptop performance for Water’s Edge Festival, by VANOC 2010 Cultural Olympiad. Port Coquitlam, BC.
  
• “Écologie Matérielle”. Premiere. Sonic Boom Festival 2009. Vancouver, BC.
  
• “Transients and Resonance”, Keele University, UK.
  
• “Free / Association”. Premiere. Sonic Art Research Centre, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK.
  
• “Transients and Resonance”, Sonic Art Research Centre, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK.
  
• “Transients and Resonance”, Eucue 2009. Concordia University, Montreal, QC.
  
• “There’s no I in Canada”, commissioned composition and paper. SFU Humanities Institute Imagining Citizenship Symposium, SFU, Vancouver, BC.
  
  

• “Transients and Resonance”, Akousma (5) Festival. Montreal, QC.
  
• “is the Medium is the Message”, Eucue 2008. Concordia University, Montreal, QC.
  
• “is the Medium is the Message”, Sonic Boom Festival 2008. Vancouver, BC.
  
• Commissioned interactive score for “Touched”, choreographed by Henry Daniel in collaboration with Troika Ranch (US/GER). Performed at SFU Theatre, Burnaby, BC. Reprised at Scotiabank Dance Centre and Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC.
  

• “The Fine Line between Civility and the Truth”, Eucue 2007. Concordia University, Montreal, QC.
• “Whatever it is to compose”. Interactive composition. Showcase performance and technical workshop. West Coast Student Composer Symposium, Victoria, BC.
  
  

• Performer. John Cage “Imaginary Landscapes IV”. Vancouver New Music “Silence” Festival, Vancouver, BC.

• "Feelings I'm too tired for". 1st prize, Pierre Mercure category, SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers, Ottawa, Canada.

• "a glass is not a glass (mov I to XI)", 2nd prize, CEC's JTTP 2010 competition, Montreal, QC.
  
• “Écologie Matérielle”, 2nd Prize Winner, Hugh le Caine category, SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers, Ottawa, Canada.
  
• “a glass is not a glass (mov I to VI)”, 1st Prize Winner in student category, Métamorphoses 2010 (Musiques et Recherches, Brussels, Belgium).
  

• “a glass is not a glass (mov I to III)”, 1st Prize Winner, VII Concurso Internacional de Miniaturas Electroacousticas, Andalucia, Spain.
  
• “Free / Association”, Finalist, 2009 Prix Destellos, Mar del Plata, Argentina.
  
  

• “Transients and Resonance”, 3rd Prize Winner, Hugh le Caine category, SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers, Ottawa, Canada.
  
• “Transients and Resonance”, Finalist, CEC’s JTTP 2008 competition. Montreal, QC.
  

• “Tracing Conceptual Structures in Listener Response Studies.” Presentation at EMS11, New York, USA. Forthcoming online publication.
  
• “Embodied sound, enacted music: considerations for the re-conceptualization of composition, analysis and performance.” Presentation at Ncounters, University of Alberta Graduate Music Students Association Conference.
  
  

• “Perceptual Analysis of Gesture Interaction Typologies in Acousmatic Music”. Presentation at EMS10, Shanghai, China. Online Publication with second author Dr. Arne Eigenfeldt.
• “Syntax as Sign: the use of ecological models within a semiotic approach to electroacoustic composition”. August 2010. Organised Sound, Cambridge University Press, UK.
  
  

• “Potentialities of Meaning: a performance study perspective investigation into the relationship between the composer, composition and audience in contemporary fixed medium sound art”. inter/tidal ii: SFU Humanities Student Union Academic Journal. Simon Fraser Humanities Student Union, Vancouver, BC.
• “Excerpts from ‘Text-based: aesthetic treatment of sound materials in text-sound compositions’”. inter/tidal: SFU Humanities Academic Journal. Simon Fraser Humanities Student Union, Vancouver, BC.

• “a glass is not a glass (mov I to VI)” released on Métamorphoses 2010 6th Biennial Acousmatic Composition Competition CD, Musiques et Recherches, Belgium. MR2010.
• “a glass is not a glass (mov I to III)” to be released on CD by the Andalucian Ministry of Culture, Andalucia, Spain (2010-2011).
• “Écologie Matérielle” released on NAISA’s Deep Wireless 6 sound art compilation. Toronto, ON.
  
• “Transients and Resonance” released on CEC’s Cache 2009 compilation. Montreal, QC.           

• MA candidate at Concordia University, Special Individualized Program (SIP).
  Supervised by Dr. Sandeep Bhagwati, Dr. Chris Salter, and Dr. Rosemary Mountain.
  Studies are funded by SSHRC, BC Arts Council, and Concordia University.
  
  

• Research Assistant to Dr. Sandeep Bhagwati, involving the creation of interactive scores.
• Research Assistant to Dr. Arne Eigenfeldt. Research topic: Perceptual Analysis of Gesture Interaction in Acousmatic Music, Additional funding by the Faculty of Communication, Art, and Techonology Undergraduate Research Award.
• Private instruction in composition with Rodney Sharman.
  
  

• Orford Sound Art Creation Workshop, Orford, QC.
  Two week workshop. Attended with financial support from the Orford Art Centre. Instructors included: Yves Daoust, Alexandre Burton, Gilles Gobeil, Jean-Francois Laporte, Hans Tutschku (GER).
  
• Research Assistant to Dr. Henry Daniel, developing interactive systems for dance and music production.
  
  

• Orford Sound Art Creation Workshop, Orford, QC.
  Two week workshop. Instructors included: Yves Daoust, Alexandre Burton, Natasha Barrett (UK), Paul Rudy (US).
  
  

• AudioCubes Workshop with Kim Cascone. Vancouver New Music Workshop.
  
  

• Simon Fraser University, School of Contemporary Arts. BFA, Music Composition major. Principle teachers: Barry Truax, Arne Eignefeldt, David MacIntyre, Owen Underhill.
  
  

• Centre for Digital Image and Sound / Art Institute Vancouver (Ai). Certificate of Recording Engineering.