James O'Callaghan

James O'Callaghan
composer & sound artist

				works: compositions music for dance sound installations

c.v.:

James O'Callaghan

Education:

2011 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) Simon Fraser University. Majored in Music Composition
Studied under Barry Truax, David MacIntyre, Arne Eigenfeldt, Rodney Sharman and Owen Underhill.

In Progress: Master of Music McGill University.

Selected Professional Experience

2011.
- Selected for the Inaugural Composer Mentoring Project by the Canadian Music Centre/Canadian League of Composers.
- Commissioned by Redshift Music to create a new spatial chamber work to be performed at the Vancouver Art Gallery on June 7, 2011.
- Co-organised programmed, and contributed music to Sonic Putty, an afternoon of electroacoustic music at the Bentley Chamber Music Studio in Banff, Alberta. Pieces of mine on the programme included Rails and Arbeits/Kraft (Labour Force).
- Argh Canada, for Speaking Pianist, selected for Sonic Boom Master Class with R. Murray Schafer: May 27 2011
- ACT! a setting of the text of the USA PATRIOT Act selected for Sonic Boom 2011 festival in Vancouver
- Selected for the Composer Mentoring Project by the Canadian Music Centre/Canadian League of Composers.
- Attended two-week Winter Music Creative Residency at The Banff Centre, in Banff, Alberta. (January 9-25)
- The Earth, Split Open for string orchestra selected for Victoria Symphony Readings.
- Orchestral work, Mouths, selected for the Jean Coulthard Readings by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
- Research assistant to Dr. Arne Eigenfeldt
2010.
- "Mixed Morphologies: Gesture transformation through the use of electronics in the music of Kaija Saariaho" paper presented at EMS 2010 Shanghai
- Commissioned as a sound designer to develop Imprint with Henry Daniel and Owen Underhill for Turning Point Ensemble
- Research assistant to Owen Underhill
- Research assistant to Dr. Arne Eigenfeldt
- Orchestral work, Agoraphobia selected for the Victoria Symphony Orchestra readings
- Electroacoustic miniature, Scavengers selected for 60x60 Scarlet Mix and Canada Mix, performed at ICMC 2010 New York and Congress 2010 Montreal, respectively, as well as locations in Wellington, Nelson (NZ), Kentucky, Bellingham and Toronto.
- Electroacoustic work, Arbeits/Kraft (Labour Force) selected for Sonic Boom 2010 festival in Vancouver
- Work/Werk, miniature for orchestra, selected for the Jean Coulthard Readings by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
-Co-organized the 9th Annual West Coast Student Composer's Symposium at SFU. Co-curated the programme of SFU student works and moderated on a discussion panel.
-Co-organized guest master class at SFU with California composer Douglas C. Wadle and Atrux Collective
2009.
- Commissioned as a composer/performer to develop t2:echo with Henry Daniel for Interactive Futures.
- Research assistant for Dr. Henry Daniel (Summer 2009)
- Commissioned as a composer/performer to develop t2 with Henry Daniel for Dancing on the Edge.
- Published in a compilation of SFU electroacoustic works as an accompaniement to inter/tidal, SFU's Humanities Student Union yearly publication.
- Commissioned for live electroacoustic performance by VANOC Cultural Olympiad for the Water's Edge Festival in Coquitlam, BC.
2008.
- Sound Designer for United Players of Vancouver production of You Never Can Tell by George Bernard Shaw.

Awards and Fellowships

2011.
- Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC)
- Graduate Excellence Fellowship (McGill University)
- Composer Mentoring Project Award, presented by CMC/CLC.
- Banff Centre Fellowship: to attend two-week creative residency.

2010.
- Marcia Award in Electroacoustics
- Gerald and Sheahan McGavin Award
- SFU Service Award/Centre for the Arts Award
2009.
- Sean Mcleod Memorial Award in Music
- SFU Service Award/Centre for the Arts Award

Publications

O'Callaghan, J. 2011. "Soundscape Elements in the Music of Denis Smalley: Negotiating the Abstract and the Mimetic" Organised
      Sound. 16(1). (Forthcoming. Publication date: April 2011.)
O'Callaghan, J. and Eigenfeldt, A. 2010. "Gesture transformation through electronics in the music of Kaija Saariaho" Electroacoustic
      Music Studies Network Conference 2010, Shanghai. http://www.ems-network.org/IMG/pdf_EMS10_OCallaghan_Eigenfeldt.pdf
      Accessed 25 October 2010.

Literary and Artistic Publications:
O'Callaghan, J. 2009. "Cuts" Published in an accompanying CD in inter/tidal. ii. eds. Natalie Wing, Jennifer Chaput. Inter/tidal Ink.

A full view of the various projects with which I have been involved can be found in my portfolio on the left.