Sonic Mosaics is a collection of interviews conducted by Paul Steenhuisen with thirty-two contemporary music composers between September 2001 and November 2004. Most of these were originally published in Wholenote Magazine, a monthly Toronto publication covering all aspects of musical activity within the Greater Toronto Area.
James Harley: I’m willing to argue that all music is algorithmic.
John Oswald: It’s easy to say you like Beethoven, a bit harder to say you like Tchaikovsky.
Barbara Croall: Intuition is an immediacy of transferring your feelings into the outcome, whereas theory is thinking through all those stages and figuring out a method.
Udo Kasemets: The beauty and the beast, they are always living together – this is what life is about, and we cannot put it into clear compartments.
Linda Catlin Smith: Christian Wolff said that in the end, everything is melody. I’ve become more melodic, and part of the reason for that is pleasure.
Allison Cameron is a composer, performer, educator and writer. She composes and performs in The Allison Cameron Band with Eric Chenaux and Stephen Parkinson; the improvising trio c_RL; and, had her first solo tour in April 2012 (Canada Council for the Arts) at six venues across Canada. Recent projects include: a CD recording with the trio c_RL; a digital release of her composition Mach Shorn engineered by Sandro Perri; and, a recording of chamber works with Toronto ensemble Contact supported by the Ontario Arts Council. In the summer of 2013 Allison will be a participant on the multi-disciplinary Arctic Circle Expedition in the international waters of Svalbard.