Artists
John Oliver News
for up to date information, see artist's web site.
John Oliver is working on new music for MIDI guitar, other guitars and live electronics and is revising previous works and has recently completed commissions for the Vancouver Symphony, Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble, Borealis String Quartet, and Vancouver zheng player Mei Han.
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Andrew Czink and John
Oliver have formed an ensemble called
Structural Damage
whose mandate is to perform
new work for piano/keyboards, guitars and electronics with special invited
guests for every concert. Their March 31,2000 performance at the Western
Front (Vancouver, BC, CANADA) featured Guest Artists Giorgio
Magnanensi (DJ), and Doug Schmidt (accordion).
Georgia Straight reviewer Douglas Hughes was there and had this
to say: "As composers and performers, all four made strong contributions
to a program of 10 works...Like it or not, electronic music is with us.
And it gets more interesting all the time in the hands of people like
Oliver (a master of the guitar), Czink (a pianist of extraordinary energy
and power), Schmidt (who seems incapable of error as he skitters around
the...accordion, and Magnanensi (who can manage a table piled high with
blinking and beeping gizmos as skillfully as a surgeon...)
A CD of the performance is available in Soundshop.
The ensemble has also toured across Canada and to the USA. See Structural Damage web site.
