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Chris Meloche B. Windsor Ontario Canada 1957 Is An Independent Composer And Performer Of Electronic Electroacoustic And Computer Music. He Began Creating Electroacoustic Works In 1980. He Has Persued Independent Studies And Followed The Work Of Such Composers As Stockhausen Reich Cage Berio Riley Feldman Subotnick And Hamel. In 1982 Meloche Collaborated In The Formation Of The Group M104 With Werner Albert. M104 Released 3 Independent Packages And Played Numerous Live Concerts Often As Accompaniment To Classic Silent Films Nosferatu Metropolis Potemkin... . Since The Demise Of M104 He Has Continued To Compose And Perform Solo Material And Contributed Works For Release In Canada And The U.K. Meloche Has Also Worked On Commissioned Compositions Featuring Acoustic Instruments Cello Double Bass Trombone In Conjunction With Synthesizers Electronic Sound Processing And Interactive Electronics. He Has Also Been A Proponent Of "Radio Art" Having Diffused Works Such As "LINK" A Radio Music Performance Without Borders "Loop2" - A 7 Hour Radiophonic Installation Work - And Philip Perkins' "Toronto Remote" Performance. Meloche Has Produced 2 Releases By Canadian Poets Bill Bissett And Karen MacCormack For Nightwood Editions As Well As Continuing To Play Live Electroacoustic Music Concerts. International Attention Was Gained With The Presentation Of "LINK" Produced With The Assistance Of A Grant From The Media Arts Section Of Canada Council Which Was Premiered At The Aeolian Hall London And Broadcast On CHRW-FM London . This Event Attracted International Attention And Led To Interviews And Features On Radio France International Paris Voice Of America Washington DC Radio Budapest Hungary And CFPL-TV London . In January Of 1990 His Composition "Moscow Calling" Received Its International Broadcast Premiere On Radio Moscow USSR. Meloche Has Also Recently Completed The Projects "Ionospheric Soundwalk" A Composition Featuring Naturally Occurring Radio Waves "Private World A Wireless Public Access Audio Installation" And The 6-Hour Radiophonic Work "Recurring Dreams Of The Urban Myth." His Environmental Recordings Of Scottish Stone Circle Sites Was Installed At The Royal Museum Of Scotland Edinburgh For 2 Months In 1998 In Conjunction With A Photographic Exhibition By Scottish Artist Mark Johnston. His Work Has Also Gained More International Attention In 1994 With The Signing Of A CD Recording Contract With The FAX Label Of Frankfurt Germany. These CDs Have International Distribution Via N.E.W.S. Of Belgium Distributed In Canada Via Cargo Records Montreal . He Has Released 2 CDs On FAX - "Recurring Dreams Of The Urban Myth" 1994 And "Wireless" 1995 . His Latest Releases Are "Distant Rituals" 1996 On Silent Records San Francisco "Urban Myth 2" 1996 On Etherworld Recordings San Francisco And "Document '90" On Staalplaat/Korm Plastics Amsterdam Holland . His Recent Work "Millennium Urban Soundscape Project" Was Broadcast Via CHRW-FM And Simultaneously Over The Internet. The Web Site Documenting The Project Is Located At Www.Uwo.Usc.Ca/chrw/urban. It Has Also Been Presented As An Installation At "drift" In Glasgow Scotland Nov. 1999 And Will Be Re-Broadcast On Several Non-Commercial Radio Stations Throughout 2000. He Has Also Recently Collaborated With Sound-Poet Bill Bissett On The CD Release "rainbow Mewsik" Red Deer College Press 2000 . Meloche Currently Works With Herb Bayley In The Outward Sound Ensemble Which They Co-Founded In 2002. Their First CD Release Was "Cloudburst" In Collaboration With British Musician Martin Archer On The Discus Records Label Sheffield UK . Meloche's 20-Year Retrospective "Impossible Shapes" Was Issued By The English Electric Label In 2005 And Has Garnered Positive Reviews In The Wire Gramophone And All Music Guide. Chris Meloche's Work Has Been Supported By Grants From The Canada Council And Ontario Arts Council. He Is A Founding Member Of The Canadian Electroacoustic Community And The World Forum For Acoustic Ecology. He Is The Host Of The Weekly Contemporary Music Radio Programme WIRED FOR SOUND On CHRW-FM London And Also A Freelance Music Writer Currently Published On A Regular Basis In Both Canada And The USA. read less