John Oliver, composer, guitarist
Vancouver, BC, CA      Classical / Experimental / Minimal
    • Songs
    • Dust (excerpt)
    • Give Us Peace (excerpt)
    • Just Inference (excerpt)
    • Over the Edge (excerpt)
    • Eleven (excerpt)
    • Marimba Destruido (excerpt)
    • scintilla (excerpt)
    • Icicle Blue Avalanche (excerpt)
    • Copper Flying (excerpt)
    • InDia (excerpt)
    • Off the Edge (excerpt)
    • Second Nature (excerpt)
    • El Reposo del Fuego (excerpt)
    • Marimba Dismembered (excerpt)
    • Purple Lotus Bud (excerpt)
    • Forging Utopia for orchestra (exc...
    • Face in the Abstract for orchestr...
    • Chase the Money for alto sax and ...
    • Aller-retour for chamber orchestr...
    • Millennial Moments for orchestra...
    • Raven Steals the Light for orches...
    • Unseen Rain for voice and orchest...
    • InDia
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•Writes and performs music for acoustic instruments and electroacoustic media. •Won six prizes in late 80s for five compositions ranging from chamber to orchestral to electroacoustic music including the Canada Council’s Grand Prize at the 8th CBC 8th National Competition for Young Composers for his live electronic work with tape, "El Reposo del Fuego." •Performs on special nylon-stringed MIDI-capable guitars made by Quebec luthier Godin, specializing in their transformation by electronic and computer processing (MAX/MSP). I also sometimes conduct my own music or mix a show of electroacoustic music. Music on CDs from empreintes DIGITALes, earsay, CBC Records, ZaDiscs, SNE and McGill University Records.

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This web site is a place to discover the compositions of Canadian composer John Oliver.

You will hear two distinct types of music on this site:

1] music for electronic media, using guitars and computers and other instruments; and

2] music for orchestra and other classical ensembles.

Oliver says: "Generally I take on the darker side in my electroacoustic music, whereas the music for classical ensembles tends toward an invigorating post-minimalism."


 

CURRENT WORK-IN-PROGRESS

  • 2010 Olympics commission: a chamber concerto for the Turning point Enesmble.
  • ARS NOVA (Sweden): a work for electric band and computer.
  • Vancouver Intercultural Orchestra: a major work that combines Western instruments with solo instruments from Turkey, Iran, India, and China.
  • CHENOA ANDERSEN: a work for flute and electronics

Click the SHOWS tab above for announcements of premiere performances.

Listen to DUO VITA, my duo with Toronto violinist Lynn Kuo


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