{"id":105149,"date":"2023-08-09T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T00:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/?post_type=bu-article&#038;p=105149"},"modified":"2023-11-16T17:59:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T22:59:55","slug":"muse-eldad-tsabary-sound-design","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/magazine\/articles\/2023\/muse-eldad-tsabary-sound-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding a Home in Electroacoustic Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin magazine-block-editorial-leadin is-style-emphasis-on-text has-media has-box has-media-focus-center-middle has-primary-theme\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-lockup\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-leadin-media\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Muse-Caroline-Campeau-AKOUSMA-scaled.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Muse-Caroline-Campeau-AKOUSMA-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Muse-Caroline-Campeau-AKOUSMA-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Muse-Caroline-Campeau-AKOUSMA-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Muse-Caroline-Campeau-AKOUSMA-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Muse-Caroline-Campeau-AKOUSMA-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Muse-Caroline-Campeau-AKOUSMA-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Muse-Caroline-Campeau-AKOUSMA-1500x1000.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Muse-Caroline-Campeau-AKOUSMA-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Muse-Caroline-Campeau-AKOUSMA-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/10\/Muse-Caroline-Campeau-AKOUSMA-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-outer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin-caption wp-prepress-component-caption\"><em>Photo by Caroline Campeau<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-inner\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-prepress-tag\">CFA Alumni<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"head\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMuse\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"deck\">Through the laptop orchestra he founded, Eldad Tsabary has found a home in electroacoustic music<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar magazine-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">August 9, 2023<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul data-credit-type=\"By\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/magazine\/authors\/steve-holt\/\">Steve Holt<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-introparagraph magazine-block-editorial-introparagraph is-style-dropcap-boxed has-dropcap has-dropcap-color-primary\"><div class=\"wp-block-editorial-introparagraph-content\"><p>Sound designers and creators of electroacoustic music\u2014which requires the aid of electronic technology, such as a computer\u2014\u201care masters of solitary studio work,\u201d according to Eldad Tsabary, chair and associate professor of music at Concordia University in Montreal. The Concordia Laptop Orchestra (known as CLOrk) brings those musicians \u201cout of their dungeons\u201d and into a world of improvisation and collaboration with each other and audiences that is redefining the boundaries of electroacoustic music, says Tsabary, who founded the group in 2010.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>After serving in the Israeli Defense Force\u2014he grew up in Petah Tikva\u2014and taking three months to backpack in the Canadian Yukon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.concordia.ca\/faculty\/eldad-tsabary.html\">Tsabary<\/a> (\u201913) embarked on a journey of musical discovery: he\u2019d started playing the organ at six and later switched to the flute, concentrating on flute performance at the Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music; he moved to New York City to study composition under renowned music theorist Carl Schachter at The New School\u2019s Mannes School of Music; and he started a PhD in composition at City University of New York. Over time, his interests shifted, from composing music for and playing traditional instruments to more electronic forms of sound. He earned a continuing education degree in computer-assisted sound design from Montreal-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musitechnic.com\/en\/\">Musitechnic Formation<\/a> in 2004 and started teaching courses on sound and electroacoustics at Concordia University in 2005.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2023\/11\/Eldad-Tsabary-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-105601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/11\/Eldad-Tsabary-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/11\/Eldad-Tsabary-636x479.jpg 636w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/11\/Eldad-Tsabary-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/11\/Eldad-Tsabary-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/11\/Eldad-Tsabary-2048x1542.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/11\/Eldad-Tsabary-1328x1000.jpg 1328w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Eldad Tsabary teaches courses on sound and electroacoustics at Concordia University. Courtesy of Tsabary<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Tsabary has found a home in the musical subgenre of electroacoustics. On his way to earning a doctorate in music education at CFA, he wrote his dissertation on ear training for electroacoustics. \u201cBU was much more in line with my interest in music as a channel for community, for people, for collaboration,\u201d Tsabary reflects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.concordia.ca\/cuevents\/offices\/provost\/fourth-space\/programming\/2021\/10\/16\/concordia-laptop-orchestra.html\">CLOrk<\/a>, which Concordia students take as a course and follows in the footsteps of the pioneering laptop orchestra at Princeton University, allows Tsabary to bring together all his musical interests. The orchestra has performed at festivals around eastern Canada, the Hong Kong Freespace Jazz Fest, Cambridge Festival, and many others. With their laptops open in front of them and speakers surrounding the audience, musicians create sounds and beats in audio softwares of their choosing. Sometimes a musical set will have a predefined structure to prevent it from becoming a \u201cball of sound,\u201d and sometimes Tsabary conducts. But frequently, he prefers to see what the musicians come up with on their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"responsive-video responsive-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Concordia Laptop Orchestra (CLOrk) - Dance with Chance\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NIYYliAu_b0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-primary-background-color is-style-caption\">Listen to this performance by the Concordia Laptop Orchestra. Courtesy of Concordia Department of Music<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-end-of-article\">\u201cWhat I find most driving is getting a platform for cooperation,\u201d he says. \u201cI have my ideas, but I don\u2019t want to force them on others in this setting. I\u2019m much more interested in the ground-up process of how people find ways to cooperate\u2026and make sound together, or new ways to interact. Sound exploration is fun, but the human part to me is kind of like the glue.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\t<section class=\"wp-block-editorial-collection-billboard magazine-block-editorial-collection-billboard\">\n\n\t\t<h3 class=\"collection-billboard-intro-title\">This Series<\/h3>\n\t\t<article class=\"collection-billboard-article\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"collection-billboard-media\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"collection-navigation-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/2023-courtesy-of-Loghaven-Artist-Residency-jump-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/2023-courtesy-of-Loghaven-Artist-Residency-jump-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/2023-courtesy-of-Loghaven-Artist-Residency-jump-636x424.jpg 636w, 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