Go Long: new, sustainable, and panoramic approaches to record production”
At this workshop, facilitated by Duguay’s creative partner Andrew MacKelvie, MCD will speak to his experience as a producer working immersively in unconventional spaces in remote locations, how he found this practice and why he’s adopted it, his creative process, and will provide insight into how to secure arts fundings for ambitious, conceptual creative recording projects.
about the artist and producer:
Michael Cloud Duguay is an Ontario-based composer and producer situated at a focal intersection within the experimental music landscape. His highly distinct creative process has helped give shape to a prolificacy of Canadian music projects and his panoramic vision for album production and cultural organizing has come to encompass and encourage a vast and thriving national community of collaborators working across genre and discipline. MCD’s output frequently explores memory, nostalgia, and location, both literal and metaphorical. His fascination with the particular qualities of different spaces and with different collaborative dynamics has led to him to record and create music everywhere from the Yukon Territory’s northernmost fly-in community to the lantern room of mainland Canada’s easternmost lighthouse and remote historic churches all across Newfoundland, and relatedly has prompted him to explore sustainable methods of recording. To date he has crafted three albums almost entirely with solar power in collaboration with his friend and accomplice, engineer Jake Nicoll.
Duguay's projects have been recognized by institutions such as the Canada Council For the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Yukon Sound Commission, the City of Peterborough, the Electric City Culture Council, the City of Kingston and the Kingston Arts Council. He was recipient of the inaugural City of Kingston Artist-in-Residence in 2021, and has also held residencies at Westben, in Ontario and Hakoniemi Artist Residency in Karelia, Finland and the Old School Artist Residency in Hrisey, Iceland. He has no formal musical training or post-secondary credentials.
MCD is currently the musical director forScions, a critically-acclaimed creative music collective whose various members traverse Canada, and leads the Halifax-based elctroacoustic improv ensemble, Talismanic Episode Assembly, as well as the Peterborough-based motorik art-rock group,Valleyspeak, and Wolfe Island-based improvisation drums and dub duo, Global Sadness.
Go Long: new, sustainable, and panoramic approaches to record production”
At this workshop, facilitated by Duguay’s creative partner Andrew MacKelvie, MCD will speak to his experience as a producer working immersively in unconventional spaces in remote locations, how he found this practice and why he’s adopted it, his creative process, and will provide insight into how to secure arts fundings for ambitious, conceptual creative recording projects.
about the artist and producer:
Michael Cloud Duguay is an Ontario-based composer and producer situated at a focal intersection within the experimental music landscape. His highly distinct creative process has helped give shape to a prolificacy of Canadian music projects and his panoramic vision for album production and cultural organizing has come to encompass and encourage a vast and thriving national community of collaborators working across genre and discipline. MCD’s output frequently explores memory, nostalgia, and location, both literal and metaphorical. His fascination with the particular qualities of different spaces and with different collaborative dynamics has led to him to record and create music everywhere from the Yukon Territory’s northernmost fly-in community to the lantern room of mainland Canada’s easternmost lighthouse and remote historic churches all across Newfoundland, and relatedly has prompted him to explore sustainable methods of recording. To date he has crafted three albums almost entirely with solar power in collaboration with his friend and accomplice, engineer Jake Nicoll.
Duguay's projects have been recognized by institutions such as the Canada Council For the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Yukon Sound Commission, the City of Peterborough, the Electric City Culture Council, the City of Kingston and the Kingston Arts Council. He was recipient of the inaugural City of Kingston Artist-in-Residence in 2021, and has also held residencies at Westben, in Ontario and Hakoniemi Artist Residency in Karelia, Finland and the Old School Artist Residency in Hrisey, Iceland. He has no formal musical training or post-secondary credentials.
MCD is currently the musical director forScions, a critically-acclaimed creative music collective whose various members traverse Canada, and leads the Halifax-based elctroacoustic improv ensemble, Talismanic Episode Assembly, as well as the Peterborough-based motorik art-rock group,Valleyspeak, and Wolfe Island-based improvisation drums and dub duo, Global Sadness.
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