Sound and Music

composer, sound artist, performer, improviser, live electronics player and programmer, bassoon free improviser (the order can change...)
I'm looking for new collaborations, particularly but not exclusively with dance and live art/live video.
www.musinou.net

 
 
Portfolio 
 
Sound art performances 
Piece for solo bike and projection
Prelude for 9 kettles
Piece for balloons, played by the audience
Performance for a singer in a shower
Improvisations for sound of voice with live electronics 
Improvisation for orange box and purple things, with live electronics
 
Music performances 
Piece for solo brass player, with theatric actions and live electronics
Piece for clarinet, performer and live electronics.
 
One-off installations 
Installation with more then 20 instruments made with slinkies
 
 
 
Biography 

Sonia Paço-Rocchia is a young artist who took a degree in Instrumental and Electro-Acoustic Composition from the Université de Montréal after a double collegial diploma in natural sciences and music. She studied composition with Michel Tétreault, José Evangelista, Michel Smith, Michel Longtin and Jean Piché. Her work has been presented in Québec, Alberta, England, Bulgaria and Germany.

 
She enjoys composing for non-conventional instruments (CAM, for seven bus-card players, 2001;  Sans escalier, for solo slinky, 2004;  Pedalling Under London's Clouds, bicycle solo and projection, 2008), and she readily incorporates improvisation and theatrical action into her pieces (Improvisation sur les cinq sens, for piano, soprano, cello, percussions, tape and real-time processing, highland pipes and toy motor-car, 2004; Eau, for soprano under the shower and processed water, 2005).  As she is interested in emerging technologies, she does not hesitate,when artistically necessary, to incorporate real-time processing into her works (Soupirs, for clarinet and accompanying electroacoustics, 2005; Il temps-te, variations and improvisations for cornet, trumpet, trumpet piccolo, flugelhorn, sounds which move in space and stage actions, 2006). She has participated in workshops 
on sensors, Max/MSP and FTM, at iRCAM in Paris, and more recently in an interface workshop by Numediart, in Belgium. Sonia Paço-Rocchia is very interested audience participation (À chacun sa balloune, for dozens of balloons played by members of the audience, 2004), cross-over art, and in the sound installation medium (Installation on the Slinky, up to 40 different instruments made with slinkies, 2004; S'enfeuiller, with trees made of sheets of paper, lighting and interaction with the public, 2006). 
 
She performs/improvises using a myriad of readily available sound-makers, invented instruments, voice and/or bassoon, along with real-time processing through gesture-based interfaces. She plays solo and in different ensembles, including London Improvisers Orchestra 
 
Sonia Paço-Rocchia is currently working for dance project, in addition to writing a theatrical piece of music for large flexible ensemble and live electronics.