Bruce Davis

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Bruce Davis, born in Toronto in 1946, studied composition with Bruce Mather at McGill University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Music Degree in 1970. After graduation, he moved to Vancouver where he began composing tape pieces in Murray Schafer's Sonic Research Studio, and is now (1974) involved in doing research for the World Soundscape Project. He is also an Instrucional Specialist at Simon Fraser University at the Centre for Communication and the Arts. In 1974, he was a first prize winner in the CBC / Canada Council Contest for young composers.

Mr. Davis makes these comments: "I have since acquired a fascination for such things as the sound of frogs, the musicianship of railroad engineers, the large scale sounds of heavy industry, linguistic dialects, and analytic psychology. In the middle of this however, I composed a string quartet which manages pretty well to ignore all these things. Future plans depend on World Sounscape Project funding, but include some soundscape reseach in Europe next year, ditching my old and rusting trumpet for something that plays in tune, and then getting my chops back, and the (distant future) developments of an FM wilderness monitoring radio service."

1974

Photo Source: CMC Archives

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