WILLIAM A. DAVISON

CURRICULUM VITAE - AUDIO

779 Ossington Ave., Apt#2, Toronto, ON, M6G 3T8, Canada
Ph: 416-588-7539, E-mail: davison(at)recordism(dot)com

 

 

SOLO PERFORMANCES

2011

• "Slow Bells", New Harbours series, Christ Church Cathedral, Hamilton, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• Somewhere There, Toronto, ON
• "Stactor Herky Jerky", F.T.P.R.I., Toronto, ON (as M.Stactor)

2010

• "Japanese Ghosts", Studio 303, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• Untitled, Handmade Music Night event, InterAccess, Toronto, ON (as Th W rbl r)
• "DU(BU)ET", Performance Night 4.5 event, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• Untitled, Desert of Woo Woo event, Gallery 253469, Toronto, ON

2009

• Untitled, Dictaphonia Fest, Gainesville, FL (as M.Stactor)
• Untitled, 355 Noise #2 event, Gainesville, FL (as M.Stactor)
• Untitled, 7-24 Video, Toronto, ON (as M.Stactor)
• Untitled, The Sail Shop, Toronto, ON (as Th W rbl r)
• Untitled, Clubbb Dreaddd, Toronto, ON (as M.Stactor)

2008

• Untitled, Somewhere There, Toronto, ON
• Untitled, Null Space, Toronto, ON (as M.Stactor)
• Untitled, Renaissance Cafe, Toronto, ON
• "Dialogue: Exhumation", Somewhere There, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)

2007

• Untitled, Noise Tuesdays series, Not My Dog, Toronto, ON (as Th W rbl r)
• "Dots", Queen West Art Crawl, Trinity Bellwoods Park, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• Untitled, 61 Major St., Toronto, ON
• Untitled, 61 Major St., Toronto, ON (as Th W rbl r)
• "The Five-Minute Circuit Shuffle (for R.E.)", Open Letter magazine launch (special Ray Ellenwood edition), Supermarket, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)

2006

• Untitled, Bummer In The Summer Festival, Transac Club, Toronto, ON
• "Alien Bell Hat Ritual No. 1", Humanitas Festival, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• Untitled, Drake Underground, Toronto, ON
• Untitled, Poor Pilgrim series, The Press Club, Toronto, ON

2005

• Untitled (Youngs gig), New Works Studio, Toronto, ON
• Untitled (Marqido gig), New Works Studio, Toronto, ON
• "The Spectre Of Black Vegetables", New Works Studio, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "Dave Charles Sample Spots 7 1/2 I.P.S.", Psycho-Physical Noise Mini-Festival, New Works Studio, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)

2004

• "Epiphenomenal Suitcase", Coup de Coeur event, The Music Gallery, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "No. 16, Xpace", 7a11d Festival of Performance Art, Xpace Gallery, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "Found Object 1", New Works Studio, Toronto, ON
• "Epiphenomenal Suitcase", Dovercourt House, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "No. 15, High Park", High Park, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "No. 14, Dovehouse (Apparition)", Dovercourt House, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "No. 12, Dovehouse (Anti-Mask)", Dovercourt House, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)

2003

• "No. 11, Dovehouse (Black Spots)", Dovercourt House, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "No. 10, Dovehouse (Combat)", Dovercourt House, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "No. 9, Dovehouse (Results Inconclusive)", Dovercourt House, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "No. 8, Dovehouse (Bird Energy)", Dovercourt House, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "No. 7, Dovehouse (Family Funtime)", Dovercourt House, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "No. 6, Dovehouse (Little Strangers)", Dovercourt House, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "No. 5, Dovehouse (Mirror Energy)", Dovercourt House, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "No. 4, Dovehouse (Stag Energy)", Dovercourt House, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "No. 3, Dovehouse (The Red Yarn)", Dovercourt House, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)

2002

• "Curiouser Still", More and More Curious exhibition, Art System, Toronto, ON
• "InEggMa Remix", Emergence art exhibition, Live Art Space, Toronto, ON

2001

• "Tiny Gifts", Reciprocity/Reciprocité performance art exchange, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "Typewriter Variation No. 2", Reciprocity/Reciprocité performance art exchange, Elle Corazon, Montreal, Que. (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "No. 1, Anti-Corps", Sex and Pain, Gallerie Anti-Corps, Montreal, Que. (as Songs of the New Erotics)

2000

• "My Nose, Tzara’s Face", The Box series, Labyrinth, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)

1999

• "Evil Noise", Solstice Party, Anarchist Free Space, Toronto, ON (as Bill Satan)
• "Small Composition Inside A Box", Anarchist Free Space, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)

1998

• "A Poetry Found In The Dark Edges Of Science", Samhain In Wasteland event, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "Kook Dance At X Hundred Feet", 7a11d Festival of Performance Art, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "Baron Brainscapes" intervention, Dwellers At The Threshold event, Power Plant, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "Windbag", Songscapes event, The Music Gallery, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "One Hundred Maggots", Extreme Noise event, Weave Club, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)

1997

• "Shadows and Subterfuge", University of Guelph, Guelph, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "Coat Hanger Music", Noise Bible CD Release, Cinecycle, Toronto, ON (as Bill Satan)
• "The Anti-Child of Recordist Performance and a Lighted Cavern", 7a11d Festival of Performance Art, Symptom Hall, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "Nonsense Companions", Forest City Gallery, London, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "15-Minute Ideospheric Construction", Pssst...Live Art For An Unlit Place event, Made In Canada Artist's Collective, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "Baron Brainscapes" intervention, Temporary Disturbances, Nora Vaughn Gallery, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "Speech of the Eternal Killer", Wasteland Cathedral event, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)

1996

• "Recordist Manifesto In Memory Of The Engines", The Fight for the Light experimental music event, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "Merzkopf", Toronto Recordist Performer/filmmaker W.A.Davison exhibition, Altering Fields ‘96/Cinecycle, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "Merzkopf", Meditation, H.M.A., Hamilton, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "Merzkopf", Thought Ambulance event, Parameter, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "Nonsense Companions", Robot Leader, Nora Vaughn Gallery, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "Improvisation For Crawlspace", Cinecycle, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)

1993

• "The Misery Bag: Ergotic Concert No. 1", Freedom In A Vacuum, The Music Gallery, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "Play For A Sealed Room", Surgical Transmissions, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)

 

GROUP PERFORMANCES

2011

• Art's Birthday, New Adventures In Sound Art, Wychwood Barns, Toronto, ON (as member of Six Heads. Collaboration with Ron Sakolsky and Sarah Peebles)
• Eminent Domain series, Somewhere There, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Daeve Fellows)
• The 460, Toronto, ON (as member of Six Heads)
• Forest City Gallery, London, ON (invitation only performance/recording session with members of Six Heads, Nihilist Spasm Band, Name With No Sound)
• Somewhere There, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Mark Segger, Heather Segger)
• Eminent Domain, Somewhere There, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Tomasz Krakowiak, John Halfpenny)
• Six Heads LP Launch, Tranzac Club, Toronto, ON (as member of Six Heads)
• Somewhere There, Toronto, ON (as member of Sen/Son)
• Somewhere There, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Built To Suit)
• Contact Improv, Dovercourt House, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Michelangelo Iaffaldano)
• Halo Halo, Toronto, ON (as member of Six Heads)

2010

• Electric Eclectics Festival, Meaford, ON (as member of Six Heads)
• Sublime Frequencies event, Teranga, Toronto, ON (as member of Six Heads. Opening for Robert Millis)
• Ossington/Dupont parkette, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Brian Ruryk)
• Inside Voices event, 1059 Bathurst, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Robert Dayton)
• Teranga, Toronto, ON (as member of Property Damage with Alan Bloor, Kevin Crump, Ryan Clark)
• Somewhere There, Toronto, ON (as member of Six Heads. Collaboration with Alan Bloor)
• Smiling Buddha Showcase, Smiling Buddha Bar, Toronto, ON (as member of Magic Tits)
• Contact Improv, Dovercourt House, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Michelangelo Iaffaldano)
• Tranzac Club, Toronto, ON (as member of Alien Life Bomb)
• Leftover Daylight series, Somewhere There, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Pau Torres)
• Leftover Daylight series, Somewhere There, Toronto, ON (as member of Odradek)
• Leftover Daylight series, Somewhere There, Toronto, ON (as member of Six Heads)
• Leftover Daylight series, Somewhere There, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Tomasz Krakowiak)
• The Most Horrible Night In Your Life Vol. 11 event, Smiling Buddha Bar, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Paul Dutton)
• NOW Series, Somewhere There, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Paul Dutton, Tomasz Krakowiak)
• Somewhere There, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Ryan Clark)
• Leftover Daylight series, Somewhere There, Toronto, ON (as member of Odradek)

2009

• Teranga, Toronto, ON (as member of Magic Tits)
• Leftover Daylight series, Somewhere There, Toronto, ON (as member of Alien Life Bomb with Ken Aldcroft, Christopher Cauley, Paul Dutton, Mike Overton, Nilan Perera, Ronda Rindone, Mark Segger, Andy Yue)
• "New Dance, New Music" event, Artword Theatre, Hamilton, ON (as member of Orchestre Royal Odradek, collaboration with Meiko Ando)
• Svankmajer Improvisations, Somewhere There, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Colin Fisher)
• Contact Improv, Dovercourt House, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Michelangelo Iaffaldano)
• Leftover Daylight series, Somewhere There, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Joel Leblanc, Germaine Liu, Rob Piilonen, Jeremy Strachan)
• "Freedom Of Community" event, CIUT Radio/University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (as member of Odradek)
• "The Most Horrible Night In Your Life, Vol. 9", Smiling Buddha, Toronto, ON (as member of Six Heads)
• "True Social Improv" event, Jamie's Area, Toronto, ON (duo with Pau Torres)
• 7-24 Video, Toronto, ON (as member of Conspiracy Of Familiar Objects)
• Orchestre Royal Odradek CD release, Somewhere There, Toronto, ON (as member of Orchestre Royal Odradek)
• "The Most Horrible Night In Your Life, Vol.8", Smiling Buddha Bar, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Rick Sacks, Robin Buckley, Dave Clark, Blake Howard, Tomasz Krakowiak)

2008

• AIMT Interface Series, Somewhere There, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Martin Tetrault, Ryan Driver)
• "Nuit Noire" event, Bovine Sex Club, Toronto, ON (collaboration with S.Higgins)
• "Textures" event, The Ambient Ping, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, ON (as member of Contrapture)
• AIMT Interface Series, Arraymusic Studio, Toronto, ON (as member of Odradek)
• Renaissance Cafe, Toronto. ON (as member of Six Heads)
• Smiling Buddha, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Ayal Senior, Jon Shapiro, Matt Dunn)
• This Ain't The Rosedale Library, Toronto, ON (as member of Six Heads)
• Somewhere There, Toronto, ON (as member of Contrapture)
• Whitney Biennial 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (collaboration with S.Higgins, Thomas Carnacki, Neighborhood Public Radio)
• Illuminated Corridor/Whitney Biennial 2008, Gansevoort Plaza, New York, NY (collaboration with S.Higgins, Thomas Carnacki, Neighborhood Public Radio, Illuminated Corridor)
• Fun Razor, 61 Major, Toronto, ON (as member of Six Heads)
• Sound Eye Festival, Tanso, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (as part of Ambient Ping Buddha Boxers)
• Lee's Palace, Toronto, ON (as member of Conspiracy Of Familiar Objects)
• Somewhere There, Toronto, ON (as member of Sen/Son)
• Somewhere There, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Alan Bloor, Michelangelo Iaffaldano, Arnd Jurgensen)
• Art Bar, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON (as member of Sen/Son)
• The Dead Of Winter Will Not Be Silent Festival, Renaissance Cafe, Toronto, ON (as member of Six Heads)

2007

• AIMToronto Interface Series, Arraymusic Studio, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Rod Campbell, Ken Aldcroft, Eddie Prevost)
• Inyrdisc Label Showcase, Sneaky Dee's, Toronto, ON (as member of Conspiracy Of Familiar Objects)
• Nuit Blanche Festival, Parkdale, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Kevin Crump, Michael Keith, Michelangelo Iaffaldano)
• Tranzac, Toronto, ON (as member of Conspiracy Of Familiar Objects)
• Toronto (New Music) Marathon, Dundas Square, Toronto, ON (as member of Full Metal Racket)
• Six Heads Noise Picnic, Ward's Island, Toronto, ON (as member of Six Heads)
• Rancho Relaxo, Toronto, ON (as member of Conspiracy Of Familiar Objects)
• Tranzac, Toronto, ON (as member of Conspiracy Of Familiar Objects)
• Left-Over Daylight Series, Arraymusic Studio, Toronto, ON (as member of Quincunx)
• Art Bar, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON (as member of Green-Faced Spirit)
• Smiling Buddha, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Ayal Senior, Jon Shapiro)
• Mitzi's Sister, Toronto, ON (as member of Conspiracy Of Familiar Objects)
• Bummer Nights, Tranzac, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Odradek)
• The Boat, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Kevin Crump)
• The NOW Series, NOW Lounge, Toronto, ON (as member of Sen/Son - duo with Arnd Jurgensen)
• The NOW Series, NOW Lounge, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Pierre-Yves Martel, Ken Aldcroft, John Wilson, Brandon Valdivia, Nick Buligan, Scott Thomson, Christine Duncan)
• Art Bar, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON (as member of Sen/Son - duo with Arnd Jurgensen)
• NOW Series, Now Lounge, Toronto, ON (as member of Conspiracy Of Familiar Objects)
• Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, ON (as member of Conspiracy Of Familiar Objects)

2006

• The Ambient Ping, Drake Hotel, Toronto, ON (as member of Six Heads)
• The NOW Series, The Now Lounge, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Ken Aldcroft, Joe Sorbara, Michelangelo Iaffaldano)
• 61 Major St., Toronto, ON (as member of Conspiracy of Familiar Objects)
• Bummer In The Summer Festival, Transac Club, Toronto, ON (as member of Six Heads)
• Ski Meat, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, ON (as member of Six Heads)
• Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, U.S.A. (collaboration with Nurse With Wound)
• The Art Bar, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON (as member of Orchestre Royale Odradek)
• The Art Bar, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON (duo with Michelangelo Iaffaldano)
• The NOW Series, NOW Lounge, Toronto, ON (as member of Six Heads)
• The Oasis, Toronto, ON (as member of Sounds Of North American Adult Bookstores)
• Graffiti's, Toronto, ON (as member of Sounds Of North American Adult Bookstores)

2005

• The Bagel, Toronto, ON (as member of Gastric Female Reflex)
• The Art Bar, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON (as member of Gastric Female Reflex)
• Oasis, Toronto, ON (collaboration with A.Zukerman, S.Higgins)
• New Works Studio, Toronto, ON (as member of irr.app.(ext.))
• Transit Space, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Andrew Zukerman)
• Flywheel, Easthampton, Massachusetts (as member of Gastric Female Reflex)
• The Electric Tractor, Montreal, Que. (as member of Gastric Female Reflex)

2004

• Lexiconjury, Cameron House, Toronto, ON (as member of Six Heads)
• Thought Preserve Book Launch, Cameron House, Toronto, ON (as member of Gastric Female Reflex)
• Torpor Vigil Dream Bazaar, Cameron House, Toronto, ON (collaboration with S.Higgins)
• Noise Hi-Five, Drake Hotel, Toronto, ON (as member of Gastric Female Reflex with Andrew Zukerman and Taylor Flook)
• Art Bar, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Michelangelo Iaffaldano, Dougal Bichan, James Bailey, Elliot Chapin, Katt Hernandez)
• Graffiti's, Toronto, ON (as member of Gastric Female Reflex with Andrew Zukerman and Jacob Horwood)
• Distillery Jazz Festival, Toronto, ON (as member of Brutt Luddite with Mike Hansen)
• "No. 13, Dovehouse (Hands)", Dovercourt House, Toronto, ON (collaboration with S.Higgins as Songs of the New Erotics)
• "Recordist Open House", E.N.O.T.C.A. Studio, Toronto, On. (as member of Six Heads and ad hoc groupings)

2003

• 12 T.O.E.S., Oasis cafe, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Michelangelo Iaffaldano, Cheryl O, Rod Campbell, Chris Gehman)
• The Ambient Ping, C'est What/Club Nia, Toronto, ON (as member of Six Heads)
• Instant Music Meeting, The Centurion Pub, London, U.K. (collaboration with Johannes Bergmark, Paul Hood, and others)
• The Bonnington Centre, London, UK (collaboration with Johannes Bergmark, Phil Morton, Jonathon Bohman, and others)
• The Klinker, The Sussex Pub, London, UK (collaboration with Johannes Bergmark, Paul Shearsmith)
• Free Radicals, Red Rose Club, London, UK (collaboration with Johannes Bergmark, Tony Wren, Roland Ramanan, Marcio Mattos, Simon Fell, Mark Sanders, James Bailey)
• Distillery Jazz Festival, Toronto, ON (as member of ATM+Guy with Arnd Jurgensen, Tomasz Krakowiak, Mike Hansen, Guy LeBlanc, and Eugene Martynec)
• "Several Species Of Birds", Le Gourmand, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Arnd Jurgensen, Watson Jennison)
• Oasis Cafe (east), Toronto, ON (as member of Improvisor's Pool with Paul Dutton, Michael Snow, Arnd Jurgensen, Michael Keith, and others)
• 8 T.O.E.S., Oasis cafe, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Tomasz Krakowiak, Mike Hansen)
• Oasis Cafe (east), Toronto, ON (as member of Improvisor's Pool with Michelangelo Iaffaldano, Arnd Jurgensen, Jim Bailey)
• Oasis Cafe (east), Toronto, ON (collaboration with Arnd Jurgensen, Michelangelo Iaffaldano, Watson Jennison)
• The Ambient Ping, C'est What/Club NIA, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Tomasz Krakowiak, Aidan Baker)
• "The Black Domain", Le Gourmand, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Steve Venright)
• 6 T.O.E.S., Oasis cafe, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Michelangelo Iaffaldano, Adriana Monti, Brendan McClement)

2002

• Toronto Fringe Jazz Festival, Stealth Lounge, Toronto, ON (as member of Strung with Jason Hammer, Arnd Jurgensen, Mike Hanson, David Prentice, Tomasz Krakowiak, Kye Marshall, and Colin Fisher)
• "The Lovers" intervention, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON (collaboration with S.Higgins as Songs of the New Erotics with assistance from B.Hausner, R.Ellenwood, S.MacKay)
• Eugene's Sunday Series, Artword Theatre, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Yvonne Ng, Michael DuMaresq, Glen Hall, Rod Campbell, Tomasz Krakowiak, Arnd Jurgensen, Eugene Martynec, and Rob Clutton)
• Eugene's Sunday Series, Artword Theatre, Toronto, ON (as member of Artwordchestra with Rob Clutton, Eugene Martynec, Kye Marshall, Victor Bateman, Tomasz Krakowiac, Glen Hall, Tom Baker, Gordon Allen, Paul Newman, and Eldridge Priest)
• T.O.E.S., Oasis Cafe, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Michelangelo Iaffaldano, Rod Campbell, and Watson Jennison)
• 2 T.O.E.S., Oasis Cafe, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Michelangelo Iaffaldano)
• 3 T.O.E.S., Oasis Cafe, Toronto, ON (as member of ATM+Guy with Arnd Jurgensen, Mike Hansen, Guy LeBlanc, and Tomasz Krakowiak)
• Eugene's Sunday Series, Artword Theatre, Toronto, ON (as member of Quincunx with Eugene Martynec, Paul Dutton, Tomasz Krakowiac, and European improvisor Ute Volker)
• 4 T.O.E.S., Oasis Cafe, Toronto, ON (as member of Quincunx with Paul Dutton, Tomasz Krakowiac, and Mike Hansen)
• 7a11d - 4th International Festival of Performance Art, Art System, Toronto, ON (sound tech for Daniel Barrow performance)
• 7a11d - 4th International Festival of Performance Art, Art System, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Diane Landry)
• "No. 2, Art System", 7a11d - 4th International Festival of Performance Art, Art System, Toronto, ON (Songs of the New Erotics with Recipro collective including Paul Couillard, Shannon Cochrane, Tagny Duff, Margaret Dragu, Kirsten Forkert, Josée Tremblay, Eric Letourneau, and Victoria Stanton)
• Eugene's Sunday Series, Artword Theatre, Toronto, ON (as member of Strung with Mike Hansen, Tomasz Krakowiac, Guy LeBlanc, Jason Hammer, and Kye Marshall)

2001

• "Roughage", Pleasure Dome, Latvian Hall, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Zev Asher, John Boyle and Art Pratten of Nihilist Spasm Band, and others)
• Blue Moon Cafe, Toronto, ON (as member of Improvisor’s Pool)
• Eugene's Sunday Series, Artword Theatre, Toronto, ON (as member of Quincunx with Paul Dutton, Eugene Martynec, Tomasz Krakowiak, and Robin Buckley)
• Arraymusic Studio, Toronto, ON (as member of Quincunx - Paul Dutton, Tomasz Krakowiak, Tom Baker, Eugene Martynec, and myself)
• Blue Moon Cafe, Toronto, ON (as member of Improvisor’s Pool)
• Eugene’s Sunday Series, Artword Theatre, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Eugene Martynec, Tomasz Krakowiak, Nilan Perera, and European improvisers Christoph Irmer and Liba Villavecchia)
• Eugene’s Sunday Series, Artword Theatre, Toronto, ON (as member of Six Heads - C.Hinz, J.Bailey, P.Mosher, L.Feesey, S.Higgins, and myself)

2000

• Aleph Null, Toronto, ON (as member of Quincunx - Paul Dutton, Tomasz Krakowiac, Robin Buckley, Eugene Martynec, and myself)
• "Headless", 7a11d - 3rd International Festival of Performance Art, Art System, Toronto, ON (as member of Six Heads, collaboration with Sweden’s SU-EN Butoh Co.)
• Aleph Null, Toronto, ON (as member of Six Heads)
• First Recordist Improvisational Cinema, I.B.R.I./Pleasure Dome, Latvian Hall, Toronto, ON (collaboration with 10 musicians and 2 projectionists)
• Art System, Toronto, ON (as member of Urban Refuse Group with Pete Mosher, Colin Hinz, and Sherri Lyn Higgins. Large collective with changing membership)

1999

• Silence and Brutality, Holy Joe’s, Toronto, ON (as member of Urban Refuse Group with Sherri Lyn Higgins, Pete Mosher, James Bailey, and Linda Feesey)
• "Executive Machinery", Elektra Festival, Usine C, Montreal, Que. (as member of Puppet Government)
• Cameron House, Toronto, ON (as member of Improviser’s Pool)
• Riot Art, The 360, Toronto, ON (as member of EO3)
• The Improviser’s Series, Idler Pub, Toronto, ON (one-off performance with S.Higgins, J.Bailey, T.Krakowiak)
• Wasteland at Don, Toronto, ON (as member of Phycus)
• Toronto Vs. Tokyo, Reverb, Toronto, ON (as member of Urban Refuse Group with Sherri Lyn Higgins, Linda Feesey, Colin Hinz, James Bailey, and John McCullough. Performance with Japanese artists MSBR and Government Alpha)
• "Appreciating the Chakras", Time Time Time performance series, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Linda Montano and others)

1998

• The Improviser’s Series, Idler Pub, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Nick Fraser and James Bailey)
• "Bureau/Office", Art Action 1958 - 1998, Le Lieu, Quebec City, Que. (as member of Puppet Government)
• The Improviser’s Series, Idler Pub, Toronto, ON (as member of Urban Refuse Group with Linda Feesey, Kevin Paisley, Marc LeMyre, James Bailey, Timothy X, Sherri Lyn Higgins, John LaFontaine, and Paul Wilson)
• "Neoism In Theory And Practice", Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, ON (as member of Phycus)
• Contact Ontarois, College Boreal, Sudbury, ON (collaboration with Marc LeMyre)
• John Porter's Open Screening and All-Request Show, Latvian House, Toronto, ON (as member of Urban Refuse Group with John McCullough, Colin Hinz, James Bailey, W.A. Davison, Sherri Lyn Higgins, John LaFontaine, Timothy X, and John Porter)
• Porter In The Nineties, Ted's Wrecking Yard, Toronto, ON (as member of Urban Refuse Group with Sherri Lyn Higgins, John McCullough, and John Porter)
• Pleasure Dome Annual Open Screening, Cinecycle, Toronto, ON (as member of Urban Refuse Group with Colin Hinz, Sherri Lyn Higgins, James Bailey, Linda Feesey, John McCullough, Scott MacKay, and Kathleen Richardson)
• Birdworks, vacant lot on Bathurst St. (N. of Queen), Toronto, ON (as member of Urban Refuse Group with Timothy X, Sherri Lyn Higgins, Linda Feesey, Colin Hinz, and Catherine Crockett)

1997

• Super Super-8 Film Festival, The 360, Toronto, ON (as member of Urban Refuse Group with Timothy X, Colin Hinz, John McCullough, Sherri Lyn Higgins, Stefanie Marshall, Marc LeMyre, and Robert Atwood. Opening for traveling exhibition from San Diego)
• "Poesie Basse Technologie et Grandes Dents", Soiree de Musique Fraiche event, Complexe Meduse, Quebec City, Que. (collaboration with Marc LeMyre, performance with Rene Lussier and Pierre Tanguay)
• Toronto and the World, The Music Gallery, Toronto, ON (as member of Urban Refuse Group with Sherri Lyn Higgins, John McCullough, Neil Wiernik, Colin Hinz, Robert Atwood, Scott MacKay, Kevin Paisley, Timothy X, and Catherine Crockett)
• Rencontre Internationale D’Art Performance Et Multimedia, Le Lieu - Centre en Art Actuel, Quebec City, Que. (collaboration with BMZ)
• Myth and Reality 2 fundraiser, DeLeon White Gallery, Toronto, ON (as member of Urban Refuse Group with Neil Wiernik, Timothy X, Robert Atwood, Sherri Lyn Higgins, Scott MacKay, Ron McFarlen, and John McCullough)
• It's After the End of the Werld, Symptom Hall, Toronto, ON (as member of Urban Refuse Group with Sherri Lyn Higgins, Neil Wiernik, Robert Atwood, and Marc Hohmann)
• Mother Jones Was Not A Magazine fundraiser, Oasis Club, Toronto, ON (as member of Urban Refuse Group with Colin Hinz, Timothy X, Sherri Lyn Higgins, Robert Atwood, and John McCullough)
• The 360, Toronto, ON (as member of Urban Refuse Group with John McCullough, Sherri Lyn Higgins, Neil Wiernik, Scott MacKay, Paul Wilson, and Colin Hinz)
• "Window Performance #4", I.B.R.I., Toronto, ON (as member of Urban Refuse Group with Robert Atwood, Colin Hinz, Sherri Lyn Higgins, and Marc LeMyre)
• Fuck Toronto zine launch, El Mocambo, Toronto, ON (as member of Urban Refuse Group with Timothy X, Colin Hinz, Paul Wilson, Jesse McBride, Sherri Lyn Higgins, Marc LeMyre, and Scott MacKay)
• Ritual 1: Creation, Concert Hall, Toronto, ON (as member of Urban Refuse Group with Ron McFarlen, Shawn Davison, Neil Wiernik, Scott MacKay, Sherri Lyn Higgins, Paul Wilson, Jesse McBride, Kevin Paisley, Colin Hinz, and Robert Atwood. Opening for Richie Hawtin)
• "Music For Opposite Oxygen", The First Recordist Soiree event, I.B.R.I., Toronto, ON (collaboration with S.Higgins as Songs of the New Erotics)

1996

• Sonic Circuits Festival of Electroacoustic Music, Toronto ElectroAcoustics/The American Composers Forum, Toronto, ON (as member of Puppet Government)
• Legacy of Rust Festival, Savage Garden, Toronto, ON (as member of Urban Refuse Group with Colin Hinz, Robert Atwood, Neil Wiernik, John McCullough, Sherri Lyn Higgins, and Hungarian artist BMZ)
• Live at 455, DeLeon White Gallery, Toronto, ON (as member of Urban Refuse Group with Marnie Parrell, Judy Mintz, Robert Atwood, Neil Wiernik, Sherri Lyn Higgins, Colin Hinz, and BMZ)
• The Notorious Net Happening fundraiser, Amaranth Bauhaus, Toronto, ON (as member of Urban Refuse Group with Colin Hinz, Sherri Lyn Higgins, Robert Atwood, Judy Mintz, Neil Wiernik, and Scott MacKay)
• DeLeon White Gallery, Toronto, ON (as member of Urban Refuse Group with Neil Wiernik, Judy Mintz, Ron McFarlen, Robert Atwood, Paul Wilson, Jesse McBride, and Sherri Lyn Higgins)
• Propeller Gallery, Toronto, ON (as member of Urban Refuse Group with John McCullough, Kevin Paisley, Colin Hinz, Sherri Lyn Higgins, Neil Wiernik, and Robert Atwood)
• "Self-Alienation", Rencontre Performance event, Cinecycle, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics, collaboration with Hungarian artist BMZ and S.Higgins)

1995

• Freedom In A Vacuum, Music Gallery, Toronto, ON (as member of Phycus)

1994

• Various performances as part of Violence of the Imagination International Festival of Live Art, Brighton, UK (as member of Puppet Government and Phycus, with Monty Cantsin and Brian Damage)
• "Illegal Alien", Nosepaint, London, UK (as member of Puppet Government with Monty Cantsin and Brian Damage)

1992

• "Amen Speaks", Zero Work Jubilee, The Monastery, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Istvan Kantor and Scott MacKay)

 

EXHIBITIONS

2011

• Mix Tape, Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
• Mix Tape/Gigloo, TodaysArt Festival, Den Hague, NL
• Agency Of Unrealized Projects exhibition, Art Basel 42, Basel, Switzerland

2009

• De Tranen Van Eros, De Werkplaats, Amersfoort, Netherlands (drawing, audio installation)

2007

• Leaderless - Underground Cassette Culture Now exhibition, Printed Matter, New York, USA (Six Heads cassette included)

2005

• Encuentro Pata-Surrealista event, Buenos Aires, Argentina (videos/performance documents)

2001

• Machine and the Flesh, Art System, Toronto, ON (video installation and sound sculpture)

2000

• Pupa, Anarchist Free Space, Toronto, ON (mixed media installation, solo show)

1987

• An Episode Of Sparrows, Truro, N.S. (audio installation, painting)

1986

• An Episode Of Sparrows, Truro, NS (film, audio installation, painting, sculpture)

 

COMMISSIONS AND SOUNDTRACKS

2010

• small contribution to soundtrack (composed by Drainolith/Alex Moskos) for the short film "La Mort Des Soleils"

2009

• soundtrack for short film "Dancing The River" by Linda Feesey/Sol Express (Can.)
• audio installation/video soundtrack for "De Tranen Van Eros" video and exhibition (video by Jan Kees Helms), Amersfoort, Netherlands

2005

• radio art piece for "A Missing Sense" (James Bailey), CKLN Radio (Can.)

2002

• contribution to soundtrack for the short film "Mr. Kafka's Holiday" by Linda Feesey (Can.) (as member of Six Heads)

2001

• soundtrack for performance/exhibition by Louise Liliefeldt (Can.), Art System, Toronto, ON

1996

• soundtrack for "Alienation" performance by BMZ (Hungary), Rencontre Internationale D’Art Performance Et Multimedia, Le Lieu, Quebec City, Que.
• soundtrack for short film "Carnival Scene" by W.A.Davison (Can.)
• soundtrack for short film "In The Trees" by W.A.Davison (Can.)

1995

• soundtrack for short film "Scratch Film" by W.A.Davison (Can.)

1994

• soundtrack for short film "Pornography 2" by W.A.Davison (Can.)
• soundtrack for short film "Genital Mash" by W.A.Davison (Can.)

1993

• soundtrack for short film "Program" by W.A.Davison (Can.)
• soundtrack for short film "Fly" by W.A.Davison (Can.)
• soundtrack for short film "Station" by W.A.Davison (Can.)
• soundtrack for short film "Bill Satan" by W.A.Davison (Can.)
• soundtrack for short film "Death's Head" by W.A.Davison (Can.)

1992

• soundtrack for short film "Parallel Planes/Coinciding Planes" by W.A.Davison (Can.)
• soundtrack for short film "Leg Loop" by W.A.Davison (Can.)
• soundtrack for short film "Origami Meat Play" by W.A.Davison (Can.)
• soundtrack for short film "And Sleep..." by W.A.Davison (Can.)
• soundtrack for short film "I've built this thing...now what?" by W.A.Davison (Can.)
• soundtrack for short film "Les Archives Calcinees" by W.A.Davison/Francoise Duvivier (Can./France)

1991

• soundtrack for short film "Pixel" by W.A.Davison (Can.)
• soundtrack for short film "Cathode Ray Dream (W.H.T.J.W.P.)" by W.A.Davison (Can.)
• soundtrack for short film "Skull" by W.A.Davison (Can.)
• soundtrack for short film "C.O.C." by W.A.Davison (Can.)
• soundtrack for short film "Red Blanket" by W.A.Davison (Can.)
• soundtrack for short film "Garden" by W.A.Davison (Can.)
• soundtrack for short film "R.P.M." by W.A.Davison (Can.)
• soundtrack for short film "Half-Light" by W.A.Davison (Can.)
• soundtrack for short film "...night approached on rusty wheels. Outside we heard the drone of the engines..." by W.A.Davison (Can.)

1990

• soundtrack for short film "Shed 26" by W.A.Davison (Can.)
• soundtrack for short film "Pornography 1" by W.A.Davison (Can.)
• soundtrack for short film "Test Pattern" by W.A.Davison (Can.)

1987

• soundtrack for short film "Skinned" by W.A.Davison (Can.)

1986

• soundtrack for short film "Combination Head" by W.A.Davison (Can.)

 

DISCOGRAPHY

2011

• Six Heads "Cardboard Oracle" LP, Wintage Records and Tapes, Can.
• Various Artists "Peak The Source Volumes 1 - 3" net release, Surrism/Phonoethics netlabel, Germany
• Six Heads "Official Bootleg" cassette, Wintage Records and Tapes, Can.
• Urban Refuse Group "U.R.G. 3 (Collision)" CD, Inyrdisk, Can.
• Various Artists "International Email Audio Art Project Vol. 6" net release, Haltapes, USA

2010

• Esperik Glare "2010 EP" net release, Static Hum, USA
• Various Artists "International Email Audio Art Project Vol. 2" net release, Haltapes, USA
• Thomas Carnacki "The Disappearance Of This Terrible Spool" CD, Alethiometer Records, USA
• Various Artists "Street Liquors" CD, Inyrdisk, Can.
• Six Heads "Snuffles" CD, Disembraining Songs, Can.
• Magic Tits "Stit Cigam" CD, Disembraining Songs, Can.
• Six Heads "Six Heads or the Appearance of Hairs Band" (reissue) net release, Surrism Phonoethics, Germany
• Davison/Gore/Hoffman/Mobin "The Prostitution Of Originality" CD, ZH27 label, USA

2009

• Various Artists "Dictaphonia Fest" microcassette compilation, Haltapes, USA
• M.Stactor "Thrombling" CD, Disembraining Songs, Can.
• Various Artists "Dictaphonia 5" microcassette compilation, Haltapes, USA
• Various Artists "Dictaphonia 1" microcassette compilation, Haltapes, USA
• Orchestre Royal Odradek "Musiques Rituelles de l'Ontario du Sud" CD, independent, Can.
• Six Heads "The Popeye Scat" cassette, Black Horizons, USA

2008

• irr.app.(Ext.) "Aspiring To An Empty Gesture, Vol. 1" CD, Errata In Excelsis, USA

2007

• Th W rbl r "Then I Saw Your Smile" CD, Inyrdisk, Can.
• Conspiracy Of Familiar Objects "C.O.F.O./Wether" split cassette, LSD_OTB, Can.
• Songs of the New Erotics "Acrid Maltreats" web release, Radical Matters, Italy
• Conspiracy Of Familiar Objects "No Greek" CD, Inyrdisk, Can.
• Six Heads "Ether" cassette, Psychform Records, USA

2006

• Various Artists "Macrocephalous Compost 2" DVD, Old Europa Cafe, Italy (reissue, formerly on VHS)
• Various Artists "Sounds Of Toronto" CD, Wintage Records and Tapes, Can.
• Gastric Female Reflex "Page Out Of Scatophilic Locker Room Drama" CD, Beniffer Editions, Can.
• Songs of the New Erotics "Bobby" CD, Disembraining Songs, Can.
• William A. Davison "Plyas Het Giutra" CD, Disembraining Songs, Can.
• Gastric Female Reflex "Lovers In The Midst Of Eating Fries" LP, Beniffer Editions, Can.

2005

• Songs of the New Erotics "While The Architect Was Sleeping" CD, Disembraining Songs, Can.
• Wax "Contusions on the Skin of Sleep" double CD reissue, Disembraining Songs, Can.
• Sounds Of North American Adult Bookstores "Mermaid In A Manhole" CD, Beniffer Editions, Can.
• Gastric Female Reflex "Crank Sturgeon/GFR" split 7-inch record, Beniffer Editions/Gold Soundz, Can./Norway
• Gastric Female Reflex "Nairobi Piece" CD, Beniffer Editions, Can.
• Gastric Female Reflex "She's A Good Girl, So Meet Her Parents" CD, Imvated, Belgium

2004

• Gastric Female Reflex "Pizza Hocus Pocus" CD, Beniffer Editions, Can.
• Gastric Female Reflex "Three EP's" CD, Beniffer Editions, Can.
• Gastric Female Reflex "She's A Good Girl, So Meet Her Parents" CD, Beniffer Editions, Can.

2003

• Six Heads "Small, Rubber Voice from the Spectral Furnace" CD, Disembraining Songs, Can.

2001

• Six Heads "Six Heads or the Appearance of Hairs Band" CD, Disembraining Songs, Can.

2000

• Istvan Kantor "Heap Of Ruins" CD, Implant, Hungary

1999

• Phycus "Only Fire and Death" CD, Musicus Phycus, Can.

1998

• Various Artists "Various 500" LP, RRRecords, USA
• Phycus "X" 3 LP set, Musicus Phycus, Can.
• Various Artists "Drones, Thrones and Autognomes" cassette, Mutant Cactus Recordings, Can.
• Various Artists "The Quiet Space" cassette, Disembraining Songs, Can.

1997

• Various Artists "Multi-Purpose Saws" CD, Musicus Phycus, Can.
• Urban Refuse Group "U.R.G. 2 (Transmission)" cassette, Mutant Cactus Recordings, Can.
• Various Artists "Instrumental Compilation 1" cassette, Plan 11, Can.

1996

• Urban Refuse Group "U.R.G. 1 (Response)" cassette, Disembraining Songs, Can.
• W.A.Davison "W.A.Davison - Soundtracks" cassette, Doomsday Transmissions, Can.
• Various Artists "Art Sickness 1" cassette, Sculpturesque Productions, Can.
• Phycus "Sonderkommando Now!" CD, Musicus Phycus, Can.

1995

• Various Artists "Macrocephalous Compost 2" music video, Old Europa Cafe, Italy
• Various Artists "A Doomsday Transmission" cassette, Doomsday Transmissions, Can.
• Phycus "Brainmower" CD, Musicus Phycus, Can.

1994

• Songs of the New Erotics "Broadcasts and Solar Interruptions" music video, Anathema, Can.
• the tiled room "the tiled room" cassette, Anathema, Can.
• Ex Oblivione "Ex Oblivione" cassette, Anathema, Can.
• Various Artists "Disembraining Songs Demo - Feb. '94" cassette, Disembraining Songs, Can.
• Wax Infant "Wax Infant" cassette, Disembraining Songs, Can.

1993

• Various Artists "Unbecoming" CD, Freedom In A Vacuum, Can.
• Various Artists "Anathemata" cassette, Anathema, Can.
• Wicker Men "the wire cage" cassette, Anathema, Can.
• Various Artists "Ode To Oxide" cassette, Kaka Tapes, Can.

1992

• Wax "Contusions on the Skin of Sleep" cassette, Anathema, Can.

1986

• Various Artists "Frowns Of Fortune" cassette, Rembrandt X-Ray, Can.
• Various Artists "Tape For Dave" cassette, Rembrandt X-ray, Can.

1985

• Various Artists "Carbon Cult Compilation Tape #1" cassette, Rembrandt X-ray, Can.

 

CURATORIAL/ORGANIZATIONAL PROJECTS

2011

• Cinder, Toronto, ON (dark ambient/improvising project, co-founded with Nigel Craig, Daeve Fellows)

2009

• Magic Tits, Toronto, ON (cheap keyboard music collective/noise band)

2008

• "Fun Razor" (Recordists Benefit Concert), 61 Major St., Toronto, ON

2007

• Six Heads Noise Picnic concert/event, Ward's Island, Toronto, ON

2005

• irr.app.(Ext.)/Songs of the New Erotics concert, New Works Studio, Toronto, ON (co-organized with S.Higgins)

2004

• Recordist Open House, E.N.O.T.C.A. Studio, Toronto, ON (co-organized with S.Higgins)

2000

• StrangeWays - Currents of the Fantastic in Contemporary Performance, 7a11d - 3rd International Festival of Performance Art, Toronto, ON (co-curated with S.Higgins, included Sweden’s SU-EN Butoh Co., Fluxus composer/artist Ben Patterson, and others) (also member of the 7a*11d steering committee)
• Six Heads, Toronto, ON (ongoing improvised music ensemble)
• First Recordist Improvisational Cinema, I.B.R.I./Pleasure Dome, Latvian Hall, Toronto, ON (large-scale improvised music and film event)

1999

• I.B.R.I. Open Meeting, Anarchist Free Space, Toronto, ON (co-curated with S.Higgins, weekly from Mar. 1999 to May 2000)

1997

• First Recordist Soiree, I.B.R.I., Toronto, ON (co-curated with S.Higgins, various artists and artforms)

1996

• Urban Refuse Group, Toronto, ON (junk instrument improvised music collective, 1996 - 2000)

1995

• Window Performance Series, I.B.R.I., Toronto, ON (ongoing experimental music performance series)

1994

• International Bureau of Recordist Investigation, Toronto, ON (multi-disciplinary art organization, 1994 - 2004)
• Disembraining Songs independent music label (ongoing since ca. 1994)

1992

• Anathema independent music label (approximately 1992 - 1994)

1987

• An Episode Of Sparrows, Truro, NS (multimedia exhibition, co-curated with fellow members of Episode Of Sparrows collective)

1986

• An Episode Of Sparrows, Truro, NS (multimedia exhibition, co-curated with fellow members of Episode Of Sparrows collective)

1985

• Rembrandt X-Ray independent music label (co-founded and operated with G.C.Denton. Approximately 1985 - 1986)

 

PUBLISHED WORK

2009

• "Early Experiences - W.A.Davison", The Living Archive of Underground Music (webzine)

2004

• "Musique Concretins or The Sound of Six Heads Scratching", Magizone #2, Winter 2004 issue, Music Gallery Institute, Toronto, ON

2002

• "Tiny Gifts", Rampike magazine, Vol. 13, No. 1

 

REVIEWS AND ARTICLES

2011

• Mani Mazinani and Six Heads, "6 Heads", Offerings magazine, August 2011 issue (interview)
• Jesse Locke, "Six Heads - Cardboard Oracle", Weird Canada webzine, Nov. 2011 (review)
• Joele Walinga, "Six Heads - Cardboard Oracle", Offerings magazine, August 2011 issue (review)
• Seth Scriver, "Six Heads - Official Bootleg", Offerings magazine, June 2011 issue (review)

2008

• Eldad Tsabary and Kevin Austin, "Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium 2008" photo essay, eContact! 11.2 (photo documents in online publication)

2007

• Kerry W. Zentner, "The Recordists", Mondo, June 18-25, 2007 issue (interview in online publication)
• Machete Mob, "Six Heads", Machete Mob weblog, Mar. 23, 2007 (review)
• Avantgardening, "Six Heads Ether C20", Smooth Assailing webzine, Mar.10, 2007 (review)

2006

• Silverhand, "Macrocephalous Compost 2", Heathen Harvest webzine, Dec. 15, 2006 (review)
• Thurston Moore and Byron Coley, "Bull Tongue", Arthur magazine (USA), May 2006 (review)
• Kevin Hainey, "Gastric Female Reflex", Skyscraper magazine (USA), Spring 2006 (review)

2005

• Kevin Hainey, "Toronto's Expanding Head Bands", Eye Weekly, 08/11/05 issue
• Lee Jackson, "Under The Microscope w/irr.app.(Ext.)", Foxy Digitalis (online magazine), Aug. 2005
• Duncan Simpson, "Rational Rhetoric Notwithstanding", Musique Machine (online magazine), June 2005

2004

• Kevin Hainey, "No Escape - Exploring Noise's Negative Lands", Exclaim magazine, Nov. issue
• "7a*11d International Performance Art Festival", deFile Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 2, Fall 2004 (advertisement)

2003

• Eric Bourret, "V/A: Instrumental Compilation 1", Mastock, Issue 5 (review)
• Eric Bourret, "Phycus: X", Mastock, Issue 5 (review)
• Eric Bourret, "Phycus: Sado-Kommander Nine", Mastock, Issue 5 (review)
• "Phycus: Brainmower", Godsend Online (review - date and reviewer unknown)
• "Phycus: Sado-Kommander Nine", Godsend Online (review - date and reviewer unknown)
• Eric Bourret, "V/A: Disembraining Songs Demo - Feb. '94", Mastock, Issue 5 (review)
• Eric Bourret, "The Tiled Room: self-titled", Mastock, Issue 5 (review)
• Eric Bourret, "Wicker Men: The Wire Cage", Mastock, Issue 5 (review)

2002

• Scott MacKay, "The Lovers", Geist magazine, Vol. 11, No. 47, Winter 2002 issue
• Rebecca Caldwell, "Under the Sheets and in the Flesh", Globe and Mail, Sept. 21, 2002
• Ray Ellenwood, "Canada's Forgotten Surrealists", Artfocus magazine, Vol. 10, No. 1, issue #74

2001

• Bruce Barber, "Three Modes In Canadian Performance", Art Action 1958 - 1998, (Richard Martel -editor) Editions Intervention, Que., 2001

2000

• Maxx Rush, "Recordism: An Interview with William A. Davison", Melting Clock - Internet Journal of Surrealism, Oct. 2000 issue (interview in WWW publication)
• Eric Bourret, "W.A.Davison - Soundtracks", Mastock, Issue 3 (review)
• Tom S., "Orphx", Prague Industrial festival website, 01/05/00 (interview on WWW)

1998

• "Threshold At Power Plant", Flash Art (USA), Vol. 31, No. 200, May - June 1998
• Kevin Paisley, "Bill Satan In 23 Questions", Brain Scan, No.2, Feb. 1998 (interview)
• Cindy McGlynn, "Art Hurts Sometimes", Eye Weekly, April 12 (?), 1998

1997

• Alexandre Vigneault, "Sons De Nuits D"Automne", Voir weekly, Vol. 6 No.47, Quebec City, Que.
• Remy Charest, "Un Zeste De Guitare, Avec Ca?", Le Devoir, Nov. 21/97 issue, Quebec City, Que.
• Sylvain Marcotte, "Confusions De Cristal", Impact Campus, Nov. 25/97 issue, Quebec City, Que.
• Richard Boisvert, "De Chaudes Soirees De Musique Fraiche", Le Soleil, Nov. 20/97 issue, Quebec City, Que.

1996

• Thomas Sutter, "W.A.Davison - Soundtracks", Autoreverse magazine (USA), Issue #2 (review)

1995

• Various Artists - Unbecoming, Phosphor magazine (Holland/USA), April issue (review)
• Various Artists - A Doomsday Transmission, Exclaim magazine, Sept. issue (review)

1987

• Cathy Callaghan, "Young Artists Combine Two Loves In Unique Display", The Daily News, Aug. 21/87 issue, Truro, NS

 

LECTURES, READINGS, PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS

2008

• "The Works of Songs of the New Erotics", Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium 2008, Canadian Electroacoustic Community/Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto/New Adventures in Sound Art, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (artist talk)

2007

• Untitled, Poets In Their Natural Habitat event (as part of Scream In High Park), Toronto, ON (reading/performance/sound installation)

2005

• "Recordism", presented in the course "Modernist Movements: Dada/Surrealism in Europe and North America" (instructor: Prof. Ray Ellenwood), York University, Toronto, ON (artist's talk/presentation, co-presented with S.Higgins)
• "Songs of the New Erotics/Sound In Performance", presented in Louise Liliefeldt's performance art class, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (artist's talk and workshop)

1999

• "I.B.R.I. Open Meeting", presented at Anarchist Free School, Toronto, ON (workshop and lecture series Co-presented with S.Higgins, weekly from Mar. 1999 to May 2000)

 

SMALL PRESS/ZINE FAIRS AND INDIE MARKETS

2010

• Toronto Comic Arts Festival, Toronto Reference Library, Toronto, ON
• Zine Dream 3, Tranzac Club, Toronto, ON

2009

• Zine Dream 2, Tranzac Club, Toronto, ON

2005

• Canzine, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON

 

RADIO AND TV APPEARANCES

2012

• Difficult Listening, RTRFM Radio, Perth, Australia (as member of Urban Refuse Group)

2011

• performance and interview, A Missing Sense, CKLN Radio, Toronto, ON (as member of Six Heads. Collaboration with Ron Sakolsky and Michael Waterman)
• interview, No Beat Radio, CIUT Radio, Toronto, ON (with J.Bailey, S.Higgins)
• No Pigeonholes, KOWS Radio, Occidental, USA
• If You Got Ears, CKUT Radio, Montreal, QC (as member of Conspiracy Of Familiar Objects)

2010

• No Pigeonholes (Dec. 2010 edition), Radio Marabu, various stations throughout Europe (as M.Stactor)
• No Pigeonholes (Nov. 14, 2010), KKUP Radio, San Francisco, USA (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• No Beat Radio (Nov. 1, 2010), CIUT Radio, Toronto, ON (as Th W rbl r)
• No Pigeonholes (Oct. 24, 2010), KKUP Radio, San Francisco, USA (as M.Stactor)
• No Pigeonholes (Oct. 10, 2010), KKUP Radio, San Francisco, USA (as member of Six Heads)

2009

• The Sum Of Your Life podcast, Nov. 23/09 edition, Grow Radio (as M.Stactor)
• The Sum Of Your Life podcast, Nov. 9/09 edition, Grow Radio (as M.Stactor)
• performance, "Freedom Of Community" event, The Abstract Index, CIUT Radio, Toronto, ON (as member of Odradek)
• 1919 Zone Radio podcast Vol. 2, June 19/09 edition (as member of Conspiracy Of Familiar Objects)

2008

• performance and interview, Electric Storm/A Missing Sense, CKLN Radio, Toronto, ON (as member of Six Heads)

2007

• Crooked Stylus (June 8, 2007 edition), totallyradio.com (as Songs of the New Erotics)

2006

• interview, Arts In Review, KALX Radio, Berkeley, California (with Sherri Higgins)

2005

• interview, A Missing Sense, CKLN Radio, Toronto, ON (with Matt Waldron, Sherri Higgins)

2004

• Misanthropy 961, CJAM Radio, Windsor, ON (as member of Six Heads)

2003

• performance and interview, The Clear Spot, Resonance FM, London, UK (as member of Six Heads)
• "Spaced Cage" performance, Electric Storm, CKLN Radio, Toronto, ON (collaboration with Jim Bailey and others)

2002

• performance and interview, Electric Storm, CKLN Radio, Toronto, ON (as member of Six Heads)

1999

• interview, Art On Air, CKLN Radio, Toronto, ON
• performance and interview, A Missing Sense, CKLN Radio, Toronto, ON (as member of Urban Refuse Group with James Bailey, Sherri Lyn Higgins, John McCullough, Robert Atwood, Colin Hinz, and Linda Feesey)

1998

• interview, Bravo TV, Toronto, ON
• Misanthropy 961, CJAM Radio, Windsor, ON
• Radio Marabu, played on 13 European radio stations
• interview, About Town, CIUT Radio, Toronto, ON
• interview, Sex City, CIUT Radio, Toronto, ON

1997

• performance and interview, Art On Air, CKLN Radio, Toronto, ON (as member of Urban Refuse Group with Scott MacKay, Timothy X, Robert Atwood, and Sherri Lyn Higgins)
• performance and interview, Jazzebel, CIUT Radio, Toronto, ON (as member of Urban Refuse Group with Timothy X, Robert Atwood, and Sherri Lyn Higgins)
• performance and interview, A Missing Sense, CKLN Radio, Toronto, ON (as member of Urban Refuse Group with Colin Hinz, Sherri Lyn Higgins, Robert Atwood, James Bailey, and Ron McFarlen)

1996

• "Epiphenomenal Suitcase" performance, Temporary Nice Place, CIUT Radio, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)
• Short Circuits - A Festival of Radiophonic Interruptions, CIUT Radio, Toronto, ON
• performance and interview, Temporary Nice Place, CIUT Radio, Toronto, ON (as member of Urban Refuse Group with Colin Hinz, Sherri Lyn Higgins, Robert Atwood, and Neil Wiernik)

1994

• Late Night Atrocity Exhibition, CKUT Radio, Montreal, Que.
• feature, The Pier, BBC TV, Brighton, UK

1993

• "The Misery Bag: Ergotic Concert No. 1" performance, Radio Music Gallery, CKLN Radio, Toronto, ON (as Songs of the New Erotics)

 

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2005

• project grant, Integrated Arts program, Ontario Arts Council

2003

• project grant, Inter-Arts Program: Creation Grants for Artists, Canada Council

2000

• project grant, Inter-Arts Program: Creation Grants for Artists, Canada Council

1995

• project grant, Grants To Composers program, Toronto Arts Council

 

EDUCATION

• Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Experimental and Electronic Music Composition, 1988 - 1989
• Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS, B.F.A. Program, 1987 - 1989,1982 - 1983
• Atlantic Filmmaker's Co-Op, Halifax, NS, Small-Gauge Film Production, 1986

 

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