Groups and Collaborators

LASAM Music (Since 2007) LASAM an experimental music and sound art organization and producer creating and producing thoughtfully adventurous music events since 2007 from the lands of the Lkwungen (Esquimalt and Songhees), Malahat, Pacheedaht, Scia’new, T’Sou-ke and W̱SÁNEĆ (Pauquachin, Tsartlip, Tsawout, Tseycum) peoples, known colonially as Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. LASAM is known for the production of original themed projects inspired by relationships between the natural world, sound and music; improvisation, the provocative ideas of music practitioners who work outside the margins; and the act and art of listening itself. Signature projects include Music for Natural History , Songs For Glass Island,  Music for Mycologists,  In a Large Open Space, “And Beethoven Heard Nothing”, and Removing the Demon among others.

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse (Since 2007) AOM is a group of composers, artists and musicians spread through three continents who meet in the networked 3-D environment Second Life to design and play otherworldly instruments while experimenting with identity, perception, telepathy and collectivity and mixed realities. Their instruments control movement, sounds, and the release of particles and textures that give visual indications of sounds made independently by individual players in real time.

Experimental Music Unit (Since 2012) Paul Walde (bass guitar, percussion), Tina Pearson (flute, voice, accordion, glass); George Tzanetakis (bass clarinet, clarinet, alto sax, kaval), with Kirk McNally (audio engineer, live processing). Based in the territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən People (Victoria, Canada), the instrumental trio engages in a regular exploratory music and sound art improvisation practice that informs its own projects, and the artistic direction of LASAM,

Metanaut Duo 2008 – 2011, Tina Pearson and Leif Inge , instigators of audio visual performance investigations between Oslo, Norway and Victoria, Canada mainly through the virtual reality platform Second Life.

New Music Co-operative 1979 – 1987 This Toronto-based composer-performer collective began at York University as the York New Music Co-op in the late 1970’s, and became independent of the school in 1978.  New Music Co-operative members included Andrew Timar, Miguel Frasconi, Gayle Young, Jon Siddall, Nick Kilbourn, Don McMillan, Bob Stevenson, Gordon Monahan, David Mott, Chris Devonshire, and others.

A Year of 4’33”

A Year of 4’33” is a weekly performance of John Cage’s iconic composition 4’33” by composer and sound artist Tina Pearson. Beginning November 11, 2012, Pearson is performing the composition in public outdoor locations every Sunday for one year. The documentation of the project (photos, location details and observations) is located here.