Matthew Horrigan | Composer & Interdisciplinary Artist matthorriganmusic@gmail.com | http://matthorrigan.com

(778) 996-9770 | 5869 Fremlin, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Expertise Music composition and performance. Direction, bandleading, performance (drums, keys, guitars, vox).Sound design/recording/mixing. Performance control on Mac (QLab) and Windows (Multiplay).Teaching: instruction and course design both live and online.Video and graphic design using Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects).Web design including web audio & MIDI. Experience in Wordpress, PHP and node.js environments.

Education MFA Interdisciplinary Studies, Simon Fraser University 2016, supervised by Arne Eigenfeldt.Bachelor of Music Composition, McGill 2014, taught by John Rea, Brian Cherney & Martin Karlicek.Visiting Researcher in computer music, Huddersfield University 2016/02-05, supervised by P.A. Tremblay.Grade 10 Piano (2014) & Elementary Piano Pedagogy Certificate (2013), Royal Conservatory of Music.

Professional Development Instructional Skills Workshop Certificate 2017 ArtStarts Learning Lab 2017Toronto Creative Music Lab 2016 Montreal Contemporary Music Lab 2013

Teaching Experience Sessional Instructor CA 247 Electroacoustic Music I Simon Fraser University Fall 2017Guest Lecturer FPA 247 Electroacoustic Music ISimon Fraser University Fall 2016Tutor-Marker FPA 140 Music After 1900 Simon Fraser University Spring 2017Teaching Assistant FPA 140 Music After 1900 Simon Fraser University Fall 2016Tutor-Marker FPA 104 Music Fundamentals Simon Fraser University Summer 2016Private Instructor Piano 2015-’17 & ’06-’09 Digital Engraving 2017

Grants & Awards CCA Concept to Realization Grant 13,000CAD April 2018BCAC Early Career Development Grant 8,541 CAD Nov. 2017SOCAN Foundation 2nd Prize, Godfrey Rideout Award 1,500 CAD Aug. 2016 3rd Prize, Hugh LeCaine Award 750 CAD Aug. 2016SSHRC Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement 5,449 CAD Feb. 2016 Joseph-Armand Bombardier Graduate Scholarship 17,500CAD Sept. 2015Simon Fraser University Travel & Minor Research Award 500 CAD April 2015McGill University Bernhard Shapiro Prize in Music Theory 500 CAD April 2014 Marion Magor Memorial Scholarship 3400 CAD July 2013 Schulich School of Music Scholarship 1000 CAD April 2012 William MacDonald Scholarship in Music 1200 CAD April 2011

Administrative Activity Board Member Vancouver Pro Musica 2017/10-presentPeer Reviewer Musical Metacreation Workshop (MUME) 2017/06 The Journal of Comparative Media Arts 2015Co-founder/producer Constrained Creations performance art collecTive 2016/01-2017/08 re:composition on CFRO 100.FM Co-op Radio 2015/10-2017/04Chair SFU Contemporary Arts Graduate Student Caucus 2015/09-2016/09Editor The Phonograph (Montreal) 2013-14

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Ensemble Member Live & Studio Drummer Harley Small 2017-present Dumbpop 2018/04 Reagan Mutt 2017-2018 Sister Island 2011-2014Percussionist Arpa Nova Harp Ensemble (Ottawa) 2008-2010Tech & 2nd Pianist St. Patrick's Parish (Ottawa) 2006-2010

Refereed Publications Brown, Andrew, Matthew Horrigan, Arne Eigenfeldt, Toby Gifford, Daniel Field & Jon McCormack. 2018.

“Interacting with Musebots.” NIME 2018.

Conference Presentations Ethics in Contemporary Electroacoustic Music and its Instruction (15’00’’) @ 2017 Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium. (2017, August).Consenting to Instruction: When Do I Persuade and When Do I Teach? (7’00’’) @ 16th Annual Symposium on Teaching and Learning, Vancouver. (2017, May).The Musical Status Transaction (~20’00’’) @ Musical Intersections, University of Calgary School of Music, (2015, April).Musebot Chill-Out Session generative-music project by Arne Eigenfeldt et al. @ numerous conferences including SMC 2016 (Hamburg), NIME 2016 (Brisbane), ISEA 2015 (Vancouver)

Magazine Publications Doodling in the Posthuman Corpus, an essay in eContact! 19.3: NotationTime for Teaching, a poem in Poetry Quarterly (Virginia: Prolific Press) Summer 2016.Four Poems, poetry in ditch,, July 18, 2013. @ http://www.ditchpoetry.com/matthorrigan.htm.“Sh,” a poem in The Veg (Montreal) November 2013.“Wrong,” a poem in Read This, Dammit! (Montreal) November 2013.“Ornament,” a poem in Radix (Montreal) September 2013.Numerous articles—news, music review & editorial—in The Phonograph, Montreal, 2011-2013.Numerous theatre reviews in The Ottawa Citizen with the Cappies theatre criticism program 2008-2010.

Artworks Music Composition Heavy Traffic for guitarist & subwoofers (~25’00’’) upcoming as part of the concert Heavy Traffic: The Music of Intrusion co-organized by the Toronto

Canadian Music Centre and me @ Chalmers House, Toronto, August 11th 2018.taste / oh yeah, i guess for loudspeakers (~9’45’’) upcoming August 2018 @ICMC 2018, Daegu, South KoreaQuanta/Qualia (later retitled Ambient Academia) for loudspeakers & video (3 hours) presented as part of Nightshift: Quantum Futures @ The UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, April

5th 2018. Hewn from Living Rock for improvising guitarist & algorithmic software (~10’00’’) premiered by Adrian Verdejo as part of the metacreation concert Play Nice: Music for Humans and

Intelligent Machines co-organized by me @ The Gold Saucer, Vancouver 28/07/2017. Follow Turtle Chase Leaf for mixed chamber ensemble (~30’00’’) premiered by Ecstatic Waves Ensemble @ 240 Northern Street, Vancouver 23/06/2017; reworked as Around the House (~11’00’’) @ Boca da Lupo’s Listening Lounge, Vancouver 13/10/2017.Assimilations for solo pianist (~10’00’’) @ Canadian Music Centre, Vancouver, 07/05/2017100, 91, 84, 81, 72, 69, 58, 44, 37, 38, 42, 21, 28, 12, 7 for solo pianist (~10’30’’)

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@ Canadian Music Centre, Vancouver, 07/05/2017Why-- for SATB and chamber ensemble (~7’30’’) premiered by Erato Ensemble @ The Annex, Vancouver 19/03/2017.Gourd Motor Mindscape for guitar and surface transducer loudspeaker (10’50’’) premiered by Graham Banfield @ Chalmers House, Toronto, 3/15/2016.Feral Instruments for mechatronic instruments and quadrophonic loudspeakers (14’04’’) @ Djavid Mowafaghian World Art Centre, 3/12/2016.Return Main for voice, piccolo, rhodes & alto saxophone (5’19’’) premiered as part of the Toronto Creative Music Lab @ 918 Bathurst Centre, Toronto 24/06/2016.Domestic Instruments for 8-channel loudspeakers (9’26’’) premiered @ Studio T, Vancouver 15/04/2016. In the Minimal Senses for four loudspeakers (7’59’’) premiered @ Western Front, Vancouver 22/11/2015.Sonatinas for solo piano (6’30’’) @ Merge, Vancouver 15/08/2015.Three Songs for voice and piano (3’00’’) @ Merge, Vancouver 15/08/2015.Serial Box for small chamber ensemble (4’30’’) @ Merge, Vancouver 15/08/2015.Kyrie for solo voice and multichannel electronics (18’50’’) premiered @ Studio T (Vancouver) 24-25/04/2015.juxtapositions, collisions, juxtapositions “between” objects, collisions for brass ensemble (7’05’’), premiered @ Pollack Hall (Montreal) 30/30/2014. Terms of Entwinement for saxophone and percussion (3’20’’), premiered by Louis-Philippe Bonin & David

Brongo @ Montreal Conservatory of Music, 22/07/2013.(avec nous) dans la rue for cello solo (59’’) premiered @ Jan Hus United Church, New York 19/05/2013.In Prophecy for trumpet and loudspeakers (8’00’’) premiered @ Tanna Schulich Hall (Montreal) 8/04/2013.Immurement for stereo loudspeakers (5’07’’) premiered @ Clara Lichtenstein Hall (Montreal) 5/12/2012.Noisekiller for brass ensemble (45’’) premiered by the McGill Brass Ensemble @ Redpath Hall 24/11/2013. Curation Botmancipation mechatronic music concert @ Djavid Mowafaghian World Art Centre, 3/12/2016.Tales from the Salon piano music concert @ Canadian Music Centre, Vancouver, 07/05/2017.Nu Directions in Elevator Music, chamber music concert @ Merge, Vancouver 15/08/2015. Theatre Dark Matter [Actor & Improviser], a haunted house (45’) @ The James Black Gallery 06/08/2017.Apple Season [Playwright & Director], a staged reading (~90’) @ Carousel Theatre, Vancouver 06/08/2017.The Green Wanderer [Sound Designer, Music Director & Composer], a kids’ play (~45’) toured festivals w/ Vancouver Polish Theatre throughout the BC lower mainland summer 2017.ROAD [Sound Designer], a short play (~10’) @ The Havana Theatre (Vancouver) as part of the About Love festival 05/2017.Flatness [Director, Sound Designer & Co-Writer], a performance installation (~80’) w/ Julia Siedlanowska @ SFU Woodward’s Soundstage (Vancouver) 25-26/08/2016.Any Night [Video Projectionist/Designer], a play presented by Stone’s Throw Productions @ Pacific Theatre (Vancouver) 08-16/07/2016.Fake Gems [Lighting & Video Software Developer], a dance performance by The Party @ Inter-Urban Gallery (Vancouver) 07/08/2015.

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Sound & Performance Art Co.Crea.Tive Live on CiTR, radio art for voice & electronics (~50’00’’) w/ Constrained Creations collecTive @ CiTR 101.9FM (Vancouver) 30/03/2017.Don’t Make Me Talk About Politics, guitar with contact loudspeaker & audio playback (10’00’’) @ The Gold Saucer (Vancouver) 24/10/2016.Swear Jar, drums, choreographed movement & telematic audio playbacks (12’00) w/ Minah Lee and Maren Lisac @ VIVO Media Arts Centre (Vancouver) 03/06/2016Improvisations, ambient audio electronics (~30’00’’) w/ Alex Mah & Ben Wylie @ The Anvil Centre (New Westminster) 20/10/2015.Collective Improvisation, found objects & choreographed movement (12’00’’). w/ Dissonant Disco @ Trout Lake Park as part of the Vines Art Festival (Vancouver) 08/16/2015. Dance Accompaniment Plus Ultra [fixed medium] (9’50’’), choreographed by Marc Arboleda & Performed by David Clennin @ The Moberly Arts and Cultural Centre (Vancouver) as part of the Leg Up! showcase, 2-3/03/2018Pas de Deux (5’00’’) [keyboard & electronics] w/ Marc Arboleda @ The Gold Saucer (Vancouver) as part of the TBD showcase 15-16/04/2017.The Exquisite Corpse w/ MAYCE Dance @ The Beaumont (Vancouver) [fixed medium] (17’03’’) 29/01/2016. @ Fey Milton Wong Experimental Theatre (Vancouver) [guitar & electronics] (7’00’’) 6-9/04/2016. Film and Video Any Night Promo, Stone’s Throw Productions 2016 [Videographer, Composer & Sound Designer.] Vines Festival Promo, Vines Festival 2015, Vancouver [Composer & Sound Designer.]

Volunteering Vancouver Co-op Radio (2018): conducted interviews and reviews as part of The Arts Rational radio show.Free Geek Vancouver (2014): dismantled electronic components for recycling or refurbishment.Ottawa Bluesfest (2011-2014): supervised teams of volunteers conducting access-control at the festival.

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