Latest release
Far From The Apple Tree
Rose McDowall & Shawn Pinchbeck
Original soundtrack to the film by Grant McPhee
Glass Modern, 2019 · vinyl · CD · digital
Original soundtrack to the film by Grant McPhee
Glass Modern, 2019 · vinyl · CD · digital
Discography
 | Remote Controls
Released: 2012 (Canada) Independent release Format: CD Tracklist1. Remote Controls 35:11Live at Edmonton Works Festival Churchill Square Canada June 29, 2011Album art by Delina Reiss |
 | Sonic Waking
With Ken Gregory and Steve Heimbecker Released: 2006 (Canada) Independent release Format: CD Tracklist + listenListen to Dream Time Trance >> 1. compression capsule 15:522. sonic waking 10:38 3. dream time trance 11:11 4. ambient sleep 13:00 In 1993 and 1994, Ken Gregory, Steve Heimbecker and Shawn Pinchbeck met at various sound art happenings in western Canada. Previously not knowing that each other were active in the prairies, they quickly realized that they had many things in common with their artistic practices and their origins in the mid eighties in isolation in their respective prairie cities; Ken from Winnipeg Manitoba, Steve from Calgary Alberta, and Shawn from Edmonton Alberta. In 1995, Steve and Shawn, because of their close proximity, started collaborating together regularly. Ken and Steve both went to Edmonton several times in the mid to late nineties to perform and conduct workshops for the Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society(BEAMS) of which Shawn was the president of at the time. This particular project started out in February 1998 with an invitation to Ken, Steve and Shawn to go to emmedia in Calgary to do a week long collaborative residency ending with a concert at the Alberta College of Art and Design. The results were inspiring for all of them. Ken arranged a concert in November 1998 at the Send and Receive [001] a festival of sound in Winnipeg. This recording is the result of that concert and indeed a snapshot of the electroacoustic activities going on in the prairies at that time. Visit the album site Album art by Piibe Piirma |
 | Resonance/Dissonance
Released: 2000 (Canada) Independent release Format: CD Tracklist1. Resonance/Dissonance - Live June 5, 2000 26:382. I think of a place with you 3. Ajulennuline Live at the Independent Film and Video Alliance Conference. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Performed utilizing the Supercollider sound processing environment with found and live sounds under MIDI gestural control. |
 | Resonance
With Marion Garver Released: 1995 (Canada) Independent release Tracklist + listenResonance is the new release by Canadian born performer/ composer Shawn Pinchbeck and American born flute player/ composer Marion Garver. Together they create a powerfully crafted mixture of ambient electronic sounds and flute accompanied melodies and textures. Pinchbeck and Garver share the song credits through the ten tracks and 65 minutes of music. The resulting hybrid of sounds ranges from Pinchbeck's multi-layered synthesizers, samples and tapes spinning sometimes peaceful ambient melodies, sometimes brooding abstract soundscapes; to Garver's three acoustic instrumental pieces exploring differing musical directions rooted in 20th Century classical and jazz styles. The effect it has is to take the listener on an expansive journey with many destinations, some familiar others more exotic. Listen to the audio samples1. Spirit and Flesh >> 2. Temporal Reality >> 3. For SWRM >> 4. Open Heart >> 5. The Sand, The Sea, The Stars >> 6. Dave, David, Davidson >> 7. Transformation No.1 >> 8. Opal >> 9. Dziwna Milosc >> 10. Endangered Spaces >>Visit the album site Album cover by Anna Tonkovic |
 | Penetration
Released: 1991 (Canada) Format: CD/CASS Cover: Jack Germscheid Tracklist + listenListen to audio samplesSIDE A 1. Freaks 5:52 2. Penetration 4:41 3. Furnace of Hell 9:27 4. Demontia 6:44 SIDE B 1. Ghosties 8:39 2. Virus 23 14:08 3. Malady of Death 6:59 |
 | Tonepleromas
Released: 1989 (Canada) Format: CD/CASS Tracklist + listenSIDE A1. Dreamy Dreamtime Dreamers 3:40 2. Procession 5:31 3. Cold Sweat 9:08 4. Visions (live) 6:12 5. Rush 4:14 SIDE B 1. Man in the Moon 15:22 2. Pond Water 13:17 |
 | Wildcats!!
Released: 1987 (Canada) Format: CASS Cover: Keith Wedish Tracklist |
Compilations
 | Active Crossover
Released: 2010 (UK) Format: Internet release Label: Impulsive Habitat TracklistSimon WhethamThroughout May 2009 I participated in a residency at the Polymer Factory Culturehouse in Tallinn, Estonia, to compose new work, collaborate with other artists using sound and run deep listening, field recording and composition workshops.This residency has resulted in ‘Active Crossover’, a touring exhibition and exchange project which has been hosted by the Arnolfini in Bristol and The Grey Area in Brighton, incorporating a large scale sound installation in two sonically treated chambers, creating three separate listening experiences.In one you hear my composition created during and following the residency, in the other work by all the artists i worked and performed with. When outside the enclosed spaces, the listener will hear both, combining my work with that of the guest artists. The track released by Impulsive Habitat is a composed approximation of being in the exhibition space and moving around the three chambers. You will hear my work in isolation, and that of the guest artists, but also a combination of the two.Quoted from Impulsive Habitat, 2010, Active Crossover - Simon Whetham & VA, [online] Written by Simon Whetham. Full text available at: http://impulsivehabitat.com/releases/ihab012.htm Tracklist 1. Simon Whetham: 'Active Crossover II' 2. John Grzinich: 'Sentience of Spring' 3. Jez riley French: 'Pelure #10' 4. Maksim Shentelev: '16-36'; 5. Sound Meccano: 'Walking through' 6. Kaspars Kalnins, Toms Siklovs, Gints Birznieks, Maksim Shentelev and John Grzinich: 'Bungu Tanks / Turbine Hall' 7. KIWA: 'Structural Divisibility' 8. Toomas Thetloff: 'Buckwheat on Steel Brushes' 9. Shawn Pinchbeck: 'Ajulennuline' 10. Merilyn Püss: 'From Butterflies to Crows' 11. Piibe Piirma: 'Sound for Babies' 12. Jaanika Kakluse: 'The Walk' 13. Silver Stairs of Ketchikan/Joined By Wire: 'Active Crossover 18Oct09' 14. Alexander Thomas: 'Active Crossover 18Oct09' 15. Iris Garrelfs / Douglas Benford: 'Active Crossover 18Oct09' |
 | Unsound 2
Released: 2008 (Canada) Format: CD Label: Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society TracklistSince its creation by DJs at radio CJSR in Edmonton in 1989, the Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society has been dedicated to the production and promotion of sound-oriented experimentation. We use the broadest and most inclusive definition of electroacoustic music, welcoming creativity in any medium. Our membership includes music professors, rock band players, dancers, poets and professional instrumentalists and composers, as well as enthusiasts and dreamers from every walk of life. We perform several concerts a year in addition to occasional recordings, festivals and workshops. This CD is very representative of our shows. We hope you enjoy it!Quoted from BEAMSMore info about Unsound 2 Tracklist 1. Dave Clarke: Tabla Rasa (4:00) 2. Shawn Pinchbeck: Ajulennuline (4:52) 3. Don Ross: Sometimes when I practice... (4:12) 4. Tippy Agogo: Dilenmma of Poor Oedipus (5:05) 5. Thom Golub: Preoccupation for Two Basses (5:21) 6. Karen Porkka: Ash on my Belly (3:33) 7. Doublethink: Collage (4:23) 8. LEO .fx: Celtic Ayre (2:37) 9. Dave Wall: Black Eyes, Blue Hair - Duet 3 (5:15) 10. Reinhard VonBerg: BSQ (4:25) 11. Gary Lee: The Unveiling (2:47) 12. Theta State: Dragon (3:26) 13. Philip Jagger: Blackbirds (3:16) 14. Condaleeza Rice Paddies: Modulate This (3:00) |
 | Unsound
Released: 2001 (Canada) Format: CD Label: Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society TracklistMore info about Unsound Tracklist1. Joel Kroeker: Beats Conglomerate (1:58) 2. David Berezan: Dawn/Microcosm (3:24) 3. Scott Sarman: Mr. Media Remix (3:32) 4. X. I. Selene, Phil Hawes, Jay Lind: Let the Dialectics Begin (3:58) 5. Kenneth Doren: Gloria in excelsio Roger Moore (3:10) 6. Nadia Berg: Bedtime (5:04) 7. Mark Hannesson: Ropes of Sand (Pt I, II, IV) (5:23) 8. Killers Lose in the Parking Lots: Voxic (4:00) 9. Raylene Campbell: Rakini (Passion) (4:39) 10. Reinhard Berg: Cult Figure (4:22) 11. Brent Lee: Voie pour doubler (3:21) 12. Shawn Pinchbeck: Joytoys (2:35) 13. Roger Deegan: Kepler (4:56) 14. Bruce Atchison: Zayek (3:12) |
 | The Final Solstice II
Released: 2000 (UK) Format: CD Label: Piski Disk Records TracklistTracklist1 - Sorrow – Petite Cloche Faict Grand Son (Cello – John Edward Contreras II) - 2:40 2 - Sorrow – The Final Solstice (Bagpipes [Uilleann] – Nigel McKernaghan) - 8:24 3 - Sorrow – Extracts From The Faery Queene (Featuring – David Michael Bunting, Shawn Pinchbeck) - 6:21 4 - Rosa Mundi – The Snow Man - 3:21 5 - Spell – I Got You Babe - 3:09 6 - Velocity Star – Warm Leatherette - 3:25 7 - Penan Ophis – Nierika - 5:10 8 - Rose McDowall – Tibet - 3:14 9 - Resonance – Butterfly Hawk - 5:02 |
 | The Final Solstice
Released: 1999 (UK) Format: CD - Limited edition Label: Piski Disk Records TracklistTracklist1 - Sorrow – Petite Cloche Faict Grand Son (Cello – John Edward Contreras II) - 2:40 2 - Sorrow – The Final Solstice (Bagpipes [Uilleann] – Nigel McKernaghan) - 8:24 3 - Sorrow – Extracts From The Faery Queene (Featuring – David Michael Bunting, Shawn Pinchbeck) - 6:21 4 - Rosa Mundi – The Snow Man - 3:21 5 - Velocity Star – Warm Leatherette - 3:25 6 - Resonance – Butterfly Hawk - 5:02 |
 | I Can’t Believe It’s Not Lard
Released: 1999 (Canada) Format: CD Label: The Cliffords TracklistMore info about I Can’t Believe It’s Not Lard Tracklist1. Blast Pattern - 7 Miles 2. Mic Berends - Big Blue Is Back 3. Snafoo Corporation - Big Car 4. The Wiper - Confidence 5. !!* Exploring the Secrets of Treating Deaf Mutes 6. Cannibaloney - Estrogen 7. Lord Humungus - First Steps 8. High Priests of Memphis - Sydney Quads and the Megascope Space Probe 9. Ed Boland - Goodbye 10. Hammerspace - Twenty Deadly Diseases 11. Darwin Grosse - Mad Dad Mangles a Strad/Nighttime Falls 12. All American Girl Severed Heads Tribute Band - Son Of.../Greater Reward 13. Tractor Beam All Stars - Sam Loves You 14. Carya Amara - Big Car 15. Stephen Jones - NationArtists Blast Pattern Michael Caisley Mic Berends Mic Berends Snafoo Corporation Jakob Winnberg The Wiper Pascal Blin !!* Bernie Maier Cannibaloney Jonathan Parrish, Shawn Pinchbeck Lord Humungus Lord Humungus High Priests of Memphis Daryn LeHoux, Matt Stevens Ed Boland Ed Boland Hammerspace Dave Watson Darwin Grosse Darwin Grosse All American Girl Severed Heads Tribute Band Lx Rudis Tractor Beam All Stars Eric Nofsinger Carya Amara Kevin Busby Stephen JonesStephen Jones |
 | Soundland Alberta: Le Pays Sonore
Released: 1996 (Canada) Format: CD Label: Edmonton Concert Composers' Society TracklistTracklist1. Scott Godin 'longing...' 2. David Eagle 'Music for Axio (Open this Door)' 3. Ronald Hannah 'Concert Piece' 4. Robert Rosen 'Suite fz/thanks Frank' 5. Violet Archer 'Four Short Pieces' 6. Brent Lee 'La verita fora' 7. Jeff McCune 'Red Hills and Blue Sky: Hommage to Georgia O'Keeffe' 8. Shawn Pinchbeck 'Transformation #1' 9. Garth Hobden 'Musica coelestis' 10. Piotr Grella-Mozejko 'Due pezzi' |
 | DisContact! II
Released: 1995 (Canada) Format: CD Label: Canadian Electroacoustic Community TracklistMore info about DisContact! IIListen to the compositions TracklistCD 1 1. Ned Bouhalassa - Move 1 (Extrait) - 3:07 2. Ian Chuprun - Duet (For Headphones) - 2:50 3. Francis Dhomont - L'électro - 1:11 4. Daniel Feist - Diptych - 2:58 5. Michel Frigon - Itinéraire au Crépuscule - 2:40 6. Gilles Gobeil - Le Vertige inconnu - 3:04 7. Monique Jean - Embrace - 2:47 8. Kathy Kennedy - Music Box II - 1:19 9. Frank Koustrup - Woodstock To Detroit - 2:44 10. Daniel Leduc - Réponse impressionniste donnée par Josef K. lors d’une fin de soirée hivernale à une touriste française qui passait en face de la gare - 3:04 11. Robert Normandeau - Spleen - 2:59 12. Er Polen - .TRANse.SEPTem. [Machina Mundi In Septem Sæcülum] - 3:05 13. Laurie Radford - Enclave (Excerpt) - 2:57 14. Jean Routhier, Christof Migone, Michel F. Coté - Sous les décombres d’une brève hémorragie champêtre - 3:05 15. Frédéric Roverselli - L’Éveil de la cité - 2:41 16. Claude Schryer - 3 Radioludes (Extrait) - 3:07 17. Pascale Trudel - Le Poisson Qui Cache l'Oiseau - 2:56 18. John Winiarz - Jack in a (Music) Box - 2:55 19. Egils Bebris - Hockey Night In Opera - 2:27 20. Gustav Ciamaga - Possible Spaces No. 1 - 2:48 21. Janit Cross - Pleasant Tasks - 3:06 22. Rob Cruickshank - Starting From The House, Working Outwards - 2:50 23. Bruno Degazio - Jolly - 2:28 24. Robert Del Buono - Harmonica - 2:57 25. Markos Lekkas - Chronographica Delta - 2:47CD 21 Andra McCartney - Arcade '94 - 2:35CD 2 1. Andra McCartney - Arcade '94 - 2:35 2. Sarah Peebles - Nocturnal Premonitions - 2:17 3. Randall Smith - Fleeting Wheels of Changes - 2:30 4. Eric C. Woodley - Abide With Me (New York No. 1) - 2:48 5. Wes R.D. Wraggett - Chants of the Apocalypse: Icarus Strictures Part Two; Fanfare: Parade (Words of War) - 3:00 6. Mara Zibens - Siquppalavuk/It Sounds Like Breaking - 2:45 7. Bentley Jarvis - What Are You Talking About? - 2:50 8. Chris Meloche - Extensions V - 2:46 9. Sergio Villarreal - On The Other Shore - 3:09 10. Gregory Jay Lowe - Song Of The Turtle - 2:17 11. Diana McIntosh - Processions (Excerpt) - 2:42 12. Gordon Fitzell - Zipper Music - 3:03 13. Garth Hobden - Inukshuk - 2:55 14. Shawn Pinchbeck - The Children Are The Future - 3:04 15. Steven R. Heimbecker - I Beat John Sobol at Pool Last Night - 3:03 16. Daniel Scheidt - Big Piano: Storm - 2:28 17. Darren Copeland - Darkness Colours - 3:02 18. Martin Gotfrit - Guitar With Hut20 - 2:24 19. Fred Semeniuk - Spraying - 2:35 20. Barry Truax - Bamboo, Silk And Stone (Excerpt) - 3:12 21. Barbara Golden - Flaming Toast - 2:05 22. Yasuhiro Ohtani - Brain Wash - 2:57 23. Christian Calon - En Vol - 3:00 24. Thomas Gerwin - Epilogon - 2:09 25. Francisco López - El Mundo Depués De La Invasión De Los Zorápt - 2:44 26. Daniel Zimbaldo - Ritual Of The Rose - 0:33 |
 | A BEAMS Compilation
Released: 1991 (Canada) Format: CASS Label: Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society TracklistTracklistDis Side 1. Monkabuggle: The number is... (1:48) 2. Sheldon Sydia: Jah Maker (3:30) 3. Shawn Pinchbeck: The Sand, The Sea, The Stars (4:00) 4. Bruce Atchison: The Long Ride Home (4:45) 5. Bill Damur: The New Birds Ascending (7:45) Dat Side 1. Jamie Philp: Shiv (from Victories Over Us / Defeat At Our Hands) (5:44) 2. Argument Club: The Ventriloquist (4:17) 3. Piotr A. Grella: Epitaph For Jerzy (8:21) 4. Babysugarbag: Dope C. Mantor (1:33) 5. FLEM: "Uhh..." (1:22) |
 | Driven Element Compilation
Released: 1988 (Canada) Format: CASS Label: Driven Element Productions TracklistFrom around 1982 until about 1991 (dates are unclear) Marcel Dion ran a weekly Electronic/Experimental/Avant-Garde radio show on CJSR (campus/community radio station in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) called Departures. It's always unclear with campus/community radio how large your audience is and so it's unknown how popular the show was. However, what is clear is that it became a beacon for the local electronic/experimental music community in Edmonton at that time. As such, in 1988 Marcel decided to produce a compilation of local talent fitting the vision of his show and created the tiny private press cassette Driven Element.Waxidermy, June 17, 2007Quoted from Waxidermy, June 17, 2007, Driven Element (Various Artists), [online] Written by Canonical. Full text available at: http://waxidermy.com/driven-element-various-artists/ Tracklist TUBE SIDE Wilfred Kozub – RPV - 4:33 Bruce Atchison – Move It Out Now - 3:52 Jim Serediak – There's No Harm In Trying - 4:50 Evan C. Jones – Retrospection - 3:45 The Legion of Irrelevance – Almost Catholic - 3:08 Jamie Philp – Black Finger (excerpt) - 5:00 Chris Taylor – A Four Minute Exercise - 4:22 John Oparyk – I Wish I'd Never Read Franz Kafka - 3:16 George Arasimowicz – Bohater - 9:53 CLAMP SIDE Guerilla Welfare – Growth? - 4:49 Shawn Pinchbeck – A Promise To Keep - 4:40 Dan Cramer – House - 5:10 Scott Alloy – Gimli Grog (exerpt) - 5:45 Killers Lose In The Parking Lot – Polyester Pope - 4:15 The Bugs – Cats - 4:55 Jay Styles – Themes - 5:00 Mark wasarab – #4 - 3:40 Donovan Reimer – And Into Order - 5:27 |
 | An Alberta Music Compilation
Released: 1985 Format: CASS - Limited edition Label: Ohama Records Tracklist |