Robert Neil "Bob" Wiseman (born 1962) is a film composer, songwriter, author and music teacher. Wiseman discovered or produced many artists including

Ron Sexsmith Ronald Eldon Sexsmith (born January 8, 1964) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario. He was the songwriter of the year at the 2005 Juno Awards. He began releasing recordings of his own material in 1985 at age 21, and has ...

The Lowest of the Low The Lowest of the Low is a Canadian alternative rock group formed in 1991 from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.Michael Barclay, Ian A.D. Jack and Jason Schneider, '' Have Not Been the Same: The Can-Rock Renaissance 1985-1995''. ECW Press. . They were o ...

Bruce McCulloch Bruce Ian McCulloch is a Canadian actor, comedian, writer, musician and film director. McCulloch is perhaps best known for his work as a member of the comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall, including starring in the TV series of the same name. He ...

of Kids in the Hall, Anhai, and former Canadian member of parliament

Andrew Cash Andrew Cash (born January 22, 1962) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and former politician who was the member of Parliament (MP) for the Toronto-area riding of Davenport from 2011 to 2015. A member of the New Democratic Party (NDP), Cash grew ...

. He is a founding member of

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with whom he won 5

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Career

In the 1980s Wiseman played at open stages in Toronto where he started producing friends Bob Snider,

Kyp Harness Kyp Harness (born December 9, 1964)Krewen, Nick (1998) "Throwing it into Reverse Singer/songwriter Kyp Harness visits Waterloo with new Houdini CD", '' The Record'', December 10, 1998 is a Canadian social activist and folk singer, known for the p ...

, Sahara Spracklin and Sam Larkin. He joined

in 1984 and quit in 1992 to follow a solo career. Wiseman's songs often incorporate new musical elements and explicit political themes. Guest contributors on his 13 albums include

Daniel Lanois Daniel Roland Lanois ( , ; born September 19, 1951) is a Canadian record producer, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He has produced albums by artists including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Robbie Robertson, Emmylou Harris, Willie ...

Mary Margaret O'Hara Mary Margaret O'Hara is a Canadian singer-songwriter, actress and composer. She is best known for the album ''Miss America'', released in 1988. She released two albums and an EP under her own name, and remains active as a live performer, as a con ...

Eugene Chadbourne Eugene Chadbourne (born January 4, 1954) is an American banjoist, guitarist and music critic. Life and career Chadbourne was born in Mount Vernon, New York, but grew up in Boulder, Colorado. He started playing guitar when he was eleven or twel ...

Edie Brickell Edie Arlisa Brickell (born March 10, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter widely known for 1988's ''Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars'', the debut album by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, which went to No. 4 on the ''Billboard'' albums chart. ...

Jane Siberry Jane Siberry ( ; ; born 12 October 1955) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, known for such hits as " Mimi on the Beach", "I Muse Aloud", "One More Colour" and "Calling All Angels". She performed the theme song to the television series ''Maniac Ma ...

, Basia Bulat and

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. In 2009 a 20th anniversary edition of ''In Her Dream'' was released by the

Blocks Recording Club Blocks Recording Club was a Canadian co-operative of musicians, which served as both a collaborative artist community and a record label for its member artists.RonSexsmith,

Geoff Berner Geoff Berner (born 1971) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and musician from Vancouver. Musical career Berner originally studied piano in his youth. At a party, somebody asked him why he did not play the accordion. As a result, he began learn ...

Owen Pallett Michael James Owen Pallett (born September 7, 1979) is a Canadian composer, violinist, keyboardist, and vocalist. Under their erstwhile moniker of Final Fantasy, Pallett won the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the album ''He Poos Clouds''. Pallet ...

, The Phonemes, Picastro, Michael Holt,

Maggie MacDonald Maggie MacDonald (born 1979) is a writer, playwright, and musician who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Early life and education MacDonald grew up in Cornwall, Ontario, where she became active in the local independent rock music scene. She put on sh ...

, UIC, Henri Faberge, and Don Christensen. In 2006 Wiseman and his partner, Magali Meagher, were accompaniment for

Daniel Johnston Daniel Dale Johnston (January 22, 1961 – September 11, 2019) was an American singer, musician and artist regarded as a significant figure in outsider, lo-fi, and alternative music scenes. Most of his work consisted of cassettes recorded a ...

. Wiseman was also a member of Slutarded, Black Eyes,

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and Dick Duck & the Dorks. Some of his better known songs include "White Dress" – a song about sexual assault, recorded by

, "What the Astronaut Noticed and Then Suggested" which was the theme song for the

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series '' Material World'', and "Maureen".

Touring and theatre

In 2009 Wiseman created ''Actionable'', a

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presentation utilizing Super 8, video and live accompaniment on accordion and guitar which he presented in 2010 at the Uno Festival in Victoria as well as Fringe Festival circuits. Wiseman collaborated theatrically with Scott Thompson of ''

The Kids in the Hall The Kids in the Hall is a Canadian sketch comedy troupe formed in 1984, consisting of comedians Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson. Their eponymous television show ran from 1989 to 1995, on CBC, in C ...

'', creating and touring ''Scottastrophe'' also with

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on award-winning ''Cowboys and Indians'' and with Sean Dixon for

Barbara Gowdy Barbara Gowdy, CM (born 25 June 1950) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Born in Windsor, Ontario, she is the long-time partner of poet Christopher Dewdney and resides in Toronto. Literary career Gowdy's novel '' Falling Angels'' ...

's story ''The White Bone'' adaptation, with The Madawaska String Quartet and with

and Stephanie Markowitz writing the music for their play ''The Rat King''. Wiseman toured with Feist,

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, and Scott Thompson and was a guest performer with

Wilco Wilco is an American alternative rock band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo following singer Jay Farrar's departure. Wilco's lineup changed frequently dur ...

The Wallflowers The Wallflowers is an American rock solo project of American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jakob Dylan. The Wallflowers were originally a roots rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1989 by Dylan and guitarist Tobi Miller. The band h ...

Jimmy Carl Black James Carl Inkanish, Jr. (February 1, 1938 – November 1, 2008), known professionally as Jimmy Carl Black, was a drummer and vocalist for The Mothers of Invention. Background and early career: 1960s–1990s Born in El Paso, Texas, Black was o ...

(of

Frank Zappa Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader. His work is characterized by wikt:nonconformity, nonconformity, Free improvisation, free-form improvisation, sound experimen ...

Michelle Wright Michelle Wright (born July 1, 1961) is a Canadian country music artist. She is one of the country's most widely recognized and awarded female country singers of the 1990s, winning the Canadian Country Music Association's Fans' Choice Award twice ...

Ashley MacIsaac Ashley Dwayne MacIsaac (born February 24, 1975) is a Canadian fiddler, singer and songwriter from Cape Breton Island. He has received three Juno Awards, winning for Best New Solo Artist and Best Roots & Traditional Album – Solo at the Juno A ...

& Garland Jeffries. Videos on

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of Wiseman songs performed with Feist ("You Don't Love Me"),

("White Dress") Sexsmith ("All The Trees)". Artists who covered Bob songs include The Madawaska String Quartet, UIC, Leah Abramson, The

Bourbon Tabernacle Choir The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir were a Canadian alternative rock band that formed in 1985 in Toronto. History The band consisted of vocalist Kate Fenner, vocalist and organist Chris Brown, vocalist and guitarist Andrew Whiteman, guitarist Chris M ...

, Michael Holt, Change of Heart, Magali Meagher, Tom St. Louis, Ben Bootsma and The Blind Venetians. Wiseman makes super 8 films and videos that he accompanies live on accordion, guitar or piano. He tours/ performs with these films in Europe, United States, New Zealand and Canada subtitling them when necessary. Wiseman is the only live musician on John Oswald's 1988 release ''

Plunderphonics Plunderphonics is a music genre in which tracks are constructed by sampling recognizable musical works. The term was coined by composer John Oswald in 1985 in his essay "Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative", and even ...

''. He was on the board of directors for

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TAIS ''Tais'' is a form of ''Tenun'' weaving tradition native to the eastern Indonesian regions of the Maluku Islands, the Tanimbar Islands, and the East Nusa Tenggara Islands (in Timor Island, the political government divided into West Timor of ...

, The Tranzac & the

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. In 2019 he obtained his master's degree in Environmental Studies from

York University York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,0 ...

and currently is in the PhD program at the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation.

Production

Wiseman started producing records in the 1980s, his debut "Wet Water" charted No. 4 on

CKLN-FM CKLN-FM was a community radio station based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. From 1983 to 2011, CKLN Radio Inc. was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission as a campus-community FM radio station affiliated with Ry ...

Ryerson University Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU or Toronto Met) is a public university, public research university located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The university's core campus is situated within the Garden District, Toronto, Garden District, although i ...

. Soon he was arranging and recording many friends like

, Sam Larkin,

, Sahara Spracklin and UIC. The record he produced for

"Grand Opera Lane" was rejected by Canadian A&R representatives. Through persistence he managed to get it to Todd Sullivan at Geffen Records in Los Angeles, who eventually gave it to Ronnie Vance in the publishing department which led to a deal for

with

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. Other notable clients were Kid in the Hall

, with whom Wiseman produced and co-wrote much of his Atlantic Records release Shame Based Man (listed as No. 24 on Spin Magazine's top comedy albums of all time). Other artists Wiseman has produced include

, Canadian Member of Parliament

, Knitting Factory Recording Artist

Carmaig de Forest Carmaig de Forest (born September 9, 1957) is a singer-songwriter, mainly on the ukulele, but also the guitar, originating from Los Angeles, California. Since starting his career as a ukulele singer-songwriter, he has mostly stayed in the cre ...

, Robert Priest,

Anhai Anhai is a town in southern Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It is located in the far southern suburbs of the Quanzhou metropolitan area. and is separated by Weitou Bay () from Kinmen, which is controlled by the Republic of China on ...

Friendly Rich Friendly Rich, born Richard Marsella, is a Canadian music composer and musician from Brampton, Ontario. He has independently released a number of albums of satirical and melodramatic songs. His music has been featured on CBC and '' The Tom Green ...

, Jess Reimer,

Katie Crown Katherine Crown (born November 23, 1985) is a Canadian voice actress and writer. She is known for voicing Izzy in ''Total Drama'', Fin in '' Stoked'', Mary Wendle and Melanie Baker in ''Clarence'', Tulip in ''Storks'' and Ivy in ''Amphibia''. In ...

, and Bob Snider.

Author Composer

*April 2021, Improv notes Issue on the Tranzac and Covid. *July 2020, ECW Press ''

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'' 350 pages.

Film scores

* ''Coleslaw Warehouse'' (1994) by

* ''

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'' (1996) by Bruce McDonald * ''Thirst'' (2000) by Jessica Joy Wise * ''Toraanisqatsi'' (2001) by Leif Harmsen * ''The Racist Brick'' (2003) by Dave Derewlany and Adam Brodie * ''Scarlett's Room'' (2004) by Yvonne Ng * ''Heart Mission'' (2005) by

* ''Abstract'' (2007) by Steve Whitehouse * ''Drawing from Life'' (2008) by

Katerina Cizek Katerina Cizek is a Canadian documentary director and a pioneer in digital documentaries. She is the Artistic Director, Co-Founder and Executive Producer of the Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Documentary Lab (Massachusetts Institute of Technolog ...

* ''Sous l'oeil du temps'' (2009) by Madi Pillar * ''The Pickles Shane'' (2009) by Levi MacDougall * ''That Thing That Happened'' (2010) by

Josh Saltzman Josh Saltzman is a Canadian Comedy Award winning comedian, writer and director from Toronto, Ontario who currently resides in Los Angeles. He was the head writer of DHX Media's new ''Inspector Gadget'' series produced for Teletoon in Canada (seen o ...

and Lindsay Ames * ''The Old Ways'' (2011) by Mike Vass * ''Sad Wet Happy Dry'' (2011) by Levi MacDougall * ''Even If My Hands Were Full of Truths'' (2012) by Franci Duran * ''The Thunder Bird & The Killer Whale'' (2012) by Caroline Trudell * ''What's Art Got To Do With It?'' (2013) by Isabel Fryzsberg * ''The Ghosts In Our Machine'' (2013) by Liz Marshall * ''Candy'' (2013) by Cassandra Cronenberg * ''David Noble: A Wrench In The Gears'' (2013) by Jon Bullick * ''Safir'' (2013) by Mariam Zaidi * ''Mugshot'' (2014) by Dennis Mohr * ''Every Story Has a Twist'' (2014) by Bindu Shah * ''Love Song for the Apocalypse'' (2014) by

David Ridgen David Ridgen is an independent Canadian filmmaker born in Stratford, Ontario. He has worked for CBC Television, MSNBC, NPR, TVOntario and others. He is currently the writer, producer and host of CBC Radio’s true-crime podcast series, ''Someon ...

* ''Micah Lexier, Visual Artist'' (2015) by

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* ''Blood White'' (2015) by Rotter and Kess * ''The Education of William Bowman'' (2015) by

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* ''Political Refugee'' (2015) by

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* ''Meat Pie'' (2015) by Eytan Millstone * ''Idiots In Love'' (2016) by Kathleen Phillips-Locke * ''

The Drawer Boy ''The Drawer Boy'' is a play by Michael Healey. It is a two-act play set in 1972 on a farm near Clinton, Ontario. There are only three characters: the farm's two owners, Morgan and Angus, and Miles Potter, a young actor from Toronto doing resea ...

'' (2017) by

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* ''Rasputin'' (2018) by Jamie Shannon * ''Temperance'' (2022) by Scott Thompson

Television scores

* ''Material World'' (1992) for

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* ''Wildside'' (1993–1994) for

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* ''Pet Project'' (1995–1998) for

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* ''Spiritual Literacy'' (1998) for

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* ''

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'' (1996–1999)

Bruce McDonald (director) Bruce McDonald (born May 28, 1959) is a Canadian film and television director, writer, and producer. Born in Kingston, Ontario, he rose to prominence in the 1980s as part of the loosely-affiliated Toronto New Wave. McDonald has directed more th ...

and

Don McKellar Don McKellar (born August 17, 1963) is a Canadian actor, writer, playwright, and filmmaker. He was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave. He is known for directing and writing the ...

* ''Loving Spoonful'' (1998–2006) for WTN network &

* ''The Distractions'' (2003) for

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* ''Carolina Dai'' (2011) for

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* ''Guidance'' (2013) for

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* ''Derby'' (2016) for

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Theatre scores

* ''Peter Cottontail'' (1969) directed by Mrs. Smith * ''The 3 Penny Epic Cabaret'' (1994) directed by Adam Nashman * ''Hys Unauthorized Lyfe and Tymes'' (2002) directed by Anand Rajaram * ''The Rat King'' (2006) directed by

and Steph Markowitz * ''The White Bone'' (2007) directed by Sean Dixon * ''Cowboys and Indians'' (2008) directed by Anand Rajaram * ''Actionable'' (2011) directed by Sean Dixon * ''Smother'' (2012) directed by Omar Joseph Hady * ''Charming Monsters'' (2013) directed by Aaron Rothermund

Radio scores

* ''Someone Knows Something'' (2016) produced by CBC

Production discography

Selected releases

* ''Bob Wiseman Sings Wrench Tuttle: In Her Dream'' (1989,

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). The album created some notoriety when the first thousand copies were destroyed by Warner Music due to the song "Rock and Tree" which was feared libelous. It was about the murder of

Salvador Allende Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens (, , ; 26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean physician and socialist politician who served as the 28th president of Chile from 3 November 1970 until his death on 11 September 1973. He was the fir ...

and mentioned

Richard Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and was ...

Henry Kissinger Henry Alfred Kissinger (; ; born Heinz Alfred Kissinger, May 27, 1923) is a German-born American politician, diplomat, and geopolitical consultant who served as United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under the presid ...

and

Donald M. Kendall Donald Mcintosh Kendall (March 16, 1921 – September 19, 2020) was an American businessman and political adviser. He served as CEO of Pepsi Cola (which merged with Herman Lay's Frito Lay, Inc. to become PepsiCo in 1965) and as CEO of Peps ...

, the president of Pepsi Cola. "Wrench Tuttle", the credited lyricist, was a Wiseman pseudonym. (Wiseman claimed that he set music to words by Tuttle, a poet who would send him lyrics in the mail.) The album was included in the Canadian music critics top 100 albums of all time The album yielded the video "We Got Time", with cameos by

Mendelson Joe Mendelson Joe (born Birrel Josef Mendelson on July 30, 1944) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, painter and outspoken political activist who uses his art to express political themes. Career Born and raised in Maple, Ontario and educat ...

and friends,

Tracy Wright Tracy Wright (December 7, 1959 – June 22, 2010) was a Canadian actress who was known for her stage and film performances, as well as her presence in Canada's avant-garde for over 20 years. Career In 1989, she was a founding member of the Toron ...

(for whom Wiseman wrote the 2013 song mothface@yahoo.ca),

, Leslie Spit Treeo and

. The album also featured "Airplane on the Highway" which had an accompanying video by

Caroline Azar Caroline Azar is a director and playwright. She was the lead singer, keyboardist and co-lyricist/composer of the band Fifth Column. Career The all-women punk band Fifth Column began in the mid-1980s in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The band self-rele ...

and animator Lisa Bujoin. * ''Hits of the 60s and the 70s'' (1990, self released) recording of piano improvisations that contained no hits from the 60s or70s. * ''Presented by Lake Michigan Soda'' (1991,

Warner Music Canada Warner Music Canada is the Canadian division of Warner Music Group. The label previously operated as WEA Music of Canada, Ltd. (French: ''WEA Musique du Canada, Ltée''), often shortened to WEA Canada, the Canadian subsidiary of WEA Internationa ...

). Guests included

and

with whom he recorded Chopin's etude Opus 10 No. 6 retitling it opus 10 No. 666 with Chadbourne on distorted electric rake introducing himself as "Oighan Chadbornitsky of the Budapest Philharmonic". The song "What the Astronaught Noticed and Then Suggested" became the theme song for the

sitcom ''Material World'' produced by ''

''s Susan Cavan. Three videos were filmed for PBLMS. "The Man From Glad" was directed by Yvonne Ng (artistic director of Princess Productions) shot by

Nicholas de Pencier Nicholas de Pencier is a Canadian cinematographer and filmmaker. The spouse and professional partner of filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal in Mercury Films, he is the cinematographer and producer on most of her films as well as codirector of the films '' ...

with costars including Keith Cole. "Frost in Florida", about global warming, was directed by Andrea Nann and shot by de Pencier. "Taylor Field",about adolescent suicide, was directed by Howard Wiseman. * ''City of Wood'' (1993,

and

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in Europe) * ''Beware of Bob'' (1994, Sabre Touque Records in Canada and FU Stephano in Italy) – instrumental album. * ''Accidentally Acquired Beliefs'' (1995,

). It was recorded at

Metalworks Studios Metalworks Studios is a music recording studio in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It was established in 1978 by Gil Moore of the Canadian rock group, Triumph. Over a span of 40 years, Metalworks has been the recipient of Canadian Music Week's ' ...

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. * ''More Work Songs from the Planet of the Apes'' (1997, God Finds Cats).

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praised it for the song Libelous about activists David Morris and Helen Steel (see McLibel case). * ''It's True'' (2004,

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, Mark Hundevad, Michael Keith and Michael Holt.

Production

* ''Wiseman Sessions'' (1988) UIC * ''Outside The Law'' (1989) Basic English * ''Sam Larkin'' (1989) Sam Larkin * ''Grand Opera Lane'' (1990) Ron Sexsmith * ''Put Your Head on Your Shoulders'' (1990) The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir * ''Nowhere Fast'' (1991) Kyp Harness * ''You'' (1991) Bob Snider * ''Love Song to the Alien'' (1992) The Liz Band * ''Shaylee'' (1992) Edie Brickell * ''Hi'' (1992) Andrew Cash * ''Just Buy It'' (1992) Furnaceface * ''Gamble/ Motel 6'' (1993) Lowest of the Low * ''Ruins of Our Own'' (1993) Eugene Chadbourne * ''Shame-Based Man'' (1995) Bruce McCulloch * ''California'' (1996) Jeanette Froncz * ''Spacewoman'' (1998) Selina Martin * ''We Need A New F Word'' (2005) Friendly Rich * ''Gamma Knife'' (2011) Maria Kasstan * ''Apology'' (2011) Eihpos Grapes * ''Countdown'' (2011) Stacey McLeod * ''Arachnia'' (2011) Sean Dixon * ''New Boots'' (2011) Laska Sawade * ''Catholic School'' (2011) Christine Cleary * ''Love You More'' (2011) Kwesi Immanuel * ''Three of Swords'' (2013) Mimi Osvath * ''The Nightjar and The Garden'' (2014) Jess Reimer * ''The Secret Songs of Sam Larkin'' (2015) Sam Larkin * ''Tomorrow Is Today'' (2018) Anhai * ''Love is Hard'' (2022) Robert Priest

Solo discography

* ''Wet Water'' (1984) * ''In Her Dream: Bob Wiseman Sings Wrench Tuttle'' (1989) * ''Hits of the Sixties and Seventies'' (1990) * ''Presented by Lake Michigan Soda'' (1991) * ''City of Wood'' (1993) * ''Beware of Bob'' (1994) * ''Accidentally Acquired Beliefs'' (1995) * ''More Work Songs from the Planet of the Apes'' (1997) * ''It's True'' (2004) * ''Theme and Variations'' (2006) * ''The Legend'' (2008) * ''In Her Dream'' (2009) – 20th anniversary edition on vinyl with previously unreleased tracks * ''Giulietta Masina At The Oscars Crying'' (2013)

Film and videography

A retrospective of his films and videos were shown in 2010 both in

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, Finland and in

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, Italy at the Associazione Culturale Disorderdrama. * ''Alexander and the Hydro Pole'' (1999) * ''All Dressed Up'' (2001) * ''Bhopal (driftnet plan)'' (2003) * ''My Cousin Dave'' (2003) * ''Uranium'' (2004) * ''Drum Sounds'' (2005) * ''Bob And Choice'' (2006)with Scott Thompson, Levi MacDougall and

Nathan Fielder Nathan Joseph Fielder (born May 12, 1983) is a Canadian comedian, actor, writer, director, producer, and entrepreneur. He is best known for co-creating, directing, and starring in the Comedy Central parody reality show '' Nathan for You'' (2013� ...

* ''Found Poetry'' (2006) * ''100 Instruments'' (2007) * ''Dead Inside'' (2007) * ''Who Am I'' (2008) * ''Ten Cent Job'' (2009) * ''Response of a Lakota Woman to FBI Intimidation'' (2009) * ''Disappearing Trick'' (2009) * ''Hand Language'' (2010) * ''You Don't Love Me'' (2010) * ''Three Men'' (2011) * ''Two'' (2011) * ''Neil Young at the Junos'' (2013) * ''Misery'' (2016) * ''Mothface@Yahoo.ca'' (2017) * ''The Reform Part at Burning Man'' (2019)

Personal life

Wiseman attended Joseph Wolinsky Collegiate, École River Heights, Grant Park, Argyle Alternative High School in Winnipeg, Manitoba and holds a Masters of Environmental Studies from York University. Currently a 2024 PhD candidate at the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation.

Awards

* 5

won with

Juno Juno commonly refers to: *Juno (mythology), the Roman goddess of marriage and queen of the gods *Juno (film), ''Juno'' (film), 2007 Juno may also refer to: Arts, entertainment and media Fictional characters *Juno, in the film ''Jenny, Juno'' *Ju ...

nomination Most Promising Male Vocalist *

Gemini Award The Gemini Awards were awards given by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television between 1986–2011 to recognize the achievements of Canada's television industry. The Gemini Awards are analogous to the Emmy Awards given in the United States ...

Nomination 2000 for

music * Lifetime achievement award winner from

CBC Radio 3 CBC Radio 3 is a Canadian digital radio station operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which plays a relatively freeform mix of indie rock, indie pop, alternative hip hop, folk, country and electronic music. The service, which lanuc ...

* Presented with the Key to

Bruno, Saskatchewan Bruno is a town located 90 km east of Saskatoon and 35 km west of Humboldt. Its current mayor is Dale Glessman. Bruno is the only community in the prairies to hold an annual cherry festival. Bruno Clayworks located 4 km west o ...

by the Mayor in 2008 * Best Songwriter 2013

Now Now most commonly refers to the present time. Now, NOW, or The Now may also refer to: Organizations * Natal Organisation of Women, a South African women's organization * National Organization for Women, an American feminist organization * Now ...

Readers Poll (runner up) * 2015 Dan Galea 4th Wiseman Music of Sound Award * 2017 Favourite cover of

Exclaim! ''Exclaim!'' is a Canadian music and entertainment publisher based in Toronto, which features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and emerging artists. The monthly Exclaim! print magazine publishes 7 ...

25th anniversary issue.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wiseman, Bob 1962 births Living people 21st-century Canadian pianists Alternative rock pianists Blue Rodeo members Canadian alternative rock musicians Canadian country rock musicians Canadian people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent Canadian record producers Canadian male singer-songwriters Jewish Canadian musicians Jewish Canadian writers Musicians from Winnipeg Psychedelic folk musicians Writers from Winnipeg Glitterhouse Records artists