Myke Roy (born 2 July 1950) is a Canadian

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

and

recording engineer An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, ...

. An associate of the

Canadian Music Centre The Canadian Music Centre was founded in 1959 by a group of Canadian composers who saw a need to create a repository for Canadian music. It now holds Canada's largest collection of Canadian concert music, and works to promote the music of its A ...

and a member of the

Canadian Electroacoustic Community Founded in 1986, La Communauté électroacoustique canadienne / The Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) is Canada's national electroacoustic / computer music / sonic arts organization and is dedicated to promoting this progressive art form i ...

, his compositional output includes a substantial amount of

electroacoustic music Electroacoustic music is a genre of popular and Western art music in which composers use technology to manipulate the timbres of acoustic sounds, sometimes by using audio signal processing, such as reverb or harmonizing, on acoustical instrumen ...

, instrumental music, multi-media works, and music for the theatre. In 1976 he was awarded the Sir Ernest MacMillan Award/Fellowship by the

Composers, Authors and Publishers Association of Canada The Composers, Authors and Publishers Association of Canada (french: Association des compositeurs, auteurs et éditeurs du Canada Ltée) was a Canadian copyright collective for the right to communicate with the public and publicly perform musical wo ...

for his works ''Sveln'' (piano and synthesizer), ''Dra-men Dzunkt'' (8 performers or more) and ''Tsé Tnant/Te Deum'' (17 amplified instruments and tape). In 1987 he won the Robert Fleming Prize.

Education

Born in Trois-Rivières, Roy began his musical education at the École supérieure de musique de Nicolet where he studied from 1970-1972. He pursued further studies at the Université de Montréal where he earned a Bachelor of Music in 1975, a Master of Music in 1980, and a Doctor of Music in 1989. One of his principal teachers at the UM was Serge Garant.

Career

Roy began his career as a recording engineer in 1972. In 1974-1975 he worked with Alcides Lanza and Mario Bertoncini at McGill University's Electronic Music Studio. He was also employed at the Université de Montréal as a technician from 1974-1977. While there he notably worked on the Grand prix du disque de l'Académie Charles-Cros winning LP ''Games and Songs''. In 1983 Roy joined the faculty of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières where he taught courses in acoustics, electroacoustics and aural perception and served as the head of the school's electroacoustic music laboratory through 1986. In 1987 he returned to the Université de Montréal to become coordinator of the electroacoustic department, He served as vice-president of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community from 1987-1989. Roy has also worked as a sound technician for concerts presented by the

Association pour la création et la recherche électroacoustiques du Québec Association may refer to: *Club (organization), an association of two or more people united by a common interest or goal *Trade association, an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry *Voluntary associatio ...

and the

Société de musique contemporaine du Québec The Quebec Contemporary Music Society, or Société de musique contemporaine du Québec in French (SMCQ), is a contemporary classical-music organization based in Montreal, Quebec. It was founded in 1966 by Montreal composers and musicians, includin ...

. He has also occasionally contributed articles on electronic music to music publications, including the 1989 article 'Le Statut de professionnel pour le compositeur/diffuseur d'électroacoustique' in '' GUIDE'' magazine.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roy, Myke 1950 births Living people Canadian audio engineers Canadian composers Canadian male composers Université de Montréal alumni Academic staff of the Université de Montréal Academic staff of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières