Paul Hoffert

Paul Matthews Hoffert ( born September 22, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York City ) is a Canadian composer, pianist, vibraphonist, music educator and scientist in the field of digital media.

Biography

Hoffert played from the age of nine piano. He came to Toronto in 1956 and studied there until 1963 composition with Gordon Delamont and vibraphone at Hagood Hardy. In 1961 he was a Canadian citizen. He joined in 1960 as a pianist and vibraphonist in jazz clubs and played the album The Jazz Roots of Paul Hoffert with Bernie Piltch, Carne Bray and Archie Alleyne one.

He then studied mathematics and physics at the University of Toronto and was also the 1963-1965 musical director of the CBC television series Time of Your Life. In 1969 he founded with Skip Prokop the rock band Lighthouse, to which he belonged as a keyboardist and vibraphonist to 1974 and received the best 1971-1973 three Juno Awards as Canada's pop band. At the National Research Council, he worked from 1969 to 1971 with Hugh Le Caine together.

From 1977 to 1983 Hoffert worked for Apple, after which he worked in various digital music projects. In 1981 he founded the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, which he headed until 1983; In 1984 he became professor of digital media at York University, where he founded in 1992, the CulTech Research Centre, which he directed until 2000. From 1987 to 2000 he was President of the Canadian Academy of Cinema and Television from 1994 to 1999 he managed also the Intercom Ontario, which was active in the field of broadband communications. In addition, Hoffert worked in the field of digital signing, the Music on Demand ( Jukeboxx ) and multimedia applications for teaching.

This Hoffert remained active as a musician. In 1992 he founded the group Lighthouse new and was inducted into the Canadian Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. He led digital life performances on how the Cyber ​​Soirée (1996 ), SMART Toronto (1999) and Supercomputing ( 2001). In addition to numerous film scores he composed music theater works, ballets and orchestral works and wrote several books on new media and music. In 1997 he received the Medal of the Arts Ontario Arts Council, 2004, he was honored as a member of the Order of Canada.

Works

  • Get Thee to Canterbury, musical theater, 1967
  • Marat Sade, Music Theatre, 1969
  • Concert music for Rock Band and Orchestra, 1969
  • Ballet High for Rock Band and Dance, 1969
  • Prometheus Bound, musical theater ( with Irene Worth ), 1971
  • Concerto for Flute Contemporary, 1975
  • Concerto for Contemporary Violin, 1976
  • Sweet summersaults, Ballet, 1976
  • Israel for tenor, chorus, harp and percussion, 1978
  • Spring for String Quartet and Rock Band, 1980
  • Hogtown, musical theater, 1981
  • Hidden Channel, opera, 1991
  • Noah for multimedia and dance, 1995

Writings

  • Hoffert Guide to Synchronizing Music, Toronto 1982
  • Understanding Music in Media, Toronto 1987
  • Inventory of Internet Technologies and Services ( with Peter Roosen -Runge ), Ottawa 1976
  • Internet Technologies primer ( with Peter Roosen -Runge, Toronto 1997
  • The Bagel Effect: A Compass to Navigate Our ​​Wired World, Toronto 1998
  • All Together Now: Connected Communities: How They Will Revolutionize the Way You Live, Work, and Play, Toronto 200)
  • The New Client: How Customers Shape Business in the Information Age, Toronto 2002
  • Music for New Media: Composing for Videogames, Web sites, Presentations, and other Interactive Media, Boston 2007
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