Experimental & Electronic

This room is dedicated to the sonic explorers—the boundary-pushers, tape-splicers, synth-builders, and sound manipulators who redefined what music could be. Experimental & Electronic showcases Canadian artists who ventured beyond the conventional, creating new textures, structures, and soundscapes through innovation and imagination. From early electroacoustic pioneers to modular tinkerers and ambient architects, this is the wild frontier of Canadian sound. Strange, beautiful, and endlessly inventive.

Tracks

Artist	Track	Title	Length
Bob Bell	Necropolis 3	Necropolis	05:31
French B	Interlude	Au Delà Du Délai	04:49
The Tear Garden	Exorcism	Astral Elevator	01:07
Martyn Bennett	Hiuraibh O' Ghraidh An Tig Thu ? (Will You Return, My Love ?)	Glen Lyon	03:17
Dry Heeves	Dirty Hare Krishna	Dinner With Bozo the Clown	02:20
French B	J'm'en fous	Légitime démence	04:07
Jim Brown	A Myth of Gardens	Oh See Can You Say	04:44
Longwalkshortdock	All Along	How Can You Just Pretend	06:45
Steve Tittle	Just Like Yr Daddy Done (Text partly adapted from traditional blues songs Poem by S. Tittle (ca. 1958); spoken by Miles Tittle)	(one of the) merely players	10:14
Compilation	X Drone - 1/0 Phlow	Raincreature, Vancouver's Independent Artists Compilation 1992	06:34
Mort Garson	The Unexplained	Ataraxia The Unexplained (Electronic Musical Impressions of the Occult)	03:10
Gerry Hannah	The Last Procession	Whereabouts Unknown	07:19
Dyeing Merchants	Gathering	ST	03:54
John Mills-Cockell	Truffaldino's Bird Song	Heartbeat	02:25
Michael Snow	Si Nopo Da (By What Signs Will I Come to Understand?)	The Last LP: Unique Last Recordings of Ancient Cultures	03:49
The Tear Garden	Lady Fate	Astral Elevator	05:48
Orphic Egg	Crack It	Crack It b/w Crack It	03:26
Intersystems	There Can Only Be Noise Between Us (shown as "2 Apples" on original vinyl)	Peachy	02:18
Martyn Bennett	Fhir A, Leadain Thiath (Lad With The Smooth Tresses)	Glen Lyon	02:48
Cybernation	Abduction	The Dark Plane	02:45
Lightdreams	Everyone Grows And Grows	10;001 Dreams	05:43
Dry Heeves	Lokum	Everything's Gone Pseudo	03:45
The Tear Garden	Going Up	Astral Elevator	06:06
Lola Dutronic	Un histoire de plage	Album 2: The Love Parade	03:10
Ian Tamblyn	The Penguin Came from Pittsburgh	Antarctica	05:23
Paul Serret	Arabic Wind	Tapis Volant	08:21
John Oswald	brown	Plunderphonic	04:05
John Oswald	2net (1990)	69 Plunderphonics 96	01:24
Lola Dutronic	Girl On a Motorcycle	The World Of Lola Dutronic	03:11
Martyn Bennett	Chanter	Grit	04:10
Crazy People	Happy Academy	Bedlam	03:42
Gerry Hannah	Wind Over Water	Whereabouts Unknown	06:10
Barry Truax	Nautilus (1976)	Sonic Landscapes	10:09
Polkaholics	Tears (Extinguish The Fire)	EP	02:03
Beverly Glenn-Copeland	Ever New (Reworked by Bon Iver & Flock of Dimes)	Keyboard Fantasies Reimagined	06:24
Compilation	Thorb - Forever is a Long Time	Experiments For Giant TVs: The Ed Video Audio Art Album Volume I	01:21
Nash the Slash	The Calling (16 rpm)	Decomposing	12:25
Dionne - Brégent	Chant despoir	"...et le troisième jour"	03:30
Compilation	Thorb - Tuesday	Experiments For Giant TVs: The Ed Video Audio Art Album Volume I	03:20
Beverly Glenn-Copeland	Ghost House (Performed by Jeremy Dutcher)	Keyboard Fantasies Reimagined	03:52
Ian Tamblyn	Soaring	Over My Head	03:16
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	The Alphabet Game	Ear Rational: Sound Poems 1966-1980	05:24
John Mills-Cockell	Vision of Fire	A Third Testament	01:38
Maledictus Sound	Jim Clark was Driving Recklessly	ST	02:15
Polkaholics	The Statue of Liberty	EP	04:24
Monogrenade	Composite	Composite	04:33
Ian Tamblyn	Ed's Still Diving	Antarctica	05:13
John Mills-Cockell	Winter Farewall (Dedication to Leo Tolstoy)	A Third Testament	06:50
Polkaholics	Syllables for Simple People	EP	02:34
Mort Garson	Easy To Be Hard	Electronic Hair Pieces	02:48
Grimes	Weregild	Halfaxa	05:13
Kytami (Kyla Uyede)	Bass Is High	ST	04:05
Peaches (Merrill Beth Nisker)	Lovertits	The Teaches of Peaches	04:43
Mort Garson	Hair	Electronic Hair Pieces	02:20
East Avenue Energy	Fall Upon Thee	You and I Are Marked by the Good and the Bad	05:29
Dixie's Death Pool	Air Defense Centre	Beauty Sleep	02:59
Vini Vidi Vici with Princess Demeny	New York Grief	Vini Vidi Vici	04:11
Compilation	Mechanism - Black Christmas	Stitching Small Tears (A Vancouver Electronic Music Compilation)	01:35
Dry Heeves	Molly Malone	Everything's Gone Pseudo	07:20
Gerry Hannah	Canyon Highway	Whereabouts Unknown	04:18
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	A Giant Starfish	On The Edge Of The Dream	04:38
Craig McCaw	Super Nova	A Journey Through the Galaxy (Music from the Soundtrack of)	01:25
John Mills-Cockell	Revery	Gateway: A New Musical Adventure	03:50
John Mills-Cockell	Mirage	Gateway: A New Musical Adventure	03:59
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Drum	Ohama aka The White Album	02:44
John Oswald	Velocity (Aretha Vanilli)	Plexure	01:12
Compilation	Blair Petrie - Pamela	Stitching Small Tears (A Vancouver Electronic Music Compilation)	03:09
Peaches (Merrill Beth Nisker)	Cum Undun	The Teaches of Peaches	04:20
Dry Heeves	Atom Heart Motherfucker	Bubblegumma (EP)	06:07
Lola Dutronic	Ma jeunesse fout le camp	The World Of Lola Dutronic	04:02
John Mills-Cockell	Heartbreak Game	In Concert	04:55
David Keane	Elegy (for double bass & Tape recorder, Joel Quarrington on double bass)	Lyra	09:04
Compilation	Restless Natives - Last Tango in Guelph	Experiments For Giant TVs: The Ed Video Audio Art Album Volume I	00:50
Esmerine	Sprouts	La Lechuza	07:35
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Your Cheatin’ Heart	My Electronic Country Album	02:52
Grimes	Venus In Fleurs	Geidi Primes	02:43
Norma Beecroft	National Arts Centre Orchestra, Mario Bernardi, conductor - Improvisationi Concertanti No. 2 (1971)	Musical Portrait: A Fiftieth Anniversary Project	08:12
Luyas	Cats in a Bag	Faker Death	05:43
Dry Heeves	Under My Chin	And I'll Call Rusty	01:37
Axis of Conversation	Readymade Heart Attack	Delusions of Safety	05:12
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Feelings Feel	Ohama aka The White Album	02:57
John Oswald	The Doors - O'Hell	Elektrax (Rubaiyat)	03:54
Canadian Electronic Ensemble (CEE)	Piano Quintet (1976)	ST	09:53
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Part In Peace (2024)	13 Electronic Cover Songs	03:32
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Why Do a Country Album with Synths?	My Electronic Country Album	01:48
Cybernation	Silence	The Dark Plane	09:23
Bruce Haack	Walking Eagle	Captain Entropy	06:02
Peaches (Merrill Beth Nisker)	Sucker	The Teaches of Peaches	03:37
Ollie Case	Scotch on the Rocks	Electromotion!	02:43
Guys	So Close	Pink and Blue	03:43
Woodhands	I Should Have Gone With My Friends	Remorsecapade	06:36
John Oswald	Love1	Discosphere	01:57
Mort Garson	Where Do I Go?	Electronic Hair Pieces	02:51
Compilation	Charlie Fox - Brief Choral Piece	Experiments For Giant TVs: The Ed Video Audio Art Album Volume I	00:20
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Talking About (2024)	13 Electronic Cover Songs	03:16
John Oswald	black	Plunderphonic	02:03
French B	Quitter son pays	Au Delà Du Délai	03:59
Sins	Cops And Christians	I Die	04:11
Longwalkshortdock	Big Screen	How Can You Just Pretend	04:50
John Oswald	Amina	Discosphere	04:41

Experimental & Electronic

Tracks

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The Tear Garden - Astral Elevator

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The Tear Garden - Tired Eyes Slowly Burning

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Bruce PM - Makeshift

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Compilation - Raincreature, Vancouver's Independent Artists Compilation 1992

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André Luc Desjardins - Portrait Musical CAPAC

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Buddha Boy (Andrii Horbatyi) - Children of the Sun

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Dionne - Brégent - "...et le troisième jour"

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Bernard Bonnier - Casse-Tête: musique concrète

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Steve Tittle - (one of the) merely players

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Craig McCaw - A Journey Through the Galaxy (Music from the Soundtrack of)

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Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Keyboard Fantasies Reimagined

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Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Primal Prayer

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Beverly Glenn-Copeland - ...Keyboard Fantasies...

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Electronic Ensemble (Ben McPeek) - Peter & The Wolf b/w Monkey Music

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Jim Brown - The First See Hear

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Jim Brown - Oh See Can You Say

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Compilation - Experiments For Giant TVs: The Ed Video Audio Art Album Volume I

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Dry Heeves - Everything's Gone Pseudo

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Nihilist Spasm Band - ¬x~x=x

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Nihilist Spasm Band - Vol 2

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Nihilist Spasm Band - No Record

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Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) - Snow's Coat (2000 -2012)

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Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) - Plantin' Seeds

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Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) - Kevin D. Xmas Tape '81

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French B - Au Delà Du Délai

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Dancespeak - A Sound Mind

John Oswald - 69 Plunderphonics 96

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Dry Heeves - Demo

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Dry Heeves - Dinner With Bozo the Clown

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Dry Heeves - Bubblegumma (EP)

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