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
John Mills-Cockell	Dreamstripper	Gateway: A New Musical Adventure	06:01
Paul Bley	M.J.	Dual Unity (with Annette Bley)	17:14
Norman McLaren	Unreleased Composition (c. 1945)	Rythmetic: The Compositions of Norman McLaren	10:07
PéloquinSauvageau	Les grands silencieux	Laissez-nous vous embrasser où vous avez mal	04:23
Norma Beecroft	Mary Morrison, soprano; Robert Aitken, flute; Marion Ross, piano - Two Went to Sleep (Leonard Cohen) (1967)	Musical Portrait: A Fiftieth Anniversary Project	07:34
Peaches (Merrill Beth Nisker)	Rock Show	The Teaches of Peaches	02:10
Lola Dutronic	Le model	Album 2: The Love Parade	04:13
Craig McCaw	Centering	A Journey Through the Galaxy (Music from the Soundtrack of)	02:50
Lola Dutronic	Walking On Sunshine	The World Of Lola Dutronic	04:18
Myths	Deadlights	ST	05:26
Handful of Snowdrops	Now, Then and Forever (Bonus Track)	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	06:06
John Mills-Cockell	Yasnaya Polyana	A Third Testament	03:11
Iko	Digital Delight	83	05:53
John Mills-Cockell	Hold On Tight	In Concert	05:41
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	Art in Upheaval	Ear Rational: Sound Poems 1966-1980	05:36
Compilation	Paul Rudolph & Gerald Toon - Peter's Piece	Stitching Small Tears (A Vancouver Electronic Music Compilation)	11:22
Maledictus Sound	Art Director	ST	02:45
Michael Snow	Speech In Klogen	The Last LP: Unique Last Recordings of Ancient Cultures	02:17
Handful of Snowdrops	Voices in the Night	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	06:41
VLA (Vincent V.)	We Won't Let Each Other Go (Club Extended Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	06:17
French B	J'm'en fous	Légitime démence	04:07
Martyn Bennett	Love Is Here (Intro)	Hardland	03:39
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Of Whales (2024)	13 Electronic Cover Songs	03:08
Ollie Case	Swingin' Gently	Electromotion!	02:28
CCMC (Canadian Creative Music Collective)	Your First Bicycle	Volume 1	22:24
Longwalkshortdock	Find out How	How Can You Just Pretend	07:05
Mort Garson & Jacques Wilson	They're Off To Find The Wozard	The Wozard of Iz: An Electronic Odyssey	01:43
Longwalkshortdock	Fuck Dance Music	How Can You Just Pretend	04:45
Nash the Slash	Un Chien Andalou	Dreams & Nightmares	10:52
Grimes	Feyd Rautha Dark Heart	Geidi Primes	03:41
No Gold	We-Be-Do	ST	02:18
Nash the Slash	Blind Windows	The Million Year Picnic	07:27
Compilation	X Drone - 1/0 Phlow	Raincreature, Vancouver's Independent Artists Compilation 1992	06:34
Corpusse	Unspeakable Pressure	Delusions	03:34
R. Schafer Murray	Squamish Narrative	The Vancouver Soundscape	04:47
Woodhands	Cp24	Remorsecapade	03:05
Maledictus Sound	Jim Clark was Driving Recklessly	ST	02:15
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Snow's Coat (empty) w/ David Rimmington	Snow's Coat (2000 -2012)	02:28
Bruce PM	From Sparks to Embers	Makeshift	06:15
Mort Garson & Jacques Wilson	Upset Strip	The Wozard of Iz: An Electronic Odyssey	02:28
French B	Enivrez-vous!	Légitime démence	02:11
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	I Really Wish	Plantin' Seeds	03:03
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	The Alphabet Game	Ear Rational: Sound Poems 1966-1980	05:24
John Oswald	rainbow	Plunderphonic	05:49
Mort Garson	ESP	Black Mass Lucifer	01:04
Polkaholics	The Statue of Liberty	EP	04:24
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Gambler (feat. Heinz Dyck & Sherry Kennedy)	My Electronic Country Album	03:30
Luddites	Waterwheels	ST	05:23
Gavin Froome	Malibu	Mobile Villager	06:25
Junior Boys	Teach Me How to Fight	Last Exit	05:31
Grimes	Shadout Mapes	Geidi Primes	04:32
Iko	Model Type A	83	05:08
Barry Truax	Trigon (1974-75)	Sonic Landscapes	16:24
Grimes	≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈	Halfaxa	02:13
Martyn Bennett	Ud The Doudouk	Bothy Culture	05:44
Dixie's Death Pool	Air Defense Centre	Beauty Sleep	02:59
Lightdreams	Being Here - Subtle Arrival - Something Out Of Nothing - Subtle Departure - Windsong for the Rain - Erdna Interlude	10;001 Dreams	36:45
Dionne - Brégent	Chant d'espoir	"...et le troisième jour"	05:58
Canadian Electronic Ensemble (CEE)	Piano Quintet (1976)	ST	09:53
Stephen Rosen	Celestial Maneuvers	The Music Room	02:25
Junior Boys	When No One Cares	So This is Goodbye	03:48
Handful of Snowdrops	Trust	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	04:24
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Om mi Booga	Kevin D. Xmas Tape '81	02:31
Glass Orchestra	Untitled	ST	06:46
Beverly Glenn-Copeland	Ever New (Reworked by Joseph Shabason & Thom Gill)	Keyboard Fantasies Reimagined	06:17
Buddha Boy (Andrii Horbatyi)	Street Fighter	Children of the Sun	03:29
Bob Bell	Necropolis 1	Necropolis	04:35
Null Set	Rubber Wings	New Job (EP)	03:31
John Oswald	Z (1990)	69 Plunderphonics 96	00:20
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Prologue: Growing up in the 60s	My Electronic Country Album	02:56
The Tear Garden	Tear Garden	Tired Eyes Slowly Burning	04:50
Junior Boys	Parallel Lines	Begone Dull Care	06:31
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	bpNichol - M.L.’s Dream	Appendix / Appendix Once Removed (split with Ann Southam & Sean O'Huigan)	01:08
Dirty Beaches	Breakfast With Edie	Old Blood	02:40
Arkitex	Call It Love	Throwing My Heart to the Wind b/w Call It Love	03:52
John Oswald	mirror	Plunderphonic	04:26
Norton West and His Internationally Famous Orchestra	Alley Cat	Pops Update: 16 Favourite Well Known Musical Updates	04:09
Ian Tamblyn	Soaring	Over My Head	03:16
Mort Garson	Concerto for Philodendron & Pothos	Mother Earth's Plantasia	03:08
Bruce PM	Radios and Cameras	Makeshift	03:58
Crystal Castles	Xxzxcuzx Me	ST	01:55
John Oswald	Code	Discosphere	03:53
Emergence	Morning	Chants for Change	03:05
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	King of the Road	My Electronic Country Album	02:26
Manitoba	Crayon	Up in Flames	02:40
Crystal Castles	Love and Caring	Alice Practice	02:18
Nash the Slash	Metropolis	Children of the Night	01:01
Ian Tamblyn	Still Life for Woodpecker	Antarctica	02:57
John Oswald	Ebb (1990)	69 Plunderphonics 96	02:35
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Anything Not Everything	On The Edge Of The Dream	05:01
Mort Garson & Jacques Wilson	Prologue	The Wozard of Iz: An Electronic Odyssey	03:08
Corpusse	Now is the Time	Delusions	02:15
Kytami (Kyla Uyede)	Bass Is High	ST	04:05
Handsome Furs	When I Get Back	Sound Kapital	04:42
Nash the Slash	19th Nervous Breakdown	Children of the Night	03:27
Gavin Froome	Assateague	Post + Beam	06:30
Twin Crystals	Safety	separate/birth	02:43
Sylve	I've Only Got You To Blame (Paris Mix)	I've Only Got You To Blame	07:11
Intersystems	Friends Laughed at Him (shown as "Music Growl & Scream" on original vinyl)	Peachy	01:15
Grimes	Swan Song	Halfaxa	03:05

Experimental & Electronic

Tracks

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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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Dry Heeves - Canada Calling (EP)

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Dry Heeves - And I'll Call Rusty

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