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Bob Pritchard (BMus, MusM, DMA) is a Canadian composer living on Canada's West Coast in British Columbia. His works are performed and broadcast internationally and his research includes interactive performance, gesture tracking, and gesture-controlled speech synthesis. He creates video, software, and music for his interactive works, and produces short art films. He teaches music technology in the UBC School of Music, directs the Laptop Orchestra, and is a researcher with the UBC Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS). Dr. Pritchard completed degrees at the U. of Toronto and UBC. Prior to teaching at the UBC School of Music he taught at Brock University, the UBC Dept. of Physics, and Douglas College. RESEARCH: Tracking And Smart Textiles Environment site: TASTE |
| Acknowledgement: I gratefully acknowledge that UBC-Vancouver activities take place on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Coast Salish people, including the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil- Waututh) Nations. I am thankful for the continuing dialogs (both political and artistic) as we work to achieve reconciliation that includes and supports each of us. |
| Latest News: |
| June 19 - 25: New York -- Welcome to Paradise (Mia Harris, VOISE system, Bob Pritchard, music/software) accepted for New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival. |
| May 31 - June 2: Mexico City -- Welcome to Paradise (Mia Harris, VOISE system, Bob Pritchard, music/software) accepted for New Interfaces for Musical Expression. |
| April: Film shoot for a new imagining of Ecdysis |
| March 28: University of Lethbridge concert series: Megumi Masaki performs Doshite? (Pritchard), Piano Games (Hamel), and and bleak blew the easterly wind by Ollie Hawker and Kate Muir. |
| March 8: UBC School of Music Wednesday Noon Hour Concert series. Prof. Jeremy Brown (U. Calgary) plays a concert of interactive works: Mental Health (Flores), Momentum (David Eagle), Fever (Keith Hamel), Strength (Bob Pritchard) |
| February 13 - 17: CoLab at Trinity Laban University in Greenwich, UK. Working with Megumi Masaki and ten dancers, seven musicians, two composers. |
| Ecdysis Sat. Jan. 14, 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 15, at 4:00 p.m. Accelerate -- The Dance Centre, Vancouver. Emmalena Fredriksson, choreography/dance; Filip Gorecki, music; Alaia Hamer, costuming; Daniel Tsui/Bob Pritchard, interactive light spine, Kyla Gardiner, lighting. |
| New trailer for Ecdysis. |
| Ongoing collaboration with Vancouver Art Gallery (Yota Kobayashi and Francis Paris) and Keith Hamel and Bob Pritchard on interactive/responsive user interfaces. |
| TRANSFORMATIONS Tour Nov. 11 - 18: Windsor, Brandon, Winnipeg |
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| Nov 15: U. of Brandon, Nov. 18: U. of Manitoba: Research presentations by B. Pritchard and K. Hamel, discussing our development of interactive systems and the associated compositions. |
| October 26: Megumi Masaki performs Doshite? (Pritchard), Piano Games (Hamel) and Orpheus II (Carrabré) on Wednesday Noon Hour series, UBC Music |
| October 20, 21, 22: Three performances of Ecdysis at Progress Lab 1422, Vancouver |
| Sept. 23: Danielle Lee performs Doshite? at Roy Barnett Recital Hall, UBC Arts Alumni Concert |
| June 23: Megumi Masaki performs Doshite? at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Piano, Sleeve-Hand Responsive User Garment (SHRUG), audio/video clips, Max/MSP/Jitter. |
| June 19: Kelowna performance of Ecdysis: Emmalena Fredriksson, choreography/dance; Filip Gorecki, music; Alaia Hamer, costuming; Daniel Tsui/Bob Pritchard, interactive light spine, Kyla Gardiner, lighting. |