Eldad Tsabary

Eldad Tsabary (; born 1969, Israel) is a composer living in Montreal. He composes and performs in a variety of styles including contemporary, experimental, acousmatic, sound art, and live electronics. His works, in all styles, are created with wide textural and timbral variety and attention to motion and process.

Dr. Tsabary is a professor of electroacoustic music at Concordia University, Montreal, where he teaches electroacoustic ear training, composition, modular programming, history, and live electronics. He also taught sound recording, digital audio, MIDI, synthesis, sampling, and sound for image at Formation Formation Musitechnic, Montreal.

He is the founder and director of Concordia Laptop Orchestra (CLOrk), which specializes in networked and multidisciplinary performances. Under Tsabary's direction, CLOrk has performed (physically and telematically) with symphonic, jazz, chamber, and laptop orchestras worldwide and collaborated with dancers and video artists. CLOrk's sound is characterized by wide textural and dynamic ranges and rich, glitchy rhythms. The orchestra consists of 15-25 performers and is guided by soundpainting conduction.

Tsabary's works have been performed by the Bulgarian Philharmonic, Cygnus Ensemble, Hagai Rehavia, and Haim Avitsur as well as by himself and were presented in venues and festivals such as Carnegie Hall, CCRMA, and the Burning Man festival among many others. His music is published by Editions BIM (Switzerland) and released on ERMMedia, Capstone Records, New Adventures in Sound Art, JAZZIS, The Infinite Sector, comfortstand.com, Vox Novus and SoundLab Channel. His compositions have been awarded several international prizes.

Interviews & Press Interview with Eldad Tsabary on Sound L A B

Discography 60x60 (2004–2005) Vox Novus VN-001 60x60 (2003) Capstone Records CPS-8744

Solo recordings 2005 - Psychotropic Volume One (Infinite Sector Recordings)