Jay Crocker CV
Exhibitions:
2022 - BIBELOT, Iterations of Love - The Rooms (St. John’s NL)
2020 - BIBELOT, Iterations of Love - Phi Centre (Montreal QC)
2019 - A Separation of Being - Anna Leonowens Gallery (Halifax NS)
2018 - BIBELOT, Future Fantasy 1960 - Third Shift Festival (Saint John NB)
2018 - BIBELOT, Future Fantasy 1960 - Galerie Sans Nom (Moncton NB)
2017 - BIBELOT, Future Fantasy 1960 - Art In The Open (Charlottetown PE)
2017 - BIBELOT, Future Fantasy 1960 - Anna Leonowens Gallery (Halifax NS)
Awards:
2021 - Arts Nova Scotia, Creation grant - Creation of large-scale installation
2021 - Canada Council for the Arts, Creation grant - Works for electronics & 30-piece wind ensemble
2020 - Arts Nova Scotia, Creation grant - Composition of new works
2017 - Visual Arts Nova Scotia, Artist Recognition - BIBELOT, Future Fantasy 1960 2013 - Canada Council for the Arts - Composition of Planetary Music System
2012 - Nova Scotia Arts & Tourism, Creation grant – Composition of a 14-voice score
2015 - Arts Nova Scotia, Creation grant - BIBELOT
Commissions:
2021 - Last Life on Earth - Tatafest (Tatamagouche, NS)
2020 - Last Trance for Future Worlds - Flourish Festival (Fredericton, NB)
Collections:
2019 - Nova Scotia Art Bank - A Separation of Being
Solo releases:
2022 - JOYFULTALK - Familiar Science (Constellation Records)
2020 - JOYFULTALK - A Separation of Being (Constellation Records)
2018 - JOYFULTALK - Plurality Trip (Constellation Records)
2015 - JOYFULTALK – MUUIXX (Drip Audio / Backward Music)
2011 - Jay Crocker - Co-stars (Saved By Radio)
2010 - Jay Crocker - Joachim on egg shells (Bug Incision)
2008 - Jay Crocker - Below the Ocean Over (Artunit)
2006 - Jay Crocker - Melodies from the Outskirts (Artunit /Saved By Radio)
Select production:
2020 - Jon McKiel - Bobby Joe Hope (You’ve Changed)
2017 - Jon McKiel - Memorial Ten Count (You’ve Changed)
2016 - Dark for Dark - All Dressed (Headless Owl)
2014 - John McKiel - s/t (Headless Owl)
2010 - Ghostkeeper- Ghostkeeper (Flemish Eye)
2010 - NoMORESHAPES - Creesus Crisis (Drip Audio)
2008 - Ghostkeeper – The Children of the Great Northern Muskeg (Saved by Radio)
2007 - Jay Crocker and Chris Dadge - Humming and Crackling (Bug Incision)
2007 - Lorrie Matheson - In Vein (Saved by Radio)
Critical reviews:
“appealingly alien” - UNCUT
“[An] elegant example of contemporary minimalism... Owing much to the composer’s own ingenuity” - The Quietus
“conceptually striking” - The Wire
"un intrigant orchestre mécanique” - La Presse
“an immersive experience, in turn, spiritual and droning” - KEXP, Seattle
“dazzling originality” – Tiny Mix Tapes
“une oeuvre immersive sonore qui marie musique, temps et espace” - Voir
“One of the year’s most interesting electronic experiments to date.” - Vancouver Sun “one of Canada’s most exciting minds” – Musicworks Magazine
“a more than excellent work” - Vital Weekly
“will blow your f#ck!ng mind” - Noisey (music by VICE)
“creating connective tissue to build its own distinct reality” - Pop Matters