Tim Labor
Tim Labor is a Canadian composer and sound designer working in Los Angeles. He holds a BMus from Queen’s University, Kingston where he studied with Bruce Pennycook, Istvan Anhalt, and Clifford Crawley (composition) and R. Gordon Craig (clarinet), and MA and PhD in musical composition from the University of California, San Diego, where his teachers included Rand Steiger, Joji Yuasa, Brian Ferneyhough and Roger Reynolds (composition) and F. Richard Moore and D. Gareth Loy (computer music). Tim grew up in the Annapolis Valley, where his music teachers and directors included Francis Franey, Ruby Loomer, Heather Reid, William Perrot, Peter Riddle, and Robert Raines.
Music and sound recognitions include CAPAC, SOCAN, and Maurice Dubin awards, two Canada Council grants, an Ovation nomination for sound design for John DeGroot’s Papa and the 2008 LA Weekly Award for small theatre sound design for Sacred Fools’ Swine Show. He has membered with such groups as the Acadia University Concert Band, the Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra, the Queen’s Wind ensemble, Queen’s Musical Theatre, the Inial Group, the center for Music Experiment, the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, Circle-X Theatre Company, and Idyllwild Arts, has worked as a software consultant for Weaver Cinema, Vertigo Design and Animation, and Fox Broadcasting among others. He is currently a member of the College Music Society, The Society of Composers and Lyricists, the Canadian Electroacoustic Community, SOCAN, and the International Game Design Association.
Past music credits include Blackjack II for the International Computer Music Conference, Stoneship Age for the Wellesley Composer’s Conference, the theme to the original release of the computer game Everquest, Deadlier When Caged for the Hysterica Dance Company, Howl and Hunt for the Riverside Symphony Orchestra, and the clarinet sonata, Littlepaw and the Story of Power, for the Beverly Hills Summer Celebrations Music Festival. Theatre composing and sound design credits include American Book of the Dead: the Game Show, Sperm, Flu Season, and Jawbone of an Ass (Circle-X Theatre Company), Sex and Imagining, Beaverquest, and Welcome to the Moon (Sacred Fools), Hedda Gabler (Odyssey Theatre), Eden (Elephant Theatre), Abingdon Square, Travesties, Papa, and the world premier of Frank Zappa’s rock opera Joe’s Garage (Open Fist Theatre Company), Paul Mullin’s 9-11 drama, Good Ship Manhattan (Smaller Project), Holy Mother of Hadley New York and Fubar (Theatre of Note), and Lie of the Mind (Studio-Five Productions).
Tim is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Riverside with a split appointment between Music (composition) and Media and Cultural Studies (MCS) Departments.
SPECIAL THANKS
UC Riverside Department of Music
Diablo Sound
