Synthesthetic Concert Highlights

This video features highlights from a concert by Ted Sherk given in the Summer of 2003. The concert was performed to an audience of friends and family and showcases original music written over a five-year period.
About the Artist
Ted Sherk comes from a musical family. He studied Suzuki piano from an early age, and took up acoustic bass in Grade 5. Through high school, he gigged and busked in Toronto with a number of jazz combos...and one punk band, the Fancy Lad Brigade. He began playing in orchestras at the age of 12 and was a member of the National Youth Orchestra for one season. Undecided about whether to continue formal music studies, he turned down a $36,000 scholarship to study orchestral bass at Indiana University in Bloomington in favour of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. After completing first year, he took a year off to live and work as a musician in Toronto, playing mostly in pick-up and festival orchestras while polishing and recording the music featured in this concert.
Musical developments since 2003
In August 2003, Ted moved back to Waterloo where he began to experiment with software synthesizers, hoping to build sounds to communicate his musical ideas. In 2005, he formed Mathmatikos with two engineering students, Dave Ens and Jon Hines, and they have performed a number of concerts, including Waterloo's Local Motion festival. Ted continues to look for musicians pushing the bounds of contemporary genres. He has a passion for interdisciplinary thinking, and enjoys expressing this in music by combining what he feels are the best elements of diverse genres.

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