20 Facts About Terry Rusling

Terry Rusling was a Canadian electronic music composer, who used graphic notation.

Terry Rusling worked as an engineer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Terry Rusling was on-air engineer for the Gilmour's Albums hosted by CBC broadcaster Clyde Gilmour.

Schaeffer invited Terry Rusling to attend the graduate seminar at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Music, using the renowned electronic music studio which included instruments designed by Hugh LeCaine such as the Special Purpose Tape Recorder.

Terry Rusling was awarded the title of Research Associate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music.

Terry Rusling continued his studies and composed music in studios at the Psycho Acoustic Institute at Ghent University, Belgium; the University of Utrecht; and the University of Illinois.

Terry Rusling did work at the University of Rochester with Wayne Barlow as well as in Paris where he studied with Pierre Schaeffer.

Terry Rusling spent two months at the Phillips lab in Holland learning about their new electronic equipment.

All of Terry Rusling's music was precisely notated using mathematics and other symbols.

Terry Rusling's music was often inspired by his interest in visual art.

Terry Rusling collaborated with visual artist Zbigniew Blazeje in a large multimedia exhibition in 1967 called Audio Kinetic Environment which began at the Art Gallery of Ontario and travelled to other galleries in Canada.

Terry Rusling stated he spent some time watching the kinetic installation and then proceeded to create a new score for the exhibition in Toronto and this music was used throughout the exhibit's tour of Canada.

Terry Rusling worked with performance artist and sound poet Bob Cobbing and dancer Rima Brodie.

Audio-Kinetic Environment, in collaboration with Zbigniew Blazeje with Terry Rusling providing electronic music.

Terry Rusling's compositions are listed in an article in Dimensions magazine about University of Toronto Electronic Music Studios.

Terry Rusling's scores were submitted to John Cage's Notations project and two items are included in the book and demonstrate his use of graphic notation.

Terry Rusling composed incidental music for CBC radio shows such as Trains a documentary program on the railroads of Canada produced by Allan Anderson and Val Clery.

Terry Rusling composed incidental music for the TV show Telescope, in particular, an episode on Marshall McLuhan.

Terry Rusling has chosen his own favourite Beatle songs over which he often superimposes electronic effects.

In 2018 Terry Rusling was awarded Associate Composer status posthumously by the Canadian Music Centre.