ELAINE STEF
Musician/Composer

 

I have been composing music for over twenty years. The electric guitar is my primary instrument. I have also played and recorded using acoustic and bass guitar, lap steel guitar, keyboards, drum kit, percussion, taiko, mandolin, and accordion. My formal musical training consisted of ten years study of classical piano and music theory. Aside from that, I am self taught.

 

AUDIO RECORDINGS

2003 LOUD (Eileen Kage and Elaine Stef) ..What You Carry
Commissioned for "What You Carry With You - Elder and Youth Project" ..Vancouver
2001 LOUD (Eileen Kage and Elaine Stef) ..Rush
Commissioned for "Outcasts and Angels" The Reena Project.. Vancouver
2001 LOUD (Eileen Kage and Elaine Stef) ..Tarantella/Umbrella Remix
Commissioned for "Durdle Door" Arts Umbrella Senior Youth Dance Company.. Vancouver
2000 LOUD ..taikoelectric CD ..Vancouver
2000 LOUD ..Ten Thousand Miles
  "96.1 FM World Music Spectacular III" compilation ..Vancouver
1999 LOUD ..Staying Alive
  "Itadakimasu" (A feast of Vancouver Taiko) compilation ..Vancouver
1992 Rhythm Activism ..Anthony Griffin
  "Nightmare on Albion Street" compilation ..Bradford, England
1992 Rhythm Activism ..My Name's Martha
  "Bittersweet Canada: Songs for the New Depression" compilation ..Toronto
1991 Rhythm Activism ..Les Drums Sonnent
  "Pogo Avec les Loups" compilation Paris, ..France
1991 Rhythm Activism ..Just Listen 1991 compilation.. Montreal
1991 Moral Lepers.. Music is Your Body
  "Last Call: Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 compilation ..Vancouver
1991 Rhythm Activism ..War is the Health of the State ..Montreal
1990 Rhythm Activism ..My Name's Martha
  Commissioned for the radio series "The Politics of Poverty" CBC Radio Canada ..Montreal
1988 Lillian Allen ..Unnatural Causes
  "Conditions Critical" ..(1989 Juno Award) ..Toronto
1987 Demi Monde ..Demi Monde ..Toronto
1986 Lillian Allen.. I Fight Back
  "Revolutionary Tea Party" ..(1988 Juno Award) ..Toronto
1985 Lillian Allen and the Vancouver Resistance
  2 song EP ..Toronto
1985 Warfare vs. Welfare...Warfare vs. Welfare.. Toronto
1984 Moral Lepers.. Land of the Insane
  "Matrax" compilation ..Ottawa
1984 Animal Slaves ..Animal Slaves.. Vancouver
1983 Moral Lepers ..Family Love ..Vancouver
1982 Moral Lepers.. Turn to Stone.. Vancouver
   
   
FILM SOUNDTRACKS AND PERFORMANCE
2003 The Corporation
  Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott Big Picture Media Corporation ..Vancouver
  Documentary Audience Award for World Cinema - Sundance Film Festival
  Winner of Six International Audience Choice Awards
2001 Slightseer
  Midi Onodera Daruma Pictures ..Toronto
1995 Bones of the Forest 1996 Genie Award Best Documentary
  Heather Frise and Velcrow Ripper Transparent Film ..Vancouver
1990 Unnatural Causes ..Maureen Judge National Film Board ..Montreal
1988 Multiculturalism in Canada ..(In performance with Lillian Allen)
  Trent Martin PBS and National Film Board .. Toronto
1987 Up to Scratch ..(with Warfare vs. Welfare) Craig Conde-Berggold .. Toronto
1983 Let Them Eat Cake ..Anna Knowlson ..Vancouver
 
   
VIDEO SOUNDTRACK
2004 Paddles Up! Women Survivors of Breast Cancer ..Maureen Cavanagh and Katherine Sharp
Stillness in Motion Pictures ..Vancouver (in progress)
2003 Revisiting The Journey .. Susanda Yee ..Toronto
2002 100 Foot Wednesday .. Eric Nelson and Curt Myers Powerlines Productions ..California
2002 Pump up the Volume Fatima Jaffer ..Vancouver
2001 As Long As I Can Remember: The Powell Street Festival at 25
Lynda Nakashima ..Vancouver
1995 Ten Skakel Cecilia Wyss Nomination Best Experimental Video
  1997 Dreamspeakers Aboriginal Film and Video Festival .. Western Front Media ..Vancouver
1994 Not Like That .. Maureen Bradley Video In Production ..Vancouver
1991 Brown Women, Blonde Babies ..(Philipina Domestic Workers in Canada)
Marie Boti & Chit Bautista Productions MultiMonde .. Montreal
1991 Homes for the Homeless ..Centre for Art Tapes ..Halifax
1989 Penses-tu qu-il va y avoir du brouillard a Londres?
Claude Ouellet and Le Videographe .. Montreal
1988 Rewriting the Script - Feminism and Art in Ontario
Joan Borsa and Womens Art Resource Center ..Toronto
1988 Funny House ..Trinity Square Video ..Toronto
1985 See Evil ..Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak ..Toronto
1985 Citizens Against Censorship ..Trinity Square Video ..Toronto

 

MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE
2003 What You Carry With You - Elder and Youth Project .. Vancouver
2001 The Tenth - Purple Moon Dance Project .. San Francisco
2001 Outcasts and Angels - The Reena Project ..Vancouver
2001 Tarantella/Umbrella Remix .. - Arts Umbrella Senior Dance Company ..Vancouver
1994 Scared Sacred ..with Velcrow Ripper Under the Volcano Festival ..Vancouver
1993 Take it to the Teeth ..with Rita McKeough Glenbow Museum .. Calgary
1991-1992 In Bocca al Lupo ..with Rita McKeough ..Halifax, Toronto, Vancouver
1991-1992 Deux Femmes, un T'Cheque ..with Rhythm Activism 25 show tour of ..Quebec
 
   
TELEVISION
1992 The Other Montreal ..The Journal CBC
Interview and performance with Rhythm Activism .."Deux Femmes, Un T'Cheque"
   
BANDS
1996 to present LOUD ..Vancouver
1990-1994 Rhythm Activism .. Montreal
1986-1991 Lillian Allen Band ..Toronto
1985-1987 Demi/Monde ..Toronto
1986 One of One ..Toronto
1984 Warfare vs. Welfare ..Toronto
1980-1984 Moral Lepers ..Vancouver
1979 Rebel Planet ..Vancouver
 
 

ALL COMPOSITIONS SOCAN

 

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