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Dave Clark is a drummer/multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, Gemini Award winning composer, arranger, bandleader, conductor, music instructor, band manager, audio engineer, record producer, graphic artist, multi-media arts festival director, author, poet, filmmaker and the leader of the WoodChopper’s Association who has participated in music and art internationally for 25 years.
Discography
The WoodChopper’s Association
“The WoodChopper’s Association”- wca-01/Sonic Unyon (Can.)
“Phantomopthera” - Drog (Can.)
“You Buy From Me” - Drog (Can.)
“Food Songs” – compilation – Drog (Can.)
“Songs For Peace” – compilation - Drog (Can.)
“Work Songs”- compilation – Drog (Can.)
“60 Second Songs” - Drog (Can.)
Gord Downie
“Battle of The Nudes” -WienerArt/Universal (Can.) - Rounder (USA/Europe)
“Coke Machine Glow”-WienerArt/Universal (Can.) - Rounder (USA/Europe)
“gascd” – Ram Recordings (Can./USA)
“Peace cd for War Child” – Sony (Worldwide)
Dinner is Ruined
“Legion Hall” – zunior.com (Worldwide)
“Ray Charles Kinda of Party” – Sonic Unyon (Can./USA)
“A Maggot in Their Heads” – Sonic Unyon (Can./USA)
“Elevator Music For Non-Claustrophobic People” – Sonic Unyon (Can./USA)
“Ice Cream, Drugs, Rubber Goods” – Sonic Unyon (Can./USA)
“Worm Pickers Brawl” – Gas Rackett/KonKurrent (Can./Europe)
“Songs For Peace” – compilation – Drog (Can.)
“Now We Are 5” – compilation – Sonic Unyon (Can.)
“gascd” – Ram Recordings (Can./USA)
Rheostatics
“Whale Music Concert” – zunior.com (Worldwide)
“Introducing Happiness” -Sire/Warner (Can./USA)
“Torque, Torque” – single – Green Sprouts Music (Can.)
“Whale Music” – movie soundtrack – Sire/Warner *Gemini Award Winner for Best Song in a Movie (Worldwide)
“Palomar” – movie soundtrack song “Naked in New York” – Sire/Warner (Worldwide)
“Whale Music” - album – Sire/Warner (Can./USA)
“Melville” – Intrepid (Can.)
“Green Tape” – cassette – Green Sprouts Music (Can.)
“Greatest Hits” – x-records/Green Sprouts Music (Can.)
“X-Records” – compilation – x-records (Can.)
“The Pride of Duntroon” – movie soundtrack – independent (Can.)
“Rheostatics” – 3-song cassette – independent (Can.)
“Satellite Dancing/ Suburb Shuffle” – single – independent (Can.)
“Certain Damage” - C.M.J. compilation (Can./USA)
“Moose Lodge” – compilation – Moose Lodge (Can./USA)
“Borrowed Tunes” – compilation – Sony (Can.)
“Intrepid Records” – compilations – Intrepid (Can.)
“Brave New Waves” – Pioneering CBC Live Broadcast – CBC radio (Can.)
Dave Clark
“Truck Songs” – compilation - Drog records (Can.),
“60 Second Songs” - Drog (Can.)
“Goofus and Kitty Eat What They Bake” – zunior.com (worldwide)
“Sketchbook#2 – zunior.com (worldwide)
“Afghanistan On Guard For Thee?” – compilation drog/zunior.com (worldwide)
Dave Clark’s Woodshed Orchestra
“Live Snapshots September 2005” – zunior.com (worldwide)
Jah Youssouf and Groupe Babjara
“Pardon” – DROG (Worldwide)
Joe Lapinski
“Sundries” – Yummy Records.com (worldwide)
The Mountainside Band
“The Mountainside Band” –zunior.com (Can),
“4tune” – zunior.com (Worldwide),
“Work Songs” – compilation – Drog (Can),
“60 Second Songs” - Drog (Can.)
Deep Dark United
“Fools!” – Kosher Rock Records - independent
Tannis Slimmon
“Lucky Blue” – independent (Can)
“Oak Lake” – independent (Can)
The Williams
“What Ho!” – DROG (Can)
Michael Johnston
“Afghanistan On Guard For Thee?” – compilation drog/zunior.com (worldwide)
Julie Doiron
Heart and Crime – cd/vinyl – Jagjaguwar (USA) endearingrecords (Can.)
Reid Jamieson
“The Unavoidable Truth” – Maple Music (Can)
Selina Martin
“Life Drawing Without Instruction” – independent (Can)
The Inbreds
“Kombinator “– PF/Tag records (Can./USA/Europe),
“Winning Hearts” – Murderecords (Can.),
“Hilario” PF records (Can.)
Kyp Harness
“Floating World” – Porter Beach (Can.)
Guh
“Guh” - unmanageable (Can.)
Les Blancs Brilliants
“Live @ Dalhousie”-Independent (Can.)
Lewis Melville
“Niagara” – Drog (Can.),
“Truck Songs” – Drog (Can.),
“Work Songs” – Drog (Can.),
“Noah’s Work” – DROG/Maple (Can.)
Tim Posgate:
“60 Second Songs” - Drog (Can.)
Powerbuch
“Powerbuch” – Verge (Can)
Possum
“Possum” – Drog (Can.)
“It All Happened Incredibly Fast” – soundtrack - Independent (Can.),
“Black Swan” – soundtrack – Independent (Can.)
Wayne Omaha
“Wayne Omaha” – independent (Can.),
“Can the Maps and Go For The Beauty” – Bobby Dazzler (Can.)
Dave Celia
“This Isn’t Here” independent (Worldwide)
Jenny Mitchell
“Jenny Omnichord” – WeeWork (can.)
Matthew De Zoete
“Across The Sea” –ShipRecordsCanada (Canada)
The Bird Sisters
“Different Stories” – Drog (Can.)
Selected Collaborations & Performances With Musicians:
The Nihilist Spasm Band
Nick Didkovsky guitarist (Dr. Nerve/ Fred Frith guitar quartet)
Jean Derome saxophonist (Les Dangereuse Hommes),
Joane Hetu saxophonist/vocalist (Justine)
Tom Walsh trombonist/composer (Les Dangereuse Zhommes)
Reiner Weins guitarist/composer
Lori Freedman clarinetist
Eugene Martynec digital manipulator
Gordon Downie singer/poet/guitarist/composer/dancer (The Tragically Hip)
Neil Peart drummer/composer (Rush)
The Sun Ra Arkestra
Marilyn Lerner pianist
Jim Carroll vocalist/poet/author
David Gregory guitarist, vocalist (Moncton, Canada)
Jane Siberry guitar/vocals/composer
Alain Derbez saxophone (Mexico City)
Fred Frith guitarist/composer
Tom “Bones” Malone (The David Letterman Band/The Blues Brothers)
John Oswald (Saxophonist/composer)
Mansa Sissoko (Griot-Mali West Africa)
Jah Youssouf (kamel n’goni/vocals Mali West Africa)
Vieux Farka Toure (Guitarist, Vocalist Mali West Africa)
Madagascar Slim (Guitarist, Vocalist Toronto, Canada)
AIMT (Association of Improvising Musicians of Toronto)
Achim Kaufmann (Pianist-Nederlands)
Andy Moor of the EX/ Brodie West/ Dale Morningstar & Scott Cameron improvisers
Collaborations, Workshops,Performances & Accompaniment With Dancers/Choreographers:
Yvonne Ng
Lisa Prebianca
Marc Johnson
Andrea Nann
Leslie Lindsay
Kate Alton
Barb Balthus
Sandor Eisenstadt,
Elijah Brown
Dave French
Darren Bonin
Leftover Daylight- Neesa Kenemy
Rex Harrington
Series 8:08 – (Toronto, Canada)
Somewhere There- Geordie Haley with Colin Fisher (tenor saxophone) Paul Donat (bass) Jeff Wilson (percussion) Dave Clark (drums) Marie Josée Chartier, Susie Burpee, Shannon Cooney and Ippei Hosaka (dance) (Toronto, Canada)
“Maverick Recrements” - Leslie Lindsay (Toronto, Canada)
“Les Danses Brilliants (Dancers Shannon Cooney and Susie Burpee, with Les Blancs Brilliants Sageev Oore, Dani Oore and Brodie West– Dancemakers Studio Toronto, Canada -05)
Spiegeltent n’ Play - Harbourfront (Toronto, Canada)
Toronto Dance Theatre -Trish Beatty (Toronto, Canada)
Cardinal Carter Academy of the Arts - Julia Lava (Toronto, Canada)
Ballet Jorgen – Ray Hogg (George Brown College)
Dancemakers - Serge Bennathan (Toronto, Canada)
Kaeja d’Dance (Toronto, Canada)
Ryerson School of Dance – Kenny Pearl (Toronto, Canada)
Cawthra Park Collegiate Institute – Patricia Miner Mississauga, Canada)
509 Dance - Sasha Ivanochko (Toronto, Canada)
Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre – Arwyn Carpenter (Toronto, Canada)
Collaborated & Performed With Poets:
Paul Dutton
Rob Siciliano
Movern McNie
Suzanne Hancock
Ken Babstock
Chris Chambers
Jim Carroll
Scott Cameron
Meryn Caddell
Gord Downie
Alain Derbez
Musical Improvisations & Collaborations With Multi-Media Artists:
Sherri Hay – installation artist
Walter Willems – installation artist
Fastwurms – installation artists
Scott Cameron - painter/photographer
Dave Blumenfeld – photographer
Anne Zbitnew - multi-media visual artist
Lynn Wagner - set design
Yossi Kaplan – photographer/filmmaker
Selected Touring:
Gord Downie Band 00-01 & 03– Canada/USA
Michael Johnston 05/06 (Canada)
Tannis Slimmon 03-07 – Canada/USA,
The WoodChopper’s Association 95-07 –Canada/USA/ Mali, West Africa, Cuba.
Les Blancs Brilliants 03-07-Canada
The Dinner is Ruined Band 95-04-Canada/USA/Europe,
The Rheostatics 80-95-Canada/USA/UK
Selected Festival Performances:
Spiegel Tent n’ Play - 07(Toronto, Canada)
Nuit Blanche 07 “Revival” (Toronto, Canada)
Reflux 05/07 (Moncton, Can.)
The DuMaurier Downtown Toronto Jazz Festival (Toronto, Canada)
The Hillside Music Festival 95-07 (Guelph, Canada)
L’OFF Festival du Jazz 04 (Montreal, Can)
The Guelph Jazz Festival 07 (Guelph, Canada),
The Rustcapades (Toronto, Canada)
The Sprites of Spring (Toronto, Canada)
The Do What? Music and Arts Festival 1999/2001 (Toronto, Canada [festival hosts])
CMJ Festival (New York, NY)
(416) 2001 It’s a Local Call (Toronto, Canada)
Edmonton Folk Festival 01
Calgary Folk Festival 01
Folk on the Rocks 01 (Yellowknife, NWT)
The Frostbite Festival (Whitehorse, Yukon),
The Images Festival of Independent Film and Video 02 (Toronto, Canada)
The Distillery Jazz Festival 03 (Toronto, Canada)
Selected Broadcasts:
CBC Radio 3-Jah Youssouf (July 2007-Hillside Festival)
Bandwidth – The Woodchopper’s Association (CBC radio one, June 2001- Canada)
Gord Downie and Friends *Artistic Director/Musical Director (webcast May 10 2001- international)
Full Circle 2000/2001 – The WoodChopper’s Association & Deep Dark United
(Ciut fm – radio Ontario & internationally webcasted)
National Public Radio USA – The Gord Downie Band
Radio Netherlands – Dinner is Ruined
Heartland _ Rheostatics (CBC radio one)
Brave New Waves – The Rheostatics & Dinner is Ruined (CBC radio one)
Radio Polnoc – Dinner is Ruined (Poland)
Instant Klazzicks (Webcast)
*Multiple Commercial radio, CBC radio and Campus Radio (USA & Canada) broadcasts.
Film Sountracks:
“Whale Music” –(Gemini Award Winner) the Rheostatics-dir-Richard Lewis
“Risible Chick” –Dave Clark, Blake Howard & Henry Muth- dir-Nick Deponcier
“Sleep Always” – the Woodchopper’s Association- dir-Mitchell Perkins/ Rick Palidwor
“Naked in New York” – the Rheostatics-dir-Martin Scorcese
Improvised Video Soundtrack Presentations:
“1000 Videos” the Woodchopper’s Association- dir - Steve Reinke.
“Streetlamp Meditations” the Woodchopper’s Association- dir - Dave Blumenfeld/Yossi Kaplan
“Compilations” the Woodchopper’s Association- dir - Kieren Dick
“Compilations” the Woodchopper’s Association- dir -Alley Ethier
“Compilations” the Woodchopper’s Association- dir - Milida Kovac
Silent Film Accompaniment with the WoodChopper’s Association:
“The Thief of Baghdad” & “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” (Winter Garden of Earthly Delights – Toronto)
“ The Hunchback of Notre Dame” & “The Phantom of the Opera” (The Inner Stage Theatre - Guelph, Canada)
“The Phantom of the Opera” (The Fox Auditorium – Guelph, Canada)
“Christmas On Earth” – Barbara Rubin – (Canadian Independent Film & Video Awards 2002 – Toronto, Canada)
Musical Theatre Collaborations and Performances:
Spiegeltent’ n Play 07 (Harboourfront Toronto –dir Tina Rasmussen
Junky’s Cabaret 06 (Suitcase in Point Theatre Co. & Joe Lapinski – Toronto, Canada)
The Devil’s Ball 05 (Suitcase in Point Theatre Co.& the Williams – St. Catherines, Canada)
Rosalind and Mercutio 04 (Suitcase in Point Theatre Co.& the Williams - St. Catherines, Canada)
Weeds 04(Erin Shields - Toronto, Canada)
“Squirrel Boy” (the WoodChopper’s Association-Toronto, Canada)
“Battle of the Clefs” (the WoodChopper’s Association-Toronto, Canada)
“99” (the WoodChopper’s Association-Toronto, Canada)
Music Education:
Jim Blackley - master drum teacher
Gilberto Morales Choing – Bata master
Jah Youssouf – kamel n’goni
Fred Frith – guitarist
Paul DeLong – drummer
Rick Gratton – drummer
Kim Hunt – pianist
Dan Bodanis – drummer
Martin Deller – drummer
David Mott – saxophonist
Tania Gill – pianist
Teaching Experience:
Drumming instructor for 25 years
The University of Toronto, Music Faculty (Toronto, Canada) 07
course name: introduction to music education
professor: lee bartel
Improvised music and games workshop leader.
OISE UT (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada) 07
Professor: Leslie Stewart Rose
Improvised music and games workshop leader.
The Keys To The Studio 07 (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
A music program designed specifically for this group of emerging musicians diagnosed with developmental and intellectual disabilities. http://www.keystothestudio.com
Reflux 07 (Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada)
Improvised music and games workshop leader.
Centennial Secondary School 06/07 (Belleville, Ontario, Canada)
Improvised music and games workshop leader.
Nanaimo District Secondary School 06 (Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada)
Improvised music and games workshop leader.
Woodlands Secondary School 06 (Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada)
Improvised music and games workshop leader.
Port Alberni Secondary School 06 (Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada)
Improvised music and games workshop leader.
Port Alberni Big Band Workshop 06 (Port Alberni, British Columbia Canada)
Improvised music and games workshop leader.
Palmerston Public School 06 (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Improvised music and games workshop leader, songwriting workshop leader
Hazel M. Kellington Public School 06 (Neepawa, Manitoba, Canada)
*Songwriting, performance and recording workshop leader for children.
Falls Public School 06 (Pine Falls, Manitoba, Canada)
Songwriting, performance and recording workshop leader for children and adults.
Improvised music and games workshop leader.
The Hillside Music Festival 00/01/02/04/05/06/07 (Guelph, Ontario, Canada)
*Workshop leader w/ The WoodChopper’s Association and solo workshop leader for young children and adult workshops.
The Garrison Creek Art School 04-06 – (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
*Songwriting, performance and recording workshop leader for children.
Rosedale Heights Collegiate Institute for the Performing Arts 05/07 (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Improvised music and games workshop leader.
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art 05 (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
“Demons Stole My Soul” – Rock n’ roll drums in contemporary art
Youth drumming workshop. Development of rhythm and group play.
Ossington Old Orchard Public School 00-05 (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
*Guest volunteer music instructor kindergarten-gr.6 including drumming/vocal/composition and improvisation skills related to classroom curriculum. CD recording of Kindergarten class made. (school year long) *Arts & Drama music instructor/bandleader/composer/performer for school productions (3 months/school year)
Matanzas School of the Arts 05 (Matanzas, Cuba)
Musical exchange and drumming workshop co-leader.
Institut National des Arts 04 (Mali, West Africa)
Percussion workshop instructor.
Ecole d’AJC 04 (Unicef City, Mali, West Africa)
Children’s music workshop instructor
The Sikoro School 04 (Sikorini, Mali, West Africa
Children’s music workshop instructor
Ecole de les Petits Genies 04 (Bamako, Mali, West Africa)
Children’s music workshop instructor
Women in Drumming Workshop 04 (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Drumming workshop instructor
City“Shakespeare In Action” 03 (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
*Musical educator/director/performer for arts and drama at Montrose Public School & Givins Shaw Public School (2 months)
Cardinal Carter School of the Arts 03 (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Music workshop instructor for modern dance students
Canador College - “Artsperience” 02(North Bay, Ontario, Canada)
*Modern dance workshop accompanist and music instructor for students ages 7 to 20 years old (2 weeks)
The Soho Children’s Museum 01 (NYC/USA)
*Workshop leader w/ the WoodChopper’s Association for young children’s music program.
The Guelph Jazz Festival “Jazz in the Schools Program” 01(Guelph, Ontario, Canada)
Guelph Vocational Collegiate Institute (Guelph, Canada) / J.F. Ross Collegiate Institute (Guelph, Ontario, Canada)
Centennial Collegiate Institute (Guelph, Ontario, Canada) *Workshop leader w/ the WoodChopper’s Association
The School House 01(Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
*Instructor and author of “By Any Means” music program for young children.
Humber College 00 (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
*Instructor for teenage musician’s studying in the extended music program.
Scarlett Heights Collegiate Institute 85(Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
*Workshop leader w/ Rheostatics.
Books
“A Month of Sundays”. –Poetry Collection
“How To Conduct…Yourself! Conducting Cues For Instant Composition”. –Musical text
Film
“N’amou, Vous Savez, You Know it!” – a documentary film by DC about his travels in Mali West Africa 2004
Festival Director
Co-director of The Do What? Music and Arts Festival -99/-01(Toronto, Canada)
The Do What? Music and Arts Festival has featured multi media works by local and internationally acclaimed artists and musicians such as Jean Derome, SookYin Lee, Joane Hetu, Ting Hong, The Nihilist Spasm Band, Reid Diamond, Do Make Say think, The USER, Casey McGlynn, Jennifer Papararo, Andrea Nann, Glen Hall, Paul Dutton, Gord Downie, and Nick Didkovsky.
Graphic Artist
The WoodChopper’s Association cd “Life is Not a Rehearsal” wca-01,
“Possum” cd- Drog
“Tim Posgate Horn Band featuring Howard Johnson” Verge.
Articles
Published in music trades such as Canadian Musician, Broken Pencil, Nerve and Exclaim.
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