Keiko Devaux is a contemporary music composer based in Montreal. In 2019 she won the inaugural Azrieli Commission for Canadian Music, at $50,000 the largest of its kind in Canada and one of the largest in the world. From 2016 to 2018, she was the composer in residence with Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (Montréal). From 2020 to 2022, she is in residence with the NAC Orchestra as a Carrefour composer. She is an associate composer with the Canadian Music Centre, president of the board of directors of Codes d'accès, and past organizer of the Montréal Contemporary Music Lab. In this episode we speak about creating community, the practical day-to-day side of organizing creative activity, and Keiko's inspirations including memory of sound and flocking behaviours in birds and fish. 

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