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Doug Blackley Bio
Doug Blackley was introduced to modular synthesizers at Edmonton’s Grant
Mackewan University, prior to obtaining his Bachelor of Music degree in percussion
at the University of Alberta.
Doug's Theatre scoring and sound design work includes three Sterling Awards,
(seven nominations), and a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination. A highlight was
his work at the Citadel Theatre as resident sound designer and music composer for
Robin Phillips. Doug later co-created a dance company, "Rhythmatix", with Krista
Monsen.
In Vancouver, Doug received a Leo Award for best original film/tv score, for Tokyo
Girls, and was nominated for a West Coast Music Award. Recently, Doug was a
composer on the Science Fiction Channel series Sanctuary.
Doug received his MFA degree from Simon Fraser University, supported by a SSHRC
Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship. There he created the
‘Spectral Piano:’ a device to allow an acoustic piano to create dramatic new sounds
by ‘bowing’ the strings with electro-magnets. This augmented piano remains fully
acoustic, requiring no speakers, yet is able to produce continuous sound (like a pipe
organ), pitch bend, shimmer, produce plucked sounds, and create many other new
timbres.
Doug is a Music and Audio Instructor at The Art Institute of Vancouver.