Phone: 416.781.4191
Mobile: 647.889.4191
E-mail: polibop@hoffert.ca
Website: www.paulhoffert.ca
Born: Brooklyn,
New York, 22 Sep 1943
Residence:
Toronto, Canada
Citizenships:
Canada, U.S.A. (dual)
Languages:
English, French
Academic: LLD
(Doctorate of Law) from University of Toronto
Paul
Hoffert archives are at:
York
University, Toronto
-
documents, CDs, DVDs, audio tapes, video tapes
Museum of
Science and Technology, Ottawa
-
musical instruments, computer and research technology,
awards, performance clothing
Professor, University of Toronto, Faculties of
Music, Law, and Information Science 2014-
Advisory Council, McGill University, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology, 20013-
Professor, York University, Fine Arts Faculty, Toronto, 1984-2013
Board Director, McGill University, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology, 2007-2012
Louis Applebaum
Visiting Scholar, University of Toronto,
2012
Co-Chair, MacLuhan100, University of Toronto, York University, Ryerson University, OCAD, 2011
Guest Lecturer, Ryerson University, 2010-2013
Guest Lecturer, Humber College, Toronto, 2011
Lecturer, Singapore Media Academy, Singapore, 2010
Lecturer, Faculty of Arts Graduate Program, University of Quebec, Chicoutimi, 2009
EngD Examiner, City University of Hong Kong, School of Graduate Studies, 2008
Faculty Fellow, Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, 2005-2007
Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Cambridge, 2005-2007
Research Professor, Sheridan College, 1999-2003
Director, CulTech Research Centre, York University, 1992-2000
Director of R&D, Rights Clearing House, Calgary, 2001-2004
Research Director, OnDisC Alliance, 2000-2003
President, Intercom Ontario (broadband research trial), 1994-1998
Director, DACARIE Audio Research Laboratory, York University, 1990-1992
Vice President Research, DHJ Research, 1986-1992 [VP Technology Transfer 1989-1992]
Researcher, National Research Council of Canada, 1969-1971
Chair, Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, 1997-
Chair, Screen Composers Guild of Canada, 1999-
Board Director, Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund, 1999-
President, Glenn Gould Foundation Inc. (US) 2009-
Board Director, Glenn Gould Foundation (Canada), 2000-
Music Director, Lighthouse Group, 1968-1974, 1993-
Vice President, Sistema Toronto, 2011-2013
Global CEO, Noank Media Inc., 2006-2010
Chair, Ontario Arts Council, 1994-1997
President, Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, 1981-1982 [Dir. 1979-1980, 1983-1987]
Board Director, The SOCAN Foundation, 1993-2009
Board Director, Ontario Foundation for the Arts, 1994-2009
Board Director, Ontario Arts Trust, 1999- 2007
Director Emeritus (North America), World Summit Awards (UNESCO), 2009-2013
Co-Director, McLuhan International Festival of the Future, 2004-2007
Board Director, World Summit Awards (United Nations), 2004-2007
Editorial Board, Virtual Museum of Canada, 2000-2005
Board Director, Canadian Independent Record Producers Association (CIRPA), 1970-1975
CEO, Digital Content Management Services, 2000-2005
President, Guild of Canadian Film and Television Composers (GCFC), 1996-1999
Board Director, Encyclopedia of Music in Canada, 1998-2003
Board Director, SMART Toronto, 1996-2001
Board Director, Performing Rights Society of Canada, 1984-1990
Board Director, Music Promotion Foundation, 1991-1994
Music Director, Morgan Earl Sounds, 1980-1983
Music Director, Blue Mountain School of Music, 1975-1977
President, OHM Associates, 1964-1966
President, Sound Laboratories, 1965-1966
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, Distinguished Service, 2013
Order of Canada, Government of Canada, Distinguished Achievement and Service – Arts and Music, 2004
New Media Pixel Award, Visionary, 2001
Film and Television
Composer, SOCAN, 1998
Film and Television
Composer, SOCAN, 1997
Diamond Record - 1 million recordings sold in Canada, Oh What A Feeling, 1996
Arts Medal, Ontario
Arts Council, 1997
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Canadian), inducted in 1995
Film and Television Music, SOCAN,
1993
Citation of Excellence, Canadian
Performing Rights Society, 1990
San Francisco Film Festival, Best
Music in a TV Network Entertainment, 1983
Anik, Best
Musical Direction in a Television Special, 1983
Anik, Best
Original Music in a Television Special, 1983
Film Composer of the Year, Performing
Rights Organization of Canada, 1978
Juno, Hoffert
Violin Concerto, 1978
Clio (Belgium), Hoffert
Violin Concerto, 1978
Canadian Film (Genie),
Music Score for ÔOutrageousÕ feature film,
1978
Gold Record, Best Of
Lighthouse, 1975
Juno, Best
Group, Lighthouse, 1973
Gold Record,
Sunny Days, Lighthouse, 1973
Juno, Best
Vocal/Instrumental Group, Lighthouse, 1972
Platinum Record, Live At
Carnegie Hall, Lighthouse, 1972 (first by a Canadian artist)
Juno (RPM), Outstanding
Performance, Lighthouse, 1971
Gold Record, Thoughts
Of MovinÕ On, Lighthouse,
1971
Gold Record, One Fine
Morning, Lighthouse, 1970
Music for New Media: Composing for Videogames,
Websites, Presentations, and other Interactive Media,
Berklee Press Boston
ISBN-13: 978-0-87639-064-1, ISBN-10: 0-87639-064-5, 216 pp., 2007
The New Client: How Customers Shape Business in
the Information Age,
Penguin/Viking Canada ISBN: 0-670-04352-4, 214 pp., 2002
All Together Now: Connected Communities Will
Revolutionize the Way You Live, Work, and Play,
Stoddart Publishing ISBN: 0-7737-3228-4, 210 pp., 2000
The Bagel Effect: A Compass to Navigate the
Wired World,
McGraw-Hill Ryerson Press ISBN: 0-07-552923-8, 291 pp., 1998
Internet Technologies Primer,
CulTech Publishing, 97 PP [co-author Dr. Peter Roosen-Runge], 1997
Inventory of Internet Technologies and Services,
Industry Canada Publication, 87 pp. [co-author Dr. Peter
Roosen-Runge], 1996
Understanding Music in Media,
Hoffert Publishing, 130 pp., 1987
Hoffert Guide to Synchronizing Music
Hoffert Publishing, 85 pp., 1982
Collective Licensing to ISPS,
International Association of Entertainment Lawyers, Edited by Steven Masur, 2010
Renaissance II: Canadian Creativity and
Innovation in the New Millennium,
National Research Council Press, ISBN 0-660-18397-8, 2001
Citizenship in a Wired World,
Rowan
and Littlefield, edited by Stephen Coleman & Anthony Jones, 30 pp. chapter: ÒA Connected CommunityÓ,
2000
The Intercom Ontario Research Reports,
IO Publishing, P. Hoffert co-editor, author of 185 pp. of 300 pp.,
2000
Handbook for New Media Producers,
Bell
Broadcast and New Media Fund ISBN:0-9685319-1-1, edited by Andra Sheffer,
chapter:
ÒNew Media Today and TomorrowÓ, 1998
Writing It,
Prentice-Hall Publishing, edited by Maria Topalovitch, chapter:
ÒWriting for Interactive MediaÓ, 1996
Producer, My African Heart, Bruce Cassidy, 2013
Conductor; Leo Spellman – Rhapsody 1939-1945, 2011
Artist, Producer, How High The Bird, Gelcer-Hoffert Trio, Breaking Records, 2011
Artist, Best of Lighthouse CD, Lighthouse, Universal Music, 2010
Producer, Bhagavan, Jim Gelcer, 2010
Artist,
Composer, 40 Years of Sunny Days. Lighthouse
CD & DV, Universal Music, 2009
Artist, Take Two, Amaro Hoffert Jazz Duo, 2009
Producer, Dorian Rocks, Ted Dykstra & Steve Mayoff, 2002
Artist, Aura Borealis, Aura, Rully Records, 1998
Conductor, Songs of Love, Louis Danto & Prague Opera Orchestra
Composer; artist; producer, Oh What a Feeling, Lighthouse & others, MCA Records, 1996
Composer; producer; artist, Song Of The Ages, Lighthouse CD, 1996
Composer; producer; artist, Live at Carnegie Hall, Lighthouse, new digital production, Denon, 1992
Producer, BrahmsÕ Clarinet Concerto, Anton Kuerti-piano, James Campbell-clarinet, Marquis Records, 1992
Producer; Jane Trojan, Jane Trojan, Denon Records, 1991
Composer; producer; artist, Sunny Days Again, Lighthouse CD, Denon Records, 1989
Producer; musical director, Eddie & the Cruisers II, Original Soundtrack, SONY Records, 1989
Conductor, Goya, Placido Domingo, SONY Records, 1989
Composer; producer, I Lost My Pet Lizard, Lizard People, Teddy Records, Juno nomination, 1979
Composer; conductor, Concerto for Contemporary Violin, Hoffert & Staryk, Marquis Records, 1977
Conductor, Histoire Du Soldat, Stravinsky, Marquis Records, 1977
Composer; producer, Outrageous, Original Cast Recording, Polygram Records, 1977
Composer; producer, It AinÕt Easy, Disco Single, Polygram Records, 1977
Composer; producer, Step Out, Disco Single, Polygram Records, 1977
Composer; producer; artist, Best Of Lighthouse, Lighthouse, GRT Records, 1974
Producer, SnakeEye, SnakeEye, Capitol - EMI Records, 1974
Producer, Bondi Junction, Flying Circus, Capitol - EMI Records, 1974
Producer, Can You Feel It, Lighthouse, GRT Records, 1973
Producer, Goodbye Superdad, Bill King, Capitol - EMI Records, 1973
Producer, Flying Circus, Flying Circus, Capitol - EMI Records, 1973
Composer; producer; artist, Sunny Days, Lighthouse, GRT Records, 1972
Producer, Sea Of Dreams, Bob McBride, Capitol - EMI Records, 1973
Producer, Butterfly Days, Bob McBride, Capitol - EMI Records, 1972
Composer; producer; artist, Live At Carnegie Hall, Lighthouse, GRT Records, 1971
Composer; producer; artist, One Fine Light, Lighthouse, RCA Records, 1970
Composer; producer; artist, Thoughts Of MovinÕ On, Lighthouse, GRT Records, 1970
Composer; producer; artist, One Fine Morning, Lighthouse, GRT Records, 1969
Composer; producer; artist, Peacing It All Together, Lighthouse, RCA Records, 1969
Producer, Satori, Flower Traveling Band, Warner Records, 1969
Composer; producer; artist, Suite Feeling, Lighthouse RCA Records, 1968
Composer; producer; artist, Lighthouse, Lighthouse RCA Records, 1968
Producer, Processes, Tony Kosinec, Columbia Records 1968
Composer; artist, The Song Is You, Paul Hoffert, 1960
Composer, artist, Jazz Routes of Paul Hoffert, Paul Hoffert, 1st album release, 1959
Artist, I Wanna Love You, Boptones, 1956. 1st single release
Brundibar at Koerner Hall, DVD, ChildrenÕs Opera, librettist & conductor, 2010
Live at Q Music, Lighthouse music concert DVD, producer, performer, 2009
And NowÉ the Soundtrack
Business, DVD, executive
producer, writer, 2005
And NowÉ the Music Score, DVD, executive producer, writer, 2003
OnDisC -
Online Distributed Content,
video, executive producer, writer, 12 min., 2002
Networked Jazz, Rock, and
Dance, video, executive producer, writer, 14 min.1999
Interactive Television
Demonstrations, video,
executive producer, writer, 11 min., 1998
VITAL – Varied and
Integrated Teaching and Learning, CDi, executive producer, writer, 20
min., 1997
Cyber Soiree: Networked
Party, video, executive
producer, writer, 20 min.,1997
CD-ROMS Online, video, executive producer, writer, 4 min.,
1996
Intercom Ontario Wired
Suburb: Video News Release,
video, executive producer, writer, 14 min., 1996
Interactive Õ96 Conference, video, executive producer, writer, 16 min.,
1996
Interactive Õ95 Conference, video, executive producer, writer, 18 min.,
1995
Intercom Ontario Online
Help, online context-sensitive
help videos, 20 minutes, 1995
Intercom Ontario Trial, video, executive producer, writer, 24 min.,
1995
Ivy League of Copyright
Collectives, video,
executive producer, writer, 6 min., 1995
CulTech Research Centre, video, executive producer, writer, 20 min.,
1992
Music score, OCD: The War Inside, National Film Board, dir. Mark Pancer & David Hoffert, feature documentary, 2001
Music theme and identities (with D. Hoffert), CP24 station identity and news, 1998
Music theme and library (with D. Hoffert), CityPulse News, 1997-1998
Music score (with D. Hoffert), Freaky Stories, television cartoon series, 1997
Music identity (with D. Hoffert), Bravo!, television channel, 1996
Music scores (with D. Hoffert), Strangers, television series, 1994
Music score (with D. Hoffert), Elvis Airborne, dir. Bronwen Hughs, prod. Edward Futerman, Catherine McCartney, Morgan Earl; cast: Elvis Stojko; Gemini, 1994
Music scores (with D. Hoffert), Hidden Room, television series, 1993
Music scores, Catwalk, television series, 1992-1993
Music theme and identities, Canada AM, daily network television program, 1992-1998
Music theme and Identities, Family Channel, 1991
Music supervisor, Jesse Glen Jordon, MOW, 1991
Music score, Mister Nice Guy, dir. Henry Wolfond, prod. Constantino Magnatta; cast: Michael MacDonald, Joe Silver, Jan Smithers, Harvey Atkin, Howard Jerome, feature film,1990
Music score, Eddie & the Cruisers II, dir. Jean-Claude Lord, feature film, 1989
Music supervisor, Defense Play, feature film, 1988
Music supervisor, Monkeyshines, dir. George Romero, prod. Charles Evans; cast: Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Melanie Parker, Kate McNeil, Joyce Van Patten; feature film, 1988
Music scores, Hoover Versus the Kennedys: the 2nd Civil War, music composer, dir. Michael OÕHerlihy; cast: Richard Anderson, Nicholas Campbell, Jennifer Dale; mini series, 1987
Music score, Pygmalion, dir. Allan Cooke, cast: Peter OÕToole, television film, 1987
Music score, Fanny Hill, dir. Gerry O'Hara, prod. Harry Alan Towers & Harry Benn; cast: Lisa Raines, Shelley Winters, Oliver Reed, feature film, 1986
Music director, Heavenly Bodies, dir. Lawrence Dane, prod. Andras Hamori, Robert Lantos, Stephen Roth; cast: Cynthia Dale, Richard Rebiere, Walter George Alton, Laura Henry, Stuart Stone, 1985
Music composer of theme & scores, The Hitchhiker, television series, 1985-1993, prod. Louis Chesler and Riff Markowitz
Music supervisor, One Night Only, dir. Timothy Bond; prod. Robert Lantos & Stephen J. Roth; cast: Lenore Zann, Helene Udy, Taborah Johnson, 1985
Music score, Magic Planet, dir. & prod. David Acomba, television feature, 1985
Music score, Golden Promise, dir. Mario Azupardi; prod. Moses Znaimer, mini series,1984
Music score, Neighbours, dir. Mario Azupardi; prod. Moses Znaimer, mini series,1984
Music score, Streetwise, dir. Mario Azupardi; prod. Moses Znaimer, mini series,1984
Music score (w. John Tucker), Bedroom Eyes, dir. William Fruet, prod. Robert Lantos, Stephen J. Roth; cast: Dayle Haddon, Barbara Law, Jane Catling, 1984
Music score, A Matter of Cunning, prod. Robert Lantos, Stephen J. Roth, 1983
Music score, Blood and Fire:100 years of the Salvation Army, documentary, 1983
Music score, The Last Sailors, television series, 1983
Music composer, Vengeance is Mine, music composer; dir John Trent, prod. David Perlmutter; cast: Ernest Borgnine , Tim Henry ,Cec Linder, Hollis McLaren, Michael J. Pollard, feature film, 1984
Music score, Paradise, dir. Stewart Gillard, prod. Robert Lantos & Stephen
J. Roth; cast: Willie Aames, Phoebe Cates, Richard Curnock; feature film, 1982
Music score, Tales of the Haunted, cast Jack Palance, television series, 1981
Music score, Firebird, dir. David Robertson, prod. Merritt White; cast: Alex Diakun, Doug McClure, Mary Beth Rubens, feature film, 1981
Music score, The Newcomers, prod. Pat Ferns and Richard Nielson, television series, 1978
Music score, Crossover [Mr. Patman], dir. John Guillermin, prod. Bill Marshall; cast: James Coburn, Kate Nelligan, Fionnula Flanagan, feature film, 1981
Music score, Strawberry Ice, ice-skating television program, dir. & prod. David Acomba, starring Toller Cranston and Debbie Fleming, 1981
Music scores; Jingles and Advertising Soundtracks, approximately four hundred radio and television commercials, 1980-1983
Music score, Double Negative, dir. George Bloomfield, prod. David Main ,Jerome Simon; cast: Michael Sarrazin, Susan Clark, Anthony Perkins, feature film, 1980
Music score, Circle of Two, dir. Jules Dassin, prod. Henk Van der Kolk, Jerome Simon; cast: Richard Burton, Tatum O'Neal, Nuala Fitzgerald, feature film, 1980
Music score, Shape of Things To Come, dir. George McGowan, prod. Harry Allen Towers, William Davidson; cast: Jack Palance, Carol Lynley, John Ireland, feature film,1979
Music score, Wild Horse Hank, dir. Eric Till, prod. Bill Marshall, Henk Van der Kolk; cast: Linda Blair, Michael Wincott, Al Waxman, MOW, 1979
Music score, Main Street Canada, Documentary television film, 1978
Music score, HighballinÕ, dir. Peter Carter, prod. Jon Slan; cast: Peter Fonda, Jerry Reed, Helen Shaver, feature film, 1978
Music score, The Third Walker, dir. Terry McLuhan, Marshall McLuhan, prod. Teri McLuhan; cast: Colleen Dewhurst, William Shatner, Frank Moore, feature film, 1977
Music score, Seemed Like A Good Idea at the Time, dir. John Trent, prod. David Main; cast: John Candy, Isaac Hayes, Anthony Newly, Stephanie Powers, Lloyd Bochner, feature film, 1975
Music score, Outrageous, dir. Richard Benner, prod. Henk Van der Kolk, Peter OÕBrian, Bill Marshall; cast: Craig Russell, Hollis McLaren, Richard Easley, feature film, 1975
Music score, Sunday in the Country, prod. David Perlmutter; cast: Ernest Borgnine, Michael J. Pollard, Hollis McLaren, dir. John Trent, feature film, 1974
Music score; PincchioÕs Birthday, dir and screenplay by Ron Merk, animated television film, 1973
Music score; The Last Run, unreleased
feature film, 1972
Music score; Proud Rider, dir. Walter Baczynsky ,Chester Stocki ,Walter
Wasik, prod. George Fras; cast: Michael Bell, Jeremy
Kane, Karen Gregory; feature film, 1971
Music score, Flick, dir. Gilbert Taylor, prod. Bill Marshall, feature film, 1970
Music score, Groundstar Conspiracy, dir. Lamont Johnston, prod. Trevor Wallace; cast: George Peppard, Michael Sarrazin, Christine Belford, feature film, 1970
Music score, Ballet High, CBC network television program, 1969
Music score, Dr.Frankenstein on Campus [Flick], dir. Gilbert Taylor, Bill Marshall; cast: Robin Ward, Kathleen Sawyer, Austin Willis, feature film, 1968
Staff composer, Ben McPeek Ltd., documentary films, radio and television commercials, 1966-1968
Music score, The Offering, dir. David Secter, feature film, 1963
Music director/arranger, Time Of Your Life, CBC network television series, 1963-1965
Music score, Winter Kept Us Warm, dir. David Secter, [first] feature film, 1962
Performer, While WeÕre Young, CBC network television series, 1960-1961
English Libretto for Hans Krasa ChildrenÕs Opera, Brundibar, 2009
Musical theatre, Noah, multimedia dance theatre work, 1995
Musical theatre, Hidden Channel, opera, 1991
Concert music, Ethos, text by Timothy Findley, and poetry by Janice Rappaport, 1982
Musical theatre, Hogtown, Bayview Playhouse, 1981
Concert music, Spring, String Quartet + rock group Maneige, 1980
Concert music, Israel, tenor, choir, harp & percussion, performed at Ontario Place, 1978
Musical theatre, Composer In Residence, Toronto Arts Productions, Leon Major, repertory season, music for four plays including BrechtÕs Caucasian Chalk Circle, St. Lawrence Centre, 1976
Musical theatre, Sweet Summersaults, Toronto Dance Theatre, 1976
Concert music, Concerto for Contemporary Violin, 1976
Concert music, Concerto for Contemporary Flute, Moe Koffman soloist, 1975
Musical theatre, Prometheus Bound, with Irene Worth, 1971
Musical theatre, Marat Sade, Trinity Playhouse, 1969
Concert music, for symphony orchestras and rock group, 1969
Musical theatre, Ballet High, for classical ballet company and rock group, first such, 1969
Musical theatre, Get Thee To Canterbury, Off-Broadway Sheridan Square Playhouse, composer and producer, 1967
PoliTalk 48 – Web
Column, Blog Author and Salon Moderator, 2009-2010
TransmitNow (online magazine);
http://www.transmitnow.com/now
Rethinking Canadian Cultural Policies,
Blizzart Volume
10, #2, Winter 2006
View from the Podium – Regular Column,
Spotting Notes, Guild of Canadian Film Composers, quarterly 1996 – 2005
Copy Rights and Wrongs,
Copyright and New Media Law Newsletter, December 2003
Shift Happens, Contributing
Columnist
CMPA
– Canadian Music Publishers Association Newsletter, 2002 – 2003
Composers Get Collective Bargaining,
Playback Magazine, November 2003
What About the Publishing?,
GCFC Publication, October 2003
Block Party,
Saturday Night Magazine, July 15, 2000
Funding Artists Enriches All Of Us,
Toronto Star newspaper guest editorial, June 24,1996
Jerry Garcia Was An Enigma Wrapped in A Riddle,
Now Magazine, August 17-23, 1995
This SceneÕs a Little Weak,
Words & Music, December 1994
Designing the Info Highway,
Globe & Mail newspaper guest editorial, December 1994
Reaching Consumers On the Infoway,
Canadian Advertising, November 1994
Information Super-Hypeway,
Computer Information Magazine, March 1994
Dick Hyman - Blues in the Night,
The Jazz Scene, January 1991
Film and Television Music,
The Jazz Scene, reprinted in Songwriter,
January 1991
Sound Exciter,
Minds in Motion, spring 1990
The Bytes Behind The Biz,
Film Canada, June 1988 [reprinted in Minds in Motion, Fall 1998]
Supporting New Chinese Media Industries
Euro – Asia Economic Forum, XiÕAn, China, 09/27/13
International Jury Chair, 10th
Laureate
Glenn Gould Prize, Toronto 03/11/13
The State of Media Music
Canadian FIlm Centre (CFC) Media Lab, Toronto, 09/27/12
Follow Your Passion
University of Toronto, Convocation Address, Toronto, 06/19/12
Mentoring Media Startup Companies
Transmission Institute, Victoria. British Columbia,
02/04/12-02/08/12
Proposal for a Transmission Institute of Applied Research
Transmission Conference, Beijing, China, 09/13/11
Hugh LeCaine: Musical
Instrument Pioneer
Canada Science and Technology Museum.
Ottawa, 04/14/11
Insights On Current Media From ArtistsÕ
Perspectives
McLuhan100 Conference,
Toronto, 07/20/11
People Cause Change, Not Technology
CANHEIT, MacMaster University, Hamilton, 06/08/11
Media, McLuhan, & Me
University of Silesia,,
Katowice, Poland, 05/22/11
International Jury Chair, 9th
Laureate
Glenn Gould Prize, Toronto 03/31/11
Creating Music for Videogames
Humber College, Toronto 03/17/11
Business Practices in Creative Media
Ryerson University, Toronto, 03/09/11
Impacts of Digital Technologies on Artists and
Cultural Industries
Cultural Human Resources Council of Canada, Ottawa, 03/25/10
Global Centre for Creative Industries and
Entrepreneurship
Royal Roads
University, Victoria, British Columbia, 10/11/10
Impacts of Digital Technologies on Artists and
Cultural Industries
Cultural Human Resources
Council of Canada, Ottawa,
03/25/10
Vortex 2009, Video Game Competition
Juror, Toronto 11/04/09
Transmission Conference, Victoria, BC, 09/22/09
Trends in Satellite and Cable Distribution of
Digital Content
BellFund
Retreat, Banff, Alberta,
06/10/09
New Media: New Canadian Funding
Saskatchewan Interactive, Saskatoon 03/19/09
Orchestral Music and the Internet
Fesnojiv, Caracas,
Venezuela 11/09/08
Science and Art: Points of Convergence
Lecture Series, Port Hope,
11/06/08
North American—Chinese Content Ventures
Canadian & British
Columbian Trade Mission, Beijing,
5/29/08
Licensing IPRs for Digi-Nets,
Insight Copyright
Conference, Toronto,
5/13/08
Copy Camp Conference, Toronto, 04/29/08
Paradise of Infinite Storage
Canadian Music Week, Toronto 03/04/08
International Jury Chair,
Glenn Gould Prize, Toronto 02/12/08
Rapporteur: eCulture,
WSA, Venice, Italy, 11/03/07
Panelist: The Future of Analog Media,
McGill University, Pop and
Policy, Montreal, 10/03/07
Licensing IPRs to Digital Networks,
IP.Net Conference, Tsinghua
Law School, Beijing, 10/29/07
Canadian Content Promotion Online Without
Regulation,
Canadian Radio-Television
and Telecommunications Commission - CRTC, Ottawa, 10/01/07
New Business Model for Online Film and
Television Distribution,
Toronto International Film
Festival – TIFF, Toronto,
09/10/07
Grand Juror: WSA eContent,
UNESCO, Brijoni, Republic of Croatia, 08/31/07
Plugging Into Multi-Platforms: A New Business
Model,
Women in Film and
Television – WIFT,
07/16/07
Juror – Mobile Platforms
Vortex, McLuhan International Festival of the Future,
Toronto, 06/19/07
Minefields and Goldmines: What Does the Future
Hold?,
Schulich School of Business, York University, International Colloquy,
Toronto, 05/23/07
A New Business Model for the Global
Entertainment Business,
Association LittŽraire et Artistique
Internationale - ALAI, Toronto, 05/23/07
Composing Music for Videogames,
SOCAN Seminar, Montreal, 05/17/07
New Economics of the Music Industry,
Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto, 04/27/07
Impacts of Distributing Counterfeit Products Online,
Government of Canada, Standing Committee
on Public Safety and National Security, Ottawa, 04/26/07
Role of Music on the Internet,
Copyright Board of Canada: Tariff 22
Hearings, Ottawa, 04/17/07
Asian and Chinese Attitudes Regarding Copyright,
Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, 11/18/06
WhatÕs Wrong With Music?,
Future of Music Coalition-Policy Summit, McGill University, Montreal, 10/05/06
A Canadian File-Sharing Service
Canadian Heritage Ministry, Ottawa, 04/27/06
DMX: A Legal P2P File-Sharing Service,
City University, Hong Kong, 04/06/06
Challenges and Strategies for Creating New
Media,
Europrix, Vienna, Austria 04/03/06
A Solution to Chinese Copyright Infringement,
Tsinghua University, Beijing, 03/31/06
Rethinking Canadian Cultural Policies,
Canadian Conference for the Arts, Ottawa, 03/03/06
Changing Creative Supply (Part 2),
OECD–Organization for Economic
Development and Cooperation,
Paris, 02/28/06
Digital Media Are Changing Creative Supply (Part
1),
OECD–Organization for Economic
Development and Cooperation,
Rome, 01/29/06
E-Learning Best Practices From Around the World,
United Nations World Summit on
Information Societies, Tunis,
11/17/05
McLuhan, Global Villages and Bagels,
McLuhan International Festival of the
Future, Toronto, 10/03/05
A Post-Grokster Digital Media Exchange,
Cyber-Law Retreat, Napa Valley, CA,
08/02/05
Value of the Performing Right in Ringtones and
Songtones,
Copyrigt Board of Canada, Ottawa,
06/20/05
The Vienna Declaration,
United Nations WSIS Drafting Committee, Vienna, Austria, 06/02/05
Information, Communication, Technology (ICT) and
Creativity,
United Nations World Summit on Information Societies Conference, Vienna, Austria,
06/02/05
Signal and Noise Conference, Harvard University, 04/07/05
Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, Ottawa, 04/06/05
Canada at the Crossroads of Copyright Law, University of Toronto, 02/11/05
Support of Local E-Content by Government and
Private Funds,
United Nations Digital Divide Conference, Baku, Azerbaijan, 11/26/04
Students, Citizens, and Third World Nations are
Empowered Against Schools,
Governments, and Globalization,
Calumet College Toronto, 03/30/04
Actions to Cure a Canadian Information Deficit,
Information Deficit Conference, Calgary, 10/31/01
User Perspectives of Digital Pay Television
Services,
Copyright Board of Canada, Ottawa, 05/01/01
Regulation of Canadian Content on Digital
Networks,
Future of the Public Interest in Communications Conference, Ottawa, 04/11/01
Value of Musical Compositions in Concerts,
Copyright Board of Canada, Ottawa, 03/06/01
Changing Relationships in Cultural Industries,
Canadian Heritage Ministry, 2/13/01
Impact of Internet & E-Commerce on Music,
Film, & Book Industries,
ALAI Copyright Convergence Conference, Montreal, 11/25/00
Media-Rich Content to Connected Communities,
CANARIE The Networked Nation Conference, Montreal, 11/29/00
Digital Content Management,
SODRAC, Montreal, 11/07/00
The Global Village is a Myth,
Royal Canadian Institute, Toronto, 10/29/00
Connected Communities,
Digital Media Innovation Conference, Toronto, 10/28/00
Context for Management,
Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services Policy Forum,
Toronto, 9/20/00
Towards A Digital Media Institute,
University of Toronto Lecture Series, Toronto, 05/25/00
Habicons: Connected Communities in the 21st
Century,
Community Informatics Conference, Middlesbrough, England, 4/26/00
The Arts and Sciences as Right Brain Siblings,
National Research Council, Ottawa, 2/23/00
Interactive Television for Connected
Communities,
IBM Research Conference, New York, 8/17/99
CanadaÕs Wired Community,
Digital Knowledge III Conference, Toronto, 5/14/99
Broadband Application Sharing,
Broadband Community Networks, Kitchener, 4/30/99
Intercom Ontario – A Connected Community,
The Gorbachev Foundation Conference for Technology & Democracy,
Boston, 3/06/99
CulTech Research Reports,
IBM Watson Research Labs, Hawthorne, NY, 10/07/98
Music On Digital Networks,
Copyright Board of Canada, Ottawa, 03/15/99
Virtual Museums on the Internet,
Museums on the Internet, Salzburg Austria, 05/09/98
Music-On-Demand: Jukeboxx,
Canadian Record Industry Association, 2/19/98
Canadian Digital Property Services,
SOCAN Retreat, Halifax, 2/02/98
Cyber SoirŽe - Rooms With A View,
Interactive Ô97, Toronto, 09/05/97
A Model for Networked Digital Music Commerce,
Global Networking Ô97, Edmonton 06/17/97
Protecting & Charging for Content on the
Internet,
Internet Canada Ô97, Toronto, 01/08/97
A User Interface for Media-Rich Networked
Content,
Comdex Canada, Toronto, 10/96
Disseminating Musical Works in Digital Formats,
Intellectual Property Conference Of The Americas, Los Angeles 07/96
Music on the Internet - Who Will Pay the Piper,
Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto, 06/08/96
VITAL - Varied and Integrated Teaching and
Learning,
York University/Bell Canada, Toronto, 06/96
Planning a Techno-Smart City,
Metro Toronto Senior Managers Workshop, Toronto, 05/96
Trends in Arts Management,
Association of Cultural Executives, Ottawa, 03/96
Digital Knowledge - CanadaÕs Future,
CanadaÕs Coalition for Public Information, Toronto, 02/06/96
Managing Intellectual Property in Digital
Formats,
United States Copyright Office - Technology Based Intellectual Property
Forum, Arlington, 01/10/96
Designing the Info Highway to be a Road Well Traveled,
Globe and Mail Guest Editorial, 12/95
Demand Based Infoways,
Organization for Economic Development & Cooperation, Paris
11/95
Remarks to Arts Community,
Contact '95, Toronto, 11/95
Lessons for Sport from the Arts Lobby,
Fast Forward Conference Forum, Toronto, 11/04/95
The Future of Arts in Ontario,
Contact Ontario, Toronto, 11/95
Tendances dans
le domaine de la gestion
des arts,
Cultural Industries Conference, Ottawa, 09/95
Ontario Arts Council Chair Report,
Ministry of Culture, Citizenship & Recreation, Toronto, 09/95
When the Rubber Hits the Road on the Info
Highway,
International Engineering Consortium, Toronto, 7/7/95
Canadian Theatre Directions,
Dora Awards, Toronto, 07/95
A Wired Community,
Intercom Ontario AGM, Toronto, 07/95
IVY – Intellectual Property System,
CulTech Research Centre Report, 05/95
Hearings on Information Highways,
Canadian Radio & Television Commission, Ottawa, 03/95
Separation of Fine Arts and Sciences,
Symposium on Creativity and Innovation, Toronto, 02/09/95
When The Rubber Hits The Road on the Info
Highway,
Intercom Ontario Research Trial Report, Toronto, 01/95
Focus on the Future of Arts,
Ontario Arts Council Media Conference, Toronto, 01/95
Broadband Content to Homes & Offices,
Canadian Real Estate Association, Calgary, 12/94
Intercom Ontario Phase I – Calumet
College,
Research Plan, 12/94
Driving the Intellectual Property Engine Towards
an Interactive Accounting System To Replace and/or Supplement Traditional
Copyright,
Copyright In Transition Conference, Ottawa, 11/13/94
Automated Homes & Offices on Infoways,
Canadian Automated Builders Association, Toronto, 11/94
Reaching Consumers on the Infoway,
Advertising Research Association, Toronto, 11/94
Accounting for Content on the Infoway,
Copyright Conference, Ottawa, 10/94
Convergence - The Big Picture,
Four Motors of Europe Conference, Toronto, 05/94
(with Dr. Jerome Durlak), 3/93
Effect of Multimedia Telecommunications on the
Global Environment,
Multimedia Ô93 Conference, Calgary, 03/93
Welcome To The Real World,
TRIO/ITRC Retreat, Trent University, Peterborough, 07/92
Filmmaker as Composer/Actualizer,
Experimental Film Congress, Toronto, 04/89
Canadian Heritage Research Council, HR Forum, Toronto, 09/27/12
Glenn Gould Variations, Convocation Hall, Toronto, 09/27/12
The Business News Network, Toronto, 06/22/12
Northumberland Learning Connection, 04/19/12
Creative Economy Summit, Brampton, 02/02/12
Municipal Information
Systems Association, Missisauga, 06/08/11
Museum London Lectures, London, 05/10/11
Canadian Higher Education Information Technology Conference, Hamilton, 06/08/11
Hot Docs, Toronto 05/07/10
BBM, Toronto 04/23/10
Presenter/Organizer for
Glenn Gould Foundation,
Toronto 10/26/09
IAMIC – International
Association of Music Centers Conference, Toronto 06/06/09
Canada Music Week, Toronto 03/13/09
Transmission Conference, Vancouver 12/05/08
Heritage, Arts, Culture,
& Entertainment,
Brampton, Ontario09/27/08
Our Future in Music, AFM, St,Johns
Newfoundland, 08/16/08
Soundstreams, Toronto, 05/22/08
CPMEA – Confidential
Professional Managerial Employees Association, Toronto, 05/22/08
Canada Deposit Insurance
Corporation, Mont Tremblant Quebec, 04/28/08
Defense Research and
Development Canada, St
Adele Quebec, 03/28/08
Trebas Graduation Address, Toronto, 11/29/07
Pre-Play Videogame Music, Toronto, 09/30/06
Canadian Magazine Publishers Association,
Toronto, 06/07/06
CRA: Creative Rights Alliance—Copy
Camp Conference, Toronto,
09/28/06
CIRPA: Canadian Independent Production
Association, Toronto,
05/25/06
International Association of Music
Information Centres, Reykjavik
Iceland, 05/19/06
International Association of Music
Information Centres, Reykjavik
Iceland, 05/18/06
CoreNet Global
Asia Summit, Beijing,
03/29/06
EuroPrix, Vienna, 03/04/06
VocINet, Vienna, 03/04/06
IMPALA–Independent Music Companies
Association, Brussels,
03/02/06
IAMIC–International Association of
Music Information Centers, New
York, 09/28/05
Banff Television Festival, Banff, Alberta, 06/15/05
Educational Computing Network of Ontario, Toronto, 05/30/05
Reel World Festival, Toronto, 04/13/05
The Canadian Community of Computer
Educators, BMO
– Institute for Learning, 02/16/05
Digital Music Summit, Toronto, 02/10/05
Support of Local E-Content by Government and
Private Funds,
United Nations Digital Divide Conference, Baku, Azerbaijan, 11/26/04
I & IT Leadership, Toronto, 09/14/04
Toronto International Film Festival -
TIFF, Toronto, 09/11/04
Banff Television Festival, Banff, 06/14/04
Ontario Hospital Association, Ottawa, 06/04/04
MISA - Municipal Information Systems
Association,
Toronto, 05/31/04
Classic Movie Festival, Toronto, 05/29/04
Ontario Bar Association, Toronto, 11/20/03
nextMEDIA Conference, Charlottetown, 10/25/03
IPAC Governance, Innovation and
the Public Good Conference, Toronto, 08/27/03
Progress Face2Face, Digby N.S., 06/10/03
Conference Board of Canada, Ottawa, 05/06/03
National Managers Council, Halifax, 04/28/03
Canadian Marketing Association, Toronto, 03/05/03
Newmarket Town Council, Newmarket, 02/22/03
Conference Board of Canada, Ottawa, 02/06/03
International Council of Fine Arts Deans, Toronto, 10/30/02
Canadian Heritage, Ottawa, 10/08/02
Ontario Learning Partnership Group, Toronto, 09/27/02
Industry Canada Portfolio Office, Ottawa, 09/27/02
Canadian Association of Petroleum Landmen, Ottawa, 09/18/02
Canadian Book Expo, Toronto, 06/221/02
Environment Canada, 05/07/02
York University, Toronto, 05/05/01
NAACUFS, Seattle, 02/27/01
Alberta Motion Picture Industry Association, Edmonton, 03/13/01
Privy Council of Canada, Ottawa, 02/01/01
Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce, Thunder Bay, 01/24/01
Canadian Wheat Board, Red Deer, 12/04/00
I.T. Works Conference, Saskatoon, 12/01/00
Canadian Independent Record Production Association - CIRPA,
Toronto, 11/29/00
ALAI Copyright Convergence Conference, Montreal, 11/25/00
MTS - Manitoba Telecommunications Services, Winnipeg, 11/22/00
Foodservice Future Forces Roundtable, Toronto, 11/08/00
London Home Builders, London, 10/19/00
Yardi Real Estate, Santa Barbara, 10/03/00
Spectrum Investments, By Satellite to Six Cities, 9/28/00
Windsor-Essex Community Workshop, Windsor, 9/27/00
Canadian Pacific Corporate Seminar, Calgary, 9/20/00
BCE Corporate Retreat, Toronto, 9/08/00
21st Century Rights Management,
SOCAN executive seminar, Toronto, 7/24/00
Canadian Association of Community Newspapers, Magog QuŽbec, 7/21/00
9th International Museum Publishing Seminar, Ottawa, 7/14/00
Canadian Association of
Librarians Conference,
Edmonton, 6/22/00
Canadian IT Security Symposium, Ottawa, 6/21/00
HMV Record Retailers, Bromont QuŽbec,
6/10/00
TEDCity Conference, Toronto, 6/08/00
Ontario Deputy Ministers, Toronto, 6/01/00
Governor GeneralÕs Study Conference, Toronto, 05/26/00
TechQuest 2000 Conference, Winnipeg, 05/10/00
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, San Jose California,
05/16/00, Costa Mesa California, 05/19/00
Community Informatics Conference, Middlesbrough, England, 04/26/00
Digital Media Institute, Toronto, 04/20/00
University of Toronto, Toronto, 04/11
Canadian Society of Association Executives, Toronto, 04/05/00
University of Toronto, Faculty of Law Seminar, 3/11/00
Canadian HomebuildersÕ Association, Ottawa, 02/15/00
Telefilm Canada, Toronto, 01/28/00
Design Exchange, Toronto, 11/25/99
U.S. Consulate and York University, 11/09/99
Yukon Government, 10/20/99
Alberta Library Association, 9/23/99
York University, 9/14/99
Canadian Booksellers Association/Canadian Library Association,
6/15/99
U.S. Consulate/CulTech Seminar, Toronto, 6/09/99
Municipal Officers Association, Kelowna, BC, 6/03/99
Association of Public Sector Information Professionals, Ottawa,
6/02/99
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Framingham NY, 5/27/99
Human Resources Association of Nova Scotia, Halifax, 5/26/99
CITO – Communications Information Technology Ontario, Ottawa,
5/18/99
Canadian Public Personnel Management Association, Ottawa, 5/17/99
Xerox Docuworld, Toronto, 5/12/99
Organization of Small Urban Municipalities, Owen Sound, 5/06/99
Association of Program Managers, Toronto, 4/29/99
Centre for Education and Training, Toronto, 4/29/99
Education Computing Association, Toronto, 4/29/99
Canadian Information Processing Society, Regina, 4/20/99
Hewlett Packard, Toronto, 4/15/99
Ontario Association of School Board Officials, 4/09/99
IBM Global Services, Collingwood, 3/24/99
Canadian Women in Communications, Toronto, 3/10/99
Canadian Music Week, Toronto, 3/05/99
Human Resources Development Canada (Federal Government), Toronto,
2/25/99
Design Exchange, Toronto, 2/18/99
Manulife Information Systems, Mississauga, 2/16/99
Canon Annual General Meeting, Toronto, 2/12/99
TELUS Advertising Services, Calgary, 1/24/99
Ontario Library Association, Toronto, 1/23/99
U.S. Consulate/CulTech Seminar, Toronto, 11/13/98
Waterloo University, Waterloo, 11/04/98
York University, 10/03/98
TELUS/IBM, Calgary, 10/30/98
TELUS/IBM, Edmonton, 10/29/98
B.C Government Ministers and Deputies, Victoria BC, 10/22/98
Ontario Association of Community Colleges, Toronto, 10/15/98
Sea Changes in Education,
University of Western Ontario, London ON, 10/14/98
Communications for a Converging World,
Design Symposium 98, ROM, Toronto, 10/13/98
The Bagel Effect in Marketing,
Canadian Direct Marketing Association, Toronto, 9/29/98
People Cause Change, Not Technology,
Sheridan College Commencement, Mississauga, 06/18/98
Innovation in the Global Economy,
IGBC Conference, Toronto, 03/06/98
Enabling Government Business Through Technology,
Ontario Government Systems Council, Niagara On The Lake, 12/08/97
Wired Communities and E-Commerce,
CIO Conference, Toronto 12/08/97
Bagels, Wired Communities, and SmartCards,
Bank Of Montreal Executive Retreat, Pickering, 11/22/97
Digital Storytelling,
Guvernment Conference, Toronto, 11/7/97
Financing Multimedia,
Banff Centre For the Arts, Banff, 9/27/97
Interactive Training In The Cultural Sector,
Cultural Human Resources Council Of Canada, Ottawa, 9/14/97
Education, Infoways, and Interactive
Communities,
LearnTec Ô97, Miramishi 05/07/97
Changing World of Work,
MayorsÕ Conference, Aurora, 04/04/97
Future of Business on the Internet,
Comdex Canada, Toronto, 07/12/96
Communities on the Internet,
Getting On-line, Ottawa, 06/21/96
Home Taping and the Digital Agenda,
Insight Copyright Reform Conference, Toronto, 5/30/96
Business and Commerce on the Net,
The Internet: Beyond the Year 2000, Toronto, 04/30/96
Rhetoric & Realities of the Communications
Revolution,
Electronic Democracy '96 Conference, 04/24/96
Applying Advanced Communications Technologies to
the Learning Process,
CIO Insights, Toronto, 10/25/95
Bagels, Power, & Interactive Communities,
Association Of Municipal Officers, Hamilton, 10/95
Cities of the Future - Interactive Communities,
Municipal Finance Conference, Windsor, 10/25/95
Empowerment of Citizens and Students - The Bagel
Effect,
CAPACOA, 09/95
WhatÕs Next on the Highway?,
COMDEX Ô95, Toronto, 7/13/95
Partners in Change,
Ontario Federation of Symphony Orchestras, Toronto, 06/95
Bagels and Interactive Writing,
WRITE 95, Vancouver, 05/14/95
Building an Interactive Community,
Municipal Information Systems Association, Toronto, 5/7/95
Impact of New Technology on Cultural Industries,
Community Arts Councils Conference, Belleville, 05/06/95
Teleworking,
Canadian Automated Building Association, Toronto, 03/95
Fibre To The Home - Fibre To The Desktop,
Canadian Institute Multimedia Conference, 12/6/94
Digital Software For Music Composition &
Performance,
York University Colloquium, Toronto, 05/94
Multimedia TeleOrchestra,
Canada & Telecommunications,
IMAT Conference, Ottawa, 5/3/94
Intercom Ontario and the Environment,
Faculty of Environmental Science, York University, Toronto, 01/94
RECENT
Paul HoffertÕs recent performances encompass rock, jazz, and orchestral music. HeÕs a singer/keyboardist with Lighthouse and a jazz soloist and leader of ensembles. In 2011-2012 he has been hosting a weekly Jazz Salon in Toronto, performing with guests Jackie Richardson, Don Thompson, Russ Little, Bruce Cassidy, Pat Lababera, Michael Stuart, Guido Basso, Tom Szczesniak, Dave Young, Reg Schwager, Lorne Lofsky, and other jazz luminaries.
In the past few years he has performed extensively across Canada; in Ajax, Aliston, Bala, Barrie, Belleville, Brampton, Brandon, Brantford, Brockville, Burlington, Calgary, Charlottetown, Chatham, Cornwall, Edmonton, Fredericton, Gananoque, Glace Bay, Guelph , Halifax, Huntsville, Kingston, Kitchener, Lethbridge, Listowell, London, Markham, Mattawa, Meaford, Minnedosa, Mississauga, Moose Jaw, Mt. Forest, New Liskeard, Niagara, North Bay, Oakville, Orillia, Oshawa, Ottawa, Owen Sound, Parry Sound, Penticton, Peterborough, Port Credit, Port Hope, Regina, Richmond Hill, Saint John, Sarnia, Saskatchewan, Southampton, St. Albert, St. Catherines, Sudbury, Teeswater, Thunder Bay, Uxbridge, Vancouver, Waterloo, Windsor, Winnipeg, and Woodstock.
He performs regularly with the Gelcer-Hoffert Jazz Trio whose CD, How High The Bird, has been in constant rotation at JazzFM and other jazz station since its 2011 release and has become a regular at jazz festivals.
Recent conducting duties include 2009 performances of the opera Brundibar including a Toronto Koerner Hall concert and a 2011 recording of Leo SpellmanÕs Rhapsody 1939-1945. Hoffert conducted the Canadian premier performance of the Rhapsody 1939-1945 at the Enwave Harbourfront Theatre in 2012.
PERFORMER SHORT BIO
Paul (Poli) Hoffert was born in
Brooklyn, New York where he studied classical piano but was drawn to the music
of Fats Domino, Little Richard, and the doo-wop groups of the Ôfifties. When he
was 13, Paul started his first band, the Boptones,
which performed in the New York area and released two recordings, I Wanna Love You
and Betty Jean.
He moved with his family to Toronto when he was 14 and took up the vibraphone
(vibes). Within a year he was performing regularly at coffee houses and in
recording studios. When he was 16 he became a regular performer on CBC network
television programs and this led to a record deal for his first LP, The Jazz Routes of Paul Hoffert.
Hoffert studied music composition with Gordon Delamont
and, by the time he was 22, he had composed several feature film music scores
and written an Off-Broadway musical, Get
Thee To Canterbury.
He performed regularly with jazz greats Moe Koffman, Ed Bickert, Guido Basso,
and Rob McConnell and also performed classical music, specializing in
contemporary composers Harry Freedman, Harry Somers, Gunther Schuller, R. Murray Shafer, and Louis Applebaum.
He was a percussionist with the Toronto Symphony for music recordings.
In 1969 Hoffert founded the rock band Lighthouse with Skip Prokop, singing and
playing keyboards, vibes, and conga drums. Recognized as one of the best
performing acts of the classic rock era, Lighthouse toured constantly,
originated sponsored (Labatt) cross-country tours, and played to sold-out shows
at Carnegie Hall, the Fillmore East, Fillmore West, Boston Globe Jazz Festival,
Newport Jazz festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, National Arts Centre, Place des
Arts, Expo Ô70 in Japan and the Isle of Wight in England. Lighthouse toured
North America with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Company (1971) and South America
with Oscar Peterson and Desrosiers Dance Theatre
(1995).
Lighthouse shared top billings with Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Who, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead, Miles Davis, Chicago, Blood Sweat and Tears, and Santana among others. Elton John was LighthouseÕs opening act when he first performed in the US.
Back home, LighthouseÕs free concerts at TorontoÕs Nathan Philips Square attracted more than a hundred thousand fans. It would be hard to find someone who lived in Canada through the 1970s who hasnÕt seen the group perform. They were and are CanadaÕs band.
As LighthouseÕs music director, Hoffert broke new ground in the fields of both pop and classical music. Along with Miles Davis, he is credited as one of the creators of fusion music, the blend of rock rhythms with jazz improvisations. He composed and conducted the first collaborations by a rock band with symphony orchestras in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Edmonton. He composed and performed the first ever rock ballet, Ballet High. These were great critical and commercial successes and brought new younger audiences to appreciate the treasures of orchestral music and dance.
In 1971 Lighthouse won the first of three successive Juno Awards for Best Group of the Year. They earned eight gold, the first platinum by a Canadian artist, and diamond awards for its record sales. The band could be seen on television, in newspapers and magazines, and on Coca Cola bottle caps.
Hoffert took a break from Lighthouse touring 1973. He
founded Rock and Roll Records and produced artists such as Bob McBride, Bill
King, Flower Traveling Band, Snakeye, Robbie Rox, and Flying Circus while continuing as LighthouseÕs
executive producer. During that period, he was a founder of CIRPA, the Canadian
Independent Record Production Association.
In 1975 Hoffert became pianist/conductor for Craig Russell, internationally acclaimed impersonator and star of the award winning Outrageous feature film. They performed concerts together throughout the world, including Carnegie Hall (twice), Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Berlin Theatre Festival, Sydney Opera House, and Massey Hall.
In 1992 Lighthouse reformed and has been performing regularly ever since, bringing in the turn of the 21st century at the Parliament Hill Canada Day Celebrations, and continuing to perform across Canada (see Recent 2009-).
Hoffert appears regularly as a radio and television host and guest, recently on Canada AM, Squeezeplay, Business News Network, Breakfast Television, and Ontario Today.
He was a lead performer in One Fine Story—a theatrical history of the music business directed by David Acomba.
Hoffert was the first professional performer to embrace technology for distributed live musical performances. His pioneering demonstrations of music collaborations at distance at the Smart City Conference in 1995 and at the InterActive Õ96 conference led to the use of these technologies for the opening ceremonies of the 1998 Olympics. In 1999, Hoffert performed live in Toronto with other musicians in Richmond Hill and Brampton. In 2001, he performed at the Supercomputing 2001 Conference in Chicago linked with other performers in Toronto and Denver.
Hoffert spent much of 2006-8 in China, working with Harvard University and the Chinese government to monetize file sharing there so that artists and composers can be paid royalties in the future. During that time, he toured China as a performer with world music diva Dadawa (Zhu Zheqing).
Hoffert was music director of the Blue Mountain School of Music 1975-77 at George Brown College. He was appointed adjunct Professor of Fine Arts at York University in 1984, Research Professor at Sheridan College in 1999, Faculty Fellow at Harvard University in 2005, and a director of McGill University's Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology in 2007. He has taught at Beijing University and the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi. In 2012, he received a doctorate from the University of Toronto, performing at his Music Faculty commencement as well as making the commencement address.
Hoffert was a founder and Chair of the Canadian Academy of
Cinema and Television and executive producer of the Gemini Awards in 1985 and
1986. He was Chair of the Ontario Arts Council 1994-97 and is currently Chair
of the Screen Composers Guild of Canada and Chair of the Bell Broadcast and New
Media Fund.
Hoffert has served on many non-profit boards including the
Canadian Performing Rights Society (1984-90); SOCAN Foundation (1993-2009);
Encyclopedia of Music in Canada (1998-2003); Virtual Museum of Canada
(2000-2005); Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund (1999-); the Glenn Gould
Foundation (2000-), and the United Nations World Summit on Information
Societies.
He is the author of five books, including The Hoffert Guide for Synchronizing
Music with Media and Composing Music for Videogames, Web, and Mobile. In 1996,
Hoffert was inducted into the Canadian Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He received
the Order of Canada in 2004 for contributions to music, media, and society.
Conductor: 1962-
Hoffert conducted the Canadian premier performance of Leo
SpellmanÕs Rhapsody 1939-1945 at the Ashkenaz Harbourfront Festival in 2012. He conducted the opera, Brundibar at TorontoÕs Koerner
Hall in 2009. He has conducted many film scores for film, television, and sound
recordings with orchestras such as the London Philharmonic, Bavarian Film
Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, Edmonton Symphony, Montreal Symphony, Prague Opera
Orchestra, and studio orchestras. His conducting of non-original works includes
a Placido Domingo disk for SONY records and an Igor Stravinsky (LÕhistoire du Soldat) CD for
Marquis records.
Pianist,
Vibraphonist: 1958-1969, 2009-
Mr. Hoffert returned to his jazz performance roots in 2010. He performs regularly at jazz festivals and at his weekly ÒPoliÕs Jazz SalonÓ that features internally renowned jazz performers. Hoffert was animator-performer (Vibraphonist) of a distributed WAN live performance, with Hoffert in Denver + dancer, visual artist, and additional music in Toronto in February 2001.
He occasionally performs as a classical pianist including
a Winnipeg performance in 2000 of LisztÕs
2nd Hungarian Rhapsody with conductor Bramwell Tovey.
Lighthouse Music Director, Keyboardist, Vocalist, Percussionist: 1968-1972, 1982, 2001-
Mr. Hoffert is founder of and lead performer with Lighthouse (www.lighthouserockson.com).
Lighthouse has headlined more than 500 concert performances. Lighthouse is
currently touring to support the 2009 release of its DVD/CD, 40 Years of Sunny
Days. Previous concert performances include: Carnegie Hall, Dorothy Chandler
Pavilion, Fillmore East, Fillmore West, Atlantic City Pop Festival, Isle Of
Wight Festival (England), Boston Globe Jazz Festival, Newport Jazz festival,
Monterey Jazz Festival, Expo '70 (Osaka, Japan), Massey Hall, National Arts
Centre, Place des Arts, North American tour with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet
company (1971), South American tour with Oscar Peterson and Desrosiers Dance
Theatre (1995), Canadian National Exhibition, and the Calgary Stampede. He was a
featured vocalist at the Canada Day Celebrations at Parliament Hill, 2000, CBC
Television, Ottawa
As LighthouseÕs music director, Hoffert broke new ground in the fields of both pop and classical music. He was one of the creators of what is now known as fusion music, the blend of rock and jazz genres. He composed and conducted the first performances anywhere by a rock band with a symphony orchestra (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Edmonton symphonies). He also composed and performed the first ever collaboration between a rock band and a classical ballet company (The Royal Winnipeg). These were great critical and commercial successes and brought new and younger audiences to appreciate the treasures of classical music and dance.
Lighthouse earned eight gold, platinum, and diamond albums for record sales and is a three-time Juno Award winner as CanadaÕs top band. Mr. Hoffert was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Canada) in 1995.
Performer: One Fine
Story, 2009-
Mr. Hoffert is a lead performer in this presentation of the history of the music business, seen through the eyes of a musician in a band that experiences the ups and downs of fame, fortune, failure, and resurrection, directed by David Acomba.
Musician, Performer: Dadawa (Zhu Zheqing), 2006
Mr. Hoffert toured in China with world music diva (Zhu Zheqing)
Distributed Music
Performer, 1995-2001
Mr. Hoffert was the first professional performer to embrace live distributed musical performances, using analog TV and telephone networks at first to connect musicians distributed in different locations and then digital networks when they became available. His demonstration at the InterActive Õ96 Cyber Soiree (see below) of feasible technologies and performance environments for networked performances led to the use of these for the opening ceremonies of the 1998 Olympics, at which BeethovenÕs 9th Symphony was performed with orchestras and choruses distributed throughout the world.
Mr. Hoffert was vibraphonist for a distributed live performance at the Supercomputing 2001 Conference in Denver with a dancer, visual artist, and additional musicians in Toronto, February 2001
He performed live in 2000 as part of the International
Smart City Conference at TorontoÕs BCE Place with Lighthouse, synchronized at distance with a
string orchestra at Brampton OntarioÕs City Hall and a percussionist at the
Richmond Hill Library. The connectivity was by direct fibre
end-to-end with no signal compression and minimal network latency (delay).
He was the producer, host, and performer in 1996 at the Cyber Soiree conference in Toronto where he demonstrated a distributed low-latency live performance network using symmetrical audio and video feeds to four sites across the continent in two countries (US and Canada). Cyber Soiree 96 featured jazz musicians, dancers, and painters collaborating in real time at four locations in Quebec and Ontario. Cyber Soiree 97 expanded the horizons to Los Angeles at the official residence of Canada's Consul General where one hundred Hollywood denizens were partied (virtually) with suburban residents in Newmarket Ontario, conference attendees in downtown Toronto and one thousand party-goers at Citytv's ShmoozeFest - a party for Toronto's International Film Festival.
He performed one of the first distributed live music demonstrations in 1995 at the closing ceremonies of the international Smart Cities conference with half the musicians live at one site and the other half at another site twenty kilometers distant. The two locations were telepresenced bi-directionally with life-sized screens using broadband audio and video.
Musical Director, Arranger, Pianist: Craig Russell, 1975-1981
Mr. Hoffert was the music director, arranger, and pianist for Craig Russell, internationally acclaimed impersonator and star of the feature films ÒOutrageousÓ and ÒOutrageous 2Ó. After composing the music score and signature songs (It AinÕt Easy and Step Out) for Outrageous, Mr. Hoffert traveled with Craig Russell performing concerts throughout the world, including Carnegie Hall (twice), Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Berlin Theatre Festival, Sydney Opera House, and Massey Hall. Mr. Hoffert conducted the twenty-two piece jazz band from the piano.
Vibraphonist,
Percussionist, & Pianist 1958-1969
Mr.
Hoffert began working as a professional percussionist when he was fifteen
(1958). Before he founded Lighthouse, he played on hundreds of television programs,
commercials, and recordings and performed live concerts. He played regularly
with jazz greats Moe Koffman, Ed Bickert, Guido Basso, Rob McConnell and Sonny
Greenwich at TorontoÕs House of Hamburg, Cellar Jazz Club, First Floor Club,
and jazz festivals.
His
television career started in 1959-1961 when he became a regular guest on the
CBC television series While WeÕre Young and continued 1963-1965 as performer
and music director for the CBC series Time of Your Life.
He
worked with and performed the music of 20th century composers
including Harry Freedman, Harry Somers, Gunther Schuller, R. Murray Shafer, and
Louis Applebaum. Hoffert also recorded as a percussionist with the Toronto
Symphony for its 20th century music recordings (Pierre Mercure,
etc.)
Brooklyn, New York
Performances as a pre-teen 1954-1956
When
he was eleven years old, Mr. Hoffert started his professional music career
singing with the Oscar Julius Choir in synagogues, performing with the with the
Happy Zabezi Caribbean Band as well as singing and playing piano with the Boptones, a doo-wop pop group with whom he recorded his
first 45 RPM record.
The following conferences and seminars were organized, produced, and/or hosted by Paul Hoffert
International symposium on music education featuring the revolutionary and acclaimed El Sistema youth orchestra program that has resulted in millions of Venezuelan children rehabilitated from dead-end poverty and crime to useful participation in society through music education. The symposium is in coordination with performances by the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra in Toronto, Canada.
An annual series of seminars and tutorials about the craft and working environment of film and television music given by Paul Hoffert in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton, and Vancouver,
Annual seminars about film music co-sponsored by GCFC and TIFF featuring:
Elliot Goldenthal, Oscar winning composer, 2003
James Newton Howard, Emmy winning composer. 2002
Mychael Danna, Atom EgoyanÕs anchor composer, 2001
They Shoot, We Score – panel of producers and composers, 2000
Four seminars co-sponsored by the U.S. Information Service and York University
Fair Use, Fair Dealing, and National Treatment in Digital Education, seminar, Toronto, June 1999
Copyright, Intellectual Property and the Internet, seminar, Toronto, February 1999
Music and the Internet, seminar, Toronto, November 1998
E-Commerce: Global Free-For-All or Local Jurisdiction, Toronto, September 1998
The second international conference about new media content for creators and producers from the television and multimedia industries. The conference included a new media art gallery and demonstration of networked collaborations with keynotes from Buffy Sainte-Marie and Eugene Levy.
An international conference about new media content for creators and producers from the converging television and multimedia industries. The conference included a new media art gallery and demonstration of networked collaborations with a keynote from Paul Hoffert.
A seminar featuring the Oscar-winning composer of the ÒGodfatherÓ music score, Carmine Coppola.
A seminar featuring the ÒdeanÓ of American film composers, multi Oscar and Emmy-winning Jerry Goldsmith.
A seminar featuring the classic American television composer, Emmy-winning Earl Hagen.
Methods,
media, and systems for tracking content consumption on individual devices such
as computers, mobile phones, and mp3 players over a network
Methods,
media, and systems for payment determination using individual user consumption
data
Methods,
media, and systems for recording and reporting content usage over a network
The
Digital Media Exchange (DMX) is a P2P online service, operated as a cooperative
of content subscribers and suppliers. DMX provides content and license
aggregation, marketing, and distribution, as well as usage accounting and
royalty distribution. DMX subscribers have permission for the unlimited
exchange (downloading, streaming, and copying) of music, movies, television
programs, photos, games, documents, and the spoken word, with no technical
protections or DRM constraints. In addition, many DMX content titles allow
users to make derivative works from the content. DMXÕs Peer
to Peer (P2P) service allows users to share files amongst each other,
without the intervention of a central server.
DMX is
fully copyright compliant, with oversight by the Harvard University Law School
- Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The owners and administrators of DMX
content authorize DMX and its subscribersÕ activities. DMX has clear privacy
and dispute resolution policies procedures. DMX does not use technical systems
that can limit subscribers from playing, copying, or distributing content. This
allows any subscriber to make his or her content available to other
subscribers, without the need for special encoding.
Founded
in 1992 by Paul Hoffert, CulTech Research Centre focused on understanding the
utility and impacts of digital media. CulTechÕs
research strategy was to work collaboratively with other research organizations,
such as University of TorontoÕs Knowledge Media Design Institute, Sheraton
CollegeÕs Visual design Institute, the Banff Centre, IBM, Bell Canada, etc.
CulTech became a world leader in developing and testing broadband user
applications and content. CulTech structured many partnerships and consortia
among educational institutions, governments, and companies.
Rights Clearing House is a web portal for licensing rights to music and other content. It provides a unique Licensing Wizard that leads users through a series of questions that determine whether the desired content is in the public domain or protected by copyright. In the latter case, the Wizard determines which types of rights (performance, distribution, mechanical reproduction, synchronization, etc) are required for the requested use and automatically links to the databases of copyright societies, agencies, and publishers to clear those rights. Supported by Canadian Heritage, the website is the first of its kind to make the licensing process easy and frequently automatic, with e-commerce capability for payment with credit cards. See www.rightsclearinghouse.ca
Clearing Rights and Wrongs is a Guide for clearing rights to Canadian learning objects at universities, colleges, and other educational institutions. The utility will be in the form of a Wizard – software that, by triage, guides a user through the complex area of copyright laws and current practices in a much simplified manner to deliver answers to practical questions such as ÒI would like to use <sample> materials in my classroom (or online). What rights, if any, need to be cleared in order to do so and how would I go about clearing them?Ó In addition, the Guide will contain links to many relevant sources of information at government, NGO, and private organizations. The Guide is accessed as a button on standard web pages.
A study prepared for the Canadian Ministry of Heritage and the inter-relationships among creators, production and publishing companies, and large distribution companies. The study concludes that, as a result of the changing infrastructures (to digital formats and distribution channels) creators and distributors have been empowered at the expense of independent production companies and independent publishing companies. This trend is disturbing in part because the independents are the traditional mode of government supports for the expression of local culture.
This research study was prepared for the Canadian Music Centre and the Canada Council for the Arts. It analyzes the structural and operational elements of the CMC national classical music repository of paper scores and music CD recordings and describes in detail how they may be transformed into an online digital archive, searchable and accessible from any browser on the Internet.
The IVY Digital Property Management System is a comprehensive framework for networked delivery of digital content. It was one of the first to be deployed on digital networks, delivering media-rich digital content including music and CDROMs on demand, educational courses, community activities, information, and health care in a secure, authorized and authenticated environment. Content use is tracked accurately and reports are generated for users, content owners, and distributors. Varying permissions for use (stream, download, edit) may be specified for each file and IVY accommodates encryptions, data tagging, watermarking, user fingerprinting, and copy prohibition. The IVY system was used for more than two years (as part of the Intercom Ontario Trial) to track CD-ROMs, music, health, education, and Internet use.
OnDisC
Alliance, a not for profit consortium of content companies, rights management
companies, colleges, universities and other schools, is headquartered at
Sheridan College in Toronto. OnDisc prototyped the delivery
of media-rich digital course materials to students. OnDisC is an acronym
for Online Distributed Content, the architecture that is used to test
e-commerce models for delivering books, journals, photographs, videos,
television programs, music, CDs, and the like to students in electronic
formats, metered within a secure electronic environment. See www.ondisc.ca
Intercom Ontario was a field trial of a suburb connected by a
community broadband network and serviced by a wide range of online content and
applications. The Intercom consortium included more than seventy telephone
companies, governments, broadcasters, computer companies, real estate
developers, copyright collectives, retailers, educators, health companies, software
developers and researchers. Research focused on content use and changes in
work, play, and family activities.
Beginning December 1996, approximately one hundred households in the Stonehaven West neighborhood of Newmarket Ontario were connected by a 10 megabit/second symmetrical network and content infrastructure. Each home was fitted with a LAN for computer, video, and appliance connectivity.
A full range of applications, from CD-ROMs and music on-demand to
health care and education was delivered to each home. Researchers from York
University and University of Toronto monitored users and usage to determine how
future communities might be optimally designed. In most cases, the deployment
of applications and content resulted in the first information gathered about
actual use by ordinary people in a residential community. The Intercom Ontario
network was decommissioned at the end of 1998 but the data gathered continues
to be analyzed.
Cyber SoirŽe demonstrated a distributed low-latency live performance network using symmetrical audio and video feeds to four sites across the continent in two countries (US and Canada). Cyber SoirŽe 96 featured jazz musicians, dancers, and painters collaborating in real time at four locations in Quebec and Ontario. Cyber SoirŽe 97 expanded the horizons to Los Angeles at the official residence of CanadaÕs Consul General where one hundred Hollywood denizens were partied (virtually) with suburban residents in Newmarket Ontario, conference attendees in downtown Toronto and one thousand party-goers at CitytvÕs ShmoozeFest - a party for TorontoÕs International Film Festival.
One hundred students in residence at Calumet College were connected with videophones and wireless PDAs (Apple Newtons). The video conferencing operated on a broadband network among the college dorms and the PDAs were modified for operation on a wireless infrared network within the dorms, using the IP protocol to connect them. Research focused on finding appropriate screen resolutions, window sizes, and frame rates for satisfactory video communications and on understanding the social contexts for use, such as privacy and gender differentiation.
Jukeboxx is a music-on-demand application that serves compressed music
files to client software on Windows and Macintosh platforms where the music
stream is decompressed in real-time and played at high fidelity. It allows a
user to make lists of songs from a large collection of titles and play them
back in a prescribed or random order. Users can program their own radio
stations, music for housework, homework, or for entertaining guests. Their
music play lists are saved on a network server and are accessible at other
homes and offices. A search engine allows users to find songs by composer,
lyricist, artist, record company, music category, and the like.
The application has is compliant with digital rights management
– DRM - systems such as DCMS (see IVY Research). Jukeboxx
was deployed in the Intercom Ontario trial using music content from SONY,
Warner, EMI, Attic, Anthem, Marquis, and other record companies. Within the
first six months of making the application available to sixty-seven households,
users accessed more than eight thousand song selections.
VITAL is a system for creating new interactive media-rich courses and materials for education and training. It also can VITALize legacy courses and materials so they may be effectively distributed on digital media. VITAL courses are interactive, available online, and rich in graphics, video, simulations, animations, music and voice. They require high-speed networks for delivery. VITAL courses use HTTP protocols and integrate URLs from the World Wide Web for a balance of author designed and up-to-date Internet materials. Initial courses were licensed by York University to Bell Canada for off-campus non-credit distribution.
NICE was the first technology that allowed users to mount and
access CD-ROMs over a broadband network without the need for local CD-ROM
players or disks. CD-ROMs are transferred to hard disk using proprietary
processes that maintain serial number verifications, multiple CD sets, and the
like. From a userÕs perspective, the disks seem to be resident in the local
computer. The NICE system has been extremely robust, allowing dozens of users
to access the same disk simultaneously without degrading system performance. On
high-speed networks, the performance over the network is better at the userÕs computer
than if the user had a local CD-ROM disk mounted.
Vid-IO is an easy-to-use inexpensive video telephone and video messaging system designed by CulTech researchers. It uses the power of PCs and high-speed networks plus an inexpensive video camera to deliver smooth motion video and good audio synchronization with a minimum of user intervention. All settings are automatic, with no menus to configure, and the application does not resemble typical computer software interfaces. Vid-IO was tested in the Calumet and Intercom Ontario connected community trials with messages stored on a server in the former case and on the usersÕ computers in the latter.
Interactive television research centred on user interfaces and using set-top box technologies to integrate analog television programs and commercials with digital content and interactivity. Demos were created for the 1998 National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas.
EasyNav is a user interface for navigating content and applications on
broadband networks. It allows easy selection of more than 1,000 applications
with no more than two mouse clicks. EasyNav works
equally well on computer screens and on TV sets. It provides excellent access
for vision-impaired users and may be navigated entirely by sound. A contextual
self-help and tutorial of streamed videos and balloon-type text help users
learn the system. Color is used thematically to track user choices and to keep
track of usersÕ navigational locations. Users can personalize their interface
by substituting their own graphical icons and sounds for the defaults. The
underlying technology is http, but the interface replaces the common browser
look with a unique full-screen environment that looks like neither a computer
OS or a television program screen.
The DACARIE Audio Research Laboratory, York University is a large simulated acoustic environment capable of accommodating a full symphony orchestra and audience. It employs dozens of microphones located at room boundaries, processing their signals according to transforms that match the acoustic coefficients of known acoustic spaces, and playing the resulting signals on dozens of Òsoft-speakersÓ at the room boundaries. Users dial a variety of acoustic settings to instantaneously change the reverberant characteristics of the space. The system is still in daily use by students, faculty, and for recording.
Hoffert was co-principal investigator and software developer of a computer program that emulates hardware music synthesizers.
Hoffert directed a software and hardware R&D team that developed a new method of storing, compressing, and processing music sounds in their digital frequency domain representation. The technology was licensed throughout the world for use in digital electronic pianos.
Hoffert was co-principal investigator with Barry Silverman of an interactive talking doll with multiple sensors triggered by children during play that cause the doll to speak in a life-like manner using highly compressed recordings of human conversation. Mattel licensed the technology for its Cabbage Patch Doll product line.
Hoffert directed an R&D team that developed audio companding microchips manufactured by LSI LOGIC and distributed by Newbridge Microsystems.
Hoffert was Principal Researcher and Designer for a hardware music synthesizer with distributed microchip intelligence producing analog, frequency modulated, and digitally sampled music within the same unit.
Hoffert was co-Inventor of constant bit-rate algorithms for real-time frequency domain companding of digital audio signals using psycho-acoustic principals to discard perceptually irrelevant data. The technology was licensed to Yamaha, Akai, and Dae Woo.
Hoffert was co-developer of digital data transfer technology that allows digital MIDI - Musical Instrument Digital Interface - signals to be transmitted up to three kilometres instead of the standard ten meter limitation. The technology was licensed to Anatek Inc. for manufacture.
Hoffert was contributing software designer for music sequencing software.
Hoffert was co-Inventor of digital audio companding algorithm for lossless real-time compression of digital music. The technology was licensed to Akai in Japan.
Hoffert was a researcher at Hazelcom Industries for a music processing system driven by a mini-computer (DEC PDP-11) to sequence, orchestrate, record, notate and perform music. Hoffert presented and demonstrated the instrument at the New York Audio Engineering Society Conference, 1983.
Hoffert was software developer for early Apple and Apple ][ computers focusing on graphics, animation, and music applications. He authored one of the first personal computer programs that allowed users to easily create and animate sprites.
Hoffert was a researcher (part time) at the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa. He investigated the application of computer technologies to music and visual art with Ken Pulfer (PI) and William Buxton.
Hoffert has spent most of his years involved in serious play, much of it devoted to finding ways of getting the rational order of machines to bend itself to the wild ways of human invention.
-- The Globe and
Mail
Paul Hoffert defies neat definitions. The founder and keyboard player for the 1970s rock band Lighthouse is now the architect of CanadaÕs most innovative information highway experiments. A university professor, businessman, composer and conductor, Hoffert is, [in the words of some] the quintessential Òrenaissance man.Ó He is also, possibly, the ideal visionary for the electronic age.
-- Toronto Star
Lighthouse succeeded because Hoffert restyled jazz and made it accessible to popular culture. In the same way, Hoffert has written books that adapt the ideas of esoteric media theorists for mainstream consumers. Like the songs he once created, Hoffert's books are easy to digest -- pop media theory.
-- Ottawa Citizen
Mr. Hoffert is one of the New Mandarins [along with MicrosoftÕs Bill Gates]É His music wakes up Canadians every morning, but this member of the Canadian Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has been waking up the technology sector as well ... (with) projects such as IVY, which tracks the electronic reproduction of digital property and Intercom Ontario, a totally 'wired' community.
-- Financial Post
Perhaps the most innovative suggestion [for the economy] comes from Paul Hoffert. [He believes] government must ensure that all citizens are connected. Many of the people who would benefit the most [such as the unemployed] could be less of a burden if they had connectivity. After all, you walk out of your front door and there is a road leading to a network of transportation.
-- MacLeanÕs
Hoffert writes well, makes lots of fine observations and ends with a quip with a touch of Revelations that information proliferation and growing public control of things is the "dawning of a new age." It's probably trueÉRead this book as a bouquet to the information ageÉThe New Client is a good read, offers some nice insights into marketing, and will cheer up readers who have seen their telco and tech stocks shrivel in value. At least they gave to a good cause
-- The Globe and Mail book review of Òthe New ClientÓ , Feb. 3, 2003
"All Together Now" is an insightful, inspirational, delightful read. Hoffert has filled the hole in the bagel (his previous book) with meaningful substance. Read the new book, build your community, and enjoy the dynamic experience, both digital and physical.
-- NewMedia.Pro, December 2000
Ex-rocker Paul Hoffert turns Marshall McLuhan on his ear. He says the Global Village is dead, and he knows what's taking its place... the Digital Age, [Hoffert argues] will reverse many of the negative effects of globalization, bringing people and families closer together.
-- Ottawa Citizen, Jan 29, 2001
Never mind that we've had to deal with the disruptions and distress of downsizing, decentralization, deregulation, digitization, convergence, and interactivity. Now that we're through being shaken, things are going to get better. This book [The Bagel Effect] sure is an interesting ride...
-- Vancouver Sun, November 5, 1998
The Bagel Effect is an intriguing and compelling 'read' that serves up an ironically simple but robust new paradigm... the insights are powerful and fascinating.
-- John Sheridan, President Bell Canada
Musician, scientist, engineer, arts maven, and entrepreneur Paul Hoffert takes us on an accessible, lively, wide-ranging, thought-provoking tour of the frontiers of technology and culture... an optimistic and deeply humanistic view of the world and of modern technology's role in it... Required reading for an introduction to the profound changes being enabled by modern media.
-- Dr. Ronald Baecker, Director, Knowledge Media Design Institute, U. of Toronto
Written with clarity and charm, Paul Hoffert's Bagel Effect is the guide to the information technology revolution and its social, political and economic implications. Accessible, insightful, comprehensive and prescient. You can't afford not to read it.
-- Kim Campbell, Canadian Counsel General, Los Angeles
The Bagel Effect is like a magnet; you can aim it at any contemporary business or cultural concern to rearrange the field of your own perceptions. You will see the shape of things as they are unfolding. [It is] the only book on business and culture that I could read from cover to cover. It is fun, there is no hype.
-- Derrick de Kerckhove, Director, McLuhan Program, University of Toronto
All Together Now is an insightful, inspirational, delightful read. Hoffert has filled the hole in the bagel (his previous book) with meaningful substance. Read the new book, build your community, and enjoy the dynamic experience, both digital and physical.
-- New Media Pro, December 2000
How do we deal with movies without film? Television without broadcasting? Paul Hoffert digests all the complexities, applies his framework, and offers us all a clear and compelling path to the destination in sight.
-- Maria Tapalovich, President and CEO, Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television
Hoffert provides a refreshing... perspective on today's business imperatives. He provides a unique... look at the changes in business over the last decade and captures the importance of developing a customer focused, service oriented society.
-- R. A. Beatty, IBM Global Services
Paul Hoffert has created a new metaphor, a new way of looking at developments in the digital domain. His insightful analysis [explains] business and personal relationships, and also infrastructures of government and commerce.
-- Paul Spurgeon, General Counsel, Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN)
I was ready for the same sort of problems of stylistic incongruity in the Concerto for Contemporary Violin by the American-born Paul Hoffert, now resident in Canada \(Marquis Classics ERAD145). The composer's note on the piece gave advance warning: it "was written for orchestra, solo violin and jazz rhythm section. The violin soloist is required to use jazz, rock and other contemporary stylings, and occasionally the violin is processed electronically through echo loops.
That's enough to raise the eyebrows in advance, and certainly there are some abrupt changes of style in the course of its eighteen minutes. But the piece is saved by the abiding lyricism of the violin line, which soars and swoops in the best Romantic style. At times, indeed, it achieves the simple and unalloyed beauty that makes Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto so memorable - which makes me regret the stylistic gubbins that Hoffert has thought necessary to bring on board. The sound has come up bright and sparkling... I don't know whether or not he has written a "straight" violin concerto; on the basis of this intermittently outstanding piece it will be worth looking out for.
-- Andrew Patton,
from www.classical.net
ÒÉ excellent and offbeat music by Paul HoffertÓ
-- Variety Magazine, 1975
ÒLighthouse's new
effort, One Fine Morning, is
everything he hoped and expected the first one to beÉ Skip Prokop and Paul
Hoffert have now matured as writers to the point where they are capable of
writing a song which is both highly original and
moving. Their more up-tempo numbers ("Love of a Woman" and "One
Fine Morning") shake you as well, if not better, than anything ever
written by any of their competitors in the neo-big band field to date. At the
same time, their "production" type numbers, ("Step Out on the
Sea," and particularly "1849""), display a singular power
and mood that almost makes you want to stand up and
salute somethingÉ I can recommend this album to anyone without fear of getting
it thrown back at me.Ó
- Alan Niester, Rolling Stone, 1971
For Selected Articles about Paul Hoffert, see www.paulhoffert.ca