Canadian electro-acoustic composer Darren Copeland focused his focus on environmental sound sources. His strategy shares commonalities with Hildegard Westerkamp’s, but he by no means reached her degree of worldwide recognition. Copeland analyzed structure at Simon Fraser University or college (Vancouver, Canada) with Barry Truax while he plundered through the institution’s Globe Soundscape Collection. He also analyzed with Jonty Harrison in Birmingham, U.K. A guy of radio and a gifted inventor of theater soundtracks, he added to some compilation CDs (Surprise of Drones, DisContact II) in the first ’90s and released his 1st album, Rendu Noticeable, in 1998 on Empreintes DIGITALes. It had been hardly observed. His desire for limitations between electro-acoustics, radio artwork, and theatre resulted in interesting but undocumented functions, such as for example his version of August Strindberg’s A Desire Play as well as the live radio event Cellular Graffiti, created during his cooperation with Vancouver Pro Musica. He later on was within the board from the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology and went New Journeys in Sound Artwork, a Canadian association specialized in developing electro-acoustic music as overall performance art.