If you want to skip the talk and just listen to some music, scroll down for the blue play buttons. (Most recent entries at the top):
I'm collaborating with poet Evie Christie (Toronto), setting her poems to music. The Nights We Spend With Others is from her upcoming book:
Listen 
Text by Evie Christie (mp3 3:31)
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SIgnal and NoiseFestival (April 19-21 2007 at VIVO, 1965 Main Street) premiered my composition Toybox based on the text Lost and Found by Vancouver writer Jason Taylor:
Listen Toybox (mp3 8:12)
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I've just completed an Artist in Residence sponsored by the Media Arts Committee (MAC) in conjunction with Vancouver Co-op Radio CFRO 102.7 FM. The resulting piece is based on my mother's memory of communist propoganda songs she learned as a child in Vancouver during the 1930's. It will soon be posted at http://mac-cfro.org/listen.php. Meanwhile you can hear it here:
Listen Soviet Canada 1935 (mp3 20:39)
Interview about my residency and Soviet Canada 1935 on Vancouver Coop Radio's Redeye (Sat June 5, 2007, Hosted by Karen Mackintosh) :
Listen Interview (Recorded March 24 2007: mp3, 17:38)
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Live Improvisation
The Jazz Cellar, Nov 4 2006, VCMI Alumni:
Listen (mp3 10:55) Trio - Craig Townsend (guitar & electronics), Gary Wildeman (drums) Cat Toren (piano) & Soressa (vocals & laptop)
Now Lounge, Toronto, June 18 2006 with Mike Hansen and Piotr Michalowski. Here is one of the pieces:
Listen (mp3 11:35) gardner/hansen/michalowski
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Everything Else
Listen (mp3 01:36) furby dance party (2006)
Listen (mp3 02:45) gather me (2005)
Listen (mp3 03:23) one picture at a time (2005)
Listen (mp3 03:23) glisten (2005)
Listen (mp3 08:52) eep! * (2005)
Listen (mp3 03:51) don't shout * (2005)
*credit to Mike Hansen of Toronto for prepared record player tracks