History
Venture Music was founded in 1986 by Pierre Ouellet to support the newly emerging field of electronic music production, particularly as it applied to film and television scores and soundtracks.
Jim MacDonald joined the company two years later (June 1988) and he combined a strong musical background with a deeply intuitive grasp of the emerging electronic technologies in their use as musical instruments.
In the earliest days of the company, Ouellet and MacDonald experimented with basic computer recording systems, often-times serving as beta testers for the newly emerging software and hardware manufacturers whose products were being used in ongoing productions.
As well, Mr. Ouellet served as an ad-hoc consultant and adviser to various bodies responsible for creating and enforcing the collective agreements that governed the use of the newly emerging electronic technologies and his practical insights and contributions are still enshrined in the collective agreements governing such uses.
For 15 years, until 2001, Venture Music produced soundtracks for documentaries and educational television, garnering numerous awards and commendations, including a Gemini nomination in 1986.
From 2001 to 2007, Ouellet and MacDonald shifted their productive energies away from the soundtrack business to focus on writing and producing music for their own projects. As well, because of unanticipated yet welcome circumstances, from 2011 onward. Pierre Ouellet became involved in documentary film making as a producer and storyteller.
The Lifeworld Project is the result of this new imagined direction – it is a collaborative creative media space designed to present a ever-increasing number of projects across the disciplines. Project Lifeworld begins with three basic categories – lifeworld sound – lifeworld image and lifeworld text – and these serves as the fundamental orientations of the project itself. Within these amorphous boundaries anything and everything becomes possible and the project itself becomes nothing more than a space for their coming into being.
