Canadian Electronic Ensemble has been played on NTS in shows including Night Shift w/ Diamondstein, featured first on 15 January 2025. Songs played include Whale Oil (1973).

The Canadian Electronic Ensemble was founded in 1971. It is the oldest continuous live-electronic group in the world.

Today we take synthesizers for granted. But when the CEE was founded, electronic music could only be heard on tape. The CEE developed a new medium: live electronic music. The synthesizers of the time were enormous and not meant for live performance. Often, the members of the CEE had to design and build their own instruments.

Forty years later, the CEE is…