Bien que chippewa ait poursuivi des études «formelles» auprès d’institutions établies (Université de Montréal, Université Concordia), un travail intensif de recherches personnelles a été déterminant dans sa formation musicale.

Ses compositions ont été jouées et diffusées dans le cadre de nombreuses séries de concerts et plusieurs festivals tels que Ai-Maako (Santiago), EuCuE (Montréal), Darmstadt Ferienkurse, Futura (France), Inventionen (Berlin), {acro:mantis} (Manchester, RU), Visiones Sonoras (Morelia, Mexique) et les World New Music Days de l’International Society for Contemporary Music (Stuttgart, Allemagne, 2006). On peut entendre certaines de ses compositions sur disque, notamment sur Cache 2000, compilation réunissant les œuvres les mieux classées lors d’un concours organisé par la Communauté électroacoustique canadienne ({acro:cecf}).

En 1999, chippewa met sur pied la shirling & neueweise, une compagnie spécialisée dans la transcription de musiques nouvelles, et qui travaille en collaboration avec des compositeurs, ensembles musicaux et éditeurs.

Depuis 2005, il est codirecteur administratif de la {acro:cecf}, l’association nationale canadienne de musique électroacoustique, en plus d’être le rédacteur-coordonnateur du bulletin électronique de l’organisme, eContact!

Although chippewa has pursued formal studies at the Université de Montréal and Concordia University, personal research has made an important contribution to his musical education.

His compositions have been performed in such concert series and festivals as Ai-maako (Santiago), EuCuE (Montréal), Darmstadt Ferienkurse, Futura (France), Inventionen (Berlin), ISCM (Stuttgart, 2006), {acro:mantis} (Manchester, UK), and Visiones Sonoras (Morelia, Mexico). Groups such as ensemble recherche, asamisimasa and Ensemble contemporain de Montréal + have performed his compositions. His work can be heard on CD, notably on Cache 2000, a compilation of the top-placing works in an annual competition organised by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community ({acro:cec}).

He is currently completing work on a new composition (for flute, piano, drumset and several dozen sound-objects) commissioned by Berlin-based Trio Nexus, and is also working on a new electroacoustic composition. Upcoming projects include a string trio and a 30-minute work for 12 field drums.

He has been invited to do composition residencies at The Banff Centre for the Arts (Music & Sound, Leighton Studios), and Centro Mexicano para la Música y Artes Sonoras (Morelia, Mexico).

In 1999, chippewa founded shirling & neueweise, a company specialized in new music notation, which collaborates with composers, ensembles and publishers (mathias spahlinger, Sebastian Claren, Bernhard Lang, ensemble recherche, PEER Music-Classical). The excellent quality of his work is recognized internationally by his peers, and examples of scores he has prepared appear in Notations 21 (Theresa Tisano, ed, 2009). Since 2009, shirling & neueweise has been involved in the promotion of the work of Canadian electroacoustic composers Marcelle Deschênes, Gilles Gobeil, David Berezan, and Dominique Bassal, resulting in numerous new performances of their works internationally.

Since 2005, he is the Administrative Co-director of the {acro:cec}, Canada’s national association for electroacoustic music, and Coordinating Editor for the {acro:cec}’s quarterly electronic journal, eContact!. His efforts in this position have contributed greatly to an important increase in the {acro:cec}’s presence on the international scene.