I wonder if in some sense the New Wilderness is this society we live in where comfortable, former boundaries still exist, but they are permeable.…

Montréal-based media artist Christian Calon visits Vancouver to premiere a new audio work for Western Front’s production of Music from the New Wilderness. Calon discusses his recent film-installation Continental Divide, an…

TICKETS Door $18 General $12 Students, WF Members Advance discount tickets available via PayPal until 5PM Thursday, November 17 or in person at the Western…

Presented in Partnership with Coastal Jazz and Blues Society TICKETS $15 General $12 Students, WF Members FRIENDLY RICH & THE LOLLIPOP PEOPLE “There is mucous…

Vancouver’s Drip Audio Recording Artists Inhabitants (JP Carter, trumpet, Dave Sikula, guitar, Pete Schmitt, electric bass, Skye Brooks, drums) completed a weeklong residency at the…

Victoria composer Christopher Butterfield created Stall, a treatise on the ubiquitous public washroom. Two of Canadaʼs most adventuresome vocalists Christine Duncan and DB Boyko premiered…

2055 Clark Drive Brady Marks & Sarah Buchanan Slideshow from Guerilla Performance, Oct 16, 2009 Audio from live performance at Western Front, Oct. 29, 2009 (dur:…

Programme: Improvisation on the Overtone Series (1977), Hubert S.Jr. Howe Turenas, John Chowning Traum des Einsamen (1974), Tamas Ungvary Samadhi (1978), Dary John Mizelle Resa…

Lee Konitz (alto sax), Martial Solal (piano) Programme: Two sets: 7:30 and 10:00pm Presented by  Vancouver Jazz Society Audio Recording duration: 1:28:00

The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. V, no. 5, p. 15, Spring/Summer 1994: Using unusual material as sound sources, Japanese composer Kazue Mizushima creates…

Co-sponsored by the Coastal Jazz and Blues Society. The following information is taken from Front Magazine vol. IV, no. 5, pp. 13-14, May/June 1993: – Paul Plimley 06/25/93 –…

Co-sponsored by the Coastal Jazz and Blues Society. – Elizabeth Fischer (Canada) 06/19/92 Fischer sings her own compositions with Mark Douglas, piano; Peggy Lee, cello;…

One of a new generation of Indonesian composers who use their solid grounding in classical Indonesian court music as a base from which to explore…

Concert of cello, voice, and electronics by Tom Cora and Catherine Jauniaux at the Western Front. Presented by Coastal Jazz and Blues Society. Audio Recording…

Co-sponsored with the Coastal Jazz and Blues Society. – Yas-Kaz, Yasuhisa Shirao, Yoshinobu Honma (Japan) 06/21/91 Audio Recording duration: 01:32:14 – Georg Gräwe, Ernst Reijserger,…

A concert with Irène Aebi, vocals and violin; Petia Kaufman, harpsichord; Carol Robinson, clarinet and bass clarinet. The trio performed works by Steve Lacy and…

Record launch and west coast debut of a new Montreal label, Empreintes Digitales, under the direction of Jean-François Denis and Claude Schryer. A concert featuring…

Compositions and improvisations on voice and instruments by Carles Santos, Anna Homler and David Moss. The virtuoso singers of Direct Sound had been defining the territory…