Reflections on Music from the New Wilderness: A Dialogue between Ellen Waterman and Tyler Kinnear
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.…
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Results filed under: Echoic Chamber
Uncertain Outcomes
Reflections on Event Score, with responses from Eric KM Clark By Jesse Gotfrit After Event Score, Western Front’s three-day, Fluxus-oriented festival that took…
Taming the Many-Headed Folia
Reflections on Les Folles Alliées live at Western Front on November 8, 2012 By Sarah Davachi It will come as little surprise to the…
Acoustic Cartographies | Audio Works | 2013
This year’s Acoustic Cartographies event featured new audio works by UBC Geography and SFU Communications students, generated from field recordings throughout the Lower Mainland. Audio…
One Thing Follows Another
More information on Evan Parker’s LP ‘Vaincu.Va! Live at Western Front 1978′ can be found HERE. By Alex Varty The first impulse, on revisiting this…
Conversations with Billy Proctor
In conjunction with the Music From the New Wilderness concert presentation, sound artist Jenni Schine will be presenting an intimate audio installation based on her conversations with…
Erratics: Surveying the landscape with Fennesz
By Mark Mushet The track “Wind on Water” from the 1975 LP Evening Star by Robert Fripp and Brian Eno was probably the first notable…
Disklavier Residency
Pianist Rachel Iwaasa and composer Farshid Samandari explore new compositions for disklavier piano. The Disklavier at the Western Front is an early 1990′s model of…
Inhabitants – Untitled Suite
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…
Stall
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…
Intersections Project
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:…
When it Rains: Experimental Music and The Cultural Ecology
In Septermber 2007 Ellen Waterman, flutist/vocalist and music professor and researcher visited the site of artist Gordon Monahan’s audio installation Aquaeolian Harp on the banks…