Music From the New Wilderness

Description:

Music From the New Wilderness was a performance festival conceived and organized by Martin Bartlett, with support form Donna Zapf, Hank Bull, and David Klein. 

The festival was inspired by the similarities between the rituals, games, and songs within Indigenous traditions and contemporary art, music, and poetry. This notion of the “new wilderness” was first proposed by American poet Jerome Rothenburg and developed by Charles Morrow and Richard Heyman's New Wilderness Foundation. The festival brought together international artists who worked across electronic and folk music, performance art, and traditional song-making. 

Program:

Mar 14, 1980
Environmental Sound Compositions: Jack Body, Francois Barriere, Anne Holmes, Makoto Shinohara, Barry Truax, Hildegard Westerkamp

Mar 15, 1980
Reading by Jerome Rothenberg

Mar 16 – 23, 1980
Cordillera: Hildegard Westerkamp 

Mar 17, 1980
The Muse and the Fuse: Don Buchla and Ami Radunskaya

Mar 18, 1980
Workshop by Antonio Zepeda

Mar 19, 1980
Concert by Antonio Zepeda

Mar 20, 1980
Simulated Catholic Music: David Mahler and Ned Sublette

Mar 21, 1980
Sounds and Shadows: Hank Bull, Martin Bartlett, Kate Craig, Al Mattes, Al Neil

Mar 22, 1980
Performance by Kwakiutl Artists