WESTERN FRONT – scapegoat featuring Mauricio Pauly

Description:

A free workshop with scapegoat and Mauricio Pauly that explored the particularities of composing for hybrid media; including instruments, amplification, and electronics. Scapegoat and Pauly workshopped pieces written specifically for the duo by local composers who were asked to consider how electronics and acoustic instruments might function integrally as a performative unit.

In 2020, Western Front launched an open call for emerging composers to take part in the workshop. Participants included musicians Sam Meadahl, Lisa Walker, Ben Berardini, Stefan Nazarevich, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, and Aysha Dulong. The public was also invited to stop by the Grand Luxe Hall throughout the day to listen and observe the process.

Presented in partnership with Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts.

Joshua Hyde plays a saxophone in front of a projection of a graphical score. The text in the projection reads SAX, PERC, Align with loop, level of CD, circles with Naiant density, Loop, SAX, and PERC.

Noam Bierstone places a contact mic onto a bass drum with one hand while turning a knob on a mixer with the other. Joshua Hyde plays a saxophone to his left. The pair are surrounded by technology covered tabletops, sound mixers, and music stands.

Noam Bierstone and Joshua Hyde sit behind sound mixers, percussion instruments, and saxophones amidst fold-out tables in the Grand Luxe Hall. A projection behind them depicts two graphic maps of audio signal flow labeled SAX and PERC. A seated audience faces the pair and the projection.

Joshua Hyde stands across from two listeners, one of whom holds a pen to paper as if taking notes. Hyde gesticulates while speaking with a saxophone hanging from his neck. Noam Bierstone directs his gaze upwards behind Hyde while sitting behind tables covered with sound mixers, cables, and percussion instruments.

Three people crouch over a row of sound pedals connected to a sound mixer and bass drum. Another person stands to the side with hands in their jean pockets, framing the scene.

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Captions:

Joshua Hyde of scapegoat presenting in the Grand Luxe Hall, Mar 12, 2020. Photo by Lief Hall.
Noam Bierstone and Joshua Hyde of scapegoat presenting in the Grand Luxe Hall, Mar 12, 2020. Photo by Lief Hall.
Noam Bierstone and Joshua Hyde of scapegoat presenting in the Grand Luxe Hall, Mar 12, 2020. Photo by Lief Hall.
Mauricio Pauly, a workshop participant, Noam Bierstone, and Joshua Hyde in the Grand Luxe Hall, Mar 12, 2020. Photo by Lief Hall.
Mauricio Pauly, Noam Bierstone, and a workshop participant in the Grand Luxe Hall, Mar 12, 2020, Photo by Lief Hall.

Western Front is a non-profit artist-run centre in Vancouver.

We acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations as traditional owners of the land upon which Western Front stands.