Thu, Sept 27 / 7 pm
Directed by Luke Fowler
2017, UK / Canada, 45 min
Luke Fowler pays tribute to the work and musical ideas of Martin Bartlett (1939-1993) a proudly gay Canadian composer who during the 1970s and 1980s pioneered the use of the ‘microcomputer’. Bartlett is hardly recognised, never mind canonised, in cultural life. He researched intimate relationships with technology and was particularly interested in handmade electronics where, as he states in one of his performances: “the intimacy of handcraftedness” softens the technological anonymity creating individual difference, making each instrument a topography of uncertainties with which we become acquainted through practice.
20th Anniversary of send + receive
This year marks the 20th anniversary of send + receive: a festival of sound, Winnipeg’s annual festival dedicated to sound art and experimental music and one of the longest running festivals of its kind in Canada. As part of this special occasion send + receive has curated a series of films relating to sound and the unique artists who have paved new territories and methodologies in their fields. For complete details about send + receive and this year’s events see sendandreceive.org.
