Full Circle is now available at Immersive Audio Album — a stellar website featuring the very best of immersive audio. As stated on the IAA website, “Full Circle is Matthew Lien’s 25th self-titled album. It was recorded over 7 years in 6 countries and 18 locations, with 52 musicians, 8 engineers; and with binaural directional […]
The Kluane Compositions film will be shown at the Available Light Film Festival.
What do a grand piano, kilometer-deep ice fields and Canada’s highest mountains have in common?
Yukon musician/producer Matthew Lien has released his 25th album and his most ambitious to date. Seven years in the making, Full Circle features many of Lien’s trademark characteristics spanning acoustic styles from folk to pop wrapped up in environmental soundscapes, and all of it has been produced in Lien’s new award-winning immersive format developed especially […]
Whip (Official Audio) – Jugraj Thandi
Matthew Lien’s longtime dream of airlifting a grand piano into the remote and spectacular Kluane National Park may finally come true, thanks to some prize money from the Yukon government. His project is among the 3 winners of the 125 Prize, awarded to mark the territory’s 125th anniversary.
As your hosts in the brand-new podcast series The Binaural Cafe, Matthew Lien, Todd Hooge, and Paul Gatien invite you to explore field recordings Matthew has captured around the world, ranging from hidden underground bunkers in Scotland to bat caves in China, a deep-sea volcano in the South Pacific to a horse race in Mongolia […]
Taiwan’s government has published a 90-minute documentary introducing Taiwan to the international community. The documentary was supported by Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture, which had appointed Yukon musician Matthew Lien as Cultural Ambassador several years earlier. The Sound From Taiwan: Celebrating Taiwan’s World Music Soundscape was filmed in some of the most remote locations in Taiwan, […]
As production for the new album, Full Circle, nears completion, one of the last songs has benefited from the inclusion of Victoria Baroque, a renowned ensemble based in Victoria, BC. In keeping with the entire album’s production, the session was recorded in native binaural, at Sonic Forest Studios in Metchosin, BC, known for their Dolby […]
WHITEHORSE, YT – Yukon musician Matthew Lien has staged his 25th anniversary concert in Taiwan celebrating a quarter century of performing in the island nation. The concert is the centrepiece of a documentary introducing Taiwan to the international community, being produced for the Ministry of Culture. Lien invited two Yukon musicians – Alana Martinson (fiddle, […]
