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, […]
WHITEHORSE, YT – Yukon musician and producer Matthew Lien and eighteen Yukon and BC musicians have come together for their friend and colleague Paul Stephens, who had recently been diagnosed with a highly aggressive form of cancer. An accomplished bassist, vocalist and songwriter, Stephens was a principal member of the BC and Yukon music scenes, […]
Matthew Lien was chosen to join the sound design team for the creation of a 4-floor / 32-speaker sound/photographic installation at BCIT in Vancouver, BC. Working with renwowned Academy Award winning sound designer/audio engineer Jeff Wright, the team designed a four-level soundscape, seamless across each level of eight speaker channels, to breathe sonic life into […]
Following has successful producing of the “Not Close, But Personal” COVID Concert Series, Matthew Lien was chosen as one of three panelists for the Canada-wide “Pivoting to Digital” online panel discussion. Following is the text introducing the event. Many months ago we were all enjoying concerts, crowded shoulder to shoulder, basking in our favourite songs […]
The second ad in a series of ground-breaking video advertisements produced with our own Full Circle Sound spatial audio for earphones, is now online. Full Circle Sound is a format developed by Matthew Lien, which incorporates native binaural recording and binaural impulse responses, creating an immersive life-like audio experience when heard on earphones. We’re cooperating […]
Matthew Lien and Whispering Willows Records Inc. have been chosen as a winner of the seventh annual Yukon Innovation Prize (YIP). Yukon University’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) announced the winners today, selecting the successful applicants based on a theme for this year’s prize, being “creative solutions that address challenges from the global pandemic.” The award […]
I’m excited to announce that the documentary by director Al Code, “Pandemic – At the End of the World,” has won the Made in Yukon Award in the Professional category, at the Dawson International Short Film Festival. I created the music soundtrack and the sound design, and mixed and master the audio. The film presents […]
The largest news outlet in Hong Kong and Taiwan (one of the largest in southeast Asia), published another news story about Matthew Lien today, focusing largely on family developments while also touching on his intent to return for performances in the near future. The coverage tells of his mother’s tragic stroke and his son’s broken […]
Yukon artist/producer Matthew Lien was awarded the Certificate of Appreciation by Director-General Andy Chen of Taiwan’s embassy-equivalent, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Vancouver, BC. The certificate recognizes Matthew’s contribution to promoting ties between Yukon and Taiwan, and his accomplishments in promoting awareness of Taiwan’s traditional and Indigenous cultures and its natural environment, through […]
The CBC’s Dave White interviewed Matthew Lien, about his twenty-first album entitled “The Romantic Route 3,” commissioned by Taiwan’s Ministry of Hakka Affairs. Lien was appointed Cultural Ambassador by the government of Taiwan for his work promoting cultural awareness through music. The Ministry which commissioned Lien selected him for his past work with indigenous and […]