When the Yukon locked down due to the COVID19 pandemic, many performing musicians were left without income or opportunity. Recognizing this difficulty which also impacted live performance technicians, Matthew reached out to the Yukon government for funding support. Working in collaboration with the Yukon Arts Centre — a venue also in need of programing and […]
I was honoured to perform for Taiwan First Bank, the oldest in Taiwan dating back to when Japan ruled the island, in their anniversary concert. This was actually the first time to perform with a piano on a hydraulic lift, rising up into the middle of the stage at showtime. A but dramatic for my […]
Maclean’s magine covers Matthew’s pioneering of binaural music production.
“What’s Up Yukon” covers Matthew’s return to the Yukon in pursuit of binaural recording.
Progress on the binaural album “Full Circle” continues, with the recording of renowned counter-tenor Alois Mühlbacher in Austria’s Castle Weinberg.
“Yukon musician Matthew Lien wants you to get out of your own head”
The short animated film The Loon Manding by Katherine
McCallum, Ella and Forrest Peschke, with sound design, music and video
editing by Matthew Lien, won top honours with the Jury prize at the Yukon 48
Hour Film-making Challenge.
In a ground-breaking, precedent setting decision, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled in favour of indigenous First Nations and environmental groups, to protect the Peel Rived Watershed from development.
The new musical Stonecliff, about the constructing of the White Pass and Yukon Route railway, opened in Alaska and Yukon to a strong audience response. Stonecliff is the creation of director/writer Conrad Boyce and composer/producer Matthew Lien.
The National Museum of Prehistory in Taiwan has acquired Matthew Lien’s “Consonance” aboriginal music sound sculpture as a permanent installation.
