Maclean’s Magazine: How Matthew Lien took a musical revolution from Yukon to Taiwan—and back
Maclean’s magine covers Matthew’s pioneering of binaural music production.
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.
During Matthew’s trip to Inner Mongolia to shoot the CCTV documentary with legendary horse head fiddle master Chi Bulag, he also performed a concert on the grasslands with his musicians from Taiwan, including Chou Yi-chen on erhu, and Huang Yin-zhong on bamboo flutes.
Matthew traveled to Inner Mongolia to meet and collaborate with the renowned “morin huur” (horse-headed fiddle) master, Chi Bulag.