Paul Walde is presenting Glacial, his latest sound and video installation at the Sound Genres: Exploring Sound as a Foundational Practice symposium at the University of Victoria. The symposium runs from May 26th until May 28th and the work is on view in the Visual Arts Building. On Saturday May 27th Walde is chairing the first session entitled Sound Practices.

On May 31st Walde will be in conversation with Dr. James Fox at the Company of Ideas Forum at The Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park on Hornby Island, BC in a session entitled: Notating Nature: Reflections on Scoring Techniques in which they will discuss various approached to music and sound notation as part of Walde’s artistic practice.

This week Paul Walde is in Chicago alongside fellow Awi’nakola: Tree of Life art clan members, which includes Rande Cook (Ma’amtagila), Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde (Kanienke’haka), Kelly Richardson, and Chicago-based curator Stephanie Smith, to make a series of presentations as part of Awi’nakola Chicago 2023– a week-long visit in which the artists will connect with colleagues here, share ideas, and plant seeds toward future collaborations. The schedule includes: SIDEBAR at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago on May 16th, a lunch time discussion at the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society on May 17th, and Dialogues at Watershed Art & Ecology in association with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on May 19th. Awi’nakola” means “we are one with the land and the sea.” It is also the name for a foundation started by a group of Indigenous knowledge keepers, scientists, and artists working together to find effective responses to the climate crisis and educate others through the process.

Experimental Music Unit‘s (Paul Walde, George Tzanetakis and Tina Pearson) new album is released today and is available here.  LAND SEA SKY is the realization of a text score by Tina Pearson composed during the winter of 2020 – 2021. This was a time during the pandemic when the Experimental Music Unit was playing together remotely through networked platforms, but longing to mingle our sounds together outdoors. The score was imagined for playing at so-named Finnerty Cove, a rocky outcropping on the East shore of lək̓ʷəŋən territory on the Salish Sea, and reflects our shifting practices in consideration of isolation and connection; our relations with the place where we live and play; and a reframing of how our sounds are brought into an audio production. During the composition of LAND SEA SKY, our friend and colleague Raj Sen, director of Victoria’s Open Space, passed away. The beautiful openness and generosity of Raj’s spirit inspired the final version of the piece, which is dedicated to him. 
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Paul Walde’s artist project Kulshan is now available in the latest issue (39.3) of BlackFlash Magazine. The project is a storyboard for a forthcoming 12hr two channel video installation that simultaneously documents the view of Koma Kulshan (Mt Baker) from Victoria in Lekwungen Territory from dawn until dusk on the same day as a climbing expedition on the mountain in Nooksack Territory.