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- The Communications Centre: Experiment in human experience
- Jade: Flower-child happenings and conceptual art projects in 1969
- Nini Baird: A Day in the Hectic Life of the Arts Centre Director
- Sound Recordings: Faculty Lectures from 1967 Communications Course
- Dance
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- Music & Sound
- Music & Sound image gallery
- My "a-ha" moment with Murray Schafer
- World Soundscape Project
- Phillip Werren's electronic music
- Radio CKSF "on the air" fall 1966
- Robert Aitken performs with the Purcell String Quartet & Soundscape on radio
- David Skulski and the early music revival at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
- Phyllis Mailing: ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Singer Who Reached the Top
- Purcell String Quartet: In High Demand
- Theatre
- Theatre image gallery
- How the early days of the arts at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV changed my parochial little life
- Norm Browning, Jackie Crossland and Cece Granbois in Beverley Simons' new 1-act play "Greenlawn Rest Home"
- The Centralia Incident: "A theatre in search of a town—A town in search of its memory."
- The only escape: The early years of the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV theatre
- Robin Patterson and the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Mime Troupe
- Theatre of Total Limbo
- Visual Arts
Music & Sound
Explore stories, images and archival materials from ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV's past
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Browse a selection of images from this remarkable decade of music and sound at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV.
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In 1970 or 1971, my habitual patterns of listening were shaken up profoundly when I heard a guest lecture by Schafer at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where I was studying music. It was an AHA moment whose significance was revealed gradually over years to come.
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The World Soundscape Project (WSP) was established as an educational and research group by R. Murray Schafer at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV during the late 1960s and early 1970s. It grew out of Schafer's initial attempt to draw attention to the sonic environment through a course in noise pollution, as well as from his personal distaste for the more raucous aspects of Vancouver's rapidly changing soundscape.
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Phillip Werren's electronic music is a great example of just how avant-garde ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV was in the 60s and 70s.
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Read Brian Antonson's account of how students established ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV's campus radio station.
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Look back at a lively week for music and sound on campus in 1974, as "The Peak" reviews a concert featuring flautist Robert Aitken with the Purcell String Quartet, while members of the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Sonic Research studio are featured in a CBC Radio series.
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Upon arriving at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV in 1972, resident artist David Skulski revived interest in early music — or music from the medieval, Renaissance and early Baroque periods — and brought music from the past out of the archives and on to campus.
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Mary Trainer chronicles the career of artist-in-residence Phyllis Mailing, from touring Russia to creating the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Madrigal Singers for the World Shakespeare Congress.
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¶¡ÏãÔ°AV's quartet-in-residence make it all the way from pub concerts on campus to a New York debut at Carnegie Recital Hall.