WL Altman, composer, interdisciplinary artist and performer
WL Altman’s work includes concert music for instruments and interactive electronics, musical improvisation, performance art and immersive interactive installations. He has produced several large-scale multimedia works with professional musicians, as well as amateurs performers, including community bands and choirs, children's groups, prison inmates, dancers and performance artists. He attempts to uncover and share new creative experiences with performers and audiences alike, by playing at the edges and intersections of traditional art forms and technology.
WL was born and raised on Treaty 6 Territory in Saskatoon. With a background and training in music, his practice has evolved from music composition and performance into broader interdisciplinary work that uses diverse media to bring together sound, music, image, materials, and ideas into a hybrid form of performance and installation art.
While developing his practice as a multimedia performance artist, he has focused more recently on researching and developing work that tells of his Métis ancestry and the colonial assimilation of his family through the adoption of his mother into a settler community.
Among numerous other creative collaborations, he performs live audio processing with singer Helen Pridmore in the duo Sbot N Wo. Their recording “SONGS” was released in 2016. WL’s music and art works have been presented across Canada, as well as the US, UK, Europe, Japan, and Mexico.
WL was born and raised on Treaty 6 Territory in Saskatoon. With a background and training in music, his practice has evolved from music composition and performance into broader interdisciplinary work that uses diverse media to bring together sound, music, image, materials, and ideas into a hybrid form of performance and installation art.
While developing his practice as a multimedia performance artist, he has focused more recently on researching and developing work that tells of his Métis ancestry and the colonial assimilation of his family through the adoption of his mother into a settler community.
Among numerous other creative collaborations, he performs live audio processing with singer Helen Pridmore in the duo Sbot N Wo. Their recording “SONGS” was released in 2016. WL’s music and art works have been presented across Canada, as well as the US, UK, Europe, Japan, and Mexico.