Paul Walde

A metronome with a photograph of a tree attached to the pendulum bar superimposed over a clearcut forest

Hase’ Collective’s Ax’nakwala begins with Forestorium, a new full-length, site-specific operatic performance addressing the primary forests of Vancouver Island and the challenges they face. It takes place within one of the few remaining old growth forest tracts located in Ma’amtagila territories.

Glacial Resonance, is a career-spanning monograph that explores my work in endangered glacial environments produced by Western U’s McIntosh Gallery and the Kamloops Art Gallery with support from the Grand Forks Art Gallery.
The book will be available through the galleries in the coming weeks.

Hand of the spirit❤️

JetztMusik | Neue grüne Musikwelt Auch in der neuen Musik wird die Klimakatastrophe zunehmend zum Thema gemacht. Aber welche Rolle genau spielt Klingendes beim Klimaschutz? Karl Ludwig betrachtet mehr und weniger musikalische Ansätze ...

Some of my work will be part of this program about music and climate on German radio Hr2 at 9pm Köln time tomorrow the 24th.

Now is the time to invest in Canadian culture and future generations, and not the time for cuts to that future

Sorry to learn of the cutting of Fanshawe College's Fine Arts program. Their 3 year program had a long history of excellence for over a half century. My condolences to the students and to my colleagues who dedicated their careers to the success of the program.

They looked like this:

We should dump the monarchy anyway

You may like it. There’s a good soundtrack and the function of sound recording and processing is the major plot device

I’m partial to the Conversation

WHO WE ARE

Makwala-Rande Cook
Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde
Kelly Richardson
Stephanie Smith
Paul Walde

Our group came together at the invitation of Awi’nakola founder, artist, and Ma’amtagila Hereditary Chief Makwala-Rande Cook.

Image: Paul Walde in the field, Ma'amtagila territory
@paulwalde.bsky.social

Terrifying. Super-scary is that there’s about a thousand different ways this might happen with their current team

It’s been a constant sh*t show since I started teaching. Every year brings new hardship absorbed by faculty and staff at the expense of student experience. Universities are another casualty of neo-liberal corporate “efficiency”.

No other scenario makes any sense- the big one's coming though he's not done

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A still from Requiem for a Glacier of a conductor conducting alone in front of a glacier

Happy to be working with some familiar faces for this summer’s upcoming action in Ma’amtagila Territory

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A still from David Lynch’s Blue Velvet with Isabella Rossellini playing a singer lit in Blue with a dark red curtain behind

As artists I believe we have a collective responsibility to help shape the culture we want to live in.
#art

And they probably have shitty taste in everything. That’s what happens when you start equating all artistic output as “content”

Ooh a play! I’d love to see it!
I’m writing an opera- the dumbest thing I’ve done to myself- I have no idea if it’s good, yet I continue

😢 my worst nightmare

the struggle that they describe is basically what I’ve dedicated my life to. If it was easy I probably wouldn’t do it. In fact I seem to invent new ways to make it more difficult all the time

Cynicism is easy, optimism is hard, and we don’t have time for the luxury of cynicism.
- Bruce Mau

I like working at home but the dangers are real. That said, when I’m too tired to go anywhere else or have insomnia, putzing around in the studio is great medicine especially if you suffer from anxiety which would feel worse for me than not working at all.

We need art more than ever. Let’s not just allow politicians and billionaires (is there a difference anymore?) with old ideas set the cultural future.
#art

Butchart Gardens in Victoria, BC

A still from the Tom Thomson Centennial Swim in which I swam the length of Canoe Lake on the centenary of Tom Thomson’s death. I was accompanied by a brass ensemble in canoes and a synchronized swimming squad who met up with me at several points along the swim. #contemporaryart #art #videoart