
Release Date
Original Release
February 26, 2017
0h 45m
Electro-Pythagorus: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett (2017)
Overview
Electro-Pythagorus is an intimate and subjective portrait of the late Martin Bartlett, the Canadian electronic music pioneer who studied with Pauline Oliveros, David Tudor, John Cage, and Pandit Pran Nath. His contribution as an interdisciplinary composer, educator, and founding member of Western Front, though undoubtedly extensive, is in danger of being erased from cultural memory since his death from AIDS in 1993. Navigating an array of archival materials including letters, correspondences, notebooks, personal photos, and a huge body of unreleased music and field recordings held at the archives of Simon Fraser University, Electro-Pythagoras is a journey through the evolution of Bartlettās musical time and space, softly guided by Luke Fowlerās insightful camera and montageācreating an experimental portrait that defies one-dimensionality.
Director

Luke Fowler
Department: Directing
Cast
Martin Bartlett
himself


