WL Altman

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About WL

WL Altman was born in Saskatoon and grew up on Treaty 6 and Treaty 10 land, in Saskatchewan and Northern Manitoba. He created the Audio Tools course for the Music Department at the University of Regina in 2016. It moved to the Creative Technologies program the following year, and has been offered every year since. He has taught a variety of courses in music and fine arts at universities in the US and Canada.

His early training and experience were as a musician, singer, and composer, receiving his Bachelor of Music in Theory and Composition from the University of Saskatchewan, and a MMus from the University of Nebraska in Music Composition. While maintaining an active career as a composer and a performer of experimental and electronic music, WL began branching out his practice to create sound art, performance art, and multimedia installations in galleries. He received his Master of Fine Art degree in Visual Art from the University of Regina. 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.