Six
Turntables

Six Turntables is an ongoing collective-listening project led by Christopher Willes and Akash Bansal. Students from @sfucontemporaryarts listen to, remix, and reimagine audio archives of experimental music; this iteration explores the first decade of Western Front’s musical history, focusing on recordings of solo and improvised concerts staged in the Grand Luxe Hall during the 1970s and 1980s. Working with turntables, amplifiers, and custom-pressed vinyl records in the days before the event, participants use a score-based process to transform archive fragments into new compositions. Aki Onda curates. Admission is by donation, $15–$35. The performance is presented with the Music & Sound program @sfucontemporaryarts and @gibson_sfu alongside the exhibition Martin Bartlett: Begin Anywhere.