Julianna Barwick and loscil: VIFF 2025
Acclaimed ambient, experimental musicians Julianna Barwick and loscil share the stage for the first time to immerse audiences in their ethereal soundscapes and hypnotic new live AV performances.
Los Angeles–based composer, vocalist, and producer Julianna Barwick creates ethereal reflective sounds rooted in the human voice. Her largely wordless soundscapes, built from layered vocal loops, are hypnotic and transportive. Barwick returns to Vancouver with a new live AV show drawing on music from her brilliant 2020 album, Healing is a Miracle, which was praised by The Guardian as a “ravishing … balm for the soul”. By stretching, looping and layering her voice into interweaving harmonies, Barwick creates ethereal sound worlds “that feel totally her own” (Loud and Quiet).
Vancouver ambient legend loscil rarely performs live but, when he does, it is a singular opportunity to become immersed in the swirling depths of his signature sound. loscil is the alias of Vancouver musician Scott Morgan and, for more than two decades, he has remained at the forefront of ambient and electroacoustic music.
Now more than 20 albums deep into his solo music career, Morgan has expanded into the worlds of scoring film and television projects ranging from The Corporation, Scared Sacred, Damnation, Enlighten Us, and Abandoned, to The Marshall Projects’s award-winning series We Are Witnesses.
For this special VIFF Live performance, loscil offers a new live AV set comprising music and visual work drawn from his moving, meditative 2025 album, Lake Fire, inspired in part by bearing witness to a season of BC’s raging wildfires and hailed as a “profoundly dense and beautiful, contemplative work that offers both solace and insight in turbulent times” (Igloo Magazine).
Don’t miss this unforgettable journey into sight and sound.
Thursday, October 9
8:30 pm
Tickets HERE
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