Alexi Baris is a composer based in Vancouver, Canada — the unceded, traditional territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Baris’s methods are patient and deceptively rigorous, trading in sonics that are at once organized and organic. His is a diligent and painterly approach to sound design and arrangement, in which tiny events are magnified and brought up close, and expansive gestures are repurposed and shifted in scale. Alexi was the artist in residence at the Western Front in the fall of 2023 where he presented his piece Firedamp. Recent album releases include Support Surfaces (Soda Gong, 2022) and Thema (Total Stasis, 2020)
