By the 1800s cannabis was also being promoted for medicinal use and was commercially accessible. However, that would change in 1923 when marijuana was made illegal by including it alongside opium, morphine, and cocaine in the existing Opium and Drugs Act.
Tea presents a musical reflection on the period from the 1930s to the early 1970s, beginning with a somewhat naive and innocent spirit and campy antimarijuana propaganda films, through the counterculture that peaked with the “Summer of Love,” which then crashed hard into the escalating War on Drugs campaign. Tea is therefore a nostalgic walkabout across the dichotomy of drug prohibition, fear propaganda, and population control versus personal freedom, psychedelic rock, and quests for spiritual enlightenment. – BG
Brian Garbet has composed acoustic and electroacoustic music for film, theatre, and concert. His work often incorporates field recordings or found sound through transcription, acoustic analysis, and fixed audio playback. While at SFU, he was a Jeu de Temps/Times Play national prizewinner for his composition Ritual. His music has been performed by Quatuor Bozzini, Standing Wave, and Turning Point Ensemble, and has received airplay and performances across Canada, as well as in Austria, China, Finland, Germany, New Zealand, and the United States. After years of touring and recording with the rock band Crop Circle, Brian completed his Master of Music at UBC. Currently a PhD candidate at the University of Calgary under the supervision of Laurie Radford, he has also studied with Barry Truax, Hildegard Westerkamp, Rodney Sharman, Bob Pritchard, Keith Hamel, and Allan Bell. He has presented his research in Canada, England, Japan, and South Korea, and has been published in the proceedings of the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network (EMS) and the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), as well as in eContact! (Canadian Electroacoustic Community). In 2016, Brian returned to Canada from a research residency in the United Kingdom where he worked with Joseph Hyde, P.A. Tremblay, and Trevor Wishart.
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