Discussions
-
Roam is a Toronto-based future garage artist, out with a brilliant mini-LP called Revenge. I’ve been a fan since being invited to write about his work for Exclaim Magazine a few years back. He and I talked about the new material, and about who he makes music for.
-
Claire Deak has produced her debut solo lp, under the title Sotto Voce. It’s based on research she conducted into a pair of 17th century baroque composers: Francesca Caccini and Barbara Strozzi. She and I spoke about the two remarkable figures, and the new material.
-
American composer and multi-instrumentalist Vinny Golia has completed the second movement of his landmark work Even to This Day. With a runtime of close to 11 hours, Even to This Day…Music for Orchestra and Soloists Movement Two: Syncretism: For The Draw… features 110 tracks and 25 soloists, including Golia himself.
-
Lawrence English is among the most beloved, influential artists in contemporary music. His practice combines live performance, installations and recordings in a manner that “invites audiences to consider their relationship to listening, place and embodiment.” He is also an active and supportive curator, best known for his label Room40.
-
Peter Andersson is both a pioneer of the dark ambient scene and – it has to be said – a bit of a perfectionist. In 1993, he released what’s been described as a benchmark in the sub-genre entitled Prospectus 1. As well received as it was, he never really stopped working on it. The Cyclic…
-
Léa Boudreau describes herself as “an electronic circuit maker, sound crafter and immersive environment builder.” The Montreal-based artist’s work explores interspecies relationships and “the intersections of capitalism, power dynamics, speciesism, and (various forms of) supremacy to raise awareness over insidious and oppressive structures.” Her LP Limaçon is a gorgeous piece of electroacoustic art, available on…
The Moderns 