Discussions
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Olga Vechtomova is a Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo. She is conducting research on natural language processing and AI for music. She also makes music under the name Every Constant is Obsolete. She has been working on a tool to help composers incorporate past recordings into new works –…
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David Jaeger is one of the great figures of modern music. Born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, he later studied at the University of Toronto. His broadcasting career began in 1973 as a CBC music producer. He’s best known for creating and producing Two New Hours, a brilliant contemporary music program. Jaeger was a founding member…
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Richard Evans is author of Listening to the Music the Machines Make: Inventing Electronic Pop 1978—1983, a wonderfully detailed account of the impact that affordable synthesizer technology had on pop music some 40 years ago. Richard and I talked about what has been described as the definitive account of the period.
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Noémi Büchi is a clasically trained musician who makes fascinating sound art. Many of us heard her for the first time this year, with the release of her first EP for the OUS label called Hyle, and then later on in the year her debut LP Matter.
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Marco Alessi is the founder of Naviar Records, a fascinating label that has built a community of artists around a weekly music challenge. Participants are provided a haiku poem, and asked to interpret it in musical form.
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Surya Botofasina’s early days in music came growing up on an ashram run by the great Alice Coltrane. He produces beautifully peaceful music that bridges meditative ambient sounds with spiritual jazz. His latest is entitled Everyone’s Children. It’s out on Spiritmuse Records.
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