Like many performing musicians, I considered leaving the music business in 2020. The confluence of loss of work due to the pandemic, exhaustion from years of gig-hustling, and the intensity of social, political, and environmental crises left me wanting to help directly (on good days) or hide completely (on other days). I needed to seeContinue reading “Understory’s Sonic Ecosystem”
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What’s Inside Musicworks 140?
The Fall 2021 issue connects you to music artists of distinctive styles and from distant places with expertly crafted words and carefully chosen images. It is accompanied by a CD of deeply felt, hand-blown music, enhanced with chiselled edges and unusual colours. IF YOU ARE A PRINT ENTHUSIAST, YOU’LL WANT TO SNAG A SINGLE COPYContinue reading “What’s Inside Musicworks 140?”
SlowPitch’s “Emoralis”
On a rainy April evening in Toronto, in the darkened hush of historic St. Anne’s Anglican Church, the first frame of the 2013 Images Festival appear—a live black-and-white projection of the deft hands of turntable artist SlowPitch. As the frames progress, you can literally hear and see a needle drop. Then comes a hard tectonicContinue reading “SlowPitch’s “Emoralis””