12/31/1925 — b. Daphne Oram, British composer, inventor, music engineer, electronic musician. Inventor of a technique for creating electronic sounds known as “Oramics”; composer of the first electronic score broadcasted on the BBC #womenshistory #WomenInMusic #MusicSky #WomenInSTEM #MusicChallenge

fun announcement for the new year: ill be curating a monthly music doc series at Hot Docs next year, the first one being The Devil and Daniel Johnston at the end of January! hotdocs.ca/whats-on/cin...

(everyone has known for years — years!! — that Thomas King is not Cherokee) www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

Checking out the new @subvert.fm platformn I'm actually excited for this. I've followed a few bandcamp alternatives over the years and this one hits all the marks for me. Artist co-op, simple layout, seems to work well too. Anyone else been checking out their alpha platform launch?

Oh good. I was beginning to wonder if Eurovision was the music budget. 48 mil over 3 years means no increase in funding from 2024/25 but it’s not gone. Thanks in part from pressure from the Canadian Indie Music Association and working musicians. www.cimamusic.ca/news/cima-re...

If you’re worried about hurting artists by boycotting Spotify—don’t. They pay musicians 0.0003 per stream (on the high end) and support fascists. Go see bands play live, buy their merch, collect physical media. That’s how you support artists and tell knee-bending oligarch fascists to eat shit.

📣 Job alert! 📣 The Narwhal is offering a one-year fellowship for an Indigenous journalist in B.C., in collaboration with the Indigenous Journalists Association and IndigiNews. See the post for more details — applications are due Nov. 2. Spread the word! thenarwhal.bamboohr.com/careers/40?s...

Ice ads are all over your favorite streaming services www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Fun fact: all the technology for listening to music that existed before streaming - still exists.

Awww damn. variety.com/2025/film/ob...

I’ve been testing the small French streaming service Qobuz for the last month, considering finally dumping Spotify. One reason I’m drawn to Qobuz is that it’s a smaller operation with seemingly good intentions. … 🧵 (1/10)

"He told me we needed to do a campaign to greenwash the data centers as it was going to become a problem in the future" V good post here detailing the PR strategy of companies and most importantly, how they're winning flat out right now -> hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/ai-energy-...

The thing about this site is that I’ve been able to find all these different spaces to share and find music. I’ve got some free download codes for my song Echo up on GetMusic for anyone curious or in need of a new listen.

#BREAKING | Dozens of Anti-Occupation Activists Block Main Highway Tunnel in Jerusalem

For those curious, this is the description of the session being led by an AI at Eden Mills (it's also the first event of the festival in the program after the launch party). the "fellow co-weaver" is the ED of the foundation that provided funding to create the chatGPT powered AI that wrote the "book

Chicagoans are joining a growing exodus from the streaming platform.

Big RIP to George Mundy, who designed the electronics of Phil Lesh’s “Osiris,” aka “Mission Control” bass, itself a quadraphonic limb of the Wall of Sound. A one of a kind instrument. Thanks for your work in the search for the sound, George.

Fascinating study in the genetics of autism. Thanks to @ansleysmusic.bsky.social for sharing it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I wrote about the WeTransfer terms of service and the criticism about the licensing rights in reference to large language models: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

Parasite becomes aggressive. Sure all the musicians looking at our £0.0003 Spotify payouts for our work are delighted this is what our fans’ money went towards instead, and the fans equally pleased. Artists are always very in favour of war, traditionally.

Has anyone written about the intersection between Bill C-2 and Bill C-5? They are directly related but I haven't really seen anyone analyze that. Bill C-2 creates extra surveillance powers to further criminalize Indigenous people (and allies) resisting the "national interest" projects C-5 enables.

Brian Wilson, shy genius of the Beach Boys, dies aged 82

Toronto’s air quality right now

June 2nd and I’m already getting the summer overwhelm shut downsies.

Jonathan Joss, known as the voice of King of the Hill's John Redcorn and recurring character Chief Ken Hotate on Parks and Recreation, has been fatally shot at 59.

Just got this update from Kobo which says it's going to use AI to read my works to "enhance" discoverability and marketing, and determine the "suitability" of the works and "adherence to Kobo’s Terms of Service" among other things. Which is why I'm immediately pulling my books from Kobo.

If you've got wild fire smoke coming your way, (or already there) get some NIOSH certified masks and keep your lungs safe. The short term and long term damage to lungs from particulates, and toxins is worth avoiding as much as possible. Kids especially canadastrong.ca/collections/...

You know, ImagineNATIVE, International Indigenous Music Summit (IIMS), National Indig History Month and Pride is like A LOT of eventing for one month. Kind of miss a good event happening in Fall TBH.

I'm in the Globe and Mail today! Also I look a lot like my sister in the photo www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/a...

Everyone mad at Adam Vaughan is just jealous that they could never live with such a lack of shame.

Thanks to @gabrielfinkelstein.bsky.social for doing this fascinating interview. And thanks to “Psychiatry at the Margins” @awaisaftab.bsky.social for publishing it. I hope people find the work of Emil du Bois-Raymond as interesting as I do.

Interesting flight path of a warplane from #Israel that spent Thursday just outside #Malta airspace, circling over the area where the civilian humanitarian ship #Conscience was attacked last night by drones. h/t @maltatoday.bsky.social @forensicarchi.bsky.social

could not be prouder of my spouse. read this banger

“…Yasemin Acar, the Coalition’s Press Officer, told CNN by phone from Malta. Acar said the ship had “sent out SOS calls to the surrounding countries, including Malta” and…a “small boat” from Southern Cyprus had been sent. She…had been able to contact crew members after the SOS signal was sent out.”

BREAKING: A freedom flotilla that was on its way to bring aid to Gaza was just reportedly attacked by drones in international waters and is on fire, with a breach in the hull. Ship is reportedly near Malta.

BREAKING: Palestinian activist and Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi walks out of ICE detention after a Vermont judge ordered his release. "I am saying it clear and loud to President Trump and his Cabinet: I am not afraid of you," he said.

When Idle No More started, before it became a national movement, it was started by four women who who were reading and paying attention to the massive omnibus bills Harper was pushing through that were going to have terrible negative impacts on the environment and Indigenous people. #BillC-69

Andor is about Gaza. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

This is my contention to ppl doing trans studies, trans history, transfeminism, etc: You cannot fully understand the development of global hegemonic forms of gender & sexuality without paying attention to trans/2spirit history of the Indigenous Americas. I will expand on why—

#Breaking: Canadian academics are being urged to avoid all non-essential travel to the U.S. amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on research and education along with fears of being turned away at the border.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/chi... Child and adult COVID survivors more likely to have heart disease and other heart symptoms

BREAKING: The National Treasury Employees Union, representing 150,000 workers, is suing Trump over his executive order to end collective bargaining rights for federal workers.

The bodies of more than a dozen aid workers have been recovered in southern Gaza from what a United Nations agency described as a "mass grave," a week after they went missing following attacks by Israeli forces.

happy trans day of visibility

Gleaning my notebook to find starting points for song writing only to be hit with this gem right off the top. "No amount of checking will change the fact that it's all bad." Sooooo don't expect too many hopeful songs I guess?

Made the mistake of swinging over to FB to see what’s going on with the Indig community. Good god, seems we are being targeting pretty heavily by residential school deniers with disinfo and misinfo. Must be an election! Ffs

"In Canada, where people don’t fear bankruptcy for seeking care, patients come in and they just talk to you, about doctor things. That’s a profound relief, for them and me." A U.S. doctor, new to Canada, speaks to the jarring differences in the two countries' healthcare. This is a great piece.

TAC (Toronto Arts Council) website isn't working right now - anyone know what the limit is for individual projects? (Indigenous stream) Is it $10k or did they increase it to $15?

Odd feeling willingly sending off things to go into a museum what with the general historic relations between Indig ppl and museums. Big difference in being able to decide for sure but still strange. Anyway, gathered some memories that will be part of the Friar’s Music Museum for a bit.