singature
I’ve decided that for every PDF requiring a signature, instead of struggling to fake my actual handwriting with a jittery stylus, I’ll make an unapologetic digital scribble. A Rorschach “BW” […]
Bob Wiseman
wait just a major second
The major second, the sly cat in the alley. Everybody walks past it but it is not some polite little wrong interval. It’s waiting. It’s the raindrop quivering on the […]
AI
Been reading a steady stream of laments on AI warnings, disappointments, prophecies of ruin. It leaves me hesitant to say aloud that I love it, at least sometimes. The love […]
les enfants de personne
Neil, who played a Djembe (with brushes). Lenny, sang in English but dreamed in French. And Mira, played an accordion drone like a kettle whistling musically. There were three of […]
leon russell
In a cedar-scented cabin tucked into the misty forests of British Columbia, Bill Kozinski, wanted to do some good in the world. Kozinski was a drop-out from Simon Fraser’s Beedie […]
deviating from the program
The concert was scheduled at the Bram Taylor Green, a granite box with velvet seats and good acoustics but bad parking. Julian Wong, the pianist, was known only to a […]
they can’t hear it
One afternoon, while the orchestra violins tuned, Chad the oboist turned to Berta, who was polishing her flute with a cloth that had once been a scarf. “It’s all over,” […]
The new Ostinatos
I’m working on two new ostinatos one rooted in B, the other in E. They started off as simple loops, but lately I’ve been trying to stretch them across two […]
burn your dashiki
Three musicians, Alex, Georgia, and Ty, traveled from Guelph to Montreal, hoping to record the album they’d been imagining for years. They had songs. They had time. They almost had […]
shaking the system
In the beginning, Jonah and Avery sang only for protest marches and basements where rent parties ruled. They called themselves Black Lantern. They wrote songs that detonated. They had rules.No […]