Politics

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Getting very close to the deadline for the article I started writing for a German journal about improvisation. The subject was supposedly the relationship between improvisation and the times we […]

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Fun to sit next to Bruce Moffet at Maja Bannerman’s show yesterday. I incorrectly recalled Mark Miller’s book about Claude Ranger and asked Doug Wilde about him who told me […]

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Everything about life tells you, you exist which makes realizing you don’t so unlikely to see. The body appears to exist, but once dead, dead. Forever is incomprehensibly long compared […]

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Read about the Beach Boys song “Never Learn Not to Love”, though the band never openly acknowledged it was written by Charles Manson. Dennis Wilson took Manson in for a […]

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I like the show Triggernometry, and how hosts Konstatin Kisin and Francis Foster give time to more than one view. Current show about Iran, Israel, America and war of nuclear […]

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It took me a long time to admit my utopia had flaws. Everything cannot be equal. That does not mean I advocate for inequality but I notice more that all […]

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At the street party the mayor of Toronto, Olivia Chow, came and made a little speech. I know Olivia, I interviewed her 7 years ago for my Masters and I […]

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Musicians have always been quick to adopt new tools. From drum machines to digital audio workstations, looping pedals to synthesizers, music has a history of absorbing technology, bending it toward […]

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A student from Nepal, who couldn’t vote, asked the class who they were voting for. The responses spread across the familiar spectrum: five for the Liberals, three for the NDP, […]

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In class, a student brought up the Lucy Connolly story from the UK. A story that struck many of us as surreal and troubling, centering around a brutal tragedy: seventeen-year-old […]