This San Holo song entered my bloodstream during long and lonely stretches of the second wave lockdown. It’s forever linked in my mind with the joy of seeing the face of a friend, reminding me that I am not alone, producing antibodies to fend off questioning. This is a celebration […]
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One of the personal silver linings of 2020 is that I’m making music again. In a way, I had never really stopped. But in a way, I had never really started. Origins: Subcreation from the Beginning My parents had started me in violin at age 4, but it wasn’t until […]
If I were to get a blood test today, there would still be some antibodies present from when The World Has Turned and Left Me Here entered my bloodstream sometime in Grade 9. While the entire blue album is constitutive, The World Has Turned has a special place secured in […]
When I first heard the song Light while working one day in the Ryerson SLC Amphitheatre, I instantly became a San Holo fan. I started working on a rock cover back in Spring 2019, but the project sat on the shelf for a while. After the launch of NMG Studios […]
Northrop Frye says that the lyric poem gets written because some normal activity has been blocked, the normal progression of time, and the poet has to write about that block before returning to the world of time. This Spring, while working on my home studio production, I came across Sam […]
This Spring during the lockdown, I took the opportunity to take some Recording Revolution courses, like Mixing University and Total Home Recording. I’m shifting my musical focus to my home studio for thie next phase of life, and hope to work through the backlog of original songs I’ve written but […]
I was invited to speak for the Newman Centre at U of T’s Mentorship Series in October on St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. I’ve been leading a faith study on the theology of the body at Newman since 2015, but for this short one hour talk, I […]
One of the sources that has forever shaped my view on songwriting — on lyric writing in particular — is the introduction to the lyric poem in this lecture from University of Toronto English professor, Nick Mount, on Sylvia Plath’s Ariel, published by TVO: While studying English at the University […]
Thanks to Tom and Doug for inviting me to chat on the Music Manumit podcast this past weekend! You can listen to our discussion here about being creative about the career and business side of being a musician. Download mp3 audio | ogg vorbis | stream | torrent