BIO:
Composer/ musician/ curator/ writer. Recordings on Divorce/ Heavy Fog, Entr'acte, Orange Milk Records, Never Anything, Scissor Tail Editions, Notice Recordings.

Chamber and solo work performed by Esprit Orchestra, Eve Egoyan, Arraymusic, Quatuor Bozzini, Madawaska String Quartet. Electronic work commissioned by AKOUSMA Festival, appeared at the MoMA with installation piece Tentacle. Work also programmed at the Technische Universitat (Berlin), Sonic Arts Research Centre (Belfast), Musicacoustica Festival (Beijing), Soundplay Festival (Toronto). Harvestworks Festival (NYC)

Recipient of the Canadian Music Centre's 2011 Toronto Emerging Composer Award & Canadian Electroacoustic Community's Jeux De Temps Competition (2008). Awarded Canadian Music Centre's Norman Burgess Fund to create a work for solo harp for young performers with educational guidance from Lori Gemmell.

I am an improvisor, collaborative pianist, and composer based in Waterloo, Ontario.

Matthew Ariaratnam is a Musician, Composer, and Improviser. 

These are some of the sounds Matthew makes for fun.

My name is James and I am an 20 year old producer from Burlington, Canada.  I've been making music for about 2 years now, and hope to continue it in the future.  I'm still exploring genres, and figuring out which style of music I enjoy making most.  I do majority of my work using Fl Studio, and some other synths and fun stuff.  Hope you enjoy my page!  I also have a second account page, for my music that is a little more "out there", check it out if you have the chance!  https://soundcloud.com/bonecho-2

The brother of Martin (Rheostatics) and John (Metal Kites), Doug has become a fixture of Toronto’s underground music scene, using his talents in a variety of local acts such as The Silt, Drumheller, and The Reveries, alongside contemporaries such as Ryan Driver and Eric Chenaux.

Tielli played, recorded and produced most of "Swan Sky Sea Squirrel" himself at an artist retreat centre on Toronto Island, set up in an old school portable for 3 months with borrowed gear and no real time limit. Doug Tielli used his multi instrumental talents to play almost everything on the record - guitars, trombone, saw, sounds, bass, drums, percussion and singing. Nick Fraser who played with Tielli in a swinging wee jazz band called Drumheller played on two of the tracks and friend Jennifer Castle sang a duet and joined 5 other people in singing in a sloppy background choir on another tune.
“There was no reason for me to make a record at the time. No one was waiting for it anywhere. So I spent most of the time in quiet, listening to and watching the animals – mostly different waterfowl and small birds, lying on the beach, looking wordlessly out to the horizon, finding interesting things to bring back to my portable like stones, beach treasures, butterflies, sticks … It is a beautiful place. It is odd too, because you feel like you are in the middle of nowhere, but you can also feel the huge energetic shadow of the big city right behind you. Agnes Martin’s (a minimalist painter) book entitled ‘with my back to the world’ comes to mind … yes, my back was turned to the world, but the world was also at my back, and over my shoulder too. And so if I went indoors to record something, and it didn’t make me shiver like a good breeze, or warm me on the inside like a crabapple in the sun, I knew that the music wasn’t ripe yet, and I just went back outside to wander.” -Doug Tielli


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