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This page is predominantly live recordings - please check out studio recordings here:
https://bekahsimms.bandcamp.com/
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Composer Bekah Simms hails from St. John's, Newfoundland and is currently based in Glasgow after nine years living and working in Toronto. Her varied musical output has been heralded as “cacophonous, jarring, oppressive — and totally engrossing!” (CBC Music), “tough, even gutsy...with a sure sense of original and vibrant colours” (Vancouver Sun), and lauded for its "sheer range of ingenious material, expressive range and sonic complexity" (The Journal of Music.) Propelled equally by fascination and terror toward the universe, her work is often filtered through the personal lens of her anxiety, resulting in nervous, messy, and frequently heavy electroacoustic musical landscapes. Recent interests in just intonation and virtual instruments have resulted in increasingly lush and strange harmonic environments.

Bekah's music has been widely performed across North America and Europe. She has worked with some of the top interpreters of contemporary music internationally, including Crash Ensemble - with whom she is currently an artist-in-residence - Riot Ensemble, Eighth Blackbird, and l’Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal. Bekah has also been the recipient of over 35 awards, competitive selections, nominations, and prizes, including the 2019 Barlow Prize and the 2023 JUNO Award for Classical Composition of the Year. The resulting work from the Barlow Prize, "metamold," was nominated for the 2022 Gaudeamus Award. Works from her debut album “impurity chains” were nominated in both 2019 and 2020 for the JUNO Award for Classical Composition of the Year. Her music has thrice been included in the Canadian Section's official submission to World Music Days (2016, 2019, & 2021), and in 2016 the CBC included her among their annual 30 hot classical musicians under 30.

Bekah is a Lecturer at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, following previous academic positions at the University of Toronto and University of Western Ontario.  Her principal teachers during academic studies were Gary Kulesha and Andrew Staniland, alongside significant private study with Clara Iannotta and Martin Bédard.

Wired Music Labs is your gateway to creating, producing and recording electronic music. All tracks posted have been created by workshop participants.

Hullo is the moniker for Newfoundland born musician, Nicholas Bendzsa. Through sonic warmth and introspective energy, Hullo is an expression of honest emotion, sarcasm and anxiety.

Indie band located in South Korea

Vocal: Jay Marie
Guitar: Ha Yangsu (하양수)
Guitar: Kim Youngmin (김영민)
Bass: Park Youngshin (박영신)
Keyboard: Kim Myunghwan (김명환)
Drum: Sohn Kyungho (손경호)

sketch friendly started spinning tunes late 2001 in the fredericton area under the alias johnnybrownbills after being held to a high standard by his mentor(jedi instrcutor for the council) and freddy local, GQ. spinning mostly hardhouse and nrg his love for hard music was only surpassed by his technical skill behind the decks. moving around over the next few years ending up in his hometown of st johns newfoundland sketch friendly (then johnnybrownbills) started st johns first hardhouse nrg night with local talent dj Fracture, after this night dieing a slow and painful death sketch friendly realized there was no place for hard music in st johns. fastforward to 2010, after slinking around the underground for a few years, sketch friendly went to see benga at the venue in vancouver with fellow dj  van golden where he was absolutely blown away by the live performance and the subs(clearly). suddenly hard music had a place anywhere, especially in st johns. sketch friendly and van golden went on to organize st johns first ever dubstep show with the recruitment and help of another local dj perfect stranger. the "ear to the ground " night went on to huge success but was eventually disbanded by internal issues. dont forget to sketch friendly! BRING DRUGS, NO THUGS!

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