Lunch yesterday at Daylight Factory. Delicious!!! Great little hidden patio too.
If you haven’t checked out Stars’ Do You Trust Your Friends? album featuring covers of their songs, you really should. The second track by The Dears is all sunshine and wind in your hair.
I’ve been freelancing regularly with District, a new creative/interactive shop that is being launched within Bell Web Solutions (which since January 1st has absorbed Cesart and the team of people I have been working with). Yours truly is helping to craft District’s brand and communications materials. Anyhow, I have a desk in their new space at 700 Wellington, which is a welcome change from the home office:
So this is a new category created with attention-deficit types (you) and time-challenged bloggers (me) in mind. It’s a quick(er) brain-dump format. Which means that I might actually post more often. We’ll see.
Please hold, I have to leap off a building
- [Ring-ring]
- Hello?
- Hey Tom, it’s Duncan. Got a minute?
- I’m about to jump off a 7-story building. Can I call you back tonight?
Hopping aboard Porter
I’m heading to Toronto for a meeting this week and we’re flying Porter. I’m curious to check it out. Especially since they are billing themselves as “North America’s premium short-haul carrier.” Incidentally, the Porter branding was done by Winkreative, which is headed by Wallpaper magazine founder Tyler Brûlé. I wonder if Porter is innovative enough to include carbon offsets in their ticket price…
Closing Pandora’s box
I got an email from Pandora today, the online music discovery service created by the Music Genome Project. Citing international licensing constraints, they’re forced to restrict streaming audio from Pandora for most countries outside of the U.S. So, as of May 16th, Pandora will be blocked to listeners from Canada. Why? Mostly because, as founder Tim Westergren stated in the email, “there is no global licensing organization to enable any webcaster to legitimately offer its service around the world.”
If you are in Montreal tonight, I strongly encourage you to head over to O Patro Vys for the sublime musical experience offered by Moondata’s LABproject series.
The LABproject series is the project that best expresses the concepts that govern Moondata. Based around ideas of collaboration & open-minded approaches to the creative process, it is presented as a monthly event to which artists are invited to participate in a live, improvised concert that has musicians, visuals artists and DJs performing together in a ‘very special one-time only performance’. With a line-up that changes from month to month, many of the participants meet and work together for the first time on the day of the show.
As is the case with many open-ended experiments in music-making, the music ranges in influence - from jazz to psych-rock, electronica, IDM, to music actuelle or pop, at any given show. With energy focused on composition as well as interpretation the listener is treated in turn to cohesive musical themes interspersed with barrier- free exploration. This unique approach that melds improvisation and composition makes the performances dynamic and highly exciting for the musicians and audiences alike.
Continue reading ‘Moondata’s LABproject #32 tonight at O Patro Vys’
Good thing the coming weekend is a long one, because there’s going to be a lot to pack into what appears to be too few days after sifting through the options. I finally had to resort to making a sort of schedule, which looks something like this:
Any dissenting opinions? Fellow travellers?
PS If you didn’t click on “chill”, you should: it’s a great read…
Speaking of tunage, iTune’s (Canada) free download of the week is a smokin’ new track from TO wordslinger k-os. Get it while it’s hot…
Friends of mine have teamed up with Montreal’s diva of the decks, Mighty Kat, for some good music and fun in the country sun. Sweet! So you know where to find me the first weekend I’m back in La belle province… Tickets available from baya[at]lebureauofficiel.com
This is one event I’m really sorry to miss. But I guess I can’t be everywhere at once. If you’re in Montreal, you should definitely check it out…
There’s another great artist playing a couple of gigs in Montreal this weekend: Håkan Lidbo. He’s the special guest of Montreal’s Trigger Records for their label showcase at Piknic Électronik this coming Sunday. DJ Mini also has the pleasure of his company this Thursday night…
