Archive for the ‘Chronicles’ Category
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The First Edition – May 2022
13 May 2022A Personal History of Recorded Sound [Episode One] A Colston Willmott Story After primary school, age eleven, I was…
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The First Edition – April 2022
15 Apr 2022A Monthly Column Only yesterday a friend, in casual conversation, put forward the idea that email had ended as a…
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Something Personal
19 Apr 2021These two posts are personal events taking place in this time of the COVID-19 Pandemic My Ornette Coleman video [Harmolodic…
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Hornby Island’s 5th Annual “Virtual” Herring Festival
06 Mar 2021March 4th – 6th, 2021 Join the virtual celebration of Pacific herring! Introduction by Grant Scott followed by musical…
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Anthony Braxton • Toronto 1973
02 Jun 2020June 4th is Anthony Braxton’s 75th birthday, so in celebration I’ve posted this 47 year-old story told in his own…
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Homemade Standards • The Legend of Duck Soup
30 Apr 2020Every year, on May Day, a spectre comes to haunt us. The spectre of Karl Marx. He’s been coming since…
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Toronto Tales 6 • 1985-86
01 Apr 2019I’ve always been enamoured of the extravagant past, art forms arriving or creating timely situations, often aligned with political…
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A Complete Communion
21 Feb 2019Paris • March 1967 One thing about us English is that we’re proud of being uni-lingual, assuming that everyone…
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Thelonious & Pannonica
10 Jan 2019Truth be told I’ve never really found books about jazz of much interest. The music is what I love.…
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Canada Coast to Coast [October 1979]
04 Nov 2018Stored away on the shelves of my workshop are hundreds of reel-to-reel and cassette tapes, dissolving, stuck together. Music from…