The two-day pilot workshop gave about a dozen racialized, female-identified and gender-non-conforming high school students the chance to create their own electronic music and get familiar with high-end equipment.
Cities need a youthful infrastructure that includes affordability, good jobs, safety, mobility, a net-zero focus, physical and mental health, and fun with entertainment, music and green space based on metrics young people devise.
Ikwinder Singh, a 21-year-old Toronto-based Punjabi music producer known as Ikky, is leading an imprint of Warner Music called 4N Records he hopes can build a bridge between the music in its homeland and the wider world via a hub in Toronto.
The teenage son of Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida is a budding musician who is collaborating and creating content he stores as a non-fungible token (NFT), a blockchain application that documents ownership and could enable more direct-to-fan interaction.
Her life was steeped in classical music, but Ida Halpern was passionate about the songs of British Columbia’s Indigenous people, music she set out to prove was equal to that of Bach and Mozart.