Juno-nominated composer and cellist Cris Derksen talks using composition to shine light on what we should look at as a society, being about the “feel,” and so much more!

Featured music:

Round Dance Instrumental

Powwow Rhapsody

Mozart's Ghost

Improvisations on the Sunset

New Women Song

Rodney Sharman talks being a "sound freak", the unique sounds of Toronto, Montréal, and the West Coast, his incredible volunteer and advocacy work, what is at the heart of artistic change, and much more!

Featured music:

Incantation

Missing You

Known and Unknown

Three Songs

Newfoundlander Luke Blackmore talks his process of how rhythm is everything, overcoming writer's block, music with fog, and much more!

Featured music:

Something Sawed

Spectral Chorale

Keiko Devaux (joined by a special guest) talks being honest with your sound, composition as much more than the final piece, the problems of even having a "sound", and so much more!

Featured music:

L’écoute du perdu : III. « Voix jetées »

Jascha Narveson talks growing up surrounded by vinyls, being captivated by the technology rather than the instruments in the room, being a listener rather than a composer, the rewarding process of collaborating with dancers, and much more!

Featured music:

Soundpaper roll two, 8Bit Elf Coffe Shop - 5 minute excerpt

In Line (PLOrk Sideband)

Flash Crash

action/reaction (BounceBounce)

Late_Night_Project 100 | night swim

Late_Night_Project 101 | shortburst

Late_Night_Project 102 | newmood

Late_Night_Project 106 | gates

Late_Night_Project 103 | wheel

Late_Night_Project 104 | hall

Late_Night_Project 107 | burrs

Andrew Staniland talks providing good questions rather than good answers, caution in bringing in the outside world through electronics, writing music only for friends, and much more!

Featured works:

Adventuremusic - Toca Loca

True North

The Laws of Nature

Boundary-pushing, community-oriented, genre-blurring composer Daniel Pelton hails from Calgary, Alberta. Join us as we talk finding the fun in live concert, music for the people, the necessity in putting yourself out into the world and “doing the thing,” and much more!

Featured works:

Long Time No Time - Get Up Get Down live at The Palomino

Frank Zappa Roxy The Movie - T'Mershi Duween

For S. - The Daniel Pelton Collective

34902 - 32407

Prelude - Letters from Taylor

Prelude and Jig - The Daniel Pelton Collective

Sweet Child O’ Mine - Letters from Taylor

All Along the Watchtower - Letters from Taylor

Why - Letters from Taylor

Ryan Shore talks his writing process and "throwing down the clay", the two-way street of music, the true skills needed to succeed, improvisation's influence in his work, and so much more!

Featured works:

Odd's Victory

Numb

The Parents

First Solo Flight

News on the March

Mike, Amy and Carver

Rex Steele Main Theme

Full Suite Ahead

Allumette

Arden's Wake

Floyd's Theme