Sound In Motion 2013: Interview With Pinch
Robert Ellis, better known as Pinch, is an electronic artist whose sound is difficult to pin down. Eschewing the overused and limiting “dubstep” moniker, Pinch traverses reggae, dancehall, world music,…
Sound In Motion 2013: Interview With Stefny Winter
“Good organization, good sound, and good people & tunes; these are the core ingredients of a good music festival,” says Montreal producer and DJ Stefny Winter.
Sound In Motion 2013: Interview With Daniel Bell
Known for his raw and stripped-down take on house and techno, and marathon DJ sets, Daniel Bell is an undisputed legend in the world of underground dance music.
Sound In Motion 2013: First Wave of Artists Announced
The second year of our multi-day electronic music festival, Sound In Motion, is quickly approaching. We have just announced our first wave of Canadian and international artists who have been…
Interview with: Rewind Author Dayv Mattt
When speaking with anyone who experienced Toronto’s rave culture in the late 1990s, the often labeled ‘golden era’ of Toronto’s jungle and drum n’ bass scene always seems to hit…
Inking a Deal and an Identity Challenge: Notes to Self
Torontonians really like board games. One in three Torontonians owns ten or more board games, while three in eight own more than 25 and play bi-weekly. Could it be the…
The StudioFeed Guide to: Press Releases for Music
We live in a world where almost everything that gets created digitally — good or bad — is archived on the internet forever. 72 hours of new content are uploaded…
The Art of the Remix: Functionality, Creativity & Collaboration
Remix culture is as popular as ever. Digital-only labels have contributed to a dramatic shift in the number of remix opportunities for artists, massively increasing the overall number of remixes…
The Rise and Folly of: ‘EDM’ in 2012
Whatever genre(s) of music you listened to this year, it was hard to avoid discussion around the explosion in electronic dance music; including the ubiquitous use of the obnoxious industry…
Sound In Motion 2013: Call for Submissions
SOUND IN MOTION CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Sound in Motion is an independent [not-for-profit] festival dedicated to electronic music and arts, taking place July 12 -14, 2013 in Toronto, Canada.
The StudioFeed Guide To: Halloween Weekend 2012 in Toronto
The weekend of October 26-28 will see a large number of promoters and fans heading to a number of Halloween-inspired music events. In an effort to help music fans sift…
The Volume War: Square Waveforms and Negative Outcomes
Researchers in Spain recently analyzed a massive amount of music using the million song data set; an extremely large database of recorded music spanning a number of decades.The outcome of…
The Jimmy Chiale Experience
Two months ago I was sitting on a futon in Jimmy Chiale’s King West ‘studio’ when he told me about this film he likes called Great Expectations, a loose adaptation…
Sound in Motion: SIM Reels Winners – Watch the Films
SIM Reels Winners Sound in Motion would like to thank all of those who submitted a short-film for the 2012 SIM Reels showcase.
Sound In Motion: Festival Summary (Part Two)
In part two of our Sound In Motion recap, Saturday’s day time Sugar Beach and night time warehouse party are highlighted, as well as our Sunday afternoon panel discussion on…
Sound In Motion: Festival Summary (Part One)
All of us at StudioFeed are extremely grateful to everyone who was involved in the first edition of Sound In Motion, which went down in our books as a great…
Album Art: Five terrible/funny vinyl covers
Anyone who’s ever dug through a pile of vinyl at a second-hand shop or record store knows that for every good album you come across, there are at least five…
StudioFeed at Mutek: Highlights from our experience (Part Three)
Our experiences a Mutek 2012 allowed us to be a part of some great interviews and shows while working to film 10 mini-documentaries for Mutek TV. In part three of…
Mike Parsons: Telling Toronto’s Story Through Art
Toronto is a polarizing place. Many of the people who live in the city view it as a cornucopia of culture and opportunity, but to many suburbanites living outside the…
StudioFeed at Mutek: Highlights from our experience (Part Two)
Our experiences a Mutek 2012 allowed us to be a part of some great interviews and shows while working to film 10 mini-documentaries for Mutek TV. In part two of…
StudioFeed at Mutek: Highlights from our experience (Part One)
While working through a busy schedule of interviews and performance shoots for a 10-segment mini-doc series for Mutek TV (all of which will appear on Mutek’s website later in the…
Jungle Fever: How Toronto lost the drum ‘n’ bass crown
Geared towards the electronic music fan with more eclectic tastes, and usually relegated to some dark “second room” at clubs, for a short period in the 1990s, Toronto drum ‘n’…
Kickup: Kickstarter’s Foray Into Music
Launching from Finland-based free-rights advocacy group Kickstarter is Kickup; a veritable revolution in music distribution and rights management which aims to cut out the politicking and harmful contractual stipulations of…
Followers and Likes: Inauthentic Barometers of Artistic Integrity
Statistics are an objective method of measurement used to gage the significance of a particular factor in relation to some other factor or event. In music, social media statistics have…
Interview with: Mutek Programmer Patti Schmidt
Patti Schmidt is currently a programmer at Mutek Montreal, and has been extensively involved in independent music throughout her life. Previously, Patti held a position as the host of now-defunct…
This Is My Jam: Cut out the noise
There is a new revolution occurring in the way we share music; you may not realize it, but it’s happening. It has nothing to do with the government’s vendetta against…
Busking: Strangling Street Art in Toronto
Anyone who has been to New York City can attest to the high performance levels of its busking musicians and street entertainers; an aspect of the American city that helps…
The Harris Institute: From the Eyes of a Student
Toronto’s Harris Institute is one of the city’s most established and reputable post-secondary schools in the field of audio production and the business of music. StudioFeed had the opportunity to…
Playing Live: The Reputation of Toronto Crowds
Despite being home to such a wide variety of music and culture, one aspect of live entertainment that Toronto seems to be constantly struggling with is the receptiveness and general…
Music Streaming Services & You
Whether it’s entering a serious romantic relationship, investing a large amount of personal finances in something, or trying a new drug for the first time, weighing the costs and benefits…
What does winning a Grammy mean in 2012?
Last night, the Staples Center in Los Angeles played host to the 54th Grammy Awards; a show that has come to represent…what exactly? By now most have heard about the…
Changing Landscapes: The Death of the “Band”
When The Beatles quickly rose to fame in the early 1960s, one could argue that, despite their musicianship, it was impeccable timing that led them to such fame. America’s Tin…
Interview With: Philip Litevsky
Philip Litevsky grew up listening to hip hop, classic rock and electronica, but wasn’t musically gifted. Instead he turned his creative aspirations to visually documenting the Toronto music scene. Attending…
Interview With: Shingo Shimizu
Shingo Shimizu is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design’s Communication and Design program. The Montreal-born, Toronto-bred designer was exposed to drawing at an early age through…
In Search Of: Toronto’s Future Bass
Last week was party time for Toronto’s once and future bass music, namely the million-strong jamdown once known as Caribana. With it came a slew of parties displaying the many…
Boreal 2011
Turn of your computer, get off the wires, step into experiences you cannot download. With a focus on Toronto and extended arms to other creative centers, StudioFeed reflects on the…
Promoter Profile: Equaria
“We are Equaria, formerly known as We Love Techno. The idea was started by myself (Maziar) and my partner and an old friend Kian, with a vision to expose this…
Interview With: Play De Record
StudioFeed had the opportunity to be guided through a day in the life at Play De Record with co-owner Jason Palma. Jason kindly answered some of StudioFeed’s questions regarding vinyl…
Denise Benson’s Toronto
“I’m always interested in what makes people move physically and emotionally. People respond to music. I’ve always seen my role as a conduit, a filter or an access point for…
AMBiENT PiNG
The AMBiENT PiNG is a Toronto based creative community of audio artists, performers, musicians and visual artists. The outer-space vibe of this collective has been opening the minds of audiences for…
Interview with: Arthur Oskan
As a teenager, Arthur Oskan began immersing himself in a variety of musical styles. In his quest to quench his appetite for synthetic music he eventually purchased his own EPS…
