What Does Sampling Mean in An Era of Instant Music Generation?
Michael Rancic takes an in-depth look at sampling as craft and community, contrasting its labour and lineage with the frictionless promise of AI music tools.
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Step Into Little Stone Crow's World
Michael Rancic chats with the Mi'kmaw rapper and producer about turning private experiments into public practice.
Don't Start Another Substack
Michael Rancic writes about how platforms like Substack push writers toward individualized survival strategies over solidarity.
21st Century Co-op Ecologies
Cooperatives have always been more than a business model, they’re an experiment in how we might live, work, and create differently together.
Slash Need Double Dog Dare You…
The Toronto industrial provocateurs collapse the distance between performer, pest and possessed crowd.
COVID is (STILL) a Working Class Issue
How the ongoing pandemic continues to profoundly impact working-class musicians and arts workers despite its erasure from the public consciousness.
Quietly Brutal: Learning to Listen with Sarah Davachi
Experimental composer Sarah Davachi resists the impulse to compete by slowing down and listening.