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seamonsters.bsky.social
Exploring music + often include nature and sounds from my field recordings. Toronto, Canada. - Music videos: https://www.youtube.com/@musicforseamonsters - Music: https://musicforseamonsters.bandcamp.com/ = Love to monsters, humans, plants and creatures
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CNN: Iranian singer flogged 74 times after singing about hijab removal www.cnn.com/2025/03/05/m...

“The decline of the #band is a stark trend in #pop #music.” open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

Gift link: Donald Trump is trying to destroy Canada www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c967ad6...

A&A Music, 1969 (Toronto) Artist: Clark McDougall Medium: Enamel and Acrylic on board Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa #1960s #painting #recordstore #records #torontoart #art #artist #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

Per senior USAID official, Trump Adm actions likely to cause * up to 18m additional cases of malaria; 166k additional deaths * 200k children paralyzed with polio * 1m children not treated for malnutrition * 28k new cases of infectious disease www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...

#Ukraine Forever, Free www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCuV...

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signs a bill that strikes gender identity from Iowa civil rights law, making the state the first to remove civil rights from a previously protected class.

Sunk in shame for this un-American administration and its cowardly enablers. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

“Friday, February 28, 2025, will go into the history books as one of the grimmest days in American diplomacy,” writes @radiofreetom.bsky.social. Now “Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us”: theatln.tc/FHJeRVAj

It's Election Day in #Ontario ! Vote for Ontario Science Centre 🇨🇦 Check out our latest music video, with Dylan Smith, music for sea monsters, & the voices of Save OSC supporters ⬇️ Full video: youtu.be/a35anFLJ-A0?...

From #Thorncliffe and #Toronto , and all across Ontario, the peoples' mandate is loud and clear: Reopen, Renew, and Reinvest in Ontario's Science Centre! Vote for #Ontario on February 27th 🇨🇦

"U.S. is a global exporter of firearms and the vast majority of crime guns in Canada" - from CBC News: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Hard to imagine all that Ukrainians have suffered through, all that they've fought for and the misery and war crimes they've endured since 2014. Orchestral piece for #Ukraine, "Yellow" released last year: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCuV... Photo from the Feb 24, 2024 rally in #Toronto.

CBC News: "Life as a working musician offers little financial security... It involves day-to-day hustling to make a living, something that can be hard to keep up, especially as artists grow older." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

What happens when the Trump Admin immediately freezes USAID funding without notice? People die and the suffering, as usual, is done by those who are the most vulnerable and the most poor www.cnn.com/2025/02/11/a...

Pope Francis’ letter to U.S. Bishops is incedibly powerful. This stands out to me especially. Every purported Christian faith leader who has endorsed or stood silent before Trump’s ugly immigration policies needs to be confronted with this statement. www.vatican.va/content/fran...

Canada and Mexico are our friends and the mad king of our nation has turned on them and is hurting them in our name. We should be furious not just for what he’s doing to us but also to what he’s doing to them.

Yes, beyond everything that is happening. The attack on the American republic, the coming economic carnage, this is a day of great, great shame that we have targeted and attacked our dearest friends and partners.

"make time to listen to the quiet... the quiet voices are the most important" a message delivered by Harrison Ford on the specialness and vitalness of nature and biodiversity, based on the work of biologist E.O. Wilson www.youtube.com/watch?v=06uY...

Enjoyed this indie mini documentary of Garth Hudson www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLBu...

Drat & RIP Garth and The Band www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

Rough day. Hard to watch hate and intolerance take control of the most powerful country in the world, birthplace to many of my family and ancestors. While I'm feeling down today, going to wake up tomorrow and pitch in to help work for tolerance and equality, democratic freedoms, and the rule of law.

CEO of Suno, a new AI music platform, said on a podcast that "It’s not really enjoyable to make music now. It takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of practice... I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of the time they spend making music." 🙅 🚫 www.musicradar.com/music-indust...

Encouraging that new(ish) music is being heard "overwhelming majority of U.S. plays – 79.5% — were from songs released in 2010 or later. Songs released between 2020 and 2024 accounted for nearly half of all streams." Luminate / Victoria Times Colonist www.timescolonist.com/the-mix/musi...

Working on a techno track + trying more minimal. Found this interview with Robert Hood on his approach to minimalism - creating a hypnotic kick and bass, and expressing through hi-hats. "My thing was... to have that one guy in the back of the room just loose it" youtu.be/B0L_owZu-9Q?...

First recorded sound of a meteorite hitting the Earth's surface, captured on an homeowner's security camera in PEI, Canada - CBC News: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #space

1/5. The way Trump, Trump Jr, Tuberville, and Hannity are talking now about Greenland, Mexico, Panama, and Canada plagiarizes Putin in 2013, before the first invasion of Ukraine.

Earth records hottest year ever in 2024 and the jump was so big it breached a key threshold

"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

From CBC News: hip-hop, music tech expand the definition of music education www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Loved this moment from the @jimmykimmel.com interview: Dick Van Dyke: How did you know how to play ragtime?? Chris Martin: I'm a *professional* musician LOL youtu.be/elZHLU4Zx_8?...

Robbie Robertson talks about when he & the Hawks started playing with Bob Dylan, the crowd would boo and throw stuff every night... but in the end they believed in their music and the world came around in the end www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXto...

This is fascinating... the first human voice recording that predates wax cylinders... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICVt...

#NewMusic Push / Pull [official music video] - techno #music about the yinyang of modern life. If you ever wanted to hear a driving bass line with an accordion and choir, this techno / electronica track is for you :). p.s. thanks to BasSmith for the collab + awesome bass! youtu.be/qn9e7HZ_gEw

My dad sent me this story of Danny and his unique piano truck www.cnn.com/travel/danny... - more at travelingpiano.com

AI and its effects on the music industry: “It’s creators who stand to lose the most” www.theguardian.com/music/2024/d...

#NewMusic A Common Grave - minimal piano piece combined with field recordings I made at Mozart’s grave in #Wien / #Vienna, along with recordings of the organ and bells at Stephansdom where Mozart was married and where his funeral was held www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOZn...