DAPH

@braedenetienne and I had a transformative time at @guelphfringe , thank you SO much for having us. Every show was unique and a blast. We won the spirit award ✨ @joshualonuzzo was responsible for the amazing lighting and tech @alexwhinton took these INCREDIBLE photos And thank you as always @braedenetienne for trusting me to help bring your amazing vision to life Believe In It, you can make it work 🌿

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Some sessions leave you with a dopamine hit that goes for days. Tracking beds for @the.aster.icks over the last couple weeks is definitely one of those times. A classic “wait, I get paid for this??” situation. Absolutely beautiful people, great music- I can’t thank @daph.tone enough for trusting me and my space with this critical part of the creation. Absolutely cannot wait to hear the final product. I think y’all are gonna love it as much as I do.

Polaris season starts now. A new year of albums, songs, festivals, concerts... with all roads leading to Massey Hall on September 22 for the 2026 Polaris Concert & Award Ceremony. Key dates: June 11 — Album Long List June 24 — SOCAN Polaris Song Prize Long List July 9 — Album Short List July 29 — SOCAN Polaris Song Prize Short List Aug 5 — Slaight Family Heritage Prize nominees + voting opens Aug 21 — Heritage voting closes Sept 22 — Polaris Concert & Award Ceremony at Massey Hall Sept — Polaris Music Festival Tickets for the Polaris Concert are on sale now - link in bio. Ticket details in bio. This season's visual theme was created by @aftermodernlab and soundtracked by @daph.tone

Friends ✨Next week I am performing my first Guelph show as DAPH, my solo electronic project. Synths and drum machines and vocals. I’m really proud of this music. Friday March 13th. It’s been a long journey for me to get here. I started this direction in the pandemic, and a week before I played my first show in KW with @eveparkerfinley & @ahorsenamedfridayy , my father died. I still played the show and it went really well, but the project took a back seat for a few years. This is some of the best music I have ever created. It would mean a ton if you could come out and celebrate life and dance with us. The show is part of the incredible @frequencies_ series. I’m joined by KERUB @kerubbyvi , chi @theres.a.riot.goin.on , and @bodywaltzing , plus @sleddofficial will be doing live visuals! We’re at a “secret” venue here in Guelph, and it will be the best house party ever. If you plan on coming, please buy a ticket in advance as there is limited capacity, and let me know so I can expect your beautiful face, thank you!! Ticket link in my bio 🙏 - Daph

Killer songs created by a talented and hard working cohort at @noblestreetstudios for @songwriterscanada Pro Song Works camp. An epic ending to an epic weekend with a warm and generous exchange with Bob Ezrin, who answered questions and shared ideas, advice and stories. Thank you @factorcanada and the incredibly altruistic and supportive folks at S.A.C. @arunchaturvedi and @natwurst . Songs are medicine. And the world needs our medicine. @scharliinaa @_adam_bianchi_ @daph.tone @askaboutsewa @its_paigeo @maiadaviesmusic @1goldstripes @estyr_143 You were missed @noah.malcolm - get well soon! #songwriters #producerlife #canadiansongwriters

This Engine is now available exclusively on Bandcamp ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ 🌸link in bio🌸 Tell everyone you know! Tell everyone you don’t know! All songs written and performed by Jordan Armstrong Trumpet on ‘Last Time’ and ‘As Far As I’m Concerned’ by Ewan Divitt Guitar on ‘Two Ways’ by Roger Bainbridge Mixed by Daphne Zoe Dahlia Mastered by Mariana Hutten ‘It Follows’, ‘Last Time’, ‘Lend You’, ‘Lonely Hope’ produced by Jordan Armstrong and Daphne Zoe Dahlia All other tracks produced by Jordan Arnstrong Toronto and Guelph 2025 Cover design and 📸 by Paul Aihoshi @daph.tone @mari_hutten @divitttrumpets @paulaihoshi #newmusic #indie #indiemusic #singersongwriter #newrelease

Check out the recap from our first Polaris Festival Salon yesterday (video music by @erincorbettmusic – recorded onsite). Several artists created live bangers on modular synths while sharing wisdom with enraptured musicians. Truly one for the books! Thanks to Katie Stelmanis (@austra ), Dr. Casey Mecija (@caseymecija ), Palestinian Bakeshop, @heidi_wy_chan (Heidi Chan), @koreatownacid (Korea Town Acid), @erincorbettmusic (Erin Corbett), Aida Khorsandi, @daph.tone (DAPH), @relabtmu (Responsive Ecologies Lab), and Designing Sound Futures (DSF) for making Patchwork: Modular Worldmaking unforgettable. Special thanks to Erin Corbett for letting us use the track they created onsite as this video’s soundtrack. Event Details & Presenter Bios
Patchwork: Modular Worldmaking
Sun, Sept 7, 2025 | 1 PM Patchwork is a hands-on workshop series organized by Katie Stelmanis (Austra – past Polaris nominee). It creates an unintimidating space for learning modular synthesis. While synth communities are often dominated by white cis-masculine norms, Patchwork centres women, 2SLGBTQ+, and/or racialized people, with or without prior experience in noise-making electronics. 
Heidi Chan: Canadian musician, composer, and researcher. Plays bamboo flutes, percussion, synth; member of ensemble ten ten; teaches at TMU & Humber; researches early digital sampling. Korea Town Acid: Seoul-born, Toronto-based producer, DJ, and educator. Creates genre-fluid soundscapes blending hip-hop, breakbeat, jungle, and cinematic textures. Erin Corbett: Musician, animator, and game designer. Combines modular synthesis with acoustic/electric instruments to build improvised soundscapes exploring alienation, queer euphoria, and decay. Fifth album out 2025. Aida Khorsandi: Composer-performer, synthesist, and researcher. Embraces unpredictability and decolonizing hierarchies, using displaced sound objects and granular gestures to create shifting sonic landscapes of experimental ambient noise. Daphne Zoe Dahlia / DAPH (She/Her): Performer, composer, and producer with 20+ years’ experience. Founder of Copper Sound studio. Creates queer-centred electronic music blending synth pop, house, hip-hop, and darkwave.

Thank you thank you thank you all who have listened to Believe In It and for those who have said such nice and encouraging things. Please continue to listen and share it's made my whole year. Happy solstice season to all!🪝 Love, Monochrome Brae

New release! 💡 Crisp Air is a murky ambient techno plod, nimbly stepping through muck and haze on a lightweight bass drum and crisp arp. The track was created from distorted bits of synth improvisations strung together around a beat that builds ever-thicker. Alex constructed the frame with drums, bass and textural percussion made from field recordings, at which point @daph.tone stepped in to add the epic building lead with a crisp Moog tone. The concept and title were inspired by the realm of sci-fi technologies, such as gene-editing, slowly coming onto the realm of human possibility. I'm celebrating the release with a live set @madameclaude.berlin Friday Nov. 8 You can find Crisp Air on @thisismyxt @bandcamp and anywhere you listen to music. Link to streams and downloads in bio. #ambient #techno #berlin

Tomorrow, let’s celebrate life together- I’m performing in KW at @studiofuzioncommunity with some outstanding musicians, @eveparkerfinley and @ahorsenamedfridayy !!! I’lm playing a full set of fun joyful queer dance music. You can buy advance tickets at the link in my bio, or at the door, no one turned away for lack of funds. Doors at 7:30, music at 8:00. The show is put on by the amazing @screamingfoxkw . See you tomorrow ✨✨✨✨- DAPH