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Guitar(e), synths, FX - Raphaël Foisy @smallscaleraph « le p’tit tabarnouche » - Guy Thouin (@ledevoir , 2023) Raphaël Foisy-Couture est un musicien improvisateur et organisateur communautaire originaire de Tiohtià:ke/Moonyang/Montréal. Actif dans le milieu des musiques expérimentales, improvisées et créatives depuis plus d’une décennie. Ancien membre du collectif La Passe et coorganisateur des séries @mardispaghetti (depuis 2021) et Mardis Tous Croches (2014-2016), il a participé à l’organisation de centaines de concerts et à la coordination de tournées à travers l’Île de la Tortue et du Canada. À travers son exploration de multiples instruments (contrebasse, guitare, batterie, piano, dispositifs électroniques), il a publié des albums sur les labels @noticerecordings , @havnode , @raraavislabel , Cuchabata (@daviddugasdion ) et Arachnidiscs. Il est également le fondateur de l’étiquette Small Scale Music. Il a aussi été directeur général du @cnmn_rcmn (Réseau Canadien pour les Musiques Nouvelles) de février 2024 à août 2025. - "the little tabarnouche" — Guy Thouin (@ledevoir , 2023) Raphaël Foisy-Couture is an improvising musician and community organizer from Tiohtià:ke/Moonyang/Montréal. Active in the experimental, improvised, and creative music scene for over a decade. A former member of the La Passe collective and co-organizer of the @mardispaghetti series (since 2021) and Mardis Tous Croches (2014–2016), he has helped organize hundreds of concerts and coordinate multiple tours across Turtle Island and Canada. Through his exploration of various instruments (double bass, guitar, drums, piano, and various electronic devices), he has released albums on the labels @noticerecordings , @havnode , @raraavislabel , Cuchabata (@daviddugasdion ), and Arachnidiscs. He is also the founder of the Small Scale Music label. He served as Executive Director of the @cnmn_rcmn (Canadian New Music Network) from February 2024 to August 2025.

deux mille vingt cinq: la deuxième partie et/ou la partie deux

Attention all citizens, artists, creatives and dreamers! The City of Hamilton’s Downtown Hamilton Creative Placemaking Grant is now accepting applications. This grant provides funding for new, community-led placemaking projects that temporarily animate outdoor public spaces in Downtown Hamilton. Applicants are encouraged to reimagine every day public spaces and propose temporary projects that are creative and innovative. Applications are due April 8, 2025 at 4pm. For more information and to submit visit: Hamilton.ca/PlacemakingGrant #LinkInBio Image credit: It Is Time presented by @havnode #PublicArtHamilton #DowntownHamilton #CreativePlacemaking #HamOnt #HamArts

⏰ IƬ IƧ ƬIMΣ ⏱ 𝘼𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙥𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙘 𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙥𝙞𝙚𝙘𝙚 It Is Time has been installed on the iconic corner of King + James! On the strange brick pillar that used to house the giant clock that’s now in the farmers market! Huge thanks to everyone who contributed photos for this! We asked for community-sourced images of things you saw on your walks/in your neighbourhoods and you provided! And to my collaborators, friends, and 🔥 artists @bonpetra and @shameless_aimless - was so nice to work together again and have this come alive! Hope you all can check it out in person! It will be up for the next year or so. 🌸🎉✨🧭

Reflecting on growth & barriers. At The Fishway on the Waterfront Trail #havnitistime

WE ARE HIRING ✔️ @casbahgram Seeking a Music Promoter to curate, promote and develop an "experimental" Monthly music series. Paid position. If you are interested in developing a night that spotlights the weirder side of music, this position is for you. Electronic, Noise, Ambient, Skronk, Drone, Glitch, and other alternative sounds. Email your interest to [email protected] 📸 by @thebassmachine

If these words won’t hold their place And my song won’t make its trace A sonic marking waiting to unfurl through time and space My fury at burning heights Extinguished by predetermined rites Tired of all the inner fights A truth untold Carried silently by the bold Only waiting to wither and grow old And what do I have to show? All that is that will never flow All that no one will ever know The sky searches for its blue Deeply hidden amongst other hues Dance beneath it and Let’s hope for something true

🚨🎰 Art for art’s sake: @artlotto.ca put 5$ toward a roll at the dice to win this HAVNrecords prize pack! Every cent of funds raised heading to @1492landbacklane legal fund. Music power 🎲🌞

@a_hutchie ’s glorious “Potion Shop” (out now on @cosmic_resonance ) is a brief whirlwind of different activity spanning wonky hip hop to languid backyard psychedelia. Take a look at what the wonderful @justinchristopherpoulin had to say about it recently! . . . #experimentalmusic #hamont #bandcampfriday #bandcamp #electronicmusic #havn #hamiltonontario #cosmicresonance

.."We set out to investigate the weirdo heroes of our scene (approx. 2008 - 2018), dredge up their most relevant cultural artefacts, and present them, observe them, revere them, and reflect on the fact that it is a scene mostly comprised of white men. DIY spaces and operations have always teetered on the legal margins, increasingly since the Hamilton Real Estate Boom. We reflect on the Outsider Music shows we’ve organized and attended... what would happen if we swapped the majority of white bodies in attendance with a black and brown audience : how long could that DIY event survive before attracting the attention of police, and before the event gets shut down? Evidence suggests it is far more restrictive for non-white artists in Hamilton to own and operate physical, autonomous arts spaces, and subsequently, Outsider Music labels. The significance of using retromedia was an attempt to democratize ways and means of making legitimate music distinct from mainstream industry models. However, despite good intentions, the Outsider Music scene has become a small, specialized and privileged niche group of mostly white men experimenting and creating around the aura of obsolete media. As we take a long look in the mirror, we realize and come to terms with our own involvement in this exclusive artistic practice. What imbues someone with the confidence, agency and platform to create our relevant cultural artefacts? How does One participate in a music scene that is steeped in covert white supremacy and sexism? As our traditional venues are shuttering at an alarming rate, artists are starving, and genius is going undiscovered... we take a look back to remember and celebrate historical cultural artefacts while understanding that we need new ones. If some of the raw materials are toxic, we can reconfigure their chemistry into something sanguine. As artists, we need to be critical, but we can also be Utopian. Some monuments belong on the bottom of rivers. We consider freer resources and new ways of sharing power and privilege through collaboration. We focus our highly trained psychic and empathetic forces toward this reimagined future of an equitable music community in Hamilton.”

Love letter to @havnode and and all the beautiful people in it 🧡

@a_hutchie ’s “Potion Shop” will be available for pre-order on (LP/CD/DL) tomorrow (BANDCAMP FRIDAY!) from @cosmic_resonance . Eight tracks of bonkers, curious-eared pop featuring a vast array of collaborators (check those tags!) . . . #hamont #weirdpop #experimentalmusic #hamilton #hamiltonontario #electronicmusic #hamiltonproducer