Hey there,

This is Shaan from Waveform Collective 🙂— welcome to our new newsletter, intended as an easy way to keep up to date with the goings-on of the collective! We hope this gives you a better sense of what our events are like, and what we’ve been up to.

It will be short, and no more frequent than once a month (I promise to minimize any slop and/or spam). If you’re wondering how you got here, I imported the people from our luma newsletter. But feel free to unsubscribe anytime!

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At our recent meeting, we discussed more ideas to bring community together around music and this was one of them! Started by Cindy, it’s a project on our discord where we collectively listen to an album and give our thoughts! This past month, we’ve listened to Tunes 2011-2019 by Burial and Bloweyelashwish by Lovesliescrushing. Cindy meticulously curates a list of each album’s genres and a few suggested readings. Check it out on the discord!

At this month’s electronic music meetup, we enjoyed a sunny respite from the snow and chatted about aleatoric music, old media formats, artists intent vs perception, enshittification, and enjoyed a nice a pocket operator demo! I had to leave early on this one, so thanks a lot to Andrew for helping me close up!

Some shared links that day: Kai’s music, Nik’s art, and August’s music.

The next meetup is February 28th from 2 to 4pm. We’ll be running these the last Saturday of every month up to May!

What else has the collective been up to? Myself and Cindy just put up 50 posters for the meetup around UWaterloo campus so keep a look out for those! We are in the planning stages of a concert in March. There will be a more EDM/dancing lean this show. Let us know if you know any artists that would be good for this!

For me, this has been a slow January, I’ve been experiencing the details of winter more vividly than ones past. The icy, spindly hands of Four Tet’s Rounds and broken mechanical-jazz of Forss’ Soulhack have been keeping me company. There’s a bittersweet and intricate quality to Speak For Yourself by Imogen Heap, which feels right for this time of year. What have you been listening to?

Thanks for checking in,

Shaan from Waveform