Hi friends, a quick update from us before the full monthly newsletter. Happy to announce that Waveform Collective and Tri City Synth Society are boothing at the annual Kitchener-Waterloo Multicultural Festival!
Cover design: me (Cindy)
KW Multicultural Festival is a massive 2-day outdoor festival celebrating the diverse cultures and communities of the region. Our booth is just one small part of the festival; the event will feature live performances, many independent vendors, representatives from local non-profit organizations and community initiatives, and tons of great food!
Our booth with Tri City Synth will have representatives talking about our activities, members dropping by to hang out and enjoy the festival together, merchandise from both organizations for sale, and a roster of jammers throwing on live sets from 2 - 6 PM on Saturday!
Map of the festival
Speaking of merchandise…
NEW ZINE ISSUE: Sound Kitchen #3
8 months after our last issue, the third edition of our Sound Kitchen zine is finally complete and debuting exclusively at the Multicultural Festival!
Cover by the wonderful Hyunjin (@hzkm0 on Instagram)
Though I don’t intentionally choose themes for my zines, the content of this issue ended up centering on the themes of nature, nostalgia, and analog media. Ambient and spoken-word albums take the spotlight in the Recommendations section, and the authored columns further speak to the message…
🧡 Featuring:
New recommendations for locally produced electronic/experimental albums
An interview with the talented Guelph-based synth jammer wet heaven (wetheaven.bandcamp.com)
A technical column on how to start conceptualizing and composing ambient music by Opals (opalsounds.bandcamp.com)
A long piece about my experience recording cassettes at home for the first time, and my takeaway from that.
Thoughtfully and lovingly hand-crafted graphics!
The new issue, along with past issues and 2 new vinyl sticker designs, will be available for sale both days at our Multicultural Festival booth. I hope you can come by and take a look for yourself, or read them later at our future events 🙂
Thanks to our member Gord for helping make this happen!
🧡 Zine Preview: Interview with wet heaven
Your recent release, (I Stopped for a Second at) Five Eighty-Eight Paisley Rd. was a homage to Guelph and the time you spent in its nature. Any memories that were particularly inspiring in the making of the album? Or just special moments you'd like to share?
wet heaven : I'm a big walker and the neighborhood I'm in is about a 45 minute walk down to the "core" of Guelph, so 45 mintutes is often the perfect time to throw on a rough jam of something I'm working on and just wander and overthink it and personalise it with my surroundings. I find because I spend so much time walking, for work, purposely for recreation and also just to "get out of my own head" and see where I end up, I connect where I am with what I'm listening to a lot. I am already nostalgic for the month four years ago I spent repeating Al Stewarts "Year of the Cat" when I was walking around a sunny July west-end Guelph. It reminds me of a very specific shortcut I would take and crank that song in my headphones and close my eyes and walk knowing that there was no traffic I had to be mindful of… [cont.]
(Much gratitude to wet heaven for sharing his story with us. You can read the full interview by picking up your very own copy of the zine 🩵 )
Our regular monthly newsletter will be delivered after the festival weekend. Thank you for reading, and I hope I can see your faces again soon.
- Cindy (marbledmonsoon)