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The Imposter
Weird art from Canada. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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68 эпизодовThe Last Laugh
Throughout season two of The Imposter, Aliya Pabani has explored the poetics and politics of comedy in her attempt to become a standup comedian.
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Comes out of the Woodwork
Born in Philadelphia, Glenn came to McGill in the 60s to study music. He fell in love with Canada, released some albums, sang alongside musicians like...
Is Comedy Art?
With less than a month left until her final set on the Second City stage, Aliya realizes that she's not totally sold on standup. So she talks to Sandr...
Meet the Porn Auteurs
Montreal is home to the backend of the online porn industry, where IT gurus have been running A/B tests on desire. Stories about porn often focus on t...
The Sun Never Sets on AbTec Island
Erin Gee created Project H.E.A.R.T; a virtual reality game that uses your emotions to power a holographic pop star, who has to sing for combat soldier...
The Patron Saint of Comics
A near-fatal health condition put Annie Koyama out of commission for over a decade. One day, while taking her pain medication, she had an epiphany—som...
Noise Meditation #3: Abnegation of Guilt
We consume a lot of noise, but we rarely get the opportunity to reflect on how it affects us. This is the third in a series of 5-minute immersive nois...
No, However...
An incident at the bar after improv class makes Aliya question the wisdom of upholding the "yes, and..." mantra at the core of improv, while our cultu...
Aliya Does Improv
Affirmation is the key to improv. It's a way to become more spontaneous, creative, and achieve true collaboration. But at a time when Keith Johnstone'...
Noise Meditation #2: Expanding Empathetic Belly
We consume a lot of noise, but we rarely get the opportunity to reflect on how it affects us. This is the second in series of 5-minute immersive noise...
Lido Pimienta's Next Baby
The last time Lido Pimienta was on the podcast, she was about to release La Papessa, and it ended up winning her the $50,000 Polaris Prize.
We...
Noise Meditation #1: Mont Royal Tunnel
We consume a lot of noise, but we rarely get the opportunity to reflect on how it affects us. This is the first in a series of 5-minute immersive nois...
Sexcoven
Sexcoven.mp3 is a sound file that was uploaded to the internet on July 26, 1996. It was described as a "6-hour atonal drone". According to Slammer Mag...
Cadence Weapon and The Black Experience in Sound
Cadence Weapon was a nineteen-year-old in Edmonton, battle rapping on the internet when he released his first mixtape, Breaking Kayfabe. He wanted to...
Music for Plants and the People Who Love Them
At the height of the New Age movement, there was a lot of music for plants, but there was only one Plantasia.
On this episode, we look at how a...
The Man Who Scored the World
The synthesizer has become so ubiquitous that you can download them as apps, but in the mid-sixties, less than thirty people owned one. One of them wa...
Towards a Theory of the Hoser
In 2002, a low budget mockumentary about two headbangers from Alberta premiered at Sundance. That film was FUBAR, and it became an instant classic. Bu...
Aliya's First Set
A vague email from a Yahoo user leads to a budding mentorship with one of Canada's most beloved comedians, Aliya performs her first 5-minute set, and...
Alanis Obomsawin: 85 Years of Resistance
Alanis Obomsawin is an Abenaki filmmaker who's been challenging Canada's image of itself for the last 50 years. And she got funding from the National...
Aliya Tries Comedy
At the end of this season, Aliya will do a live comedy set onstage at Second City.
But first—she needs to learn how to tell a joke.
On the...
Ep.45 - I Pity the Country pt.2
Operatic tenor Jeremy Dutcher takes turn-of-the-century field recordings out of the museum and back to their original community by fusing them with ne...
Ep.44 - I Pity the Country pt.1
A DJ goes crate digging unearths a trove of rare Indigenous music folk, rock and country music. The re-issue Native North America Volume 1 turns the s...
Ep.43 - The Heart Says No
In the new season of The Heart podcast, Kaitlin Prest gets men to open up about that time when they didn't get consent, but did it anyway. We ask how...
Ep.42 - The Indigenous New Wave
From experimental DJs to punk bands and soul singers, a surge of artists are creating modern, groundbreaking Indigenous music.
Ziibiwan...
Ep.41 - Why There Are No Period Films About Black People In Canada
Charles Officer has been chronicling Black Canadian stories in documentaries like The Skin We're In and Unarmed Verses, which just won the best Canadi...
Ep.40 - That Time the CBC Aired 10 Hours of Crickets and Church Bells
For two weeks in 1974, the CBC broadcast ten hours of field recordings from across the country on their flagship documentary show, Ideas. The recordin...
Ep.39 - A Psychological Thriller About a Man and a Radiator
Guy Delisle's new comic Hostage isn't the typical kidnapping story, full of torture and guns. The book uses minimal colour and slow, repetitive action...
Ep.38 - A Field Recording of the Body
Darcy Spidle uses a jaw harp to play his insides. Aisha Sasha John studied clown to become a poet.
Music on this episode: Selections fro...
Ep.37 - Will Jonathan Goldstein React to this Episode?
This episode initially aired on October 19th, 2016.
We blur the line between reality and fiction with this homage to WireTap.
Jonathan Gol...
Ep.36 - #hurtjae Update / Cassils Reloaded
On last week's episode, we featured Jonathan Rotsztain, a comic artist who makes idiosyncratic comics about his job handing out Metro newspapers at su...
Ep.35 - Justice for Cartoon Jonny Rotsztain!
Jonathan Rotsztain distributes newspapers for Metro Toronto, and makes comics about it. His goal is to get his comics about the Metro printed in the M...
Ep.34 - Century Egg
Century Egg composes Chinese pop songs by Email. And a war is brewing in the Canadian art world. It's a war of loverz, haterz and haterzhaterz.
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Ep.33 - Sabrina Jalees
Sabrina Jalees knows the work side of comedy. She's been doing standup since she was a teen and has been on TV almost as long. But she's still waiting...
Ep.32 - Fatima Dhowre
Comedian Fatima Dhowre recounts her many near death experiences and breaks down her first comedy set.
Fatima is performing at the Winnip...
Ep.31 - The Movie Written by Five-Year-Olds
A ten-year-old leads the revolution on Youtube. An interview with two child screenwriters goes badly. A dad and daughter review Mac DeMarco's old band...
Ep.30 - Anupa Mistry is Done with the 6ix
The Fader's Anupa Mistry on a strange early clip of the Weeknd, new music you should pay attention to and why you should stop talking about the 6ix.
Ep.29 - Waiting for a Call Back from Sun Ra
Kapwani Kiwanga sends a message to Saturn. SlowPitchSound goes to Wonderland. Rajni Perera launches the deities into space.
Kapwani Kiwa...
Ep.28 - Austra Takes Control
Katie Stelmanis, AKA Austra, talks about her awkward CBC dance party, her time in an ostracized riot grrrl band and owning her music.
Au...
Ep.27 - Theme for an Asylum
Folk songs from a 19th-Century asylum for women, collected by the alter ego of Simone Schmidt.
Simone Schmidt performs as Fiver. Her new...
Ep.26 - Pineapple Pizzagate
Emily M. Keeler listens to one song seven times a day, goes on Instagram and ends up in the Twilight Zone, and looks for gopher holes in poetry.
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