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Editorial

Balancing on the edge

We at Montréal Serai are overwhelmed by the response to our call – a response by writers, artists, poets and performers, sharing their experiences, at times highly personal, within this new state of the world.


Algebra Tibe and an Interview with Sinbad Richardson

Algebra Tibe and an Interview with Sinbad Richardson

It’s Algebra Tibe! If someone only likes you 6 out of 10 you can tutor them to like you more. Sinbad Richardson is a Montreal animator and filmmaker. He has filmed numerous shorts and also directed/created music videos for many […]


Holy singularity, time to test Turing.

Holy singularity, time to test Turing.

Why does Keanu Reeves act like a robot? The “singularity” (in its non-mathematical sense at least) is the purported point in time when machines take over the world – Matrix style. Ok, maybe that is a crude description of the […]


Duets for Abdelrazik

Duets for Abdelrazik

The first repetitive notes of piano announce a call to remember; a drawn out saxophone note responds. We are off for the 44 minute improv voyage that makes up Duets for Abdelrazik. If it seems like an unlikely name for […]


Flawed heroines and heroes are the ones that I like

Flawed heroines and heroes are the ones that I like

(a song inspired by my anti-Hero of folk) Sometimes I feel like a nut In the last couple of days two separate people have asked me “What is your favourite band? What is your favourite song?” Both times I was […]


Varnam

Varnam

  A deluge of water filled up the Sunday morning I went to see Varnam at the 35th edition of Montreal’s World Film Festival. On the way to the theatre, I biked and waded through meandering streams coursing through the […]


Archiving new forms of musical notation – John Cage’s legacy continues in Theresa Sauer’s Notations 21

Archiving new forms of musical notation – John Cage’s legacy continues in Theresa Sauer’s Notations 21

Notations 21 by Theresa Sauer. Mark Batty Publisher 2009. Hardcover: 320 pages. Reproduced partial images are with permission of the publisher as stated for purposes of a review of the work.   Notations 21 by Theresa Sauer is a collection […]


Hanging out with musical revolutionaries

Hanging out with musical revolutionaries

  I’ve known Jason Breckenridge for many years and over that time the two insights I’ve gained about what makes him tick are 1) He concocts the most ridiculously unattainable schemes in an effort to make his working life as […]


Editors' picks

  • Art

    Not So White, Not Quite Black: A Provincial Life in Monotones

    Pranav Prakash
  • Art

    Immersed in the materiality

    Justine Béliveau
  • Book Review

    Mexico: Historic heartland of a radical social movement

    Maya Khankhoje
  • Poetry

    Sneers the poem

    Nicola Vulpe
  • Short Story

    Talking on the Wall

    Ami Sands Brodoff
  • Book Review

    What Do We Mean When We Talk About Class in Canada?

    Veena Gokhale
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