English, Communications student at UNB
Artist, Musician
WROTE
Like a mournful, low-hanging morning fog, there’s a quiet determination to the vulnerable truths that Erin Muir lays bare with Wrote. Conceived in the tiny, contemplative moments between exhaled cigarettes under a sparkling moon in the summer of 2016, the project sees Muir as the eye of a hurricane. Whether filled out by what is an ever-rotating cast of confidants and collaborators, or standing shrouded alone, Wrote is an open-book of anxieties, heartbreak, and uncertainty.
Usse
Usse creates improvised music within a structural framework, exploring the intersectionality of motion, mechanics and timber. In the vein of soundmaking aesthetics relating to free jazz and free music, nowave and post-punk, and the 'krautrock' era of German music, the desire is to explore common interests of spontaneity, play, tension, time and space. Instrumentation is rooted in drum and bass, accompanied by synthesizer, guitar, saxophone, and percussion, alternating between voice, instrumental and found sound related compositions.
Tooth & the Fang
Tooth & the Fang creates beautifully melancholic music and lyrics mixed with transcendental noise. Based out of Saint John, Tooth & The Fang have been performing since 2011 and is made up of Smith and a revolving door of musicians. Their first record, And I heard From the empty spaces the sound of music, a beautiful and awful music., was released in 2014. In 2016, Smith and six other musicians released Void, Moving Without Having Moved.