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The Imposter
by CANADALAND
Weird art from Canada. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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The 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. She's considered what makes us laugh and why, explored the implications of Improv's "yes, and" philosophy in a time of #MeToo, and asked whether comedy…
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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 Bruce Cockburn, and became a regular on Mr. Dressup. Recently, his self-released album Keyboard Fantasies was rediscovered. He's since returned to...
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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 Sandra Battaglini, a comedian who's petitioning the government to recognize comedy as an art form that's worth funding, and the art duo Life of a…
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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 the morality and the economics of the industry, but we seldom talk about porn as a creative practice. Esther Splett was fresh out of a creative...
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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 soldiers so they don't get too depressed to fight. Since the early internet, Skawennati's been trying to make sure Indigenous people are present online;...
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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—someone was making a lot of money selling those meds. Soon, Annie was playing the stock market, turning her savings into a small fortune. Once she was...
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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 noise meditations by four different artists. The sonic tone Ut from the Gregorian scale is said to alleviate guilt and free the listener from anxiety…
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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 culture grapples with issues around consent. Aliya asks professional improvisers Kayla Lorette, Becky Johnson, Alia Rasul and Ann Pornel what they do…
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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's foundational text, Impro is also on Peter Thiel's employee reading list, at what point does "yes, and..." become a tool for blind compliance? In...
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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 meditations by four different artists. Let the noise from this meditation weave together with the noise in your environment; this one’s meant to...
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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 wanted to hear her predictions for the future, so we spoke to her again. On this episode, Lido talks about Latina pop star tropes, fat shaming, and how...
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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 noise meditations by four artists exploring how noise alters our state of consciousness. Listen with with headphones for the full effect. Find more…
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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 Magazine, listeners reported "cascading feelings of dread, fear and euphoria." The track circulated among teenagers and by 2001, "covencrawls" had...
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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 make “the most fucked up rap anyone’s ever heard.” And it was. It got him a record deal with a major American label, and helped bring Canada's rap...
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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 1973 New York Times bestselling book of controversial experiments on plants inspired generations of artists to try to communicate with plants through...
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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 was a pioneering electronic composer named Mort Garson, who used it to soundtrack the CBS live broadcast of the Apollo 11 moon landing. In this...
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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. But these beer-swilling simpletons weren't the only hoser characters to achieve cult status in Canadian film and TV history. In this episode, we talk...
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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 the woman who helped propel Toronto's alternative comedy scene into the mainstream gives Aliya some tough love. See omnystudio.com/listener for...
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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 Film Board to do it. For more information, visit: canadalandshow.com/imp See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See...
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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 first episode of this harrowing journey, Aliya recalls the 1968 comedy that ruined laughter for her, phones her dad up to talk about brownface, and goes to...
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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 new, avant-garde compositions. For more information, visit canadalandshow.com/imp See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on…
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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 spotlight back on trailblazing musicians from across the continent. But it also raises questions about when music is considered art and when it...
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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 she pulled it off. TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains discussions and depictions of sexual abuse Go to canadalandshow.com/imp for more See...
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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 is an experimental electronic producer living in Toronto. He breaks down his Time Limits EP. Jarrett Martineau talks about how Revolutions Per Minute (RPM)…
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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 Canadian Feature Documentary award at Hot Docs. But when he started out, he just wanted to make fiction. And he still can't get those projects funded.…
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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 recordings were collected by a group of twentysomething composers and a famous avant-garde acoustic ecologist. They were trying to capture Canada through...
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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 to pull you into the psychology of Christophe André, who spends most of the 400+ pages alone in a room. Artists at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival...
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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 from malform by Chik White "Tired Ariadne" by Old Girl Find more of their work at canadalandshow.com/imp See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted...
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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 Goldstein is the former host of CBC's WireTap. He now hosts the podcast Heavyweight on Gimlet Media. Rap Master Maurice will revenge rap Jonathan Goldstein or any...
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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 subway stations. His goal was to get them printed in Toronto's Metro, so that he could get paid to distribute his own work to commuters. We asked for...
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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 Metro, so that he can have the pleasure of distributing his own artwork on the job. With your help, we can achieve this goal together. Tweet...
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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. Century Egg makes Chinese pop music in Halifax. They just wrapped up a mini-tour of central and eastern Canada. They talk about their peculiar approach…
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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 for that dream job. She talks to Aliya about her long game and how joking about being Muslim has changed since her early, post-9/11 days. You can...
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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 Winnipeg Comedy Festival April 6th to 9th. Betty Lambert was a writer based in Vancouver. Crossings was the only novel she published, but she also wrote plays, radio...
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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. Sceneable is a Youtube channel by a ten-year-old from Quebec named Dylan. He vlogs about things like communism, women's rights and growing fish....
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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. Anupa Mistry is the Canada editor at The Fader and she's written for outlets like Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and CBC Music. She writes about music and...
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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 Kiwanga is a multimedia artist born in Hamilton and based in Paris. She talks to Aliya about the Sun Ra Repatriation Project, her attempt to contact jazz musician…
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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. Austra's new album is called "Future Politics." You can stream it on Bandcamp. Find more of her stuff at our website: canadalandshow.com/imp Songs on this episode:...
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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 album, Audible Songs from Rockwood, is a collection of songs based on the mid-19th century archives of the Rockwood Asylum for the Criminally Insane, complete...
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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. Emily is vice president of PEN Canada and editor of the Exploded Views series from Coach House Books. She also founded Little Brother Magazine. She...
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Ep.25 - Hamilton, the Musical
Gif heritage with Sally McKay. Kiera Boult is the wizard of Canada's Brooklyn. The first movie star is from Hamilton. Kiera Boult is a performance artist and retired stand-up comic. Sally McKay is an artist, curator and assistant professor at McMaster University. She helped run the now-deceased…
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Ep.24 - The Art Psychic
Artwork goes missing. A film hits an impasse. An artist feels stuck. They turn to fortune teller Cindy Mochizuki for guidance. In addition to being a go-to fortune teller for artists, Cindy Mochizuki is herself an artist based in Vancouver. Her work spans from animation to sculpture…
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Ep.23 - Land of Filth 'n' Honey
Jess Salomon makes her comedy Great Again. Bruce McDonald goes to Washington. PJ Vogt lives inside a Weakerthans song. BJ Snowden loves Canada more than Canadians do. Jess Salomon used to be a UN war crimes lawyer. Now, she's trying to get some regular comedy gigs in New York. She has videos of…
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Ep.22 - Remembering Subservient Chicken
Whether he's talking about a book that changed his life or just his favourite brand of chips, author Pasha Malla approaches subjects with deep thought and insight. So we invited him on the show to talk about some of the stuff he's been into lately. Here are his picks: The novel After James by...
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Ep.21 - How to Set Yourself On Fire
Performance artist Cassils talks about setting themselves on fire, having their image banned in Germany and making out with Lady Gaga. Find images and videos from their work at heathercassils.com. Music on this episode: "Move Like a Mystic" by A l l i e. "Slipping Away" by Diana (Bad Channels...
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Ep.20 - The Best Of The Imposter (So Far) pt.2
Tanya Tagaq is an Inuk throat singer. Her new album, Retribution, came out October 21st on Six Shooter Records. @Tagaq Lauren Strapagiel is the social news editor for Buzzfeed News Canada. She’s written for the National Post, Montreal Gazette, and the Edmonton Journal. @LaurenStrapa Allan King’s...
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Ep.19 - The Best Of The Imposter (So Far) pt.1
Lido Pimienta is a singer, songwriter, and visual artist from Baranquilla, Colombia. Her highly-anticipated follow up album, La Papessa has been artfully remixed, and can be listened to here. @LidoPimienta Geoff Siskind is a documentary filmmaker and Storage Wars Canada showrunner. @GeoffSiskind...
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Ep.18 - How To Be Funny in an Age of Rat Sandwiches
"I don't want to joke about my own anxiety. The world is just under a dark cloud right now." Comedians Chris Locke and Kathleen Phillips reflect on the role of comedy in troubling times, and how to stay positive after the birth of their first child. Chris Locke and Kathleen Phillips are comedians...
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Ep.17 - Owen Pallett Has a Job
Owen Pallett turns collaborators into clients. A machine writes a love song for Aliya. Owen Pallett's latest album is In Conflict. He won the Polaris Prize for his album He Poos Clouds, released under the name Final Fantasy. Neural Karaoke is an AI program that turns pictures into songs. Its…
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Ep.16 - It's Like Scrabble In India
Leanne Simpson learns to work with the noise. Scrabble opens deep wounds in Delhi. Golboo Amani unsettles Catan. Leanne Simpson is a writer and musician. Her new album from is called f(l)ight. Golboo Amani is an artist who hacked Settlers of Catan with her "intervention pack," Unsettling…
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