© Illustrations by Charmain Wong COVERS: Botanical drawings courtesy of Paul Nelson & Missouri Department of Conservation © Photos by Christian Fortino
DEMO 15 Editors in Chief Isaac Nikolai Fox Anna Trikas Online Editor Charlie Jupp
Welcome to the Winter 2019 issue of demo magazine. This edition of demo considers “new beginnings,” with a particular focus on new artists who are just emerging onto the dynamic Canadian music scene. It seems oddly appropriate that such would be the focus of demo in a year – 2019 – when Hart House at the University of Toronto marks a century of providing students with the encouragement and the opportunity to pursue their artistic and recreational interests outside of the classroom. For ten decades, music has been one of most popular and accessible vehicles at Hart House through which people of all ages and stages of life – and representing almost as wide a range of musical tastes as there are people – have been able to feed their souls, restore their spirits, and experience community together.
Design Editor Jennifer Wan Contributers Zain Ahmad Emily Erhart Mena Fouda Vivian Li
For several years now, demo magazine has been written by student members of Hart House’s Music Committee. On that Committee, a dedicated group of students regularly come together, across their differences, to ensure that music has pride of place at Hart House. Week in, month out, these students put on concerts, organize symposia, host industry guests, and generally ensure that students from all three campuses of the University of Toronto will always be able to indulge and evolve their shared love of music when they enter the doors of this very special centre for education outside the classroom. And those among their number who plan, design, publish and distribute demo are helping to carry on the great tradition of music journalism without which so many artists might never be discovered or heard.
Joey Litvak
And so, as you turn the pages of this very special edition of demo, I encourage you to say a silent “thank you” to those hard-working students whose devoted efforts to highlighting new and cutting-edge musical performers are helping to maintain and reinvigorate Hart House’s century-long celebration of music itself.
Graphic Designers
Yours in the Rhythm of Life,
Jordan McIntyre
Dani Mariam Mathilde Molavi Anisa Moquit Keshav Sharma-Jaitly Adam Smith
Daniel Lewycky Andrea Macanović
Illustrators Chuyi Deng John Monahan Hart House Warden
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Sherry Liu Kiki Teng Charmain Wong
