Grant Sawatzky
@grantzky.bsky.social
humanities devotee; collecting books, records, and CDs; thinking about music, and thinking about thinking about music.
'free/composed' radio hour, hosted (as JCspins) monthly
'free/composed' radio hour, hosted (as JCspins) monthly
new episode of free/composed coming your way 5:30 to 7pm PST today!
tune in at bside.radio or twitch.tv/bsidedotradio
today's show: 'improvisations'
tune in at bside.radio or twitch.tv/bsidedotradio
today's show: 'improvisations'
November 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM
new episode of free/composed coming your way 5:30 to 7pm PST today!
tune in at bside.radio or twitch.tv/bsidedotradio
today's show: 'improvisations'
tune in at bside.radio or twitch.tv/bsidedotradio
today's show: 'improvisations'
New episode of ‘free/composed’ going live today at 5:30-7pst (that’s 2.5 hours from time of this post).
Today’s theme: drumming it all up
An ecclectic mix of experimental, traditional, jazz, and morefeaturing the drumming and other percussion. Tune it at bside.radio or twitch.tv/bsidedotradio
Today’s theme: drumming it all up
An ecclectic mix of experimental, traditional, jazz, and morefeaturing the drumming and other percussion. Tune it at bside.radio or twitch.tv/bsidedotradio
October 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
New episode of ‘free/composed’ going live today at 5:30-7pst (that’s 2.5 hours from time of this post).
Today’s theme: drumming it all up
An ecclectic mix of experimental, traditional, jazz, and morefeaturing the drumming and other percussion. Tune it at bside.radio or twitch.tv/bsidedotradio
Today’s theme: drumming it all up
An ecclectic mix of experimental, traditional, jazz, and morefeaturing the drumming and other percussion. Tune it at bside.radio or twitch.tv/bsidedotradio
Today! (3–5pm), an off-schedule ‘free-composed’ special:
‘Songstress Sunday’
Eclectic mix of women vocalists in early music, traditional, experimental, pop, classical, and more.
Tune in at bside.radio or twitch.tv/bsidedotradio
‘Songstress Sunday’
Eclectic mix of women vocalists in early music, traditional, experimental, pop, classical, and more.
Tune in at bside.radio or twitch.tv/bsidedotradio
September 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Today! (3–5pm), an off-schedule ‘free-composed’ special:
‘Songstress Sunday’
Eclectic mix of women vocalists in early music, traditional, experimental, pop, classical, and more.
Tune in at bside.radio or twitch.tv/bsidedotradio
‘Songstress Sunday’
Eclectic mix of women vocalists in early music, traditional, experimental, pop, classical, and more.
Tune in at bside.radio or twitch.tv/bsidedotradio
New 90 minute episode of my bside.radio show, ‘free/composed’ today: 5:30-7pm pst. Today’s all-vinyl set is a feature of traditional, pop, and “other” quality recordings from around the globe that have made their way to the bins of the Pacific Northwest. fun and eclectic mix.
August 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
New 90 minute episode of my bside.radio show, ‘free/composed’ today: 5:30-7pm pst. Today’s all-vinyl set is a feature of traditional, pop, and “other” quality recordings from around the globe that have made their way to the bins of the Pacific Northwest. fun and eclectic mix.
new episode of JC-spins' "free/composed" radio TODAY, 5:30-7pm PST streaming at bside.radio and via twitch.tv/bsidedotradio
Today: all vinyl summer special of eclectic pop and oddities rescued from thrift shop and bargain bins of the pacific northwest
Today: all vinyl summer special of eclectic pop and oddities rescued from thrift shop and bargain bins of the pacific northwest
July 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
new episode of JC-spins' "free/composed" radio TODAY, 5:30-7pm PST streaming at bside.radio and via twitch.tv/bsidedotradio
Today: all vinyl summer special of eclectic pop and oddities rescued from thrift shop and bargain bins of the pacific northwest
Today: all vinyl summer special of eclectic pop and oddities rescued from thrift shop and bargain bins of the pacific northwest
On today's episode of 'free/composed' I'll be playing a diverse 90 minute program of music for flute—past present and future this afternoon streaming on B-side Radio, Vancouver. bside.radio and twitch.tv/bsidedotradio
5:30-7pm PST
5:30-7pm PST
June 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
On today's episode of 'free/composed' I'll be playing a diverse 90 minute program of music for flute—past present and future this afternoon streaming on B-side Radio, Vancouver. bside.radio and twitch.tv/bsidedotradio
5:30-7pm PST
5:30-7pm PST
Varun Chandrasekhar and I are co-chairing the Society for Music Theory Interest Group 2025-27. Here is the call for papers on we sent out for our upcoming meeting (AMS/SMT Nov. 2025) on the topic: “ontologies of music theory’s analytical objects”
DM if you’d like proposal submission details
DM if you’d like proposal submission details
June 3, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Varun Chandrasekhar and I are co-chairing the Society for Music Theory Interest Group 2025-27. Here is the call for papers on we sent out for our upcoming meeting (AMS/SMT Nov. 2025) on the topic: “ontologies of music theory’s analytical objects”
DM if you’d like proposal submission details
DM if you’d like proposal submission details
Above is Hudson’s Bay Company flag ad flown from 1707 to 1801. Preceded but red and white version (British Merchant flag 1682 to 1707) and followed by version with the Union Jack flag in upper right was flown from 1801until 1965 when Canada’s current flag was first introduced.
June 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Above is Hudson’s Bay Company flag ad flown from 1707 to 1801. Preceded but red and white version (British Merchant flag 1682 to 1707) and followed by version with the Union Jack flag in upper right was flown from 1801until 1965 when Canada’s current flag was first introduced.
The company whose commercial monopoly was so effective that for 200 years the corporation was the de facto government of the geographic area presently known as Canada—governing for a period almost twice as long as ‘Canada’ has existed—is shutting down for good today.
June 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The company whose commercial monopoly was so effective that for 200 years the corporation was the de facto government of the geographic area presently known as Canada—governing for a period almost twice as long as ‘Canada’ has existed—is shutting down for good today.
looking for Artist Credit info for this Thai Classical CD, but require someone who can read the Thai script.
TCD.7 'Thai Dulcimer Solo (Kim)' photo of front cover and rear CD insert below. No performer is credited in the english text.
Appreciate any leads! Thanks!
TCD.7 'Thai Dulcimer Solo (Kim)' photo of front cover and rear CD insert below. No performer is credited in the english text.
Appreciate any leads! Thanks!
April 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
looking for Artist Credit info for this Thai Classical CD, but require someone who can read the Thai script.
TCD.7 'Thai Dulcimer Solo (Kim)' photo of front cover and rear CD insert below. No performer is credited in the english text.
Appreciate any leads! Thanks!
TCD.7 'Thai Dulcimer Solo (Kim)' photo of front cover and rear CD insert below. No performer is credited in the english text.
Appreciate any leads! Thanks!
i'll bring playing an eclectic mix of music from my collection of library discards and thrift shop oddities this afternoon, on my monthly program 'free/composed'.
tune in on bside.radio
today 5:30-7pm PST
tune in on bside.radio
today 5:30-7pm PST
March 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
i'll bring playing an eclectic mix of music from my collection of library discards and thrift shop oddities this afternoon, on my monthly program 'free/composed'.
tune in on bside.radio
today 5:30-7pm PST
tune in on bside.radio
today 5:30-7pm PST
looking for some internet radio adventure later today?
tune in to bside.radio for
'free/composed'
episode 33: fusions
5:30-7pm PST
join me for 90 minutes of programming featuring varied takes on synthesis of different music-making traditions
AV stream: twitch.tv/bsidedotradio
audio: bside.radio
tune in to bside.radio for
'free/composed'
episode 33: fusions
5:30-7pm PST
join me for 90 minutes of programming featuring varied takes on synthesis of different music-making traditions
AV stream: twitch.tv/bsidedotradio
audio: bside.radio
February 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
looking for some internet radio adventure later today?
tune in to bside.radio for
'free/composed'
episode 33: fusions
5:30-7pm PST
join me for 90 minutes of programming featuring varied takes on synthesis of different music-making traditions
AV stream: twitch.tv/bsidedotradio
audio: bside.radio
tune in to bside.radio for
'free/composed'
episode 33: fusions
5:30-7pm PST
join me for 90 minutes of programming featuring varied takes on synthesis of different music-making traditions
AV stream: twitch.tv/bsidedotradio
audio: bside.radio
amid uproarious nations—
among tottering kingdoms—
a voice utters forth;
the earth melts.
among tottering kingdoms—
a voice utters forth;
the earth melts.
February 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
amid uproarious nations—
among tottering kingdoms—
a voice utters forth;
the earth melts.
among tottering kingdoms—
a voice utters forth;
the earth melts.
last night's listening: 10/10
was totally transported.
Toto Bissainthe chants Haïti avec Marie-Claude Benoît et Mariann Mathéus
Arion, France 1977
was totally transported.
Toto Bissainthe chants Haïti avec Marie-Claude Benoît et Mariann Mathéus
Arion, France 1977
February 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
last night's listening: 10/10
was totally transported.
Toto Bissainthe chants Haïti avec Marie-Claude Benoît et Mariann Mathéus
Arion, France 1977
was totally transported.
Toto Bissainthe chants Haïti avec Marie-Claude Benoît et Mariann Mathéus
Arion, France 1977
one of the types of records I particularly enjoy collecting is "oddball" unconventional arrangements of classical repertoire. this newest addition to my collectionis Vivaldi, Bach, and Purcell arranged for Banjo, Sax, harmonica and guitar.
January 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
one of the types of records I particularly enjoy collecting is "oddball" unconventional arrangements of classical repertoire. this newest addition to my collectionis Vivaldi, Bach, and Purcell arranged for Banjo, Sax, harmonica and guitar.
Untitled 2 (January 9, 2025)
January 10, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Untitled 2 (January 9, 2025)
Social media algorithms as Kierkegaard’s “phantoms” of the “indolent age”
January 4, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Social media algorithms as Kierkegaard’s “phantoms” of the “indolent age”
of course—just, beaver pelts (mostly for hats!) was the first of many massive resource extraction projects on Turtle Island. Hudson's Bay Company in "Rupert's Land" being both a private resource extraction company and de facto government (not unlike Canada as oil-and-gas/lumber operation, today)
November 18, 2024 at 11:14 PM
of course—just, beaver pelts (mostly for hats!) was the first of many massive resource extraction projects on Turtle Island. Hudson's Bay Company in "Rupert's Land" being both a private resource extraction company and de facto government (not unlike Canada as oil-and-gas/lumber operation, today)
I'm thinking of expanding a chapter of my dissertation into an article or book along the lines of "Schoenberg's Mozart" superficially about phrase structure in Mozart, but on a second level a treatment of Schoenberg as analyst.
November 11, 2024 at 7:28 AM
I'm thinking of expanding a chapter of my dissertation into an article or book along the lines of "Schoenberg's Mozart" superficially about phrase structure in Mozart, but on a second level a treatment of Schoenberg as analyst.
A relative of the low-German perhaps? schmatjche / je’schmack.
To taste, a taste, an aroma, to savour.
Taking baby steps to learning/remembering the bits of Plautdietsch I heard as a kid, and “schmekje gut” is still jangling in my memory.
To taste, a taste, an aroma, to savour.
Taking baby steps to learning/remembering the bits of Plautdietsch I heard as a kid, and “schmekje gut” is still jangling in my memory.
November 2, 2024 at 10:13 PM
A relative of the low-German perhaps? schmatjche / je’schmack.
To taste, a taste, an aroma, to savour.
Taking baby steps to learning/remembering the bits of Plautdietsch I heard as a kid, and “schmekje gut” is still jangling in my memory.
To taste, a taste, an aroma, to savour.
Taking baby steps to learning/remembering the bits of Plautdietsch I heard as a kid, and “schmekje gut” is still jangling in my memory.
a great microgenre for sure.
have you seen Electric Dreams (1984)?
have you seen Electric Dreams (1984)?
August 9, 2024 at 11:07 PM
a great microgenre for sure.
have you seen Electric Dreams (1984)?
have you seen Electric Dreams (1984)?
i was a white/gold only at first, but after seeing the diagram illustrating the theory that the ambiguity hinges on different (automatic/unconscious) estimation of colour compensating for either too much/too little light, I could flip between the two.
June 17, 2024 at 8:51 PM
i was a white/gold only at first, but after seeing the diagram illustrating the theory that the ambiguity hinges on different (automatic/unconscious) estimation of colour compensating for either too much/too little light, I could flip between the two.