NEWS (1980-1989)
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1989
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Started see///.saw tapes by putting out two cassette compilations with various artists before petering out.
1988
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1987
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Moved back to Montréal.
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Started volunteering CKUT in Montréal a few months before the station goes on air at 90.3FM.
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Started the danger in paradise program on CKUT on Wednesdays evenings 10pm to midnight, a slot it would keep throughout its approximately 6 year run.
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Became part of the paid staff, first as Assistant Music Program Coordinator, then as Music Program Coordinator.
1986
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Attended reading by LKJ in NYC.
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Dropped out of university and moved to Geneva.
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Got involved with Radio Zones.
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Regular visits to the Collection de l’art brut in Lausanne.
1985
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First solo performances at poetry events, doing graffiti in the streets and on stage, some mail art.
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Reading Situationists, Burroughs, Artaud, Kerouac, Bukowski.
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Co-host of Tapeworms, a radio show on the cassette underground.
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Learned how to splice tape and started to do some audio collages.
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Saw the sound poetry of the Four Horsemen, the films of Michael Snow, concerts by The Fall, Gang of Four, MDC, Shockabilly, Philip Glass, Johnny Cash.
1984
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First on-air radio shows at CKCU-FM in Ottawa.
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Attended the Anarchist New Year Fest in the East Village in NYC.
1983
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Start getting involved in radio at CKCU-FM in Ottawa.
1982
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Graduated from high school.
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Drafted into the Argentinian army at the same time as the Falklands War. I didn’t report for service.
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Moved from Montreal to Ottawa to go to Carleton University.
1981
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1980
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