Bio: Alexandra Mackenzie is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice includes visual and installation art, composition and live musical performance. She lives and works in Montreal. Her project Petra Glynt combines politically charged lyrics and live drumming, with digital modulation and intervention. A through-line in her visual and recorded art might be her itinerant exploratory attention to detail and texture: searching out those worlds within worlds. Her new record ‘This Trip’ has just been released on Vibe Over Method, and it makes an excellent soundtrack to today’s political climate.

Recording Notes: This interview was recorded at Alex’s former Bloor street apartment and home studio in downtown Toronto. In keeping with Alex’s habit, we left the windows open: along with the traffic you can at points hear one of Alex’s former roommates practicing guitar. Still uncertain what the track is that interrupted our interview from the trunk of someone’s car in the street below. If you know, please comment.

The track used in the introduction is a Pale Eyes remix of Petra Glynt’s WAR CRY. You can download it here, if you’re interested: https://soundcloud.com/pale-eyes/war-cry-pale-eyes-whitmanic-1

Links:

Artist: Artist's Website: http://www.petraglynt.zone/Bandcamp: https://petraglynt.bandcamp.com/The Devil’s Trap Teaser (scored by Alex): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zPh8OHi4-g

References:Mitchell Stafiej: https://vimeo.com/mitchellstafiej‘Her’ score (Owen Pallett): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGRgA0JxN5RODeQ1fCuu5sIEArUNgfxSMLine 9 Pipeline Blockade: http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/line-9-blockade-halts-work-on-enbridge-pipeline-1.2728262‘You’ll know it is time to turn the page when you hear the chime’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aULIkd85TjEHealing Power: https://healingpowertoronto.bandcamp.com/album/petra-glynt-of-this-land

Photo by Pascha Marrow.