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Brian Fauteux

@brianfauteux.bsky.social
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Popular music and media studies professor at the University of Alberta. Co-host of WDWK on CJSR 88.5 FM. Polaris Prize jury. Alberta Music board. Music in Orbit now available: www.ucpress.edu/books/music-in-orbi…

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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Joni Mitchell reposted our @ca.theconversation.com article about genAI in the Canadian music industry. Might as well cancel all my classes for the rest of the week.
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Michael Rancic @therewasnosound.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"The majority of survey responses indicate a clear line between creativity and the type of music production encouraged by a platform like Suno."
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We went a little bit longer on the SOCAN and Suno lawsuit for @theconversation.com, with some notes about the larger issues at play with respect to genAI and music in Canada and what sort of solutions we'd like to see: theconversation.com/ai-music-law...
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AI music lawsuits raise questions about American companies and Canadian arts
A recent survey of working musicians in Canada points to a growing discontent about AI in music, and points to how we could gain a music industry that allows Canadian music to flourish.
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Our public infrastructure in music project is ramping up (@cult_cap on twitter) and we've thus far completed a survey with musicians in Canada. There are lots of findings to share, but one initial result is that 87% of respondents view AI in music negatively: ca.billboard.com/business/tec...
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University of Alberta Study Finds 87% of Canadian Musicians View Generative AI ‘Negatively’
The Western Canadian university surveyed 263 Canadian musicians about their thoughts on AI’s rampant rise and the use of streaming services as an artistic tool.
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I joined Laura Stanley from the Big in Canada podcast to talk can con, Canadian popular music, and satellite radio. The episode dropped today: tr.ee/8C-yRqGIUC
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Polaris Music Prize @polarismusicprize.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
ON THE RECORD Polaris jurors get quotable on the Album Long List nominees. Daphni - Butterfly... by @brianfauteux.bsky.social Winner announced September 22 at Massey Hall in Toronto. Tickets available now (link in bio)
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CJSR 88.5FM @cjsrfm.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🏆Help select the winners for our 2026 volunteer awards! Including: 🏅Best new show 🏅Best host 🏅Favourite show Take 5 minutes to fill out the Listener Survey form to tell us what YOU love, hate and are lukewarm on. Submission deadline: July 10, 2026 forms.gle/BFvYrf1uw68U...
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CJSR Listener Survey 2026
You listen to us all year long...now it's time to turn the tables! We want to hear from YOU about what, on CJSR, you love, hate and are lukewarm on. We TRULY want to hear your feedback...so we can ...
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Pleased to see this out in the world. Perhaps of value for those teaching media industries courses this fall. All efforts made to be current but, of course, there have been two or three further upheavals since this article went through final revisions last month. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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Canadian Media Industries Policy in the Streaming Era
Abstract. The traditional structure of the Canadian media industries has been upended by technological, political, and global economic forces in the 2020s.
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Two game sevens that have almost caused a heart attack but we live to see another day. I owe Alex Newhook my life
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
We're doing a project on public infrastructure for music in Canada and doing a final call for musicians to participate in a survey on musicmaking at this particular moment. If you'd like to do this, please email me at: fauteux@ualberta.ca. Or pls share with others who may be!
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
We're doing a project on public infrastructure for music in Canada and doing a final call for musicians to participate in a survey on musicmaking at this particular moment. If you'd like to do this, please email me at: fauteux@ualberta.ca. Or pls share with others who may be!
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
It's the spring sale at UC Press and books are all 40 percent off with the code SPRING40. This includes Music In Orbit, of course, as well as a number of excellent recent books on similar topics. Worth a look, probably. www.ucpress.edu/books/music-...
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
My conversation with Dr. Judith Klassen, Curator at the Canadian Museum of History, is now online on the Questions About Music YouTube page. "What is Canadian? Popular Music and National Identity" www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtQh...
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QAM: Judith Klassen - What is Canadian? Popular Music and National Identity
YouTube video by Questions About Music at the University of Alberta
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Kicking off in about 20 minutes: www.youtube.com/live/CtQhM0I...
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QAM: Judith Klassen - What is Canadian? Popular Music and National Identity
YouTube video by Questions About Music at the University of Alberta
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Tomorrow, the next talk in the Questions About Music series is taking place. I'll be speaking with Dr. Judith Klassen, curator at the Canadian Museum of History, about the challenges of curating popular music. In-person and live streamed at 4pm MT: www.ualberta.ca/en/music/con...
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What is Canadian? Popular Music and National Identity | Judith Klassen
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I'll be on CKUA speaking to Grant Stovel about International Songwriter's Day and Music In Orbit in about ten minutes. Might even pick a song to play.
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
It feels good to finally be fully into the public infrastructure for music project. A survey is being/about to be sent to about 2000 musicians in Canada. If that's you, please consider filling it out, I promise it will be used for good ❤️
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
UC Press is selling books by donation this year at SCMS which is cool and I grabbed a copy of Music Streaming Around the World. Worth a look if you like #deals
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
This is taking place in about an hour (central time)
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Team Venezuela let's go
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Our five year old gets to skip school today to Irish dance in bars and schools across the city
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
One year since Music In Orbit came out, and I feel like you get to do a year anniversary post and then have to shut up about it forever. Still available via UC Press and locally at Audreys. Below are a few select posts and interviews I've done about the book since it has come out
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The public sphere is a little more structurally transformed today
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Even the CEO is tired of Bluesky
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I had figured out how to find solid blocks of writing when the kids were pretty young, but, like often home sick and stuff. I'm finding it hard to figure this out for this new phase of after-work and weekend activities. I'm thinking big things like, "maybe a white board?"
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Nobody in mountain time complains about the start time of a hockey game. We're just happy to be included.
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 19/02/2026
"I must have been 16 when this album came out and it was such a soundtrack to my youth. There are lots of other records from around that era that define that time for me, but I think as a body of work it’s pretty much flawless." Jamie Campbell Bower on Bloc Party - Silent Alarm buff.ly/fB93jrb
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm album cover. Largely white, with lettering in grey and some sparse trees as glimpsed in a snowy landscape.
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Unbelievably great day to have phoned it in at work and watched these games all day
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Happy #WorldRadioDay. Have you seen this, have you heard about this?
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Anthropic head of AI safety quits, warning of "world in peril" & announces plan to study creative writing, as my college charges ahead in deal with Anthropic, which trained its tech on at least 25 books taken without permission from our Creative Writing faculty. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Anthropic AI safety researcher quits with 'world in peril' warning
It comes in the same week an OpenAI researcher resigned amid concerns about its decision to start testing ChatGPT ads.
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
You absolutely need to get some 50/50 tickets
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
In fifteen minutes, a brand new episode of WHAT DO WE KNOW is airing. We're doing an all vinyl show today. We got the new Kid Rock song. We have everything. CJSR 88.5 FM, cjsr.com.
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Leaning into something that is celebratory, flawless, colourful, joyful, powerful, beautiful, etc., etc., is the right move when Trump and Vance and Kid Rock and Rob Schneider or whoever are taking their ball and going home.
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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
To set the record straight, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said today that about 30 per cent, or 1M, Albertans support independence. This is false. The latest IPSOS poll found about 15 per cent support for separation from Canada when those polled were informed about the "real-world consequences."
When asked if they would vote for their province to begin the process of separating from Canada and seeking a new agreement to define its future relationship with the country, approximately three in 10 residents of both Alberta (29%) and Quebec (31%) say yes. This includes those who say they would definitely or probably vote yes, and those who say they would lean toward voting yes.

However, new Ipsos research which "stress-tested" these sentiments by introducing real-world consequences reveals that actual committed support for separation is roughly half these levels in both provinces, with only 15 to 16% of Albertans and Quebecers maintaining their support after considering possible costs. This means that for roughly half of separatist supporters in both provinces, independence is more a political message than a plan they are prepared to endure costs to achieve.
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Does this include doctors of philosophy?
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Those two guys don't give a fuck about how sunny it is
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Saw some really great bands at Winterruption last night. Had one beer that was ice cold and one that was room temperature. That's how it goes sometimes. Might have to do it all again tonight.
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Every job in my field was like, AI and Media, and now it's like, AI and Media (but maybe it's a little bit bad)
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I mean, it doesn't really matter this year, does it?
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liz pelly @lizpelly.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I think it would be really helpful if everyone posting their very cool takes on the state of music journalism this week would also encourage people to subscribe to worker-owned outlets & support independent writers trying to make new things happen
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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Me, checking my email one last time on my death bed in 2067: "You have received a new comment on your review of 'Animal Collective: Centipede Hz.'"
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Persistent pessimism is one way to put it
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
The annual grad conference in Music at the University of Alberta is going down April 23 and 24th, with a deadline for submissions of February 20th. Dr. Judith Klassen, Curator for Music and Performing Arts at the Canadian Museum of History, will be giving the keynote.
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Feel for the Bills. Losing to a guy named Bo Nix is just brutal stuff.
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I see the point about how it's difficult to say, yes this counts as AI and is banned, or that this doesn't and is permitted. But more importantly, Bandcamp's move signals a resistance to tech industry influence in music communities, and narratives of AI inevitably, and is valuable as such.
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 16/01/2025
A truly awful day for movies and art, losing one of the most singular and brilliant voices to ever make them. We've unlocked our full David Lynch issue from 2017, which is now entirely free to read. R.I.P. Mr. Lynch, and thank you forever for the work and example you left us.
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Issue 51: David Lynch Archives - Bright Wall/Dark Room
September 2017
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CJSR 88.5FM @cjsrfm.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
CJSR Top 30 topped by three Canadian acts! www.cjsr.com/2026/01/char...
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Charts | Week ending January 12, 2026
Visit the post for more.
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Nothing a little walk to get a coffee couldn't solve
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Yesterday my students were like, yeah the only people excited about using new AI features are my grandparents
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