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A Beautiful New Year

01 Sunday Jan 2012

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CIQ would like to wish everyone a beautiful and blessed New Year 2012.

“I really believe life is what you make it, I believe in the power of prayers, choices, visualization and action,” CIQ says, “I encourage everyone to imagine the world they dream for and to create it, to reach for their highest dreams, to never give up, to give the best of themselves to this life and this world. To believe in Love, in Truth, in Action, to reach for their highest dreams, and give the best they’ve got to make good things happen in the world. It all begins with you, in your heart, in your friendships, and as you reach out.”

Some random 2011 behind the scenes memories in CIQ’s life are posted at Facebook.com/CIQmusic . Enjoy, and all the best for the New Year!

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To The Ends Of The Earth

20 Saturday Aug 2011

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Never one to sit still, CIQ has been to many known and unknown corners of the world, whether for business or pleasure, music, vacation or nonprofit youth work.

By the time she entered high school, her music teachers had taught her everything they reasonably could. She turned her curiosity to the world and people, reading books from thinkers, meeting people from everywhere, and traveling to remote corners of the world in a pursuit of knowledge, experience and understanding.

Some of her first international trips brought her to Central America and Eastern Europe in the nineties. After training in the jungles of Florida in skill sets for international volunteer work, she found herself involved in construction projects in poorer communities. She spent a summer at a Central American orphanage, another in a community in Bulgaria, and another in Poland. She was also able to take in some tourism during her travels, particularly in Europe.

After high school, following a gap year with some intense music studies, she moved to the USA, to Illinois’ midwest and Arizona’s desert, for two years with Master’s Commission, an arts focussed youth ministry program that enabled her to further develop her skills on stage and in the arts, and working with people in the local communities, covering a wide range from youth and young adults social and popular culture, to children in the inner cities of America. Her special focus was music, a keyboardist and multi-talented musician in constant demand. She also found time to learn many new skills and be involved with many different creative projects in all the arts.

Following a successful audition at York University she moved back to Toronto where she spent two years focused on keyboards performance study, improvisation and electronic music. She didn’t waste a moment, jumping into the music industry, networking and finding leads before frosh week had even started. At this point, she became involved with working for a handful of media sources, promoting local events with club night and rave promoters, and performing mainly locally as long as it didn’t interfere with her studies. She also began travelling internationally to satisfy her curiosity with the music industry with a trip to Nashville during a school break.

She stayed in Toronto a few more years, studying producing engineering at Harris Institute music business school and working for a string of top companies in Canada’s music industry. She learned many new skills working for the best. Most of her work was in Toronto but she did occasional work with big events in USA such as Cornerstone Festival in Illinois and New York City’s CMJ college radio event.

She took plenty of time for international travel to places like London, UK, New York, USA, Cannes, France, Miami, USA, and several other popular cities worldwide, Southampton to Manchester, Detroit to Nashville, Montreal to Calgary, Stockholm to Gothenburg. She had already been in many countries in Europe since the nineties, including France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, United Kingdom and Sweden, Canada and United States in North America, and in Belize and Guatemala in Central America.

Eventually she moved back from the heart of Toronto’s arts district to a quieter location outside the city where she could focus in the recording studio, rather than working in Toronto’s music industry nonstop and promoting events on the weekends. In addition to creative projects, nonprofit youth work continues to be an important part of her life and career. Her motivation for working in music and the arts and with people was always to make a difference in the world, and to inspire people to live their dreams and to love one another. She now has the opportunity to reflect often near the beaches of Lake Ontario, and to spend quality time with her extended family. Too young to retire or lead a too quiet lifestyle at home, she took another entrepreneurial business course and is considering options for the future, and is still deeply involved in the international music industry. She spends most her spare time in her recording studio loft. Her work with youth takes her on adventures exploring beaches, parks and events in local communities and is a continual source of inspiration. She hopes her music will be influential in the international music industry in the future, and will inspire those who come into contact with her and her creativity in a unique and fresh way.

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Live Keyboards Improvisation

02 Tuesday Aug 2011

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For some, live improvisation is not just a skill, it’s an art form.

“The focus of my study at York University was live keyboard improvisation and electronic music,” CIQ explains. “I studied four years of keyboard performance classes in two years, and relied on my classical background to get into the courses through auditions.”

But improvisation wasn’t new to her and neither was the music industry.

“The year before I started university I was living in Phoenix, Arizona and I was basically playing in bands everyday.” This included her live alternative rock electronic hybrid band, Bean Dip, as well as several other bands and special events where she played with other bands, mainly keyboards, sometimes violin, vocals or bass guitar.

“The first time I walked into a recording studio I was nineteen years old and the producer showed me how the entire studio worked. I never forgot a thing.”

Her piano teacher who prepared her for her first university classical audition compared her early original music to Jean Michel Jarre. Not only did she pass her university audition, she completed her Grade 8 Conservatory piano and Grade 2 Theory (minimum entrance requirements) with the Royal Conservatory of Music in less than a year (normally a two year course), and won several awards in classical piano competitions and a scholarship that year for her performance.

“Most of my piano lessons and violin lessons were actually before I entered high school. I really didn’t do anything in high school except hang out with my friends and travel a great deal.” Her music teachers at that point had already taught her everything they could reasonably teach her, and she started spending summers working overseas in places like Central America and Eastern Europe. “I was so bored in high school I took calculus just to see if I could do it.” She graduated with a 98.5% average in maths and sciences. “I spent a lot of time on school trips and other activities.”

“When I’m in the studio I’m so intuitive with the mixer I forget it even exists. I just play with the controls and move the sounds around and alter the effects.” She studied producing engineering at Harris Institute for the Arts, but before she graduated she was working full time in the music industry, for several top companies like BMG, MuchMusic, Contact, and Long & McQuade. Her weekend social life was promoting dance music events with her friends from Canada and USA. She also did some work outside Toronto, mainly festivals like CMJ in New York, but most of the festivals she attended were really just for her own interest, in locations such as Miami and Detroit in USA, London, UK, and Cannes, France in Europe. “It was really quite glamourous, to be honest. Hanging out in mansions and bumping into friends in random locations such as London. Going to awards shows in limos and attending all the industry parties and events.” But glamour doesn’t always pay the bills. “I was hoping to find a good manager but my experience working with management was basically I just stopped getting paid.” The music industry was going through a lot of changes at that point so she took her own business course. “I’m still trying to figure out where I fit in the music industry. Basically, I don’t. The music industry will have to change to accommodate me.”

At this point she considers her music a pretty expensive hobby. “Really it’s more like an Olympic sport. I don’t like to waste my time on projects that don’t go anywhere. At the end of the day, if I’m happy, that’s what matters.” As far as management, she really doesn’t trust anyone. “Most people I’ve met are all talk and no action. It’s not really helpful when you’re trying to get something done.” No doubt she would love to have a real job touring or just making her own records, whichever comes first, but dependable partners are few and far between when you’re a talented female DJ, keyboardist and producer. “You can only go so far on your own. You can’t tour on your own, not if you’re a female DJ. You can do everything in your studio if you don’t mind taking forever to do it.”

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CIQ Is In Love With Europe

27 Wednesday Jul 2011

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Multi-talented musician and producer CIQ has always loved to travel. She started at about age 15 spending summers working on volunteer projects in remote and poorer corners of Central America and Eastern Europe. Since then she has travelled and lived in many cities worldwide, mainly in USA, Canada, UK and Europe.

One of her favourite destinations is definitely Europe, where she finds the culture to be more laid-back, friendly and artistic than the more driven North American marketplace mindset. Her most recent adventures in Europe were a trip to Sweden and France in the winter, where she relaxed in Stockholm and met with some friends, some of whom are also DJs, then a week in Cannes, France, a popular destination for festivals on the Mediterranean Sea, where she met with the music industry at Midem.

Some of her pictures from recent adventures can be seen online at her CIQ music facebook page. She also hangs out at twitter, myspace and her blogs and can be found online under her monikers CIQ music, DJ CIQ and Gsynth.

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True Talent CIQ Steps Up Her Game

27 Wednesday Jul 2011

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Canadian musicians are known for unique and well-developed talent. Typically bright talent finds themselves quickly underwhelmed by the limitations of Canada’s small music industry, given a relatively small population compared to a greater geographic area. It simply means a smaller local market and less motivation to succeed. Young talented musicians often reach the top of their niche in less than a year and find themselves with nowhere else to go. Couple that with unmotivated management, and you have good reason to spend more time gazing at the stars and hanging out at the beach, like most Canadians do, than focusing on working on your so-called music career.

Some Canadians at this point head south for the US border where a much larger market promises a greater return. Others look to the international scene and explore possibilities that may involve travel, or technology such as the internet. Following several trips to Europe and USA exploring possibilities in the international scene, CIQ, a woman musician, producer and DJ, has relaxed into a comfortable lifestyle where she spends about half her time at the beach and the other half in the studio. She likes to hang out online on sites such as facebook, myspace and twitter.

It takes a bit to motivate her, considering she has tasted success in almost every corner of the music industry at every skill she has tried, and her former management did less for her than she did for herself. But with the launch of the Top 100 DJs poll this week, an influential internet poll in electronic dance music, she has decided to step out into the game and make her name known.

Typically the DJ industry has been 99% male dominated at the top. It is simply unacceptable and unimaginable to a woman from Toronto’s sophisticated modern culture where all minorities are recognized and promoted. It seems, in fact, rather stone age to her, and so ironic in such a technologically advanced field and art form such as electronic dance music. Women do play an important role in the music, mainly as vocalists, but it is still rare to find women DJs, and even more rare to find women who are skilled producers and studio engineers.

Considering the true value of a woman in any culture or subculture, she feels her voice is valuable and the heartbeat of her message must be heard. Please, if you value women in music, and particularly in electronic dance music, take one fast minute to show your support for her cause by casting a vote of confidence in her direction.

You can vote for CIQ right now at http://www.djmag.com/top100 via facebook app.

Sometimes all it takes is a little motivation and understanding for a true talent to step out and get involved in the competitive game that is the worldwide electronic dance music industry. No doubt she is a history maker, and needs to be recognized by a wider audience, as she steps out into the international field from a local Toronto industry.

She can be found online hanging out with friends on social networks such as twitter, facebook and myspace, as well as her blogs. Her websites can be searched on google by her names Gsynth, DJ CIQ and CIQ music.

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