Riparian Media

Since 2018, Riparian Media has focussed on advocacy for artists and organizations operating primarily within various forms of exploratory/ experimental music. We specialize in music that invites deep listening and that probes at the boundaries between approaches, styles, and traditions. Some of this work can be classified as contemporary composition, experimental jazz, abstract electronica, experimental songcraft, and free improvisation but it also sometimes falls somewhere between. We’ve also provided support for artists working within various global traditions from Irish music to Iranian classical. Our services are geared at acquiring greater visibility for this music through print and online media, as well as radio and occasionally television.

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Since 2018, Riparian Media has focussed on advocacy for artists and organizations operating primarily within various forms of exploratory/ experimental music. We specialize in music that invites deep listening and that probes at the boundaries between approaches, styles, and traditions. Some of this work can be classified as contemporary composition, experimental jazz, abstract electronica, experimental songcraft, and free improvisation but it also sometimes falls somewhere between. We’ve also provided support for artists working within various global traditions from Irish music to Iranian classical. Our services are geared at acquiring greater visibility for this music through print and online media, as well as radio and occasionally television.

Our unique outlook on publicity emerges from the varied experience of founder Nick Storring, who is an acclaimed composer of experimental music and a National Magazine Awards-nominated writer whose credits include articles in Musicworks, The Wire, and Exclaim! as well as liner notes for notable recordings on labels such as RVNG Intl., Another Timbre, Recital and Algha Marghen. Storring regards artists and supportive media figures as members of a shared community and ecosystem that also includes curators, performers, listeners, and publicists such as himself. For him, advocating on behalf of artists emerges from a community-based mindset and as such prioritizes cultivating meaningful connections between journalists, radio hosts, and other media personalities with musicians. For non-mainstream music, it is crucial to connect with this grassroots network in order to achieve greater visibility.

Our roster of past clients includes a broad range of celebrated artists including Brodie West, Linda Catlin Smith, Ellen Gibling, India Gailey, Jordan Nobles, Jairus Sharif, Eve Egoyan and Mauricio Pauly, Tania Gill, Bekah Simms, Rose Bolton and Christopher Butterfield as well as legendary cult figures such as pioneering multidisciplinary collective Intersystems and Allen Ravenstine of revered post-punk innovators Pere Ubu. We have also collaborated with festivals such as EVERYSEEKER (Halifax), the Guelph Jazz Festival, Something Else! (Hamilton, ON), Women From Space (Toronto) and FutureStops (Toronto) to expand their media presence.

Our efforts have resulted in coverage for our clients in a diverse array of major outlets worldwide such as the Wire, Songlines, Downbeat, Fader, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN, Stereophile, Bandcamp Daily, Celtic Life International, the Quietus, The Stranger, Fanfare, Jazzwise, Popmatters, Exclaim!, Paste, and Electronic Sound. They’ve also appeared in newspapers such as the Vancouver Sun, Toronto Star, Le Devoir (Montréal), Winnipeg Free Press, Halifax Chronicle Herald, Hamilton Spectator and on prominent radio stations such as CBC, BBC Radio 3, WFMU, KEXP, Resonance FM, Radio Ö1 (Austria), ABC (Australia) and NTS Radio.

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