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      • licence@socan.ca

      Editor in Chief:

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      • druckmanh@socan.ca

      Read more »

      About Us

      Words + Music is the online magazine of SOCAN, the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada. Just as SOCAN was formed in 1990 by the merger of its predecessor Canadian performing rights organizations PROCAN and CAPAC, their separate magazines merged in 1994 to form Words + Music. Our mission is to provide interesting, high-quality content about the increasingly exciting and

      Read more »

      SOCAN Song of the Week

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      Video: Red Carpet Interviews from 2023 SOCAN Gala – Part 1

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      Plume, Banx & Ranx, Ginette Reno, Nathalie Bonin, Roxane Bruneau, Mathieu Brisset

      Speaking Out: SOCAN advocates politically for music creators

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      President’s Message: The accelerating pace of change

      Adapting to constant, disruptive technological shifts

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      The export strategies of Klô Pelgag, Fredz, Aliocha, Patrick Watson and Billy du Page

      Attention SOCAN members! New online resources

      For education, connection, networking, development

      Kizaba: Carte Blanche for Black History Month

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      All Sound Advice »

      Viviane Audet: Back to Basics

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      “The piano has been my home for a long time"

      Nathan Micay talks about scoring HBO’s Industry

      Composing “music to make grown men cry”

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      Meet the video game composer behind Pixel Studio

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