CMD CA

Montréal-based DJ and producer Corina MacDonald, also known as Cyan

As CMD, Corina MacDonald explores the deeper reaches of techno, her music building into an atmospheric reverie set in dub. Through a consistently evolving system of software paired with synths, samplers and oscillators, she crafts liveshows and DJ sets that merge experimental ideas and field recordings with an enviable sample collection and battering beats. Notoriously plugged into Montréal’s electronic music community, MacDonald is a founding member of music collectives Phoniq, Women On Wax MTL and Dark Disco. She produces CKUT 90.3FM’s long-running Modular Systems show, putting her impeccable taste making instincts to good use every Sunday afternoon, and her DJ mixes have been featured on international platforms Hypnotic Groove, Surface Tension and Berlin CommunityRadio. A software tinkerer honing her process-driven craft, CMD has released a series of polished albums and EPs that tread a transgressive line between pounding techno and simmering house, taking her wide-ranging aesthetic influences and rhythmic obsessions into compelling new territory. Her latest EP, Haptic Controls, explores another emotive side of human-machine music, diving into the world of carebots, haptic feedback and affective computing—her cyborg bodies propelled into motion by mechanical funk.