cornerSUN, also known as Christopher Millin, is the guy who wrote the middle-grade novel The King of Arugula and started Crow Toes Quarterly, an arts and literature magazine for children. In 2001, before the crows and before the stories about falling into holes, Christopher thought he wanted to be a musician. He didn't have a musical bone in his body, but that wasn't going to stop him from trying. He purchased a used PC (yes, a PC) that had some cheesy (and some not-so-cheesy) music-making software installed into it and he went out and bought a busted-up keyboard from a thrift store. He spent months teaching himself the intricacies of the music-making software. In 2003, CBC's now defunct late-night masterpiece ZeD aired his composition The Dying Weed. This gave him the confidence to keep going with his music. Over the next few years he composed hundreds of songs, or as he liked to say, "background compositions", using the software and the keyboard as his tools and Boards of Canada, Air, Orb and Aphex Twin as his inspiration. In 2006, when Crow Toes Quarterly came into his life and the PC was replaced with a Mac, he reluctantly let the music go...

cornerSUN download o' the week

(downloads are in mp3 format, saved as zip files. the music is copyrighted, so please be nice. if you're going to use it for something, please credit cornerSUN/christopher millin):

Pori (April 9 - April 15, 2012)

Program Error (April 16 - April 22, 2012)

On Top Of My Desk (April 23 - April 29, 2012)

The Wife (April 30 - May 6, 2012)

Tasteful (May 7 - May 13, 2012)