This kind of sonic perception signals towards Martin Daughtry’s notion of “palimpsestic listening.” Daughtry extends the notion of the textual palimpsest—which are historical “parchments that were reinscribed after the original writing had been erased”—to sonic experiences as a way to, “foreground the multiple acts of erasure, effacement, occupation, displacement, collaboration, and reinscription that are embedded in music…as well as in acoustic experiences more broadly” (9).

I was first introduced to Tam Goossen by a mutual acquaintance during my research of the market in the summer of 2019. Tam, I was told, would be an excellent individual to speak with given her long-tenure in the neighborhood…

For many tourists and local Torontonians, Kensington Market is an enchanting destination marked by, among other things, a distinct layered architectural quality. Walking through the neighborhood, you become immersed in buildings defined by additions and makeshift alterations…

I first became interested in Coalition not because of the Kensington connection but because of its associated music genres, though as my research went on – the importance of the relationship with the neighborhood became apparent…

How does space become crucial to musical community – and what happens when that space disappears? Though only open from 2014-2019, Coalition TO, a basement bar in Toronto’s Kensington Market neighborhood, was the city’s home base for underground punk and metal…