Board of Directors

As a non-profit arts organization, Wavelength Music is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors. Meet our hard-working and dedicated Board members.

Jennie Punter

Jennie Punter

President

Jennie Punter is the editor of Musicworks, a respected Canadian print magazine that explores innovative artists and ideas in music and sound art. She oversees Musicworks Society of Ontario Inc., a non-profit with a small staff, many contributors, a board of directors, and active community of readers, followers, and partners. She is a regular correspondent to Variety. She has written thousands of articles and reviews for magazines and newspapers, primarily on music and film. She was an editor and writer for Music Express and IMPACT, and contributing editor on music to Flare.

She has also worked as a field producer and writer in documentary film. She is an active member of the Toronto Film Critics Association, Magazines Canada’s Arts & Literary Magazines Committee, and the Polaris Music Prize jury. Jennie is a musician, mom, cyclist, and lifelong fan and supporter of local indie music and the arts.
Riaz Charania

Riaz Charania

Vice-President

Riaz grew up in Calgary and moved to Toronto in 2007 to pursue a career in Arts Marketing and Communications. With over 10 years of experience in Marketing and Communications including his current role as the Director of Marketing and Communications at Soulpepper Theatre Company, as well as past experience working as an Artist/Tour Manager and Publicist in the music industry, including work for Paper Bag Records, StageFright Publicity, and Outside Music. Riaz has an unquenchable thirst for platforming artists in whatever capacity he can, as well as community engagement and storytelling. On any given night you can find him taking in the many cultural offerings Toronto has to offer, and even the occasional mosh pit.

 
Matt Longo

Matt Longo

Secretary

Matt grew up in the west end of Toronto and was raised on a musical diet of the Beach Boys and Huey Lewis. After picking up the guitar and attempting to write music twice as loud and half as catchy as these artists, he has played in numerous musical outfits, performing around Ontario to tens upon tens of people. Currently, Matt is a lawyer with the City of Toronto specializing in land use planning matters and attempts to keep up with new music created in or passing through our city.

 
Chris De Castro

Chris De Castro

Treasurer

Chris de Castro has been involved in independent underground music for more than a couple of decades, whether hosting a radio show at CKCU, making zines at 16, and dodging fireworks exploding from a drum kit at gigs in abandoned warehouses. Since moving to Toronto in 2001 to attend Sheridan College for animation, Chris has been a prolific VFX artist, working on music videos for Maylee Todd, Valerie Gore, Azari & III, Brendan Canning, Shad, Drake, Lights, Maestro and many more.

He has also been involved in other video and large installation works for the CFC, NFB, Nuit Blanche, Much, and MTV, including controlling the lights on the CN Tower, Niagara Falls, and Parliament during the 2010 Olympics. During this time, Chris met his wife at a Sunday Wavelength show on the Sneaky Dee’s dance floor, and proposed at the ALL CAPS! festival on Toronto Island.
Angela De Medeiros

Angela De Medeiros

Director at Large

After working for several years in the non-profit arts and culture sector as a Production Specialist at Harbourfront Centre, Angela De Medeiros joined Universal Music Canada’s Label Services team in 2016. As a Senior Label Manager, she works with a diverse independent label roster that includes Coyote Records, Deadbeats, HypnoVizion,  Royal Mountain Records,Virgin Music Group and more. De Medeiros has led artist marketing campaigns for artists like Arkells, Julia Jacklin, Sloan, Spiritualized, PUP, Half Moon Run, Rezz and Grimes.

Outside of her work with Universal, De Medeiros is always looking for ways to experience new music. She has volunteered for and attended Canadian Music Week and NXNE multiple times, spoken at Come Together showcase event, and has attended many Wavelength-curated shows, to name a few.
Sally Lee

Sally Lee

Director at Large

A member of the Wavelength Board since 2016, Sally is currently the Executive Director at the Canadian Independent Screen Fund for BPOC Creators. She has worked in Toronto’s nonprofit arts sector since the late ’80s, including serving as ED at the Reel Asian Film Festival and the artists’ rights group CARFAC Ontario. Other organizations she’s been involved with as staff or Board member include TIFF, Soulpepper Theatre Company, Workman Arts, the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT), the Images Festival, the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC), Artists for Peace and Justice Canada (APJ), Samara Canada, the Pan Am Path, BorderLines Magazine and the Women’s Press. 

As a consultant, clients have included Polyphonic Ground/Small World Music, Canadian Coalition of Independent Media Arts Distributors/VUCAVU, Toronto Biennial of Art, Reel World Film Festival, OCADU, and others. She is a Toronto Arts Council Cultural Leaders Lab Fellow and currently sits on the boards of Wavelength Music, the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, and the Toronto Arts Council. An active member of Toronto’s independent music community since the early ’90s, Sally plays bass and sings in the band Long Branch. Previous bands include Chicken Milk and Korean band Third Line Butterfly, as well as Venus Cures All and The Magnetars, both of which participated in Wavelength shows during the Sneaky Dee’s era.
Libydo

Libydo

Director at Large

Hi! I’m a dance performance artist based in Toronto. I made my first debut performance with Wavelength in 2015 as a part of SlowPitchSound and Pursuit Grooves, showcasing in one of their DIY art venue spaces that has become a staple that Wavelength is known for. Since then, I have continued to do performances as well as attend many concerts, festivals, and DIY shows that this organization puts on every year throughout the city, which allows me to deepen my relationship and appreciate what they contribute to this city’s vibrant art community. I was selected as a Board member in 2019 and very proud to be assisting as a Director at Large.
Maria-Carmela Raso

Maria-Carmela Raso

Director at Large

Maria-Carmela Raso is a Reykjavík-based composer, vocalist, curator, and electronic musician. Though most of her time is spent in Iceland, she was planted in Toronto for many years and still has roots in the city and music community. As a musician, Maria-Carmela has worked as a performer, improviser, and soloist with the likes of Tanya Tagaq and the Element Choir. She recently recorded vocals with Herdís Stefánsdóttir and Kjartan Hólm for the Icelandic TV show Verbúðin (Blackport). Her sound artworks have been performed in Reykjavík, Poland, Canada, France, the Czech Republic and more.

Since moving to Iceland, she has been involved extensively with the music and art community, from record label Bedroom Community to experimental art/music venue Mengi, DIY all ages music venue R6013 to underground music collective Post-Dreifing. Maria-Carmela is also a productive inter-arts curator and tastemaker, having created and managed a long-running music series in Reykjavík called “Can’t think just feel,” as well as several multidisciplinary exhibitions.

Maria-Carmela’s solo project MSEA has been described as nightmare pop, ethereal and moody with hints of Julee Cruise and a more demented Anohni. MSEA was selected as a 2023 participant of Keychange, a global network and movement working towards gender equality in the music industry, as well as one of 12 selected for the Nordic Lights program. Her album Our Daily Apocalypse Walk was released in September 2023.
Arianne Tong

Arianne Tong

Director at Large

Arianne Tong is a resident writer for the queer culture hub YOHOMO, and a Toronto-based stand up comedian and aspiring comedy writer. She hosts the comedy wellness podcast Group Therapy as well as the Girl Gang Cabarets variety show. In her professional career, she has worked as a marketing manager at Bell Media for HBO Canada and Crave, and communications manager for Virgin Mobile.