Mikaila "Mikki" Straatsma
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Also known as: Viveynne
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada music production studio owner and independent musical/visual artist, VIVEYNNE, has been producing her own music since 2015 but has been performing since age 8 (2001/2002). Now, with her powers matured, she wishes to reach out to the rest of the world and wreak havoc in everyone!
Since 2005, VIVEYNNE has been a composer of music and has sung live for spiritual services, the entertainment of her peers/family, and for musical competitions she was involved in as a child and adolescent. She released her first self-composed album which was produced by Chuck Kollatos in 2009 called "Becoming Jane Doe" which would mark the first and last time many fans would hear from her directly until almost a decade later.
Later, in the year 2010, VIVEYNNE joined up with another band, "Devil between Us". She and the main guitarist, Lee Kagan, wrote the planned EP together in its entirety. Unfortunately, due to an incident of Kagan attempting to statutorily rape his musical partner as well as one the drummers, Katherine in the wake of losing the band house she and Kagan had resided in, attempted to freeload off of VIVEYNNE's mother by staying in her home before trying to sneak off without paying 2 months of rent in the process. Other band members, James Ruivo, James Atkinson, Oleg Valentine, and Anthony Chris Mignella remained to carry on the band; the named was switched "Syrynx". Despite the promise for congruity and respect within the "Syrynx" band, it was clear that some domineering & inflexible bandmates, undergoing sexual assault on the parts of producers/bandmates/etc. that were ignored and not addressed in the past, as well as her feelings of general dissatisfaction with music as an industry AND as a passion she once loved, after releasing the 2011 EP from Syrynx, VIVEYNNE disappeared from the music industry entirely and fell into a deep pit of addiction between the years of 2012 and 2013.
In 2014, a more positive outlook was bestowed upon her after she and her family (including a new step-father, 2 new step-sisters, & step grandparents) moved into the town of Scarborough; a municipality just East of the Toronto Core. This outlook was due to the part of VIVEYNNE achieving her desired high grades, interacting well with professors (networking) and learning subject matter which she found personally engaging. During her sophomore year at Ryerson University, she decided to hone her abilities in singing/composing a variety of genres on her lonesome in her own home studio before ever having been introduced to sound engineering software by another in her past. She fiddled around with jazz, electronica, gothic music, singer-songwriter, folk, & trap music as well as fiddled with the means to record these sounds in a professional way. She expanded her genre boundaries and her ability to appreciate more types of sound as well as was able to translate her internal ideas of what the music should sound like, into the digital platform that was Reaper; this progressively got easier and easier for her to do. In 2015, she began the creation of her sophomore album "Into the Woods", a fully self-composed, self-recorded, self-produced (MIDI arrangements, edits, mixing, mastering, etc.) by utilizing the cheap (but EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE) DAW titled Reaper.
After many stressful years due to schooling as well as high tension with members of her step-family, the reemergence of a terrible drug addiction she'd experienced back in 2012/2013. Her family took her home from her in February 2018 and kicked her onto the streets for not performing well enough in university and for falling prey to a gang who wished to prostitute her. VIVEYNNE was alone and hunted. "Into the Woods" took a turn for stagnation as the year of 2018 was riddled with addiction, homelessness, and strife. After eventually ending up in an abandoned motel in St. Catharines, in September 2018 her current status as a student SAVED HER LIFE. OSAP payments were able to get her a place and a spot to live and store her things back in Toronto again. She could SHOWER. She could wear nice clothes! She didn't have to play dumb to get into anyone's bed just to be warm!
That same year, "Into the Woods" was released. In this album, VIVEYNNE fully embraces the industrial/darkwave/dark-pop elements that had been present in areas across prior releases. The album is aggressively harsh in tone and in some instrumentation but also allows for beautiful melodic and lyrics sentiment immerge to show the duality of feelings one may struggle with when faced with an addictive yet overall toxic romance. In November 2019, "Drowned.". It became an album recounting the time spent in homelessness and addiction during the previous year after being estranged from family and whether or not forgiveness was on the table. It was released having been fully, written, produced, and recorded, and performed by VIVEYNNE thanks to the kindness of strangers.
In 2020 during the onset of the pandemic, VIVEYNNE created another album entitled "House of Glass". It is an album about feeling uncomfortable in one's skin and the longing to find connection is a world that is so fundamentally individualized & detached; all the way from the deeply unobservable atomic level up to the common & trite misunderstandings of human interactions. In 2021, she decided to head a more synth-pop industrialized edge with the album "Love is a Masochist". Released on Valentine's Day, "Love is a Masochist" is the fifth studio album by artist, VIVEYNNE. This album talks about the dangerous of an addiction to forms of love which cause one to engage in behaviours that equate to masochism in order to hold onto it for irrational reasons. In this album, VIVEYNNE fully embraces the industrial/darkwave/dark-pop elements that had been present in areas across prior releases. The album is aggressively harsh in tone and in some instrumentation but also allows for beautiful melodic and lyrics sentiment immerge to show the duality of feelings one may struggle with when faced with an addictive yet overall toxic romance.
Source: https://voixvirtuoso.wixsite.com/viveynne
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada music production studio owner and independent musical/visual artist, VIVEYNNE, has been producing her own music since 2015 but has been performing since age 8 (2001/2002). Now, with her powers matured, she wishes to reach out to the rest of the world and wreak havoc in everyone!
Since 2005, VIVEYNNE has been a composer of music and has sung live for spiritual services, the entertainment of her peers/family, and for musical competitions she was involved in as a child and adolescent. She released her first self-composed album which was produced by Chuck Kollatos in 2009 called "Becoming Jane Doe" which would mark the first and last time many fans would hear from her directly until almost a decade later.
Later, in the year 2010, VIVEYNNE joined up with another band, "Devil between Us". She and the main guitarist, Lee Kagan, wrote the planned EP together in its entirety. Unfortunately, due to an incident of Kagan attempting to statutorily rape his musical partner as well as one the drummers, Katherine in the wake of losing the band house she and Kagan had resided in, attempted to freeload off of VIVEYNNE's mother by staying in her home before trying to sneak off without paying 2 months of rent in the process. Other band members, James Ruivo, James Atkinson, Oleg Valentine, and Anthony Chris Mignella remained to carry on the band; the named was switched "Syrynx". Despite the promise for congruity and respect within the "Syrynx" band, it was clear that some domineering & inflexible bandmates, undergoing sexual assault on the parts of producers/bandmates/etc. that were ignored and not addressed in the past, as well as her feelings of general dissatisfaction with music as an industry AND as a passion she once loved, after releasing the 2011 EP from Syrynx, VIVEYNNE disappeared from the music industry entirely and fell into a deep pit of addiction between the years of 2012 and 2013.
In 2014, a more positive outlook was bestowed upon her after she and her family (including a new step-father, 2 new step-sisters, & step grandparents) moved into the town of Scarborough; a municipality just East of the Toronto Core. This outlook was due to the part of VIVEYNNE achieving her desired high grades, interacting well with professors (networking) and learning subject matter which she found personally engaging. During her sophomore year at Ryerson University, she decided to hone her abilities in singing/composing a variety of genres on her lonesome in her own home studio before ever having been introduced to sound engineering software by another in her past. She fiddled around with jazz, electronica, gothic music, singer-songwriter, folk, & trap music as well as fiddled with the means to record these sounds in a professional way. She expanded her genre boundaries and her ability to appreciate more types of sound as well as was able to translate her internal ideas of what the music should sound like, into the digital platform that was Reaper; this progressively got easier and easier for her to do. In 2015, she began the creation of her sophomore album "Into the Woods", a fully self-composed, self-recorded, self-produced (MIDI arrangements, edits, mixing, mastering, etc.) by utilizing the cheap (but EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE) DAW titled Reaper.
After many stressful years due to schooling as well as high tension with members of her step-family, the reemergence of a terrible drug addiction she'd experienced back in 2012/2013. Her family took her home from her in February 2018 and kicked her onto the streets for not performing well enough in university and for falling prey to a gang who wished to prostitute her. VIVEYNNE was alone and hunted. "Into the Woods" took a turn for stagnation as the year of 2018 was riddled with addiction, homelessness, and strife. After eventually ending up in an abandoned motel in St. Catharines, in September 2018 her current status as a student SAVED HER LIFE. OSAP payments were able to get her a place and a spot to live and store her things back in Toronto again. She could SHOWER. She could wear nice clothes! She didn't have to play dumb to get into anyone's bed just to be warm!
That same year, "Into the Woods" was released. In this album, VIVEYNNE fully embraces the industrial/darkwave/dark-pop elements that had been present in areas across prior releases. The album is aggressively harsh in tone and in some instrumentation but also allows for beautiful melodic and lyrics sentiment immerge to show the duality of feelings one may struggle with when faced with an addictive yet overall toxic romance. In November 2019, "Drowned.". It became an album recounting the time spent in homelessness and addiction during the previous year after being estranged from family and whether or not forgiveness was on the table. It was released having been fully, written, produced, and recorded, and performed by VIVEYNNE thanks to the kindness of strangers.
In 2020 during the onset of the pandemic, VIVEYNNE created another album entitled "House of Glass". It is an album about feeling uncomfortable in one's skin and the longing to find connection is a world that is so fundamentally individualized & detached; all the way from the deeply unobservable atomic level up to the common & trite misunderstandings of human interactions. In 2021, she decided to head a more synth-pop industrialized edge with the album "Love is a Masochist". Released on Valentine's Day, "Love is a Masochist" is the fifth studio album by artist, VIVEYNNE. This album talks about the dangerous of an addiction to forms of love which cause one to engage in behaviours that equate to masochism in order to hold onto it for irrational reasons. In this album, VIVEYNNE fully embraces the industrial/darkwave/dark-pop elements that had been present in areas across prior releases. The album is aggressively harsh in tone and in some instrumentation but also allows for beautiful melodic and lyrics sentiment immerge to show the duality of feelings one may struggle with when faced with an addictive yet overall toxic romance.
Source: https://voixvirtuoso.wixsite.com/viveynne