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About Masquerade

 Hi, I'm Vik! DIY, 30-something, female songwriter, producer, & lyricist. Music is my love language. 

As Masquerade, I make electropunk and post punk music for fun, learning, and catharsis. My music is for you if you value authentic human connection, embrace deep reflection and socially conscious themes, appreciate diverse and interesting sounds that keep you hooked, and you want to come along my music journey as an equal. 

I am honoured to be one of the first 1,000 people to become a VerifiedHuman™ Musician. VerifiedHuman™ provides a values-based mark for human-made work. Like Fairtrade does for coffee, VerifiedHuman™ signals authenticity, transparency, and integrity in creative expression.

Additionally, I joined New Bohemia, the world’s first sanctuary for authentic human creativity in the digital age! My music is part of a warm community of creatives who all share and support one another without generative-AI content in the mix. 

I'm also a proud member of Conformity Is Death (CID), an independent music collective all about growth, friendship, and freedom of expression. 

When I think of “punk,” it’s not a band that plays three-chord progressions fast and loose, it’s a person who doesn’t care about other people’s definition of music and confidently gets on stage with some scrap metal and contact mics and makes a racket for fifteen minutes.

Improvising Across Abilities: Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (Music and Social Justice)


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