
Link Music Lab strives to be a catalyst for content creation that brings communities together through innovative and inclusive music.
Founded in 2009 by Mahmood “Moudy” Schricker, musician and ethnomusicologist, Link Music Lab is a Toronto-based artist collective & not-for-profit that strives to be a catalyst for content creation, bringing communities together through innovative and inclusive music.
Link Music Lab employs an ethnomusicological approach to collaboratively developing concert, recording and artist marketing initiatives with member artists at all levels of career.
Link Music Lab is rapidly moving to the forefront of contemporary artistic multiculturalism in Toronto - moving beyond its foundations in Persian music to facilitating collaborations that unite and cross-pollinate various cultures in entirely new artistic contexts by providing a testing ground for exploration of deeper roots through contemporary music forms.
Link’s mandate is activated through five programming modes:
- Classical Persian Music Concert presentations and tour support: Prolific virtuosos and debuts presented for the Persian/Iranian community across Canada, creating anchor dates for North American tours in collaboration with touring networks;
- Experimental Link series: Engages artists to rearrange their repertoire: pull it apart, rearrange and perform collaboratively to audiences with new life breathed in. The series seeks to bridge gaps between heady classical orientations and modern sensibilities for contemporary niche markets. Global
- Infinite Jest: Concert presentations of electronic and experimental sounds with global roots and fusions, often with a Persian/Iranian flavour and only focused on local artists;
- Polotechnics series: Shines a new light on international and local artists from the Iranian diasporic underground, shifting and broadening perspectives of Persian electronic music while tapping into different genres such as EBM, electro, techno, acid and all things synth. The concept will run the gamut of electronic music experiences, from high-energy dance beats to contemplative sound art, and further Link Music Lab’s mission to expand its audience and find new territories and artists working in different genres, particularly within the Iranian diaspora.
- Children’s Special: Dedicated to Iranian diaspora in Farsi. The series focuses on children's music in their native language often combined with drawing and other activities for kids.

Mahmood Schricker
Mahmood Schricker is a musician, producer and founder of Link Music Lab, which supports the promotion and creation of Iranian-Canadian music through genre-crossing collaborations and innovative series like Polotechnics and Experimental Link Series. As a Canadian-Iranian born of Austrian heritage, Schricker unites elements of the different worlds he is part of.
He has transformed the setar into an electronic instrument to expand the possibilities for Persian music to integrate minimal ambient and dub sounds with Persian melodies.
Schricker's debut album Null (2012) includes collaborations with a number of renowned Iranian-Canadian vocalists, including Mohsen Namjoo, Habib Meftah Boushehri and Mariam Tollar, which received positive reviews on Songlines. He has since released a number of EPs and singles as well as El Muerte (2018), a compilation of dark dub set to the backdrop of delicate and fragile melodies. Schricker has also produced soundtracks for Babak Jalali's Radio Dreams (2016) and Fremont (2023) acclaimed by The Guardian as "a sparse, loose-limbed jazz score [that] adds to the picture’s gauche charm."