About

Who is behind the Antlers?

I am Yusuf, and I'm currently pursuing my Ph.D. degree in the beautiful capital city of Ottawa, Ontario. Some of my primary academic interests include phonetics, Arctic languages & linguistics, language revitalization. Beyond linguistics, I am interested in jazz music and its religious notions, contemporary prog rock, and Neo-paganism & occultism.

What is the Antlers?

The Antlers is a multi-faceted project launched in 2013. I originally started as an underground music label named Solitude Productions to release my friends' compositions and snippets of my own. Soon it branched out to the production of other art forms and music commentaries. Notable releases of this period include Ghost Bath's first demo, the Darkesthour... project, and webzine Black Frost (黒い霜 in kanji). In the early stages of Solitude Productions, I primarily focused on releasing music and music-related editorials with modest allusions to naturalism, languages, and post-modernity motives. It became a place for me to capture the long-lost remembrance of occultism and naturalism from my adolescent years.

In early 2015, due to legal reasons, I was forced to change the name to Solitaire Productions and later relaunched as the Antlers Productions. Starting from early 2016, I went on hiatus due to my work commitments with an artist promotion agency. This place was left unkept for about four years with a failed revival in 2018. In July 2020, I decided to rebrand the Antlers as a place to express my artistic/academic identity and my thoughts and discussions on social issues/ mass media.

References and tools I often use

References and Tools:

Language Documentation Reference Corpora (DoReCo), http://doreco.info.

World Atlas of Language Structures (Atlas), https://wals.info.

Etymological Index, by Starling Project, https://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/main.cgi?root=config

Materials by Languages:

Manchu Corpus, Powered by University of Leiden https://manc.hu/en.

Mongolian National Corpus, http://web-corpora.net/MongolianCorpus/search/.