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1983-1987

Issue #23 Spring 1983 – Music of the Inuit and Other Voices

Articles

Lecture for Mercer Union, by Christopher Butterfield
Touching Resonance, a Talk with Anne Skinner on the work of Kristin Linklater and Other Things, by Tina Pearson
Katajaiit (Throat Games) with Haunak Mikkigak, by T. Petalaussie
Inuit Throat and Harp Songs, by Ellen Karp
I am From Nutak, by Joase Onalik
Katajaiit (Throat Games) with Nellie Nungak, by Alassie
Alasuak
Donald Suluk Speaks About Traditional Inuit Music, by Donald Suluk
Jets of Water and Sound, by Patrick Ready
Computers and Voices, by Leo Küpper
Far Away Sounds, by Gordon Monahan

Scores

Once In A While, by Donald and Alice Suluk

Recordings – the First Musicworks Cassette

Once In A While, by Donald and Alice Suluk
Katajaiit (Throat Games) with Haunak Mikkigak, by T. Petalaussie and Haunak
Mikkigak
Katajaiit (Throat Games) with Nellie Nungak, by Alassie Alasuak and Nellie Nungak
Aerosons (opening section); Inflexions Vocales (ending), by Leo Küpper
Young Love from In Vitro, by Tina Pearson
Aftersounds, by Gordon Monahan
Kissing Jesus in the Dark (with Miguel Frasconi), by John Oswald
Ur Sonate (performed by Christopher Butterfield), by Kurt Schwitters
Amazing Grace in Inuktitut, by Inuktitut Musicworkshop


Issue #24 Summer 1983 – Maritimes and Newfoundland

Articles

The Tidal Rhythm of the Bay of Fundy; Far Away Sounds; Harbour Symphony, St. John's Newfoundland, by Gordon Monahan
Wild Archie Plays the Bones, by Wild Archie
Requiem for Whales, by Paul Bendzsa
Fusion: Making Music in Newfoundland: Martin Rickert; Don Wherry; Mike Zagorski
Emile Benoit, Black Duck Brook, Newfoundland
Bagpipes, Voices and Ocean, by Robin MacKenzie
New Brunswick Punk, by Brent Horseman
New Music in the Maritimes; Rubbings, by Dwight Siegner
Electronic Video Arcade Music, by David Barteaux
Tower People, by Steve Kay
Murphy's Law (ensemble), by Steve Tittle
Lee Harvey Cremo, Eskatoni, Cape Breton

Scores

Harbour Symphony by R. Murray Schafer
When I Look Back, by Tim Crawford
The Bandsaw Reel; Emile's Dream, by Emile Benoit
Circular Road, by Robin MacKenzie

Recordings

Fiddle and Guitar Demonstration, by Lee Harvey Cremo
Roaming Scott; Welcome to the Holiday Inn (excerpts) (Newfoundland traditional fiddle music), by Emile Benoit
Electronic Video Arcade Music; Obligato (excerpts), by David Barteaux
Three Guitars; Tidal Resonance at 45 N 64 W, by Gordon Monahan, Dwight Siegner and Thaddeus Holownia
Requiem for Whales (excerpts), by Paul Bendzsa
Chant National (Micmac Hymn), by Wilfrid Prosper
Directions (excerpt), by Paul Huse
Circular Road (excerpts), by Robin MacKenzie


Issue #25 Fall 1983 – Music as Transformation

Articles

The Transformations of Water: Frozen Water; The Acoustic Community; Beyond Ra, by R. Murray Schafer
R. Murray Schafer in Conversation with Tina Pearson
Towards a New Mind / Body Music, Part 4: David Mott in Conversation with Tina Pearson
Breath Guided Music: The New Music Co-operative, by Gordon Monahan and Vid Ingelevics
Blue Light / White Light Meditation, by David Mott

Scores

Aria of Amente-Nufe, RA (excerpt)
Plateau, by David Mott

Recordings

String Quartet No. 2 (Waves) ; Birth of RA; The Butchers; Apophis; Aria of Amente-Nufe; Birds; Harbour Symphony; Birth of RA; Tablet One from Dicamus et Labyrinthos; Mourning The Sun; (with Bentley Jarvis) (excerpts), by R. Murray Schafer and Bentley Jarvis
Paganini Flies with Dragons; Mouth of Thunder; Regarding Starlight (excerpts), by David Mott
Agawa Canyon, by Tina Pearson
Creatures (Breath Guided Music), by New Music Co-op
Harbour Symphony, by Paul Steffler


Issue #26 Winter 1984 – A Walk Through the City

Articles

For Composers to Become Acoustic Designers; Music in the Cold, by R. Murray Schafer
Composing with Environmental Sound, an interview with Hildegard Westerkamp
Power Songs; A Walk Through the City (poems), by Norbert Ruebsaat
Music in the North (1888), by Franz Boas
Music in the North (1916), by E.W. Hawkes
Vibrato and Tremolo: a Case for CommunicationAmong Scientists and Musicians, by Mike Zagorski
The Truthseeker Company, by Juan Geuer
Tape Recorder Sculpture, by Sandor Ajzenstat
The Perception of Colour Through Music, by Bruno Deschenes

Recordings

Musical Water Jet, by Patrick Ready
Dance of the Blind: Section One; Conclusion, by Marjan Mozetich
Music for 16 Clarinets, by Tom Hajdu
A Walk Through The City; Cool Drool; When There is No Sound (excerpts), by Hildegard Westerkamp
April Walk, by Marvin Green
Vibrato vs. Tremolo (demonstration), by Mike Zagorski

Scores

Dance of the Blind, by Marjan Mozetich


Issue #27 Spring 1984 – The Music of James Tenney

Articles

John Cage and the Theory of Harmony, by James Tenney
A Tradition of Experimentation: James Tenney in conversation with Udo Kasemets and Tina Pearson

Scores

Spectral CANON for CONLON Nancarrow (reproduction of piano roll); Koan; Saxony; Voice(s); Beast; Bridge; Response (excerpts), by James Tenney

Recordings

Spectral CANON for CONLON Nancarrow; Three Indigenous Songs; Quiet Fan for Erik Satie; For Ann (rising); Phases; Voice(s);Bridge; (excerpt), by James Tenney


Issue #28 Summer 1984 – Electroacoustic Music in Canada

Articles

The New Violin, an Interview with Dick Armin, by Linda C. Smith
Computer Music, by Dan Scheidt
Audience-Sensitive Sound Installation by Stephen Parkinson and Doug Collinge
Electro-Acoustic Methods, by Martin Bartlett
On Being Invisible, by David Rosenboom
Machinewoman, by Susan Frykberg
Stochastikhos: Electroacoustic Sculptures with Limited Intellegence, by Mike Zagorski
The Hi-Fi and the Lo-Fi Soundscape; Schizophonia, by R. Murray Schafer


Recordings

Recalcitrant Electronics; Response; New Leaves (Excerpts), by Martin Bartlett
On Being Invisible (excerpt); Study for Zones of Influence, by David Rosenboom
Audience-Sensitive Sound Installation by Stephen Parkinson and Doug Collinge
Stochastikhos by Mike Zagorski
Wildfire (excerpt), by James Montgomery
On Hearing (excerpt), by Dan Scheidt
Serenade (excerpt), by Henry Kaiser
Machinewoman (excerpt), by Susan Frykberg


Issue #29 Fall 1985 – Times & Tides

Articles

The Music of Times and Tides, by Albert Mayr
Timescapes: Earthspin, Celestial Timescapes and Ragtime, by Udo Kasemets
Frogbog and Cricket Chorus, by Andrew Timar
The Tuning of Time, an interview with South Indian Musician Trichy Sankaran (with James Tenney and Casey Sokol)
Ursound, by R. Murray Schafer
A Carnal Viewpoint of Time, by Marjan Mozetich
New Year's Eve, Vancouver, by Hildegard Westerkamp
Sitelines, by Joe Carter
The Threshold of Instantaneous Motion Sense, by John Oswald

Scores

Earthspin; Celestial Timescapes; Ragtime, by Udo Kasemets
It's About Time

Recordings

Earthspin; Celestial Timescapes (excerpts), by Udo Kasemets
Horos Harmonica; Rhythme Trouvé - Onde Marine 2; (excerpts), by Albert Mayr
It's About Time (excerpts), by Robert Stevenson
New Year's Eve, Vancouver (excerpt), by Hildegard Westerkamp


Issue #30 Winter 1985 – Sound Constructions

Articles

Pheumafoons, Dudafoons, Manipilafoons: an interview with Moniek Darge and Godfried Willem-Raes, by Gordon Monahan and Andrew Timar
Snareninstallaties: String Installations (with Johan Goedart), by Paul Panhuysen
Singing Wires: The Music of Aeolean Harps, by Gordon Monahan
Thoreau and the Telegraph Harp: excerpts from Thoreau's Journals
Music From Trees, Iceflows and Other Natural Phenomena, an Interview with Leif Brush, by Gordon Monahan
Terrain Instruments, by Lief Brush
Dreams of an Instrument Maker, by David Rokeby

Recordings

Pneumafoon, Pneumaphonics; Snareninstallaties (with Moniek Darge), by Godfried Willem-Raes and Moniek Darge
Timeframes, by Moniek Darge
Whistlers; Windribbon; Vertical Signal Discs; Treeharps Networking, by Lief Brush
Gigantic Aeolian Harp (with Thaddeus Holownia), by Gordon Monahan


Issue #31 Spring 1985 – Women Voicing

Articles

Angels and Demons and Pauline Oliveros, by Tina Pearson
Throatsinging - Alassie Alasuak and Nellie Nunguak, by Tina Pearson
Acoustic Ecology and the Zone of Silence, by Hildegard Westerkamp
An Interview with Kim Erickson, by Tina Pearson
Alone (excerpt from dramatic script), by Patricia Ludwick
Gayle Young: Musical Instruments and Influences, by Tina Pearson
I Am A Musician, by Janet Hammock
Women Composers, Spirituality and Healing, by Norah Fraser
Saxarbra: The Birth; I am I am I am - Machine Woman, by Susan Frykberg

Scores

Rising Tides of Generations Lost, by Wende Bartley
Neptis Cantrix (excerpt), by Gayle Young

Recordings

Rising Tides of Generations Lost (excerpts), by Wende Bartley
Song of a Little Girl; Song About Geese, by Alassie Alasuak
Saxarbra (excerpt), by Susan Frykberg
Song of the Wind; Song About Water, by Nellie Nungak
The Emerging Ground; The Reprieve (excerpts), by Ann Southam
Pick It Up (excerpts), by Kim Erickson
His Master's Voice; Collage of Desert Plant Sounds; Cricket's Nightsong from Zone of Silence (excerpts), by Hildegard Westerkamp
In Motion (excerpts), by Gayle Young
Talking Bottles and Bones (excerpt), by Pauline Oliveros


Issue #32 Summer 1985 – Third Atlas of Scores

Night Chant, by Bruce Davis
Erstarrung, by Rodney Sharman
Particle Music, by John Wiggins
Time / Zorn, by John Zorn
Sensors III. by alcides lanza
Any Six (excerpt), by Tim Brady
Piano Animation Shadow Projection Piece, by Sharon Cook
Three Marys, by Andrew Timar
Butterfly, by Rick Sacks
Solitary Waves from Piano Mechanics, by Gordon Monahan
Mix For "Hook In Me" by Curtis Driedger, by Steve Webster
Periphery, by Linda C. Smith
Upon Closer Inspection, by Jerry Berg
Morden, by Christopher Butterfield

Recordings

Particle Music (excerpts), by John Wiggins
Night Chant (excerpt), by Bruce Davis
Erstarrung (excerpt), by Rodney Sharman
Solo, by John Zorn
Sensors III (excerpt), by alcides lanza
Piano Animation Shadow Projection Piece, part 1 (excerpt), by Sharon Cook
Three Marys (excerpt), by Andrew Timar
Butterfly (excerpt), by Rick Sacks
Mix For "Hook In Me" (excerpt), by Curtis Driedger
Periphery (excerpt), by Linda C. Smith
Upon Closer Inspection (excerpt), by Jerry Berg
Morden (excerpt), by Christopher Butterfield


Issue #33 Fall 1985 – Starting All Observations from Scratch

Articles

Cybernetic Installation: First Real Snake (with demonstration), by David Rokeby
Symposium: Synergetics and the Arts: (Re)tuning Humanity (regarding Buckminster Fuller's concepts), by Udo Kasemets
Tasting the Blaze, by Pauline Oliveros, Deborah Hay, Tina Girouard
Harmonic Convergence, by José Arguelles
Music, Language and Environment, by David Dunn
The Importance of Sound and Music, by Arthea
Invitations, by Andrew Culver

Scores

The Indigenous Dance, by Pauline Oliveros
Madrigal by David Dunn

Recordings

Tensegrity Sound Space #5, by Andrew Culver
Tasting the Blaze (with Deborah Hay, Tina Girouard), by Pauline Oliveros
Madrigal by David Dunn


Issue #34 Winter 1986 – ‘There is No Reason to Believe That Music Exists’ (guest edited by John Oswald)

Articles

The Antimatter of Musical Continuity, by Davey Williams
Plunderphonics, or audio piracy as a compositional prerogative, by John Oswald
Mystery Tapes: Fact or Fiction, by Lauren Drewery
Jubilee, by Paul Haines
Basic Object Guitar; The Imminent Celestial Vicinities, by Davey Williams
Seven Examples of the Peculiar in North Indian Music, by Charles Noyes

Recordings

from Third World Two: Just When I Thought...; follicles of unthought, thought...; What's This?, by Paul Haines
Starting With Maya (excerpt), by Larry Wendt
Collage No. 1, Blue Suede Shoes, by James Tenney
WX (excerpts) from Mystery Tape Lab; Making Ends Meet, from Kissing Jesus in the Dark; Now...Those Sounds, by John Oswald


Issue #35 Spring 1986

Articles

À l'écoute de l'univers: Alfred Tomatis, by Tom Wilson
Harmonic Meeting: a workshop with David Hykes, by Tom Wilson
A Sound is Just Something That Happens (with Norbert Ruebsaat), by Sonja Ruebsaat
A Child's Ritual, by Hildegard Westerkamp
The Listener, by Barry Truax
An Interview with David Hykes, by David Mott

Recordings

Two Soundscapes, by Barry Truax
Me By Myself In My Room, by Sonja Ruebsaat
Singing The Outbreath; Kyrie Opening; Harmonic Workshop (excerpts), by David Hykes
Introduction to the Electronic Ear; The Pre-natal Sound Environment, by Alfred Tomatis
Alleluia, Gregorian Chant


Issue #36 Summer 1986 – Rocks and Water

Articles

Kay-oh-nee; Màpt (excerpts), by Kim Erickson
A Half Hour Behind Means They're Slightly Ahead: The 1986 Newfoundland Sound Symposium, by Gordon Monahan
Native and Métis Fiddling in Western Manitoba, by Anne Lederman
March Màpt, Kim Erickson's work for music theatre, by William V. Roberts
The Wiki Pow Wow: Medicine Hoop Drum, by Reinhard Reitzenstein

Recordings

A Song of Women - Women are Happy - Help Them, by Medicine Hoop Drum
Holosound (with Godfried Willem-Raes), by Monique Darge
Smothered in Smoke; Lady Do-Si-Do (Manitoba traditional fiddle music), by Lawrence Flett
Devil's Reel; Devil's Waltz (Manitoba traditional fiddle music), by Emile Spence
Reel of Eight; Lady Do-Si-Do (Manitoba traditional fiddle music), by "Teddy Boy" Lawrence Houle
About Newfoundland, by Sheila Gostick
Changing States (excerpt), by Richard Lerman
Welcome to the Sea-Flow Hotel; Neil Murray's Dinner Jig (Newfoundland traditional fiddle music), by Emile Benoit


Issue #37 Fall 1987

Articles

Byzantine Bells, by Tim Wilson
The Long String Instrument: an interview with Ellen Fullman, by Gordon Monahan
Original Musical Instruments for Real Time Composition, by Tom Nunn
The Enduring Allure of the Tropics - Notes on Gamelan, by Jon Siddall
Making a Cree Drum with Albert Davis, by Tina Pearson
Twenty-four Strings: the design on an instrument with adaptable tunings, by Gayle Young
A Note on Sound Sculpture, by Charles de Mestral

Scores

North of Java (excerpt), by Andrew Timar

Recordings

Long String Instrument, by Ellen Fullman
Slovak Byzantine Bells, by Tom Wilson
Varion; Fleur d'Esprit, by Tom Nunn
North of Java (excerpt), by Andrew Timar
Round Dance Song: The Cree Drum, by Albert Davis et al
Study in 11/9, by Gayle Young
Plastic Would II; Allo a l'eau, by Charles de Mestral


Issue #38 Winter 1987

Articles

Language as Music: Building an Architecture of Sound, by Helen Hall
Improvising Sound: Ten Sound Poets on the Poetics of Sound, by Paul Dutton
Stella Trylinsky and the Ukrainian Women's Choir of Thunder Bay, by Kim Erickson
Word and Music in the Orthodox Church: a Tradition of Balance, by Sibylle Preuschat
Sound Asleep, Dreaming of Music, R.I.P. Hayman in conversation with Gordon Monahan

Scores

Homage à Mort Walker, by bp Nichol
Phonography, by Richard Truhlar
that gone tune (excerpt), by Douglas Barbour
Stignation, by jw curry
ECO, by Steven Smith
Ship Sands Island, by Gary Shikatani
Simultaneous Translation, by Penn(y) Kemp
Words, by Roland Childe
XXxxX, by Steve McCaffery
Text for Event Horizon, by Paul Dutton

Recordings

Simultaneous Translation (excerpt), by Penn(y) Kemp
Stereo Nose, by Paul Dutton
Restlessness, by Susan McMaster
8 States of Denial for the 1980s, by bp Nichol
Herodotus, The Histories (excerpt), by Steve McCaffery
Yawn Quartet; Snore Sonata, by R.I.P. Hayman
Oy U Polee Krenachenka; The Cossacks Whistle; Good Evening, Neighbour, by the Ukrainian Women's Ensemble of Thunder Bay
Open to Me the Doors of Repentence; The 3rd Ode of the Canon of Repentance, by the Russian Orthodox Cathedral Choir
Photoskia; Stoicheia; Winter Trees (excerpts), by Helen Hall
Readings from Julio Cortazar, Set 2, No 1 (with Maria Zibens), by Richard Truhlar
Factory, by Steven Smith


Issue #39 Fall 1987

Articles

Anecdotal Electroacoustics, by Claude Schryer
Stompin' and Beatin' and Screamin', an interview with Jerry Hunt, by Gordon Monahan
Hybrids of Time, Timbre and Traditions: Outline of a Compositional Process, by Wende Bartley
Sculpturized Music / Musicalized Sculpture, by Françoise Coté
The Last LP, Michael Snow in conversation with Gayle Young
New Roots in Air, Radio Revival, interviews with alternative radio producers, by André Paradis

Recordings

a digital ecologue (excerpt) (with Claude Schryer), by Dan Scheidt
Fludd: (Volta): Jal (MUSIC), by Jerry Hunt
Mbowunsa Mpahiya; Si Nopo Da, from The Last LP, by Michael Snow
Ellipsis; examples of sound hybrids, by Wende Bartley
Tayori (excerpts); Fuzei (excerpt) (with Michel Archambault), by Michel Tétrault and Michel Archambault
Anecdotal Electroacoustics