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1988-1992

Issue #40 Spring 1988 – Sonic Mappings – Tenth Anniversary Issue

Articles

Ten Years in Ten Thoughts, by Andrew Timar
Tuyo: The Impression of Consonance and of the Strange, an interview with Guy Laramée by André Paradis
Helicopter-style Music / Music before Civilization, by Gordon Monahan
Creating Audio Landscapes: Myke Dyer, John Gurrin, Shelley Craig, John Oswald, Natalka Lubiw, by Wende Bartley
Mystery Tape Laboratory Annual Report (with Geo. Ray Brain), by John Oswald
I was a Big Band Groupie, by Leigh Couch
Transculturation: Hi-Tech Ethnic Pop, by Rob Bowman
The New Tonality, by Owen Underhill
A Few Notes on My Recent Music, by Andrew Timar

Scores

X-Map, by John Oswald

Recordings

Crickets with Leafhopper (with Paul Hodge); Palimpsest (1st, 3rd and 5th movements) by Andrew Timar and Paul Hodge
Speaker Swinging, by Gordon Monahan
Improvisation, by CCMC
Spoors: Jazz Edit; Klangtuning, Sacre du Printemps; The Code, from Mystery Tape Lab, by John Oswald
Fétiche, by Guy Laramée


Issue #41 Summer 1988

Articles

Crossings: Alvin Lucier in conversation with James Tenney
Linear Operators and Autoregressive Music, by Peter Anson
Speech Songs: Charles Dodge in conversation with Gayle Young
Txalaparta - Traditional Basque Percussion Instrument, by Peter Bakker

Scores

Crossings; Kettles - for five timpani, by Alvin Lucier

Recordings

Clocker, by Alvin Lucier
Txalaparta: Traditional Basque Percussion Instrument, Basque (Folk)
Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental; Roundelay; Profile (excerpts), by Charles Dodge
Cascando (excerpt of Samuel Beckett radio play), by Charles Dodge and Samuel Beckett
Autoregressive Music (seven samples), by Peter Anson
God's Big Noise, an interview with Maryanne Amacher, by Gordon Monahan


Issue #42 Fall 1988

Articles

Remembering Ourselves: Michele George in conversation with Christopher Butterfield
Do You Be: Meredith Monk in conversation with Rob Bowman on Language and Aesthetics
Images of Voice, by b.h. Yael
"Dis Word Breeds My Rhythm" - dub poet Lillian Allen, by Wende Bartley
Textual Images of "Don't Blame the Bedouins" by René-Daniel Dubois, by Helen Hall
Timbrel in Her Hand: Woman-Voice (with Judith Miller), by Carol Ann Weaver

Recordings

Improvisation (three excerpts), by Michele George
Improvisation; Riddim an' Hardtimes, by Lillian Allen
Don't Blame the Bedouins (excerpts), by René-Daniel Dubois
Incipit (excerpt), by Christopher Butterfield and John Bentley Mays
Improvisation with Vocal Samples sung by Michele George; Only Time to / No Time Not To (excerpts), by Wende Bartley
fromTimbrel in her Hand: Cry on the Wind, And it Came to Pass, by Carol Ann Weaver
Cricket Voice (excerpt), by Hildegard Westerkamp


Issue #43 Spring 1989

Articles

Is This Good for Canada? – reflecting with Murray Adaskin, by Gayle Young
Freedom is Rising: Black Popular Music in South Africa, by Lucie Edwards
Some Equal Temperaments are More Equal than Others...and Decidedly more Temperamental, by Paul Rapoport
When Sound Has a Form of its Own, by Hugh Le Caine
MIDI Chamber Music, by Allan Belkin
Affinity Groups, by James Montgomery
Some Reflections on the Political Economy of Concert Music in North America, by Stuart Shepherd

Reviews

Diffusion! a personal view, by Allan Belkin
Electroacoustic Community Spirit: an Observation, by Chris Meloche

Recordings

Night Labyrinth, by Allan Belkin
"Artichoke" (excerpt) from Songs of Fruits and Vegetables; Demonstrations of 13-tone Tuning, by Paul Rapoport
13-tone Microtonal Etude; 15-tone Microtonal Etude; 19-tone Microtonal Etude, by Easley Blackwood
Birthday Music (opening and closing sections), by Stuart Shepherd
Invocation; Sounds to Forget; The Burning Deck (without text), by Hugh Le Caine
Affinity Groups, by James Montgomery


Issue #44 Fall 1989 – bpNichol and Kust Schwitters

Articles

BP for bp [nichol], by Charlie Morrow
bpNichol and the Past-Present of a Future Music, by Paul Dutton
On Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate (1932), by Christian Scholz
Kurt Schwitters at Zero Gravity, by Colin Morton
Born with the Sound in their Throats: the Bulgarian Women's Vocal Choir, with Brenna McCrimmon, by Wende Bartley

Scores

Meme (excerpt) (with bp nichol), by David Mott
22nd Merzgedicht, in Memoriam Kurt Schwitters, by Jackson Mac Low
Three Poems from the Merzbook: Birth of Merz, Number Poetry Revisited, Not Schwitters, by Colin Morton

Recordings

Pome Poem; Another Day Older; Free Bop (with Casey Sokol); The Four Horsemen (two selections), by bp Nichol
For the Letter That Begins Them All, H (for bp nichol), by Paul Dutton
Bulgarian Choral Music, traditional (12 selections), Bulgarian (Folk)


Issue #45 Winter 1990

Articles

A Phantom of Opera: R. Murray Schafer's The Greatest Show, by Kathy Kennedy
Newfoundland's Unique Audio-Visual Lab: Organizing the Sound Symposium, by Janet Hammock 
A Little Symposium on the Sound Symposium, by Hildegard Westerkamp and Norbert Ruebsaat
Time...on dit: Time and film, by Stan Brakhage
Time and Film: the films of Barbara Sternberg, by Gayle Young
Working for Change: Motivation of Creative Activity, with Pauline Oliveros, by Ellen Band
First, Nature, by Terrill Maguire

Reviews

The MANCA Festival in Nice, France, 1989, by Eric de Visscher

Recordings

Patria III: The Greatest Show - Carnival of Shadows, by R. Murray Schafer
Sound Symposium,1988, collage, by Symposium artists
Dream Horse Spiel (with Panaiotis) (excerpt), by Pauline Oliveros


Issue #46 Spring 1990 – Dance and Sound

Articles

Choice and Interpretation, an interview with Ann Southam, by Carol Anderson
Yves Chamberland: Sound Samples for Dancers, by Dena Davida
The Harmonics of Interaction, by David Rokeby
The Gesture of Improvisation (1982), by Malcolm Goldstein
In Those [RADIO] Days...Horspiel, by Eric de Visscher

Scores

The Gesture of Sounding, by Malcolm Goldstein
Soweto Stomp (excerpt), by Malcolm Goldstein

Recordings

Broken Symmetry, by Ann Southam
Improvisatory Interactions: Summerstorm, Guigerfunk, Waterworks and Gamelagra, by David Rokeby
Bounce Around / Tropicality; Stix, by Fast Forward
Soweto Stomp, by Malcolm Goldstein


Issue #47 Summer 1990 – Cross-Cultural Exchange

Articles

Recipes for Plunderphonics: an interview with John Oswald, Part 1, by Norman Igma 
There is No THEY There: World Music is a Dangerous Idea, by Jody Diamond
Writing for Gamelan Ensemble, by Trichy Sankaran
Time...on dit: Udo Kasemets, by Stan Brakhage
The Folk Artists of Shaanxi (China), by Anne Lederman
Wood, Metal and Mechanical Connections: Gabriel Kney, pipe organ builder, by Roger Burford Mason

Reviews

Convergence: The Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) Conference, November, 1989, by Gayle Young
Music in the Morning in Vancouver, by Ann Southam
Festival internationalle de musique actuelle Victoriaville, (FIMAV) 1989, by Helen Hall
Music From Belgium, by Eric de Visscher
Very Special Records from Germany (Cage, Feldman, Ives, Bauer, Schnebel), by Eric de Visscher


Scores

Lagu Misra (for gamelan ensemble with mrdangam), by Trichy Sankaran

Recordings

Plunderphonic Examples (nine), by John Oswald
The Folk Artists of Shaanxi (China)
Pangkur N. Z., by Jody Diamond



Issue #48 Fall 1990

Articles

Interview with Warren Burt, by Ellen Band
Taking Sampling 50 Times Beyond the Accepted: an interview with John Oswald, Part 2, by Norman Igma
Music that Won't Melt in Your Hands: Rhys Chatham, an interview with Helen Hall, by Rhys Chatham
Time, Space and The Self on the 24-hour News Channels, by Derrick de Kerckhove
Time...on dit: Charles Olson, by Stan Brakhage
Woman and House: an interview with Susan Frykberg, by Debbie Boyko

Reviews

Le Sound Symposium, 1990, by Georges Dupuis
New Music America, 1989 (festival), by Helen Hall
Extra-musical CDs, by Kathy Kennedy
Noise from Europe: but is it Music? (Max Neuhaus), by Eric de Visscher
John Cage's Europeras 3 & 4 at the Almeida Festival, London, by Eric de Visscher


Recordings

Manifeste, sections 1 and 7, by Rhys Chatham
from Chaotic Research Music: Mr. Yasser's Piano; Nick's Bagatelle, by Warren Burt
Of Couse/Anyway You Can Always Put Language Down To Experience (with Chris Mann), by Burt Warren
"The Continuous" from Woman and House, by Susan Frykberg
The Last Blast, by Don Wherry


Issue #49 Winter 1991 – Unusual Instruments

Articles

Playing the Aural and the Visual: Sound Installations at St. John's Art Gallery, 1990, by Gayle Young
Can Archetypes be Heard?, by Gianfranco Salvatore
Exploring the Origins, Delving into the Present: Ushio Torikai, by Sarah Peebles
The Improvisation Moderator of Nicholas Collins, by Guy de Bièvre
Time...on dit: On Jim Davis, by Stan Brakhage
Matter / Manner : Matière / Manière, by Jean Derome
The Rattling of the Drums: Political Expression in World Music, by Rob Bowman

Review

Women, Aesthetics, Theory, Practice, by Sibylle Preuschat
Two Major Minimalist Works, by Eric de Visscher
Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (FIMAV) 1990, by Georges Dupuis
Broken Music (exhibition), by John K. GrandeRecent Audio Magazine Releases, by Sibylle Preuschat

Scores

Spirale, from Cantate Grise, by Jean Derome

Recordings

Nicolas Collins
Jean Derome
Charlie Morrow
Ushio Torikai


Issue #50 Summer 1991

Articles

Harbour Sounds Ashore - a Permanent Shoreline Sound Installation, by Michael Burtch
Phrases about the Hermit Thrush, by Daniel Goode
The Trick is in the Imagining: The Robert Minden Ensemble, by Gayle Young
Words as Music, by Trevor Wishart
Between the New and the Old World: Petr Kotik in Prague, by Petr Doruzka
Time and Silences: Some Speculative Remarks, by Eric de Visscher
Time...on dit: Letters from, to, and about Paul Sharits, by Stan Brakhage
The Glass Dance-House: the Preservation of Hungarian Music, by René van Peer

Reviews

Montréal Musiques Actuelles / New Music America 1990, by Gail Bourgeois, Iris Brooks, Helen Hall, Claude Schryer and Georges Dupuis
Akio Suzuki: Soundsphere (CD), by René van Peer
Moscow in Private, by René van Peer
Three Places in Old Europe, by Eric de Visscher
Duchamp the Composer, by Eric de Visscher
Paul Dutton, David Moss, Don Wherry, Trevor Wishart: Bunker (Cassette), by Allison Cameron
21st Century Musical Instruments (book by Jon Appleton), by Gayle Young

Recordings

The Boy Who Wanted to Talk to Whales (excerpts), by the Robert Minden Ensemble
Thrush Polyphony (excerpts), by Daniel Goode
Harbour Sounds Ashore, by Michael Burtch
VOX Cycle (excerpts), by Trevor Wishart
Wilsie Bridge, by Petr Kotik


Issue #51 Fall 1991

Articles

Harry Partch in the Field, by Richard Kassel
Les disques de l'imaginaire, by Raymond Gervais
In the Voice of the Artist: Vivian Perlis of the Yale Oral History Project, by Gayle Young
A Proposal for a Study of the Genealogy of Twentieth-Century Canadian Music, by Udo Kasemets
A Radio Document: Radio-Canada's Musique Actuelle, by Claude Schryer
Phonothèque québecoise, by Jean-François Denis
Bridges to the Future: The Collections of the Music Division of the National Library of Canada, by Gayle Young
Collecting Composers: Resource Services at the Canadian Music Centre (with David Parsons), by Mark Hand
So You Want to be a New Music Composer / Then Listen Now to What I Say..., by Tim Brady
Narrativité et musique électroacoustique, by Márta Grabócz

Reviews

Sound by Artists (book by Lander, Lexier), by Reinhard Reitzenstein
Publications Promoting Microtonal Tuning Systems, by Gayle Young

Recordings

Suite Baroque: Toccata, "Qu'ai-je entendu?", L'extase, by Yves Daoust
Bédé, by Robert Normandeau
Qui est là?, by Francis Dhomont
The Physics of Seduction, Invocation #1, by Paul Dolden
A Blank Sheet of Metal (Tungsten Carbide) (excerpt), by Allison Cameron
Hoopa [Hupa] Brush Dance Song (1904), by Louis Matilton
Isleta Canción de los Muchachos (1904), by Ramon Zuni
Cloud Chamber Music, by Harry Partch
Dead of Winter, by Tim Brady


Issue #52 Spring 1992 - John Cage

Articles

A Composer's Confessions, by John Cage
De-Linearizing Musical Continuity (john Cage), by Daniel Charles
A Note and a Table in the 10th Year (Cage's computer processes), by Andrew Culver
A White Cage Inside Four Walls: John Cage, by Michele Porzio
John Cage: The Development of his Visual Art, by Richard Kostelanetz
Hexagram #14 for John Cage: A Yi Jing Jitterbug Vococtet, by Udo Kasemets
John Cage and the Idea of Harmony, by Eric de Visscher

Scores

Hexagram #14 for John Cage: A Yi Jing Jitterbug Vococtet, by Udo Kasemets
Time...on dit: Shostakovich, by Stan Brakhage 
Music for John Cage, by Linda C. Smith

Recordings

In a Landscape; One, by John Cage
Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music (excerpt), by John Cage
Europera 5 (excerpt), by John Cage
Music for John Cage, by Linda C. Smith
Hexagram #14 for John Cage: A Yi Jing Jitterbug Vococtet; C(ag)elebration Messagemix (excerpt), by Udo Kasemets


Issue #53 Summer 1992 - Radio

Articles

Circuits of the Voice: from Cosmology to Telephony, by Frances Dyson
Ecology, Electroacoustics and Radio, by Claude Schryer
Radio Art: The Pubescent Stage, by Dan Lander
Degenerates in Dreamland, by Gregory Whitehead
Vers une utopie radiophonique quand la détresse s'en va toute seule..., by Boris Chassagne
John Cage & John Zorn on Record, by Douglas Kahn
The Body as Organ, by Julia Loktev
Language is the Flower of the Mouth, by Christof Migone
Time...on dit: Bruce Elder's Book of all the Dead, by Stan Brakhage

Reviews

Ever Heard of a ROBOARD?, by Eric de Visscher
Meredith Monk's Opera: Atlas, by Rob Bowman
Soviet Music in Turbulent Times, by René van Peer
Telluride Festival: Third Time Around, by Iris Brooks
Hot New Music Festival Melts Winnipeg 1993, by Jon Becker

Recordings

Building a Universe: Rifts, Absences and Omissions, by Helen Thorington
Voices Inside My Head; Rewind Memory; Mic Liberation, by Christof Migone
4 images, by Jean-François Denis
dadababies, by Julia Loktev
L'inconsolable, by Monique Savoie
The William S. Burroughs Tape Worm Mutation, by Gregory Whitehead
Voices Lost and Calling, by Frances Dyson
Vagues d'excès, by Claude Schryer
TheTrompebone of Chris Schiff, by Douglas Kahn
Ruminations of the Darkness: Their Wings, Ana Bing-ga, Closing Words, by Dan Lander


Issue #54 Fall 1992

Articles

Notes Toward a Unified Theory of Chaos & Improvisation or: the autonomy of tiny things, by David Lee
Beyond Doo-Wop or: How I came to Realize That Hank Williams Is Avant Garde, by Paul Dutton
Quand les femmes se mêlent d'improvisation: Joane Hétu, by Danielle Tremblay
Farther into Basic Sounds, by Peter Denny
Situation des improvisateurs interprétant théoriquement l'improvisation, by Michel Ratté
The Music is a Strange Mixture of Things: an interview with Henry Kaiser, by Mike Hovancsek
The Sephardic Song Revival, by Judith Cohen
A Talk About Time and Syntax in Music, by Peter Hatch
Time...on dit: Empathy and Aesthetics in the Writing of Gertrude Stein, by Stan Brakhage

Reviews

The Montreal Cello Festival - No Strings Attached, by Gayle Young
Listening Book, The (Mathieu), by Sibylle Preuschat
The Resonant Intervals Conference (with David Lidov), by Helen Hall
Inter Contemporain: du rêve à la réalité, by Denis Dion
Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (FIMAV) 1991: Laborieux mais fascinant, by Danielle Tremblay

Recording

Stereo Head
Coeur/pique; Pique/tréfle, by Jacques Hétu, Kathy Kennedy, Claire Marchand, Zeena Parkins, Danielle P. Roger
Somewhere Else, by CCMC
Quatre; Trios, by Michel Ratté
traditional Sephardic Judeo-Spanish Songs, by Judith Cohen
Beyond Doo-Wop or: How I came to Realize That Hank Williams Is Avant Garde, by Paul Dutton
When do they is not the same as why do they, by Peter Hatch