Sabarah Pilon Finds the Centre
CHARACTER WORK
In early May, Fredericton musician Sabarah Pilon is getting ready to play her first live show in two years. It’s taking place in a week’s time, on the same weekend as the 2022 East [...]
Sound notes
Ohama’s Alternative Dimensions
FRIENDLY CONNECTIONS
Tona Walt Ohama has lived many lives. Born on a potato farm in Southern Alberta, he has spent the past forty years making passionate, deeply personal music while forging friendly connections [...]
Mariana Vieira’s The Unexpected Encounter with Diversity
FIRST PLACE WINNER, 2021 MUSICWORKS ELECTRONIC MUSIC COMPOSITION CONTEST
Electronic music has the potential to free composers and sounds from physical and cultural constraints while also bringing those elements closer together. Composer Mariana Vieira has been [...]
Features
FALL 2022: TRANSMITTING NEW AESTHETIC COORDINATES
Settle into an autumnal groove with our Fall 2022 issue and direct your curious ears toward new aesthetic coordinates.
ORDER YOUR PHYSICAL COPY OF MUSICWORKS 143 FROM OUR[...]
Chloe Alexandra Thompson’s Meaningful Exchanges
SOUND ENVIRONMENTS
Chloe Alexandra Thompson has always thought of sound as something visceral. “I think, if I trace it back, my first sound installation happened when I discovered that the fabric in[...]
Jessica Moss Explores the Orchestra Within
BRAND NEW GALAXIES
If there is a through line connecting traditional Eastern European klezmer, indie rock, and experimental drone music, it can be found in the work of Jessica Moss. Whether her[...]
Repatriation is most often associated with artifacts in museums. Two Toronto music venues are setting precedents in what repatriation could look lie in music scenes.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREEN YANG
Resonances are ghosts. They accentuate unseen presences of sounding bodies as they amplify frequencies inherent in[...]
Reviews
Gordon Grdina. Oddly Enough: The Music of Tim Berne.
AttaBoyGirl Records, ABG-4
Esmerine. Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More.
Constellation Records, CST166
London Contemporary Music Festival
London, United Kingdom. June 15–19, 2022.