Label Profile: Redshift Records
THE UNIVERSE IS EXPANDING
We won’t go into the details—because, frankly, we don’t understand them—but in astronomy a redshift is a way to measure an object’s placement in space, and its [...]
Sound notes
Vanese "VJ" Smith is Right on Time
GROOVE PURSUITS
Vanese (pronounced va-NIECE) “VJ” Smith and I are on the Spadina streetcar, chatting like old friends. Just minutes earlier we met for the first time. I arrived from up North (aka [...]
First-place winner, Musicworks’ 2017 Electronic Music Composition contest
ERIK INGALLS’ “THE GRAVITY OF PLIM”
The glitchy, vaguely dystopian composition constructed from manipulated vocals is almost widespread enough now to warrant its own genre tag. Laurie Anderson is, of course, its foremother. [...]
First-place Winner, Musicworks 2017 Sonic Geography Writing Contest
INA ČIUMAKOVA'S “PLAYGROUNDS”
Childhood has no single place, no secret garden, no single carousel to ride on, nor tree branch to fall from: just hours, that slip away, so similar to [...]
Features
What's Inside Musicworks 130 - Spring 2018
WEAVE COOL MUSIC
Musicworks turns 40 this year. It’s been quite a journey from the DIY newsprint tabloid published in 1978 to Musicworks 130—our first-ever full-colour issue! Buy[...]
Sam Shalabi and the Evolution of a Global Aesthetic
Sam Shalabi’s insightful musical take on the world can provoke both discomfort and laughter. On his numerous solo albums, he meshes guitar, oud, and field recordings into an[...]
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(ALL MY PEOPLE, THIS IS FOR YOU)
The first time I heard Jeremy Dutcher on the radio, I was driving my son and some of his non-Native teammates to soccer practice in Peterborough. I had tuned in to the CBC a few[...]
Sarah Hennies, Linguist in the Land of Noises
MY MUSIC, MY SELF
Identity is a deeply personal, elusive, and complex thing, and thus, a common source of creative fuel. Yet for the endless variety of discrete identities and individual[...]
The Warp and Weft of Kelly Ruth
LOOM MUSIC
In the history of musical instruments, the questions asked are pretty standard: Who played it? What did they play? How did it evolve? Kelly Ruth’s instrument, the weaving loom,[...]
Visions of sound
Delicate clusters of tones sound and resonate. An orchestration of chimes and drips, they mix to form a potent brew of sullen melodies and serene reverberation. Adrift, immersed, submerged [...]
Reviews
Listening To Art, Seeing Music.
Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Ontario. January 26–April 22, 2018.
Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental.
The Kitchen, New York, New York. January 19–February 10, 2018.
Keiji Haino and John Butcher. Light Never Bright Enough.
OtoRoku, Roku018CD.
On the CD
Buy the Musicworks 130 CD at https://musicworksmag.myshopify.com/collections/back-issues/products/spring-2018