Musicworks is an internationally distributed Canadian magazine about ideas, artists, and events in exploratory music and sound art.
Founded in Toronto in 1978 by notable music experimenters, Musicworks has remained a cornerstone of Canada’s creative music scene while evolving into a genre-fluid magazine that connects artist, programming, educational, and audience communities across Canada and around the world through its publication and outreach activities.
The print issue is packaged with a CD companion and mailed three times per year to individual and institutional subscribers around the world and distributed to Canadian outlets via Magazines Canada. The digital edition is published on Exact Editions and Magzter.
Our outreach program Musicworks in the Classroom distributes the magazine free of charge to select post-secondary music schools and similar activities across Canada. We also produce the annual Musicworks Electronic Music Composition Contest, a highly successful international composition contest with cash prizes and which also awards the annual the Marcelle Deschênes Prize in Electronic Music / prix Marcelle Deschênes pour la musique électronique.
The smallness and slower process of Musicworks allow a microcommunity to evolve during the making of each print issue—a space where conversation, information, and sound are put together with enthusiasm and care for you to discover.
Musicworks is published by Musicworks Society of Ontario Inc., a non-profit organization, and is supported by financial assistance from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, Canadian Heritage, and Toronto Arts Council, as well as advertising, paid subscriptions, and donations.