SONIC GEOGRAPHY
Mount Thor Sometimes the Arctic sun never goes down, never rises. Today though, in the middle of the Akshayuk Pass, I wake up just before the sunrays reach the thin layer of [...]
Sound notes
Tim Olive’s Flexible Aesthetic
COLLABORATIVE CONTINUITY
It’s a typically humming Saturday night at the Tranzac Club. Different events are in progress in each of the Toronto venue’s three rooms. The Tiki Room (the smallest and most [...]
Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi is just scratching the surface
THE MUSIC OF EXTRAS
“My relationship to sound is [an] obsession with texture and how sounds affect each other, and also [with] playing with the human psyche.” Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi then bursts out [...]
Features
ILLUMINATE YOUR SOUNDWORLD
The artists in the Winter 2019 issue are connected through the sonic mycelium of Musicworks! Order the Winter issue now.
Buffy Sainte-Marie'[...]
PIERRE-YVES MARTEL, JENNIFER THIESSEN, AND WESLEY SHEN ARE BRINGING HISTORICAL TOOLS FOR MUSIC-MAKING INTO THE EXPERIMENTAL TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Few musical relationships are as difficult to parse as those between musicians and the instruments they play. It’s a type of interaction that feels like it should be simple—something[...]
Reviews
James O’Callaghan & Ensemble Paramirabo. Alone & Unalone.
Ravello Records, RR8020.
heArt Ensemble. From the Basement
Small Scale Music, SSM-020. Oréade. Small Scale Music, SSM-021.
Nick Fraser, Kris Davis, Tony Malaby. Zoning.
Astral Spirits, MF216/AS 112.
Fourth Calgary New Music Festival.
Festival Hall, Calgary, Alberta. October 24–27, 2019.