Bug Incision: Calgary’s Cross-Pollination Buzz
The world of free improvisation is like a parallel universe, a global underground community of nonidiomatic soundmakers, recording with each other in every imaginable permutation, connected [...]
Wow & Flutter make breathing room
The phrase “wow and flutter” typically refers to flawed analog recordings—ones with imperfections that cause the pitch to oscillate, either slowly or quickly. When Toronto- [...]
Lea Bertucci composes time and space
SHIFTING SONIC ENVIRONMENTS
As I sit here listening to Metal Aether, the most recent full-length release from New York composer and performer Lea Bertucci, the difficulty of locating this music’s boundaries becomes [...]
Muxubo Mohamed Dares to Represent
hearing every rhythm
Compromise? What is compromising? Compromising for what? Compromising for what reason? . . . What is compromise? —Eartha Kitt That emphatic excerpt [...]
Carmen Vanderveken is full of surprises
A TRIO FOR GAUDEAMUS MUZIEKWEEK
Quebec-born composer Carmen Vanderveken was commissioned by the Dutch annual festival Gaudeamus Muziekweek to write a piece for a quartet featuring Dutch bass clarinetist Fie Schouten. [...]
What's Inside Musicworks 131 - Fall 2018
STIMULATING EARTH TONES
Musicworks 131 is the second issue of our 40th anniversary year, featuring artists who are active in interarts, DIY culture, collaborative composing, and more! Buy the print issue (or[...]
Jean-Sebastien Audet’s Songs of Ephemera
THE SAME BUT BY DIFFERENT MEANS
Jean-Sebastien Audet and I drink coffee in a café on Toronto’s Queen Street West, as we try to pin down his elusive music. The man who has kindly given us his larger table is now[...]
Peggy Lee and the Joy of Unknowable Notes
Her cello in a white case strapped to her small back, Peggy Lee had walked several unfamiliar blocks in her hometown Vancouver, since the bus dropped her at the edge of a genteel oceanside[...]
Maria de Alvear, Rebel By Nature
"I want to hear something I’ve never heard before . . . I want to hear the experiment."
Contradiction is a huge theme in contemporary experimental music. Today’s most potent works situate the listener at hitherto unimaginable thresholds between seemingly[...]
SOUND CARRIES MEANING
Inspired by the idea that sound travels and has purpose beyond the human ear, wnoondwaamin | we hear them is about the materiality of sound, the social implications of the transmission and [...]
Brian Olewnick. "Keith Rowe: The Room Extended."
PowerHouse Books, ISBN: 9781576878644.
Eve Egoyan. Maria De Alvear: De Puro Amor & En Amor Duro.
World Edition, CD33.
Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound. Kitchener, Ontario.
May 30–June 3, 2018.
Festival de International Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, 34th Edition.
Victoriaville, Quebec. May 17–20, 2018.