Mystery & Wonder Records: Extending the Sound
A striking musical and visual aesthetic distinguishes Mystery & Wonder Records from other artist-curated labels. The recordings are concise yet complete musical statements. High-definition [...]
Sound notes
The Quiet Waves of Silla and Rise
INTERGALACTIC INTERACTION
In early 2016 Ottawa-based DJ, producer, and dancer Eric Vani, aka Rise, was hired to create music to be played at the Canadian Museum of Nature’s Nature Nocturne—a themed-evening [...]
Sami Blanco’s Experimental Atmospheres
Yellowknife-based experimental electronic-music artist Sami Blanco plays me a snippet of a soundbank he made for late-night broadcast on Yellowknife’s francophone radio station, CIVR-FM [...]
Features
IN ONE CURIOUS EAR AND OUT THE OTHER
The artists in the Fall 2019 issue expand their perspectives through innovative collaborations and combos—they just can’t get enough! Order Musicworks 134 now.
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The Restless Sonic Architecture of William Kuo
Adjudicating applications for an emerging-composer program is a sort of high-volume evaluation scenario that necessitates a concentrated mode of listening in order to provide fair and sufficiently[...]
between the in-here and the out-there
“My work is what it is and I move in many worlds. I would have nothing
except for being carried on the shoulders of friendship and shared interest.”
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Laraaji, Forever Expanding in Experimental Directions
ZITHER JOY
New Age legend Laraaji has soared through a five-decade artistic voyage, propelled by the fiery spirit of positivity that’s represented by his trademark orange clothes. The[...]
Ana Sokolović wants you to enjoy her imagination
THE MUSIC OF EVERYTHING
“Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms / Inside your head, and people in them, acting.”
These lines from “The Old Fools,” English postwar poet[...]
Amy Brandon is Capturing Intimate Chaos
SHAPES IN THE ROOM
The first time I met guitarist-composer Amy Brandon, we talked about the lineage of a particular sound.
Her 2019 composition Mimic—written[...]
Reviews
Eric Lewis. Intents & Purposes.
University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-13130-3.
Toshiya Tsunoda. Extract From Field Recording Archive.
ErstPast 001-5.
Tim Olive / Martin Tétreault. Faune; Doreen Girard / Tim Olive. Boro.
845 Audio, 845-11; 845 Audio, 845-12.
Music In The Barns. Bolton-Godin-Oesterle.
New Focus Recordings, fcr226.
Harris Eisenstadt. Old Growth Forest II; The Fictive Five. Anything is Possible.
Astral Spirits, AS 093 / MF 196; Clean Feed, CF 514.
Suoni per il Popolo Festival, 19th Edition.
Montreal, Quebec. June 4–23, 2019.