What's Inside Musicworks 154?

Cover photo by Dani Osborne

Story by Melissa Vincent

 

Vancouver-based Anju Singh creative work has spanned a remarkable range of forms throughout her prolific career. "I've always known that I wanted to make things, she tells writer Melissa Vincent. She is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound artist, instrument builder, sculptor, animator, filmmaker, and curator. A longtime drummer in metal bands, she has always loved underground metal and music that pushes the boundaries of listening into the body. With numerous projects (sound installations, film scores, compositions, new instruments) already unleashed in 2026, and commissions in motion, Singh is taking matters into her own hands to keep art at the centre.

 

 

 

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Words and photos by Joe Strutt

Pack your headphones and an extra garbage bag for a field trip with citizen archivist Joe Strutt as he follows Toronto’s Ministry of Phonic Services into the less-trodden corners of the urban outdoors to chronicle a year of their low-impact, community-supporting sonic events. "The curatorial impulses of the Ministry of Phonic Services lean toward new approaches to audio and sound, often at the more abrasive end of experimentation—where punk-inspired harsh noise rubs shoulders with more academic electroacoustic improvisation," Strutt writes.

 

The aliases of Kenyan artist Wanjiru Ngure carry groovy worlds of their own, from drum and bass, techno, and hip-hop to African polyrhythms, creative coding, and new media. [MONRHEA]  goes beyond fixed forms, venturing into collaboration, discovery, and experimentation, leaning to the unconventional and unpredictable while staying true to human form and agency. Technology is a powerful tool for creating immersive environments, and so is ancestral knowledge, heritage, and legacy. While performing DJ sets at international festivals, she builds community groups in Nairobi that support rising techno artists and sharpen their creative coding skills. How does humanity embed its place within the [RHEAVERSE] of circuitry and futurism that [MONRHEA] is building? Juro Kim Feliz sets out to learn more.