All-Set! Editions: Essentially Not Jazz
LABEL PROFILE
Dapper Toronto imprint All-Set! Editions may be a newcomer to the subterranean ecosystem of experimental music distribution, but it already has a clearer sense of self than other more [...]
Sound notes
Bret Parenteau widens the loop
BENEATH THE NOISE
When Bret Parenteau’s name is attached to a release or performance, those familiar with his music find themselves wondering what kind of intensity the Winnipeg artist is unleashing this [...]
The Piano and Erhu Project Expands the Repertoire
FROM ZERO TO SIXTY
“Let’s begin with a short history of this instrument,” says Nicole Ge Li, in a video shot at the Vancouver offices of the Canadian Music Centre. She’s speaking to a [...]
FIRST-PLACE WINNER, MUSICWORKS' 2016 ELECTRONIC MUSIC COMPOSITION CONTEST
Ice cracking and melting; a forest by the coast; a dream; breath lingering in the cold air—these are some of the images that come to mind when listening to Vancouver composer Craig [...]
Tom Wayman’s “Elemental Musics: Selkirk Mountains”
FIRST-PLACE WINNER, MUSICWORKS 2016 SONIC GEOGRAPHY WRITING CONTEST
1. ARIA Alpine wind in the stunted firs half whispers an austere wistfulness with overtones of regret at being compelled by a harsh [...]
Eighty-five scores celebrate Pauline Oliveros
STILL DEEP LISTENING
Still Listening: New Works in Honour of Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016) is a project initially conceived to mark Oliveros’ eighty-fifth birthday on May 30, 2017. Eighty-five artists were [...]
Features
Roscoe Mitchell and the Montreal-Toronto Art Orchestra
EXTENDING THE CONVERSATION
The year 2017 is being widely celebrated as the centenary of jazz, marked by the hundredth anniversary of the music’s first recordings, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band’s “Livery[...]
Thin Edge New Music Collective Joins the Circus
STEP RIGHT UP
Last year, pianist Cheryl Duvall and violinist Ilana Waniuk joined the circus. This did not involve playing instruments while hanging from a trapeze, but like many big-top acts[...]
The Astral Excursions of John Mills-Cockell
DREAM TRIPPING
The imagination of electronic composer John Mills-Cockell exists in a liminal space. His music, with its neon-pastoral glow, feels neither jarringly futuristic nor soothingly nostalgic.[...]
Visions of sound
Amanda Dawn Christie’s Requiem for Radio
PRESS PAUSE
In 2012 the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) began to tear down its Radio-Canada International towers in Sackville, New Brunswick (home to some 6,000 people and best known as the locale [...]
Reviews
Kid Koala, Featuring Emilíana Torrini. Music to Draw To: Satellite.
Arts & Crafts, AC129.
Darcy James Argue Secret Society. Real Enemies.
New Amsterdam Records, NWAM081.