HAVN Records: Fronting Art Music in ‘The Hammer’
First came the band, then the space, then the label. The band is Haolin Munk, a jazz and hip-hop quartet formed [...]
Sound notes
The Musical Colours of Dominique Fils-Aimé
REAL REVOLUTION
On the 2004 live-concert recording Tour de Force, the renowned American poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron introduces his 1981 song “Is That Jazz?”: “Go to your record store [...]
A pair of Canadian jazz composers are leading their new ensemble to the frontlines of New York’s most adventurous big-band resurgence.
On a cold January evening in 2019, Angela Morris approaches the bandstand of Manhattan’s Jazz Gallery and announces that she will be able to conduct her piece that night. A few days ago [...]
FIRST-PLACE WINNER, MUSICWORKS' 2018 ELECTRONIC MUSIC COMPOSITION CONTEST
In the pantheon of sounds, the tone, whirr, and ring of the rotary phone belong in the “gone but not forgotten” gallery. If someone’s mobile phone rings à la Ma Bell [...]
Features
WHAT'S INSIDE THE SPRING 2019 ISSUE?
The lively stories in the Spring 2019 issue are sure to spark conversations about the diverse ways that people develop creative ideas and potential. BUY THE ISSUE NOW!
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Samuel Andreyev’s Sonic Organisms
PLUNGING IN
There’s a strange duality about the music of Strasbourg-based Canadian composer Samuel Andreyev.
His official bio states that his compositional[...]
Linda Catlin Smith Lets In the Light
A SCAVENGER OF LISTENING
It’s 2004. I am taking my first composition course at Mount Allison University. I have recently become enamoured of new music and am catching up on a long list of listening in the[...]
Wadada Leo Smith and the Possibilities of Dreaming
TRUE COMMUNICATION
Think of this as a sketch.
We’re not going to get into a complete report on the doings of Wadada Leo Smith here, his more than fifty recordings, his dozens of[...]
Visions of sound
Pleasure Calls, by Camae Ayewa and Carmel Farahbakhsh
ARCHIVING DISTANCE THROUGH SONIC JOY
Pleasure Calls is a collaborative, interdisciplinary installation and performance by Camae Ayewa and Carmel Farahbakhsh that activates revolutionary ways of loving one another. The [...]
Reviews
George Lewis & Roscoe Mitchell. Voyage and Homecoming.
Rogueart, ROG-0086.
Ingrid Laubrock. Contemporary Chaos Practices.
Intakt Records, CD 314.
Bill Bissett & Th Mandan Massacre. Awake In Th Red Desert.
Feeding Tube Records, FTR389 LP.
Sonic Acts Festival 2019: Hereafter—An Exhibition in Three Acts.
De Brakke Grond, Arti et Amicitiae, and Stedelijk Museum. Amsterdam, Feb. 8–Mar. 3, 2019.
Cluster New Music and Integrated Arts Festival.
Winnipeg, Manitoba. February 28–March 3, 2019.