Saw-whet Records: Prairie Experimentalists Unite
For Saw-whet Records’ Ethan Bokma, putting an album together means exactly that: a new release requires not only great music and a cover design, but also blank, unassembled album jackets, [...]
Sound notes
EDITOR'S NOTE, SPRING 2020
A barrage of media releases announcing the cancellation or postponement of concerts and festivals—in my hometown of Toronto, in music hubs across Canada and beyond—began hitting my [...]
The Many Trajectories of Erin Rogers
STYLISTIC MAPS
Erin Rogers and Dennis Sullivan are facing each other on the stage of Manhattan’s Le Poisson Rouge in late February of 2020, a small table of gear between them. They take turns [...]
FET.NAT’s Post-Punk Palimpsests
THE ART OF LETTING GO
Around twenty years ago, a post-punk revival was supposedly upon us. Reissue compilations proliferated alongside a crop of new artists who audibly drew from the genre’s heyday. Where punk- [...]
Backxwash—The Healing Music of Productive Rage
If you want to win over rapper and producer Backxwash (Ashanti Mutinta), start a conversation with her by talking about the outlier sounds of American rapper–producers Missy Elliot and [...]
First-place winner, Musicworks 2019 Electronic Music Composition Contest
Convergence is often the magical force in the creative process that leads to an ear-catching work. Two or more seemingly disparate elements meet in the imagination of an artist who unites them [...]
Curtis Running Rabbit-Lefthand Ignites the Rhythm of the People
Blackfoot Confederacy member Curtis Running Rabbit-Lefthand is the founder and executive artistic director of Indigenous Resilience in Music (IRIM), a collective that supports Indigenous musicians [...]
Features
SONGS FROM THE IN-BETWEEN
The Spring 2020 issue is a one-stop, one-of-a-kind sonic journey. Most of the stories were assigned, written, and edited before the lockdown, due to the global COVID-19 health crisis, took hold.[...]
Anthony Pateras: Sonic Phenomena in Real Time
The music of Anthony Pateras covers vast expanses of composition and improvisation, of acoustic and electronic instrumentation, and combinations of these. He is also a virtuosic pianist. Between[...]
Neither Here Nor There: Musical Identity in the Global Flow
APRIL ALIERMO AND LIEKE VAN DER VOORT MAKE SONGS FROM THE IN-BETWEEN
It is impossible to stand still nowadays in the face of worldwide security concerns. With climate change, wars, oppressive political climates, and alarming epidemics, the ability[...]
The Audible Connections of Xuan Ye
THE MEDIUM IS THE MUSIC
On Xuan Ye’s website, layers of text, symbols, and images float across the home page like something halfway between poetry and code. The site is an ever-changing digital[...]
Reviews
Lina Allemano’s Ohrenschmaus. Rats and Mice / Lina Allemano. Glimmer Glammer.
Lumo Records, LM 2019-10 / Lumo Records, LM 2019-9.
2020 Winnipeg New Music Festival.
January 25–31, 2020. Centennial Concert Hall, Winnipeg, Manitoba.