On the Cover: "Lisa Conway: The Art of Troubleshooting" Sara Constant.
Features: "Susie Ibarra: Where Sky Islands Meet Forest Rhythms" by Juro Kim Feliz. "Kalun Leung: Performer, Composer, Rulebreaker" by Luke Ottenhof. “Mali Obomsawin: Shaping Music for the Bigger Story” by Kurt Gottschalk.
More stories: "ASKO: Music as a Teaching Lodge” by Rosie Long Decter. “Deeper than the Dancefloor” by Alessia Proietti. "Sound Entanglement" by Jennie Punter (editor's note).
Reviews of new music from: Lina Allemano Four; The Dwarfs of East Agouza; Endlings + VNM; Beny Esguerra, New Tradition Music, and Gaita Loop; Rebecca Foon; i.o; Cecilia Kang, Angela Park, and Wanyun Ensemble; Terry Riley; Linda Catlin Smith; Andrew Staniland; Webber/Morris Big Band.
Event reviews: 2025 Cluster: New Music + Integrated Arts Festival (Winnipeg); Soft Verges at Prairie Wires Modular’s Festival of Electronic Sound (Brandon).
Words: Fela: Music Is the Weapon (graphic novel)
Musicworks 152 CD
1 Alphorn Tape Loop I (2023) 3:41
Composed by Lisa Conway. Performed and recorded by Jim Hopson. Tape loop manipulation and processing by Lisa Conway. From the L CON album The Isolator (Idée Fixe).
2 Heimatort (2023) 4:27
Written, produced, and arranged by Lisa Conway. From the L CON album The Isolator.
3 nisis (2024) 3:05
Composed by Marek Tyler. Performed by Marek Tyler (percussion), Cassia Hardy (synths), and Matthew Cardinal (synths). From the album ASKO (Dine Alone Records).
4 Die Posaune (2018) 4:20
Composed by Kalun Leung and Felix Del Tredici. Performed by Siw Maria Therese Laurent Myrvold (shamanic frame drum, voice), Kalun Leung (trombone feedback sound sculpture), and Felix Del Tredici (trombone feedback sound sculpture). From the trombone quartet So Wrong It’s Right’s album Let Light Perpetual Shine (self-released, 2019).
5 Conversations with Space & Architecture—Saint Laurent (2022) 10:23
Composed by Kalun Leung. Performed by Kalun Leung (mubone, trombone). This audio version has been specially cut for Musicworks.
Inside Cover Playlist
6 when it all falls APART (2025) 8:09
Composed and produced by Stephen Seto. Performed by s:cage. From the album We End In a Beautiful Mess (Artoffact Records).
7 Rabbits & Riliriks (2025) 14:42
Composed and performed by Gayle Young (Amaranth) and Robert Wheeler (Electrocomp EML 101 synthesizer). From the album From Grimsby to Milan (FarPoint Recordings).
8 Postcard from Dobbin Street (2025) 9:16
Composed and performed by Allen Ravenstine (modular synthesizer). From the upcoming album Postcards from Dobbin Street (ReR Megacorp).
Musicworks 152 CD released October 2025
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