FALL 2024 FORECAST:
Preorder your copy of Musicworks 149 (magazine + CD) today to receive your copy hot off the presses and save with discounted cover prices and shipping rates!*
Features
Super Duty Tough Work founder, MC, and frontperson Brendan Grey finds inspiration in uncertainty. In Winnipeg, where he has lived the longest, Grey sits down with Abiola Regan to trace his creative journey and discuss how he and SDTW are bringing Winnipeg hip hop into the global music conversation.
Island pasts and futures emerge in the pioneering avant-garde sound murals of Filipino composer José Maceda (1917-2004), which often call for indigenous instruments, electronic technologies, and massive human input. Juro Kim Feliz visits Vancouver’s Western Front to experience the opening events of “Echoes Beyond the Archipelago”—an exhibition curated by Aki Onda—and the Canadian premiere of Maceda’s 40-minute composition Udlot-Udlot (included on the companion CD!).
Following a performance of her award-winning composition Birds Calling… from the Canada at Lincoln Center, Vancouver-based composer Rita Ueda talks to Kurt Gottschalk about her collaborative approach to intercultural music.
The imaginary ecospheres of Montreal-based composer, saxophonist, and improviser Allison Burik’s solo debut Realm were hatched during an artist residency in Iceland and enhanced through extended techniques in the studio. Story by Nick Krewen.
Through his new solo album and various community projects, Windsor-based guitarist and composer Bilal Nasser commits to political praxis through art. Story by Yaz Lancaster.
ALSO
Reviews of the FIMAV (Quebec) and Sound Within Sound (London) festivals, Daniel Weintraub’s documentary Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros, new books on the music of James Tenney and on vintage electronic musical instruments, and recordings reviews aplenty!
Discover recent, rare, or previously unreleased tracks by many of these artists on the accompanying CD.
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PLUS
. . . the 2024 Musicworks Electronic Music Composition Contest is now open!
