On the Cover: “Simone Schmidt's Audible Songs of Defiant Meaning" by Kurt Newman.
Features: “Levy Lorenzo Maximizes the Human Algorithm" by Juro Kim Feliz. "Colliding Dualities: Nicole Mitchell and Coco Elysses at Women From Space" by Patrick O'Reilly. "Wayne Lavallee's Journey to Bones of Crows" by Jennie Punter.
More stories: "Leah Reid: Winner of the 2022 Electronic Music Composition Contest" by Jennie Punter. "Lina Choi is Floating in Spaces" by Andrew Patterson. "You Can Can's Tonal Possibilities" by Laura Stanley."A Eulogy for the Music of Café Resonance" by Adam Kinner. "Contingency Plans" editorial by Jennie Punter.
Reviews of new music from: All Hands_Make Light; Christopher Butterfield; Satoko Fujii and Otomo Yoshihide; Tim Hecker; Carmen Jaci; Ingrid Laubrock; Joëlle Léandre ; Roxanne Nesbitt, Ben Brown, and Marielle Groven; Éliane Radigue and Quatuor Bozzini; Rasmussen, Flaherty, Rowden, and Corsano; Alex Temple, Julia Holter, and Spektral Quartet; Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra; and Witch Prophet.
Events:Bicycle Opera Project’s Sweat (Kingston Canadian Film Festival); Sarah Jerrom’s Magpie (Music Gallery, Toronto)
Words: Bruce Adams. You’re With Stupid: kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music.
Musicworks 145 CD
1 Reverie (2019-2020) 10:30
Composed and performed by Leah Reid. First Prize, 2022 Musicworks Electronic Music Composition Contest.
2 Water and Dreams(2021) 6:23
Composed and performed by Lina Choi.
3 Modified (2018) 4:38
4 The Stone Cauldron (2018) 4:08
Tracks 3-4 composed and performed by Levy Lorenzo (percussion and electronics) and Peter Evans (trumpets). From the album Q (More is More) by Levy Lorenzo and Peter Evans.
5 Everything in Time (2023) 8:13
Composed and performed by You Can Can (Felicity Williams and Andrew Zukerman). From the LP You Can Can (Séance Centre, 36SC, 2023).
6 I Hold My Hands Up To You (2023) 4:08
Composed and produced by Wayne Lavallee. Words by Marie Clements. Performed by Wayne Lavallee (acoustic guitars, vocals), Sherryl Sewepagaham (background vocals), Michel Bruyere (drums), Eric Reed (electric guitars), and Brian Minato (bass).
7 Yeah But Uhh Hey! (2021) 5:56
Composed by Simone Schmidt. Performed by Jeremy Costello (bass, voice) Nick Dourado (piano, sax), Bianca Palmer (drums) Simone Schmidt (voice, guitars). From Fiver with the Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition (2021).
8 Sacco Vanzetti (2022) 1:39
Composed by Simone Schmidt. Performed by John Showman (fiddle) and Simone Schmidt (guitar, voice). From Soundtrack to A More Radiant Sphere: The Joe Wallace Mixtape(2022).
9 Wallace Goes To Russia (2022) 3:02
Composed and performed by Nick Dourado (piano), Simone Schmidt (guitar), and Nathan Doucet (drums). From Soundtrack to A More Radiant Sphere: The Joe Wallace Mixtape Joe Wallace Mixtape (2022).
10 Nicole Mitchell and Coco Elysses at Women From Space (excerpt) 7:17
Composed and performed by Nicole Mitchell (flute) and Coco Elysses. Concert performance recorded by Paul Hodge at 918 Bathurst at the Women From Space Festival, March 11, 2023.
Musicworks 145 CD released May 2023
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