Musicworks

Musicworks is a triannual arts magazine that explores innovative artists, ideas, and events in music and sound art, from a diversity of perspectives and places. Founded in Toronto in 1978 by notable music experimenters, Musicworks has remained a cornerstone of Canada’s creative-music scene while evolving into a genre-fluid magazine that connects artist, programming, educational, and audience communities across Turtle Island and around the world through its publication and outreach activities.

Musicworks will be adding its archival issues to this platform in the latter half of 2024.

On the cover: As Winnipeg hip-hop ensemble Super Duty Tough Work hits the ten-year mark, founder and MC Brendan Grey discusses the words that inspire him, his family’s artistic legacy, and the evolutionary ethos that drives one of Canada’s most dynamic live groups. | Features: The avant-garde sound murals of Filipino composer and ethnomusicologist  José Maceda (1917–2004) are brought to the foreground in a multipart exhibition curated by Aki Onda. After a performance of her double concerto for suona (Chinese double-reed horn) and sho (Japanese mouth organ) at Lincoln Center, Rita Ueda explains how her migratory life inspires a  collaborative approach to intercultural music. | Also inside: The music of saxophonist/improviser Allison Burik’s solo debut was hatched during an artist residency in Iceland and enhanced through extended techniques. Post-classical guitarist Bilal Nasser commits to political praxis through art. | Reviews: FIMAV (Quebec) and Sound Within Sound (London), the documentary Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros, new books on the music of James Tenney and on vintage electronic musical instruments, and recording reviews.