Musicworks

Archived since Autumn 1989

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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.

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Musicworks 152

ON THE COVER: Inspired by a love of misbehaving musical technologies, Lisa Conway brings her technical skills into her evolving creative process, working with analog synthesizers, reel-to-reel audio, and alphorns (!) sound installation, improvisation, experimental composition, and song. ALSO INSIDE: Performer-composer Kalun Leung—2025 Kranichstein Music Prize winner—takes his trombone into uncharted sonic territory with technology and movement, and invites fellow musicians to join the adventure. Bassist-composer Mali Obomsawin draws from experience in jazz and folk and from her exploration of her Abenaki heritage in ambitious solo and ensemble projects. Composer-percussionist Susie Ibarra—2025 winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Music—opens ears and minds to the rhythms of nature. For his solo project ASKO, Marek Tyler was guided by advisors through a process of cultural exploration that helped him to interpret his ancestors’ teachings through electronic soundscapes. We cozy up with the late-night vibes of Koala Karnival. We review the festivals from Manitoba's Cluster and Prairie Wires and the book Fela: Music Is the Weapon.

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