The Squid's Ear Magazine

Musicworks

#133 Spring 2019 [MAGAZINE + CD]

Musicworks: #133 Spring 2019 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks)

Spring 2019 issue of Canada's premier new music magazine, with articles on Montreal's Dominique Fils-Aime; Composer Linda Catlin Smith; Strasbourg-based Canadian composer and heckelphonist Samuel Andreyev; Camae Ayewa and Carmel Farabakhsh; plus a 10-track various artists CD with tracks from the above, including a work by Wadada Leo Smith, &c. &c.
 

Price: $15.95



Quantity:

In Stock

Quantity in Basket: None

Log In to use our Wish List
Shipping Weight: 8.00 units

Sample The Album:





product information:

Personnel:



See track listing


Click an artist name above to see in-stock items for that artist.




UPC: 72527491816401

Label: Musicworks
Catalog ID: #133
Squidco Product Code: 27473

Format: Magazine + CD
Condition: New
Released: 2019
Country: Canada
Packaging: Magazine and CD

Descriptions, Reviews, &c.

"The lively stories in the Spring 2019 issue are sure to spark conversations about the diverse ways that people develop creative ideas and potential.

ON THE COVER: Montreal's Dominique Fils-Aimé has moved from the mainstream spotlight to a more intimate creative space where many genres unite in her powerful, elegant, and soulful music. Toronto writer Chaka V. Grier finds out about her Haitian roots, self-guided music education, and the influence of her synesthesia on her planned trilogy of albums.

Strasbourg-based Canadian composer and heckelphonist Samuel Andreyev has been guided by intuition through his unusual artistic journey. Musicworks contributing editor Nick Storring follows the trail, from youthful adventures in comics and composing to the "strange perceptual magic" of his evolving body of work.

Camae Ayewa and Carmel Farabakhsh explore their long-distance relationship through the installation / performance Pleasure Calls, originally presented in March 2019 at the Khyber Centre for the Arts in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Musician and writer Nick Dourado listens in.

U.K. Manuella Blackburn, first-place winner of our 2018 Electronic Music Composition Contest, talks to Musicworks editor Jennie Punter about the inspiration behind her elegantly playful composition Landline.

Learn how a community arts space in Hamilton spawned the adventurous HAVN Records.

FEATURE ARTICLES

Linda Catlin Smith, scavenger of listening
Interested in composing at a young age, Linda Catlin Smith studied in NYC (where she grew up) and Victoria, B.C., before moving to Toronto. From 1988-93 she was the artistic director of one of Toronto's Arraymusic, where she started the Young Composers Workshop. Her works span solo, chamber, vocal, and orchestral music. In the past few years, international recognition and appreciation of her music has grown, thanks in part to the release of three albums of her work in the Canadian Composers Series, on the U.K.-based label Another Timbre. Smith describes her process as "composing by ear," exploring and varying a sound image, rather than using a system or formal compositional method. "I ruminate for a long time before I concretize anything," she tells composer and writer Monica Pearce, a former student of Smith's. Musicians such as Eve Egoyan and Cheryl Duvall and young composers such as Julia Mermelstein share their thoughts about Smith's influence on and inspiration in their own careers.

Wadada Leo Smith, true communication
Pianist Vijay Iyer and cellist Ashley Walters join Musicworks contributing editor (and occasional guitarist) Alexander Varty, as he orbits the trumpeter, composer, and philosopher Wadada Leo Smith's massive body of work. In the process, we learn what it's like to be in the recording studio with Wadada; how his graphic scores unlock creativity; how he constructs his multilayered tributes to people, places, and things; and the thinking behind his interdisciplinary Ankhrasmation music system. Our journey takes us from ritual music in Mississippi in the 1950s to the present day and beyond, following this seventy-seven-year-old innovator who shows no signs of slowing down.

Scott Smallwood , solar-powered sound
Born in Texas and raised in Colorado, Scott Smallwood is a creative force and educator in Edmonton's burgeoning interdisciplinary arts scene. He began experimenting with sound in the 1970s, making tape collages in his preteen years. Today he has dozens of instrumental compositions to his credit, and is a widely respected and sought-after collaborator on ambitious, multifaceted works such as Macromareal, which was cocreated with visual artist Sydney Lancaster. For twenty years, he has been creating improvisational work as part of the duo Evidence. Recent forays into game creation reveal his interest in the unique place and effect that sound has in games. Whether talking about compositions, natural sounds, synthesized sounds, or the noises made by industrial machines, Smallwood very quickly pulls those in his company into the wonder, joy, and personal meaning he finds in the sounds from his life.

Webber/Morris Big Band, in full swing
New York City has a long and strong history of big bands, but the most recent entry into the pantheon is breaking more than a couple of molds. The Webber/Morris Big Band has not one leader but two: the Toronto-born Angela Morris and fellow tenor saxophonist Anna Webber, hailing from Kelowna, British Columbia. The band has caught the ear of noted trumpeter Dave Douglas, who will release the Webber/Morris big Band's first record on his Greenleaf Music imprint in 2020. Each is involved in multiple projects outside the band, and both Morris and Webber are making their names known in New York. In early January, the pair sat down with writer Kurt Gottschalk in Manhattan to talk about their creative connections and blossoming careers."


Artist Biographies

Track Listing:



Manuella Blackburn
1> Landline 9:36

Dominique Fils-Aimé
2> Some Body 4:03
3> 9LRR 1:52

Samuel Andreyev
4> Strasbourg Quartet, 4th mvt. 8:06
5> Piano Piece No. 3 1:27

Webber/Morris Big Band
6> And It Rolled Right Down 6:38
7> Rebonds 3:12

Linda Catlin Smith
8> Piano Quintet 13:32

Wadada Leo Smith
9> Pacifica Coral Reef 5:13

Scott Smallwood
10> Fields of a Lost City 12:28

Related Categories of Interest:


Book
Various Artists & Compilations
Compositional Forms
Improvised Music
Electro-Acoustic
New in Compositional Music
New in Experimental & Electronic Music

Search for other titles on the label:
Musicworks.


Recommended & Related Releases:
Other Recommended Releases:
Musicworks
#144 Winter 2022/2023 [MAGAZINE + CD]
(Musicworks)
The Winter 2022/23 issue of Canada's most interesting music magazine including a 15-track compilation CD of new and rediscovered music from artists featured in the magazine; SLOWPITCHSOUND on the cover, plus articles on Gordon Grdina, performance artist Kite, Toronto's Audiopollination music series, sound artist Seth A Smith, live and recorded reviews, &c. &c.
Musicworks
#143 Fall 2022 [MAGAZINE + CD]
(Musicworks)
Fall 2022 issue of Canada's most fascinating and diverse music magazine; Montreal Violinist And Composer Jessica Moss; Musical Repatriation and Reconciliation with Canada's Indigenous Peoples; sound artist Tona Walt Ohama; Interdisciplinary Artist Chloe Alexandra Thompson; electronic artist Mariana Vieira; Jordan Dykstra; Sabarah Pilon; The London Contemporary Music Festival, &c. &c.
Musicworks
#142 Summer 2022 [MAGAZINE + CD]
(Musicworks)
The Summer 2022 issue of Canada's essential music magazine exploring improvised, compositional, experimental and other musical hybrids, this issue with composer Gayle Young on the cover, articles on violist Ig Henneman, composer Du Yun, Mark Ellestad, plus reviews, interviews and a 10-track CD with music from artists covered in the magazine.
Musicworks
#139 Spring/Summer 2021 [MAGAZINE + CD]
(Musicworks)
Spring/Summer issue of Canada's premiere new music magazine, including an 11-track CD of music from the artists covered in each issue, with articles: Sobey Art Award wubber Lou Shppard; a 30-page section exploring climate emergency through nine sound and music artists; Brooklyn-based composer and violist Tanya Kalmanovitch; Ashley Au; James Goddard; David Psutka; &c. &c!
Musicworks
#138 Winter 2020/2021 [MAGAZINE + CD]
(Musicworks)
The final issue of 2020 is is dedicated to the art of conversation in music and about music during the age of pandemic; with Debby Friday on the cover, plus articles about Victoria-based composer Anna Höstman, Tehran-born Araz Salek, Tkarón:to-based saxophonist and composer Olivia Shortt, with a CD including tracks from those artists, plus reviews, articles, &c.
Musicworks
#137 Fall 2020 [MAGAZINE + CD]
(Musicworks)
Fall 2020 issue of Canada's finest new music magazine, focusing on guitars--hollow, heavy, bowed, cracked, pedalled, flung, trusty companions & feedback demons; Plus articles on Casey Koyczan, Susan Alcorn, Amy Brandon, Aidan Baker, Eliza Kavtion, C. Diab, Markus Lake, Catherine Debard, Cloud Chamber, &c; and an 11-track CD with music from the aforementioned.
Musicworks
#132 Fall 2018 [MAGAZINE + CD]
(Musicworks)
The final issue of the premier Canadian new music magazine Musicworks' 40th anniversary year, with Darcy Spidle on the cover, plus articles on Luke Nickel, Lina Allemano, Andre Cormier, Joseph Shabason, Thanya Iyer, the Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective, plus a 9 track CD with music from Darcy Spidle, Shabason, Iyer, Luke Nickel & Heather Roche, &c. &c.
Musicworks
#131 Fall 2018 [MAGAZINE + CD]
(Musicworks)
The second issue in the 40th anniversary year of Canada's foremost magazine exploring new music in composed, improvised, experimental and other unusual musics, articles including Peggy Lee, Circuit Bending, composer Maria de Alvear, an article on the Bug Incision label, plus a 14-track CD with tracks to accompany the articles, plus album reviews, live reviews, &c. &c.
Musicworks
#130 Spring 2018 [MAGAZINE + CD]
(Musicworks)
In it's 40th year, the Canadian music journal Musicworks, with a reflection on their journey, alongside articles about guitarist Sam Shalabi, composer Sarah Hennies, the music series SONICBernheim in Louisville, Kentucky, electronic-music producer Vanese "VJ" Smith (Pursuit Grooves), and a 13-track CD with music from the those artists and more.
Musicworks
#129 Winter 2017 [MAGAZINE + CD]
(Musicworks)
Canada's premiere creative and new music magazine in their 129th issue, Winter 2017/18, with Geronimo Inutiq on the cover, plus articles on University of Victoria's music department, reedist Karen Ng, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Kamancello, Quasar saxophone quartet, Biophilia, Spool, and an 11-track CD with music from those artists and more.
Musicworks
#128 Summer/Fall 2017 [MAGAZINE + CD]
(Musicworks)
Summer 2017 issue of Canada's premiere new music magazine, with a CD featuring tracks from selected artists covered in the magazine; Bekah Simms; Senyawa; Pantayo, HanHan, and Luyos MC; Brodie West; Artificiel; Another Timbre's Canadian Composers Series; Vicky Chow; Festival de International Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, 33rd Edition reviewed; &c. &c.
Musicworks
#127 Spring 2017 [MAGAZINE + CD]
(Musicworks)
Spring 2016 issue of Canada's premier music magazine, including a 10-track CD of musicians featured in this issue's magazine. Contents include: articles on Craig Aalders' el8dEra 3m; , Eighty-five scores celebrate Pauline Oliveros; Toronto label All-Set! Editions; Thin Edge New Music Collective; electronic composer John Mills-Cockell; and much more!
Musicworks
#126 Fall 2016 [MAGAZINE + CD]
(Musicworks)
Canada's premiere music magazine, with articles on The Sound Future of Virtual Reality; Roarke Menzies; Heidi Chan; Erin Gee; Eric Normand; Carmen Braden; Nick Dourado; plus a CD with recordings from Eric Normand, Carmen Braden, Erin Gee, Nick Dourado, Heidi Chan, and Plumes Ensemble.
Musicworks
#125 Summer 2016 [MAGAZINE + CD]
(Musicworks)
Canada's premier new music magazine in their 125th issue, articles include Ayo Leilani; Ocean Bug and Bird Songs; Gabriel Dharmoo; crys cole; Thin Edge New Music Collective; plus a CD with tracks from Witch Prophet; Gabriel Dharmoo; Tim Brady; crys cole; Marc Saba; &c. &c.
Musicworks
#124 Spring 2016 [MAGAZINE + CD]
(Musicworks)
Musicworks
#123 Fall 2015 [MAGAZINE + CD]
(Musicworks)
Features: The Expanding Universe of Yamantaka // Sonic Titan; Yamantaka // Sonic Titan; The Retro Aesthetic of Le Revelateur; JOYFULTALK (Drip Audio); Muuixx; Hard Rubber Orchestra; Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville; Allison Cameron and Contact; plus live and recorded reviews.
Musicworks
#122 Summer 2015 [MAGAZINE + CD]
(Musicworks)
On the cover, Allison Camerson. Inside: Dave Burrell's Unsung Songbook; Peter Ablinger's Art of Time; Sabrina Schroeder's Stircrazer; plus reviews of recordings and events, label profiles, essays, &c. &c.
Musicworks
#121 Spring 2015 [MAGAZINE + CD]
(Musicworks)
On the cover, Jean Derome. Inside: Walter Smetak; Barbara Hannigan; Ian Tung; Cris Derksen; Alex Zhang Hungtai; plus reviews of recordings and events, a label profile, essays, &c. &c.
Musicworks
#120 Fall 2014 [MAGAZINE + CD]
(Musicworks)
Fall 2014 issue with a 12 track various artist CD from Canada's premiere new music magazine. On the cover: Kris Davis; articles on Wolf Edwards; Video Game Music; Ross Bolleter; plus Coppice; Lido Pimienta; The Muted Noise; live and recorded reviews; &c. &c.
MusicWorks
#110 Summer 2011 [MAGAZINE + CD]
(Musicworks)
Summer 2011 issue of Canada's premiere music magazine and CD, with articles and tracks from Gregory Oh, Grimes, Doldrums, The Vegetable Orchestra, Terri Hron, Miguel Azguime, Rachel Wadham, &c.
MusicWorks
#107 Summer 2010 [MAGAZINE + CD]
(Musicworks)
Canada's premiere new music magazine's Summer 2010 issue with articles on Marilyn Lerner, Richard Marsella, Richard Windeyer, Psychotropic Sonics, plus a 12-track CD.



Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought:
Innanen / Pasborg / Piromalli
This Is It
(Clean Feed)
The Hammond organ takes the lead sound on this straight-up, melodically grooving and fast-paced album, with compositions coming mostly from Finnish saxophonist Mikko Innanen, performed in this trio with French organist Cedric Piromalli and Danish drummer Stefan Pasborg; an album that puts one foot in the history of 60's jazz and one foot firmly in the creative present.
Pifarely, Dominique Quartet (w/ Rayon / Chevillon / Merville)
Nocturnes
(Clean Feed)
Following his ECM album Trace Provisoire, violinist Dominique Pifarély's new album with his quartet of Antonin Rayon on piano, Bruno Chevillon on double bass and Francois Merville on drums, expands on the merging of compositional and improvisational form in this set of Pifarély compositions, alongside two co-written with Bruno Chevillon and two with Antonin Rayon.
Hodgkinson, Tim / Jason Alder / Chris Cundy / Yoni Silver / Heather Roche / Shadanga Duo / Thanos Chrysakis
Music For Bass Clarinets
(Aural Terrains)
A live performance at London's Cafe OTO from composer Thanos Chrysakis, performing compositions focused on the deeper reeds from composers Christian Wolff, Iancu Dumitrescu, Hannes Kerschbaumer, Georges Aperghis, and Chrysakis himself, in configurations from solo to quintet, with Tim Hodgkinson, Jason Alder, Chris Cundy, Heather Roce, Yoni Silver, and Shadanga Duo.
Musicworks
#135 Winter 2020 [MAGAZINE + CD]
(Musicworks)
Winter 2019 issue of Canada's premiere new music magazine and CD, with articles on Buffy Sainte-Marie, Pierre-Yves Martel, Jennifer Thiessen, Wesley Shen, Julia Kent, Tim Olive, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, the CD including works by each, plus reviews of recent Canadian and international recordings as well as the fourth annual Calgary New Music Festival.
Denyer, Frank
The Boundaries of Intimacy
(Another Timbre)
A set of varied compositions from Frank Denyer, most of them of a delicate acoustic intimacy, with works for female singers & flute, two works for koto, a string quartet, one for flute and electronics and the two-part "Frog" for a bowed stringed instrument of Denyer design, the "sneh"; uncategorizable music of sublime imagination and unusual approaches.



The Squid's Ear Magazine

The Squid's Ear Magazine

© 2002-, Squidco LLC