Issue 140Fall 2021

Features

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  What’s Inside Musicworks 140?

  SONIC TENDRILS

  By STAFF

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  Reclaiming Chinatown

  For music artists Parker Mah and respectfulchild, creative expression is a form of resistance and counterpoint to the dominant culture of the Canadian urban centres where they live and work.

  By Peggy Hogan

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  Understory’s Sonic Ecosystem

  A NEW PERFORMANCE AND RECORDING SERIES CONNECTS IMPROVISING MUSICIANS FROM DIFFERENT GENRES AND TIME ZONES.

  By Jennifer Thiessen

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  Frank Denyer Probes the Unconscious

  FOLLOWING WONDER

  By Nick Storring

Sound Notes

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  Rocío Cano Valiño’s Okno wins first place in Musicworks’ 2020 Electronic Music Composition Contest

  Okno also wins the Marcelle Deschênes Prize in Electronic Music / Prix Marcelle-Deschênes pour la musique électronique

  By Jennie Punter

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  Xylem Records: Building Community for Live Coding

  By Griffin Martell

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  The Apperceptive Musical Adventures of Taylor Brook

  MICROTONAL DYSTOPIAS

  By Kurt Gottschalk