Issue 153Winter 2025-2026

On the Cover: “Explorations in Black Noise: Quinton Barnes collapses the distinction between the personal and the political in music intended to move us beyond the dancefloor” by Graham Latham. Features: “Long-Range Audio Weaponry: DeForrest Brown, Jr. channels the radical frequencies of Detroit techno into philosophy, politics, and sound art” by Tom Beedham. “Joshua Frank’s solo adventures in the low-end laboratory” by Brennan McCracken. “Michael Scott Dawson widens the loops of his creative practice” by Matt Horseman. More stories:“Corie Rose Soumah explores multiple strata” by Rosie Long Decter. “The speculative rock dimensions of Tempête Solaire” by Jesse Eckerlin. “The meanings of free” by Jennie Punter (editor’s note). Reviews of new music from: Bellbird, Cris Derksen, Robert Humber, Alice Ping Yee Ho, Jason Noble and Steve Cowan, Anna Pidgorna, Tristan Perich and James McVinnie, Praed Orchestra!, Aretha Tillotson, Don Scott and Jean Martin. Events: X Avant XX: Precious at the Music Gallery (Toronto); Send + Receive: A Festival of Sound, 27th edition (Winnipeg). Screen: I Am the Art: Nobuo Kubota (documentary) by Annette Mangaard.