Issue 139Spring/Summer 2021

Features

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  What’s Inside Musicworks 139?

  DEEP READING, URGENT LISTENING

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  Cold Wave

  Circumpolar artists Matthew Burtner, Paul Walde, Jana Winderen, and Terje Isungset bear sonic witness to Arctic warming.

  By Jonathan Bunce

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  Listening Conditions

  In separate interviews, Raven Chacon and Lou Sheppard talk about their unique artistic practices and what it means to listen during urgent times.

  By Sara Constant

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  Shifting the Narrative

  Tanya Kalmanovitch's Tar Sands Songbook and the podcast Future Ecologies use music and storytelling to create safe spaces for urgent environmental discourse.

  By Jesse Locke

Sound Notes

• Sounds of an Unfolding Emergency

  MUSICWORKS 139: EDITOR'S NOTE

  By Monica Pearce

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  Silent Season: Intrinsically Connected to Nature

  By Leslie Ken Chu

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  Scrap Arts Music: Dr. Seuss meets steampunk

  ENTER THE XYLOBE

  By Linda Barnard

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  Ashley Au Is Stretching Out

  SOUND ENGINEERING

  By Daniel Emberg

• David Psutka Augments Creative Spaces

  MINISCORES FOR MICRODOCS

  By Max MErtens

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  James Goddard Makes Brave New Spaces

  JOINING FORCES

  By Peggy Hogan