Issue 145Summer 2023

On the Cover: “Simone Schmidt’s Audible Songs of Defiant Meaning” by Kurt Newman.
Features: “Levy Lorenzo Maximizes the Human Algorithm” by Juro Kim Feliz. “Colliding Dualities: Nicole Mitchell and Coco Elysses at Women From Space” by Patrick O’Reilly. “Wayne Lavallee’s Journey to Bones of Crows” by Jennie Punter.
More stories: “Leah Reid: Winner of the 2022 Electronic Music Composition Contest” by Jennie Punter. “Lina Choi is Floating in Spaces” by Andrew Patterson. “You Can Can’s Tonal Possibilities” by Laura Stanley. “A Eulogy for the Music of Café Resonance” by Adam Kinner. “Contingency Plans” editorial by Jennie Punter.
Reviews of new music from: All Hands_Make Light; Christopher Butterfield; Satoko Fujii and Otomo Yoshihide; Tim Hecker; Carmen Jaci; Ingrid Laubrock; Joëlle Léandre; Roxanne Nesbitt, Ben Brown, and Marielle Groven; Éliane Radigue and Quatuor Bozzini; Rasmussen, Flaherty, Rowden, and Corsano; Alex Temple, Julia Holter, and Spektral Quartet; Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra; and Witch Prophet. Events:Bicycle Opera Project’s Sweat (Kingston Canadian Film Festival); Sarah Jerrom’s Magpie (Music Gallery, Toronto) Words: Bruce Adams. You’re With Stupid: kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music.