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SOUND TRAVELS IN MUSICWORKS 148! On the Cover: "Stefana Fratila Boldly Explores the Sonic Frontiers" by Katie Manners.*Features:"Claiming Space: Experimental Music from the Global South Finds New Contexts" by Juro Kim Feliz."Evan Parker's Evolutionary Collective Music" by Stuart Broomer.More stories: "Art in the Age of the Sellout" by Rollie Pemberton, aka Cadence Weapon. "Ningxin Zhang's Kagemusha: for Pipa and Electronics." by Jennie Punter. Charles Harding's Sound Thinking" by Eric Hill. "Heart Music: Okan's Elizabeth Rodriguez and Magdelys Savigne Celebrate the Here and Now" by Kathryn Knowles. "Sound Travels" by Jennie Punter (editor's note).Reviews of new music from: Eric Chenaux Trio; Chris Cutler; Nadah El Shazly; Susanna Hood Trio; Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa; Kee Avil; Joëlle Léandre and Christian Pouget; Musebots and Arne Eigenfeldt; Bilal Nasser; Anna Webber; Christian Wolff; and Nimalan Yoganathan.Events: Du Yun's Angel's Bone (Toronto); and Big Ears Festival (Knoxville, Tenn., USA) Musicworks 148 CD1 Kagemusha: for Pipa and Electronics (2022) 8:12Composed and performed by Ningxin Zhang. First Prize, 2023 Musicworks Electronic Music Composition Contest.2 Franciscan Lamb (2024) 6:57Composed and performed by Charles Harding. From the EP&Hellsö (PatientRecords).3 Silver Leaves (2024) 4:57Composed and performed by Trajectories (Charles Harding, Malte Leander, and Connor Cook). From the albumQuiet on Kökar(self-released).4 La Reina del Norte (2023) 3:44Composed and performed by Okan. Elizabeth Rodriguez (vocals and violin), Magdelys Savigne (vocals and percussion), Jeremy Ledbetter (keyboards), Frank Martinez (drums), Roberto Riveron (bass), Miguel de Armas (synthesizers), and Reimundo Sosa (percussion). From the album Okantomi (Lulaworld Records).5 Jupiter (2023) 5:04Composed, recorded, and produced by Stefana Fratila. From the release I want to leave this Earth behind(Halocline Trance and Not Not Fun).6 Jupiter (myst milano. Remix) (2024) 5:04Composed and produced by Stefana Fratila. From the EP I want to leave (Remixed) (Halocline Trance).7 Another Sinking Feeling (2018) 5:09Composed and performed by Sarana. From the album Grow (Noise Bombing).8 Solo concert for no audience on a Galilean moon (2020) 4:48Composed, performed, recorded, and mastered by Cedrik Fermont. From the album The act of refraining from speaking (Syrphe).9 Hidup Perempuan (2023) 5:08Composed and performed by Lindatumune Mudimba (objects), Farzané (field recordings, electronics), Sabrina Eka Felisiana (field recordings, electronics), Annisa Maharani (voice, hand bell), Wanjiru Ngure alias [M] (electronics), Mira Tulenova (flute), Zelal Ekinci (accordion), Cedrik Fermont electronics, processing), and AGF (field recordings, oscillator, voice, mixing). Recorded in concert on August 14, 2023 at Centralstation in Darmstadt, Germany.10 Trance Map (excerpt) 14:01Performed by Evan Parker (soprano saxophone) and Matthew Wright (turntable, live sampling, and sound design). Excerpt from forthcoming release on Relative Pitch Records.Musicworks 148 CD released June 2024© all rights reserved *PSST! I Want to Leave This Earth Behind, a 40-minute immersive film by Summer 2024 cover artist Stefana Fratila and Diana Lynn VanderMeulen, centres on outer space exploration, speculative-fiction realities, and Crip futurity. Catch it in Montreal at the Satosphere from May 7 to June 22, 2024, and in Toronto at the Inter/Access 360 Gallery from June 12 to 17, 2024. Show more