Summer 2025

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On the Cover: "Rémy Bélanger de Beauport: Everyday Performance Art" by Terri Hron.Features: "Untethering the Dragon: Koto Artists Michiyo Yagi, Sarah Pagé, and Hiroko Nagai" by Jur o Kim Feliz. "Lola de la Mata's Tinnitus Tracks" by Angus MacCaull. "Yoo Doo Right: As Loud As Possible" by Luke Ottenhof. "Kathryn Patricia Cobbler's Palette of Sound" by Abiola Regan.More stories: "The Living Songs of Edzi'u" by Aly Laube. "Rocío Cano Valiño's Intortus" by Jennie Punter. "Remembering Paul Dutton" by Jennie Punter (editor's note).Label Profile: "Leaf Music's Uniquely Canadian Colours" by Eric Hill.Reviews of new music from: Big | Brave; Brûlez les Meubles; Kara-Lis Coverdale; Michael Cloud Duguay; Dan Fortin; Andy Haas; loscil; Naomi McCarroll-Butler & Jason Doell; Diane Roblin & Life Force; and Nick Storring. Events: 2025 Women from Space Festival (Toronto)Words: A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros Musicworks 151 CD1 Intortus (2024) 6:50Composed and performed by Rocío Cano Valiño. First Prize, 2024 Musicworks Electronic Music Composition Contest.2 Warrior Song (2023) 3:22Composed and performed by Edzi'u. From the album Potlatch in the Box (self-released).3 Ponders End (2024) 7:18Composed and performed by Yoo Doo Right (Justin Cober, Charles Masson, John Talbot). From the album From the Heights of Our Pastureland(Mothland).4 Resolute (2023) 5:07Composed and performed by Kathryn Patricia Cobbler. From the exhibition Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment (National Gallery of Canada).5 Le pont et l'entrevue (2016) 3:29Performed by Rémy Bélanger de Beauport6 Danses (2016) 3:02Performed by Rémy Bélanger de Beauport7 mi (2016) 4:20Performed by Rémy Bélanger de Beauport. Tracks 5–7 are previously unreleased outtakes from the album D'éclisses (Ambiances Magnétiques).8 Right Ear (2024) 1:32Composed by Lola de la Mata. Performed by Lola de la Mata's right ear.9 Calibration God (2024) 3:30Composed by Lola de la Mata. Featuring voice of Francesco Gianoli, interviewed by Lola de la Mata.10 Whorling (2024) 4:33Composed and performed by Lola de la Mata. Tracks 8–10 from the album Oceans on Azimuth (self-released.11 Whither(2013) 4:45Composed by Michio Yagi. Performed by Dōjō (Michiyo Yagi, Tamaya Honda). From the album Dōjō / Vol. 1 (Idiolect).12 Bibi (2020) 4:08Composed and performed by Michiyo Yagi and Dai Fujikura. From the album Bibi (Jazzland Recordings).13 Premiers Pas au Marécage (2021) 6:36Composed and performed by Sarah Pagé. From the album Voda (Backwards Music).14 Seracs (2022) 3:05Composed and performed by Sarah Pagé and Jonah Fortune. Recorded performance at Oscar Peterson Hall, Montreal, Quebec. Engineered by Vid Cousins.Musicworks 151 CD released June 2025© all rights reserved Show more