Musicworks - 153 - Winter 2025 / Spring 2026

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Musicworks 153 ON THE COVER: Quinton Barnes leaves the bedroom producer’s confines to summon a seven-member improvisational orchestra for Black Noise, a fever dream of free jazz, drone, and experimental R&B. ALSO INSIDE: Corie Rose Soumah blends electronics with acoustic instruments in music that addresses the apocalyptic fears and small wonders in daily life. DeForrest Brown, Jr., the author of a detailed history of techno, unpacks his insights and personal experiences with music and migration, and how they inform the experimental tracks he creates as Speaker Music. Tempête Solaire’s saturated instrumental trio music best suited to interstellar rocking out. Trumpeter Tara Kannangara turns up the heat on a fresh batch of songs. Bassist Joshua Frank of experimental rock duo Gong Gong Gong has built a lab for solo experimentation. Michael Scott Dawson is a multi-instrumentalist outstanding in his field. We review X Avant Festival (Toronto) and send + receive festival (Winnipeg), the documentary I Am the Art: Nobuo Kubota, and new recordings of music by Anna Pidgorna, Cris Derksen, Praed Orchestra!, Aretha Tillotson, Don Scott & Jean Martin and more!