Musicworks is a triannual arts magazine that explores innovative artists, ideas, and events in music and sound art, from a diversity of perspectives and places. Founded in Toronto in 1978 by notable music experimenters, Musicworks has remained a cornerstone of Canada’s creative-music scene while evolving into a genre-fluid magazine that connects artist, programming, educational, and audience communities across Turtle Island and around the world through its publication and outreach activities. 

Read If You Like: James Tenney, Tanya Tagaq, Sam Shalabi, Kris Davis, Sarah Hennies, Anthony Braxton, Maria De Alvear, Levy Lorenzo, Jean Derome, Cassandra Miller, Colin Stetson, Roscoe Mitchell, New Hermitage, Du Yun, John Oswald, Senyawa, Pauline Oliveros, Tim Hecker, Maria Chávez, Jeremy Dutcher, Gayle Young, Eric Chenaux, Debby Friday, Frank Denyer, Pamela Z, Quatuor Bozzini, Lido Pimienta, Gordon Grdina, Sarah Davachi, Geronimo Inutiq, Linda Catlin Smith, SlowPitchSound, Allison Cameron, New Age Doom.

SUMMER 2026 IS ON DECK: Anju Singh is a Vancouver-based composer, musician, sound artist, curator, and media artist who works with strings, electronics, found sounds, and custom instruments. Ministry of Phonic Services is creating and claiming non-traditional outdoor spaces to make art and support the Toronto’s experimental music community. Drummer and composer John Hollenbeck says forming new collaborative ensembles leads to new creative ideas and communities. ​[MONRHEA] is a creative technologist, experimental DJ, producer, and organizer nurturing Kenya’s techno music culture. How did a small fisheries lobbyist end up playing with some of the most revered music improvisers around the globe? Arthur Bull discusses his life in music and the turns along the way. Mili Hong played Beatmania in a South Korean arcade, studied jazz in Vancouver, and now drums in Montreal combos and her own quartet. 2025 Musicworks EMC Contest first-place winner Panayiotis Kokoras. 

REVIEWED: Recordings of new music from Allison Cameron and Scott Thomson, Wendy Eisenberg, Alex Zhang Hungtai, Le GGRIL + DDK, Radwan Ghazi Moumneh and Frédéric D. Oberland, Ryan Scott, Jacques Kuba Séguin, Tanya Tagaq, Toninato and Thiessen, Witch Prophet; the 2026 Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville; Nash the Slash Rises Again (documentary), and Soundtrack to the Revolution: Free Jazz and Leftist Nationalism in Quebec, 1967- 1975 (book).