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sounds go global yes no wave music indonesian underground takes a solo nicole rampersaud an improv collaborator for modern stages solidaridad tango recasting argentine music for curious ears since 1978

musıc works

# 147 WINTER 2023/24

ANDREW MACKELVIElistening to the aggregate

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Currently Arts Society Sonny-Ray Day Rider

Pseudo Laboratories

3  résumés français 4  editor’s note group thinking by jennie punter content s musıc works

#147 | winter 2023 /24

14  profile Nicole Rampersaud’s solo flight by eric hill on the cd: Natural Decay

22  Solidaridad Tango an all-female ensemble is recasting Argentine tango by kim hughes on the cd: Deriva; If Not Today; Pompeya

6  sound bite Currently Arts Society is activating the future by c.e. gatchalian on the cd: Interwoven

28  Andrew MacKelvie a saxophonist builds community through creative listening by matt horseman on the cd: Naturally Spaced; Light Through the Rubble; Another Place

10  sound bite Composer Sonny-Ray Day Rider by jesse locke on the cd: The Grief Eater Firaga

50  label profile Pseudo Laboratories captures the Prairie underground

38  Yes No Wave Music Indonesian underground artists go global with local sounds by sara constant on the cd: Forest Station; Sangkakala; Nyonyon Rangda

46  recordings reviewed: New music from Kris Davis; Sophie Dupuis; Jeremy Dutcher; Eve Egoyan and Mauricio Pauly; Experimental Music Unit; ICOT Chamber Orchestra; Dana Jessen and Taylor Brook; Mark Takeshi McGregor; Cassandra Miller; New Age Doom; Paramorph Collective; Alessandra Rombolà; and Thin Edge New Music Collective and Linda Catlin Smith.

52  events reviewed: Akousma, 19th edition (Montreal)

54  words reviewed: Alexa Woloshyn. An Orchestra at My Fingertips: A History of the Canadian Electronic Ensemble.

55–56  on the cd Complete track listings and notes

WINTER 2023/24

Nicole Rampersaud pg 14 1› Natural Decay, excerpt 9:34

Andrew MacKelvie pg 28

2› Naturally Spaced 2:22 3› Light Through the Rubble 2:00

4› Another Place 4:48

Yes No Wave Music pg 38

5› Forest Station / Stasiun Hutan / 森 林 站 6:33

(Rani Jambak) 6› Sangkakala 1: 50 7› Nyonyon Rangda 3:04 (Gabber Modus Operandi)

Solidaridad Tango pg 22

8› If Not Today 3:25

9› Pompeya 2:40

10› Deriva 3:33

Sonny-Ray Day Rider pg 10 11› The Grief Eater Fira I. Blood Offering 2 :18 II. Blood Elegy 6:55 Performed by Kensington Sinfo Currently Arts pg 6 12› Interwoven 6:06 (Roxanne Nesbitt, Anju Singh)

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