openwork

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2025)
Published June 13, 2025

openwork is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes research into experimental music, art and scholarship. Interdisciplinary in scope, our journal promotes new modes of interaction between scholars and practitioners whose work critically re-listens, through and across, boundaries and constraints.

Editor's Note

Iain Findlay-Walsh, Katelyn Rose King, Sepehr Pirasteh, Ayşegül Kuntman, Jim Igor Kallenberg
Music, art and scholarship in the midst of temporal disorder
June 13, 2025
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Articles

Leahley Alawi
Out of Baghdad!: Negotiating Loss, Longing, and Belonging in Aida Nadeem’s Work of the Iraqi Musical Avant-Garde
June 13, 2025
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Ruari Paterson-Achenbach, Sophie Marie Niang
Dolly’s Laugh
a meditation on recorded excess
June 13, 2025
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Iain Findlay-Walsh, Tristan Partridge
Vectors of Novelty: Co-Composing Selves in the Terminal Present
June 13, 2025
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Louis-Michel Tougas
Polyrhythmic Cognition and Metric Spaces
A Compositional Framework
June 13, 2025
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Soundcamp cooperative, Sasha Baraitser Smith , Mortimer Drew, Grant Smith
Being Heard
Thinking through Radio with Palestine (October 2023–)
June 13, 2025
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Artwork

Gray
Spaceshifting
On Inhumanity as Shaping Resistance
June 13, 2025
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Victoria Keddie
Pshal P’shaw
Phonetic Dissonance, Linguistic Instability, and Cacophony as Communicative Form
June 13, 2025
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Jordan Deal
The Magical Slickness of the Myth of Black Oil, Movement Suite
June 13, 2025
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Videos

Gauri Bahuguna
What Remains
June 13, 2025
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Poetry

Winnie W. C. Lai
“From Chaos to Calm”
Schizophrenic Listening and Hong Kong’s New Infrastructural Acoustic
June 13, 2025
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