A Short Guide to Current Improvised and Experimental Music in China
English and Italian language. Texts by Yan Jun, Zhang Cai & Sun Yizhou.
This article was born during a dinner a couple of months ago with Mario Gabola after one of his concerts. During that...
Ongon – Solchi Rari: Volume Secondo
Ongon is a type of spirit in the shamanistic belief system of Mongolia, offering protection, guidance, and a means of communicating with the spirit world. It is a physical object, most commonly a carved...
Aki Onda – In the Depth of Illusion: A Soundtrack for Nervous Magic Lantern
Aki Onda is a Japanese audio-visual artist whose works are often catalyzed by and structured around memories—personal, collective, and historical. Ken Jacobs is an American, New York-based experimental filmmaker who uses found footage, which...
Bitterviper – Bitterviper
Bitterviper is a new experimental supergroup featuring four idiosyncratic musicians who are responsible for some of the most striking and wildly music of the last decades - Greek, Athens-based cellist Nikos Veliotis, who has...
Liuzzo, Lipp, Reggiani, Morley – Irei/Tikur
Irei/Tikur è una cassetta pubblicata dall’etichetta svizzera ZOK Records contenente due composizioni di Ivan Liuzzo: Irei (2023) per chitarra e percussioni e Tikur (2024) per violoncello, suoni ambientali e testi proiettati. Il duo che...
Michael Thieke & Beat Keller – Last Breath’s City Looks Kind Heart
Last Breath’s City Looks Kind Heart documents the Berlin-based experimental, electroacoustic, and free improvising duo of clarinetist Michael Thieke (of The International Nothing duo, Magda Mayas’ Filamental, The Magic I.D. quartet, and Splitter Orchester)...
Pancrace – Papotier
Free the organ
from its dependence on the Church
and remove it from its
sacred immobility.
Crepitii, soffi, strappi, richiami, sussurri, tremori, squilli, vibrazioni, sfrigolii, schiocchi, fruscii, echi, ronzii, battiti, mormorii, singhiozzi. Tutto questo, soltanto nella prima traccia...
Jo David Meyer Lysne – For renstemt klaver
it is not alone
“Though the piano arrives on stage without a player, it is not alone” . Cominciano così le liner notes di For renstemt klaver (For justly-tuned piano) scritte dalla violinista e giornalista...
Judith Schwarz & Manu Mayr – PRCDR
PRCDR, the album, and the Viennese experimental duo of drummer-composer Judith Schwarz and bassist-composer-producer Many Mayr bring together two busy musicians with diverse and versatile musical interests.
Schwarz plays in the electric dance trio Other:M:other,...
Laszlo Umbreit, Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat – Là
Là refers to Là-bas, the 2006 film by Belgian-Jewish director Chantal Akerman (1950-2015), in which Akerman expressed her ambivalent relations with the Israeli state, especially its settler-colonial narrative. Phonetically, Là (meaning ‘there’ in French)...
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Franco Evangelisti: 1926-2026
Oggi Roma, negli spazi del Museo di Arte Contemporanea, celebrerà i 100 anni dalla nascita del compositore Franco Evangelisti. Si tratta di un programma...
