Sonic Circuits 2014: A Festival of Experimental Music
Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center, Silver Spring, Maryland USA
3-5 October 2014
http://dc-soniccircuits.org
by Daniel Barbiero
For fifteen years or so, the Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music has brought challenging sound and multimedia performances to the Washington DC...
The 2015 Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music, 18-20 September 2015
The 2015 Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music, the DC area’s fourteenth annual weekend-long program of experimental music and multimedia works, was held at the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Silver Spring, MD, the...
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Within various streams of contemporary music the notion of genre seems to be something that exists in a state of suspension between persistence and nothingness--as an inheritance to be confounded or a perverse ideal...
Gato Barbieri (1932-2016)
Although probably best known for his soundtrack to the 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci film Last Tango in Paris, tenor saxophonist Leandro “Gato” Barbieri, who died on April 2, was an innovator in fusing elements of...
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Two types of absence and six mementi
Some thoughts about three new Setola di Maiale's CDs:
-Massaria/Kneer/Hertenstein: The Absence of Zero
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John Mayall
Ricordo che negli anni della piena gioventù (forse 19 o 20 anni) fui preso dalla voglia di approfondire il blues, in un'epoca in cui...
