Contemporary flute and piano: a range of action and 10 pieces to survive
Bruno Mantovani stated that writing a score for an orchestral instrument in combination with a piano was one of the most difficult things to manage; it was a difficulty that arose in the sclerotization...
Edges, free forms, waves and whales: Setola’s new CDs
My thoughts about some new releases from Setola di Maiale.
Francesco Fornarelli / Andrea Massaria / Marcello Magliocchi -Urban Edges-
The music on Urban Edges, an album recorded in Bari by the trio of Francesco Fornarelli...
Focus on Margaux Oswald
Free improvisation owes much to human philosophy. For example, if you take Escher’s poetics, you will find that the famous engraver was constantly projecting impregnable and uncertain situations, as many musicians have done; Escher...
Two types of absence and six mementi
Some thoughts about three new Setola di Maiale's CDs:
-Massaria/Kneer/Hertenstein: The Absence of Zero
-Mario Cianca Trio: Komuso
-Donatello Pisanello: Mementi
The Absence of Zero is the title of a long poem by Canadian poet R. Kolewe, published...
Marlies Debacker’s first solo piano: focus on Shimmer and a conversation with her
In free improvisation there is already a conspicuous literature addressed to musicians who are heavily immersed in the interior of the piano. Recent examples of explorations managed by seeking a massive accommodation in the...
Authenticity, scenarios and movement: a dialogue with Harri Sjöström
Keepers of so-called "good taste" should always improve their interpretations when evaluating a painting and should abandon their prejudices. Let us take, for example, Nude Descending a Staircase no.2, the great painting by Marcel...
Impermances, reworkings and voices’ pandemonium
Some thoughts on three new CD of free improv:
-Ana Kravanja & Elisabeth Harnik: Vrtinci Minljivosti (Vortices of Impermanence), Creative Sources
-Cory Smythe: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Pyroclastic Records
-VocColours: 66, Tonkunkst Manufaktur
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Since last year, Slovenian...
Methods for exploring the sonic matter: in conversation with Lei Liang
The path of a composer is often guided by the desire to make new discoveries and to try to contribute to complex and seemingly borderless topics. On this point, an example comes from the...
Núria Andorrà: on the interdisciplinary nature of free improvisation
Many times the best music comes across through an observation of the creative idea, something that puts in communication the essence of an idea or a musical development early established in the mind of...
A focus on current times: Sergej Maingardt
I think that the Cologne Hochschule für Musik und Tanz began to regain a leading role of academic electronics with the arrival of Michael Beil in 2007. Beil's teachings were oriented towards an interdisciplinarity...