Fifty Years After the Way: James Tenney’s Meta+Hodos
Composer James Tenney’s Meta+Hodos was an early formulation of what he described as a “conceptual framework for musical description and analysis.” Tellingly, Tenney chose as his title an etymological breakdown of the word “method,”...
Reinhard Fuchs: Mania
A gifted class was undoubtedly that of Michael Jarrell at the University of Music in Vienna in the period 1995-2002, inspired by a composer particularly inclined toward interpretations, viewed as an autonomous, interactive model...
Alwynne Pritchard: it is not just a rockaby!
Everything suggests that the Kairos monograph dedicated to the English composer and performer Alwynne Pritchard (1968), is sufficiently representative of the author's style. Her musical DNA is made of many things: the fragmentation of...
Gabriele Mitelli Three Tsuru Origami – Colapesce
Three Tsuru Origami is the trio of Italian, Brescia-based trumpeter-electronics player-composer Gabriele Mitelli, known for his work with American trumpeter-sound artist Rob Mazurek (as the Star Splitter duo) and British turntablist Mariam Rezaei, with...
Spell/Hunger: Piero Bittolo Bon & Andrea Grillini
Spell/Hunger is the Italian, Bologna-based duo of prolific sax player Piero Bittolo Bon, who plays alto (his main instrument), tenor, and baritone saxes, and electronics, whose interest in finding new sounds and new improvisational...
Roman Haubenstock-Ramati: Konstellationen
To speak of Roman Haubenstock-Ramati is to enter into a large semiotic and emotional debate: many theorists, critics and musicologists have downplayed the innovative power of the Polish-born composer, considering that its main feature,...
Arpyies – Iridescente
There are very few all-female, free improvising ensembles in the vibrant free music scene of Portugal. The new trio Arpyies - guitarist-electronics player Ana Gonçalves Albino, French horn player Catarina Custódio Silva, and violinist-electronics...
Toshio Hosokawa: Gardens
Gardens is the second release that Kairos dedicates to Toshio Hosokawa's music, a monograph who especially highlights the compositions for ensembles by the Japanese composer. It is a matter of documenting a work parallel...
Osvaldo Coluccino: Interni
The history of the flute played with extended techniques has generated a vast heritage of actions and materials on which the composers have spent their time to outline new functions for the flute itself...
Dialogue, Space and Multiplicity in British Improv. Confront Recordings at 25. Interview with Mark...
Mark Wastell is a key figure of Britain’s improv and avant-music scene. What is absolutely fascinating about Wastell is his musical plurilingualism, his capacity of speaking, understanding and recording a plurality of experimental languages....
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traiettorie 36
La musica moderna e contemporanea si mobilita a Parma per la 36° edizione del festival traiettorie, una delle più importanti rassegne in Italia diretta...
