Phil Minton & Ståle Liavik Solberg – TRUE
British legendary vocal artist Phil Minton and Norwegian drummer-percussionist Ståle Liavik Solberg (who is more than a generation younger than Minton) have been performing as a duo on and off for about ten years,...
From the Borderland between Sound and Music
Uno dei tratti distintivi della musica colta del XX secolo è l'emergere del timbro come oggetto di interesse musicale a sé stante, del tutto indipendente dal tono, armonia o ritmo. Il "classico" di Robert...
Vanessa Tomlinson – The Edge is a Place
Vanessa Tomlinson is an Australian, Brisbane-based experimental percussionist-composer-pianist-vocalist whose work focuses on exploratory, ecological sound practices. She creates sonic events that suggest new futures for the 21st-century music, on a rockface, in the bush,...
On Tanja Feichtmair
Any improvised structure has to deal with phrasing. It is an essential theme of the way of playing that can be solved in many ways: with an instrument you can be angular, elastic, liminal...
Nate Wooley – Henry House
Henry House is an unexpected offering in the fascinating discography of American trumpeter-composer-improviser Nate Wooley. It is Wooley’s first long-form composition that doesn’t feature his trumpet playing, and the first to be constructed around...
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...
Bernhard Lang: ParZeFool
"...The words and actions of men give rise to bare, material repetitions, but as effect of more profound repetitions of a different kind ("effects" in casual, optical and vestiary sense). Repetition is pathos and...
Renewing Modernism: The Music of Ross Feller
Through its innovations in technique, technology and formal structures, the Western art music of the second half of the last century continues to exert influence on and offer possibilities to contemporary composers and performers....
Meinrad Kneer / Albert van Veenendaal – The Munderkingen Sessions, Part 2
German, Berlin-based double bass player-composer Meinead Kneer and Dutch, Amsterdam-based pianist-composer-arranger-producer Albert van Veenendaal have played together for almost 25 years and collaborated in many musical endeavors. They founded the Evil Rabbit label, dedicated...
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Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Negli ultimi 4/5 anni molte direzioni artistiche dei festival di musica 'cosiddetta contemporanea' hanno cambiato idea. Una di quelle in cui si è avvertito...
