Peter Evans – Extra
American trumpeter-composer Peter Evans teams with two close associates - the Berlin-based Swedish double bass player Petter Eldh (who played with Evans in the Amok Amor quartet) and American drummer Jim Black (who played...
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...
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...
Modney: Ascending Primes
The primes of Ascending Primes, the new album by violinist/composer Modney, formerly known as Josh Modney, are prime numbers. As natural numbers evenly divisible only by themselves and by one, prime numbers can be...
Verhoeven/Lopes/Serries: Invincible Time
Invincible Time brings together three wilful free improvisers into the beautiful resonance of the Oude Klooster chapel in Brecht, Belgium. Partners in life and music - Belgian pianist Martina Verhoeven, who plays on the...
Anthony Cheung: Music for Film, Sculpture, and Captions
It’s just as the title would have it. Music for Film, Sculpture, and Captions, the fifth monograph album from composer Anthony Cheung, contains three works written for, or inspired by, film, sculpture, and closed...
Peter Herbert & Wolfgang Mitterer: Quiets Riots
Viennese double bass-composer-educator Peter Herbert and pianist-electronics player-composer Wolfgang Mitterer are old friends but an odd musical couple. Herbert is a much-in-demand bass player, mostly for jazz outfits (but he also played with Paul...
Un simposio per il contrabbasso: le basi di una nuova era (parte prima)
Introduzione
Nell'area delle sfide e delle interposizioni di genere musicale, il contrabbasso può vantare una nuova storia: gli attuali orientamenti permettono di acclarare una certa effervescenza su quanto si produce nelle rinnovate visuali di compositori...
The Hemphill Stringtet – Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill
Next week will be the 30th yahrzeit of one of the greatest jazz musicians of the 20th century, sax player-composer Julius Hemphill (1938-1995), co-founder of the multidisciplinary arts collective Black Artists’ Group, founder of...
Marina Džukljev in trio and solo piano
Serbian, Novi-Sad-based pianist-organist-educator Marina Džukljev is a classically-trained musician who performed free improvised, classical and contemporary music. She has collaborated with like-minded, innovative European improvisers, and sound and multimedia artists such as dieb13, Michael...