Thomas DeLio and the Aesthetics of Intermittence
Thomas Delio (b. 1951) è un compositore che lavora con un senso espansivo dei suoni e degli spazi interni ad essi. Una raccolta di opere selezionate, pubblicate dall'etichetta discografica Neuma, fornisce un compendio efficace...
Marino Formenti: Liszt inspections
Liszt distilled musical rhetoric at the end of his career, attenuated harmonic connections, reduced sonorities, gambled with abrupt juxtaposition and silence, cultivated simplicity, and highlighted the fragmentary. Late Liszt has forced us to rethink...
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....
Bertrand Gauguet / Didier Lasserre – Mehr
French alto sax player-composer Bertrand Gauguet often plays solo improvised sets, composes electronic music and soundtracks for dance, cinema and radio, and makes field recordings for radio broadcasts, films and live performance devices. He...
Pierluigi Billone: Mani.Giacometti/2 Alberi
The history of Western art music has been, among other things, the history of the evolution of performance techniques. Particularly since the end of the Second World War the extension of the ranges and...
Bloomers – Cyclism
Bloomers is the Copenhagen-based trio of Danish alto sax player-clarinetist Maria Dybbroe, trumpeter Anne Efternøler, and Irish clarinetist-bass clarinetist Carolyn Goodwin (who plays with Dybbroe in the Copenhagen Clarinet Choir). Cyclism is the debut...
Martino Traversa: Hommage
There are many ways to go against the grain in the musical world. One of the most dangerous is composing in a style that no longer seems to belong to the fashions or compositional...
Christian Lillinger, the Punkt.Vrt.Plastik’s project and a short interview
Listening to the Trio Punkt.Vrt.Plastik immediately suggests a good reflection, that is to go straight back in time to understand the birth act of creation. Student of Gunter Sommer, drummer Christian Lillinger has had...
Gonçalo Almeida – States of Restraints & Gut Liver
Gonçalo Almeida - States of Restraints (Clean Feed, 2024)
Misanthrope Trio - Gut Liver (Cylinder, 2024)
Two completely different sides of prolific Portuguese, Rotterdam-based bassist-composer-improviser Gonçalo Almeida. Almeda's creative musical output is spread over countless bands...
Pay attention to Sofia Borges
In the artistic path of a musician there is a moment when it is possible to merge the discoveries made on the instrument (the so-called exploratory or experimental phase) with the improvisational approaches. The...
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MMI Free Impro Festival
Sin dalla sua prima edizione nel 2016 l'MMI Festival ha costituito una bella piattaforma d'incontro per gli improvvisatori liberi provenienti da differenti città europee....
