a conversation with cristiano bocci

  It’s been said that music is really just applied mathematics. For Cristiano Bocci, an instrumentalist/composer/sound artist from Follonica, Italy, that statement is true in ways that go beyond the obvious. For in addition to...

Jonas Lie Skaarud / Kalle Moberg / Håkon Thelin – I Had Wanted A...

Young Norwegian contemporary composer Jonas Lie Skaarud is concerned with ideas of frailty and nostalgia and uses material from historic music, which is taken apart, deconstructed, and pieced together as sonic relics emitting faint...

Thinking is perceiving: Kaja Draksler at Artacts

Rudolf Arnheim noted that sensory perception was as important as the certainties of rationality and was an anticipation of intellectual knowledge: in the area of the communicative functions of art, the German author recognized...

Leo News: Goat’s Notes/Yang Jing with Christy Doran

Goat's Notes - Fuzzy Wonder Nelle note di presentazione del loro sito internet questo gruppo russo sembra si sia formato sotto la spinta del pianista Grigory Sandomirsky e del contrabbassista Vladimir Kudryavtsev, a cui si...

Sulle strade di Aristotele: le percussioni di Vasco Trilla

Spesso si ha una conoscenza sbagliata sulla provenienza di alcune percussioni abbondantemente usate dai musicisti. Prendete il caso dei gongs, per esempio, la cui origine sembrerebbe orientale: in realtà, le prime tracce della loro...

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...

Bruno Duplant – de ce paysage au loin nous ne percevons que des sons

de ce paysage au loin nous ne percevons que des sons (From this landscape, in the distance, we only perceive sounds) is the poetic title of the new sound work by French composer, sound...

Bernhard Lang: Works for Piano and a short conversation

Linked to the philosophical expectation of "difference / repetition" of the French avant-gardes, Bernhard Lang's first intervention on the piano is in 2003 with the DW12 'Cellular Automata', about 30 minutes in which you...

Afro Garage: Eighteen Ways to Miss Egypt

“Eighteen Ways to Miss Egypt" highlights the center of gravity of improvisation. It deals with a varied, oblique and ironic, ethnic and insightful situation, with a good degree of oddness—a different way of organizing...

Foussat/Lazro -Trente-Cinq Minutes & Vingt-Trois Seconds +Agnel/Kristoff K. Roll/Lazro -Quartet un peu Tendre-

French sax master Daunik Lazro was born in 1945 and throughout his rich and diverse career has become one of the greatest European free improvisers who always challenges himself, even when he plays with...

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Concerto conclusivo degli Incontri Internazionali per Giovani Compositori “Franco Donatoni”

Un interessante argomento che una parte della composizione sta affrontando da qualche anno è quello dell'emergenza climatica. Domani sera, alla Fabbrica del Vapore a...

MMI Free Impro Festival

David Thomas