Carlos “Zingaro”/João Madeira/Sofia Borges: Trizmaris
Portuguese double bass player, composer, and improviser João Madeira is known for his long-time work with the free-improvising ensembles of violist Ernesto Rodrigues (the head of the Creative Sources label). But since Madeira founded...
Ivo Perelman and his new works
The atonality and the contemporary theories in general have taught us that their importance lies in the representation of reality focused on some physiological states of our lives; the subtle concept that implies a...
Øyvind Torvund – A Walk into the Future
Norwegian experimental composer Øyvind Torvund began his musical career as a rock and free improvising guitarist. He is known for his matching acoustic and electronic instruments in multimedia settings, and his eccentric manner of...
Claudio Sanna – Luciano Chessa: Lands End
Italian contemporary composer-interdisciplinary artist-scholar Luciano Chessa works in media art, audiovisual performance, installations, music, and history. He is known for his research on Luigi Russolo and the Futurist movement, and his Orchestra of Futurist...
Uwe Oberg: Twice, at least
"Twice, At least" is a further test of Uwe Oberg's intelligent formula, who confirms the stylistic line of the German musician, a whirlwind of 70 years of jazz pianism: starting from Monk, he forges...
Spectral dilations and cybernetic constructions: Marisol Jiménez
In life as well as in a professional career, it is not easy to make the right choices. If we try to build a future, this does not necessarily happen immediately and therefore any...
The Unstable Stasis of Acoustic Drone & The Pitch
Sebbene sia frequentemente associata a fonti sonore esclusivamente elettroniche, la drone music può essere suonata su strumenti acustici con risultati gratificanti. L'ensemble internazionale The Pitch mostra come la drone music acustica può essere composta...
Multiple perspectives of improvisation
Some thoughts on these new selected works:
-George Lewis, Recombinant Trilogy, New Focus Recordings
-Fred Frith & Ikue Mori, A Mountain Doesn't Know It's Tall, Intakt R.
-Jeremiah Cymerman & Charlie Looker, A Horizon Made of Canvas,...
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...