“To Play Is Both a Sign and a Symptom of Existence”: David Toop’s Into...
The usual caveats warning against generalizations aside, it’s safe to say that in the arts as in other fields of life, the second half of the twentieth century was an era of improvisation. Encouraged...
Jacqueline Kerrod / Joe Morris – Morpeth Contemporary 2024
Exceptionally virtuosic and sensitive, South African, New York-based harpist Jacqueline Kerrod feels perfectly at home across multiple genres. She has been touring internationally with composer and multi-reedist Anthony Braxton, both in a duo and...
Joachim Gies, Ensemble X and Gerd Wameling: Mnemosyne
In "Mnemosyne", you notice the composer's passion for the Greek theater and for the existentialist poets and philosophers: in a performance at Villa Elisabeth in Berlin, Gies plays with the ensemble X (composed by...
Callas and other personalities in the new works of Ivo Perelman
Ivo Perelman's new works suggest an explicit reference to some fundamental musical figures of the past: the sources of inspiration of the saxophone player are Maria Callas (a novelty for his style), the great...
Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg at Creative Sources R. + a concert with John Russell
Belgian vocal artist (and music reviewer) Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg has developed, as an autodidact, a unique form of vocal improvisation and extended vocal techniques, with almost three octaves, falsettos, harmonics, deep throat singing, yodels,...
Another three recordings for Perelman
"The art of duet volume one" is the first of a three-volume series of duets between Ivo Perelman and Matthew Shipp: it reminds us some essential aspects of the combination of sax-piano in jazz,...
Sidsel Endresen | Jan Bang | Erik Honoré – Punkt Live Remixes Vol. 2
Norwegian Jan Bang and Erik Honoré are pioneering figures in live remixing, producers and the founders of the Punkt festival, a three-day festival of the Live Remix taking place in Kristiansand, Norway, since 2005,...
field anatomies: Laura Cocks
The evolved musician builds a demanding path to reach certain quality standards. Today it is no longer enough to learn to play an instrument with an excellent visual and perspective capacity for the scores,...
Clemens Gadenstätter: multimedia semantic studies
On these pages I have often remarked how good music can be the consequence of a formidable thought implemented in the score. If I look at Clemens Gadenstätter's music, I have no doubt that...
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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....
