Polymath Elliott Sharp explores the world of mandolins
American, New York-based polymath Elliott Sharp is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and author, the bandleader of the Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics and Terraplane with compositional strategies that borrow themes from fractal geometry, chaos theory and...
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...
Experimental sound art with poetic, political references: Fear of the Object
Fear of the Object is an experimental audio-visual project of Norwegian video artist and video synth player Kjell Bjørgeengen, known for his work John Tilbury and Keith Rowe, and American, Mexico City-based percussionist and...
Brûlez les meubles – Folio #5
Canadian, Québecesque, Rimouski-based electric bassist-composer (and the bandleader of the ensemble GGRIL luthier, and singer-songwriter) Éric Normand quotes on his website the famous saying of Greek poet Sophocles: “For those who are afraid, everything...
Gaudenz Badrutt x 2: with Tetrao Tetrix and solo
Tetrao Tetrix is the free improv meets sound art trio of three experienced and innovative sonic explorers - Swiss electroacoustic musician Gaudenz Badrutt, French alto sax player Jean-Luc Guionnet, and French-Japanese violist Frantz Loriot....
Jason Kahn x 2: with Alice Hui-Sheng Chang and with Katsura Yamauchi
I Smile When the Sound Is Singing Through the Space (Editions, 2024) brings together Taiwanese experimental vocal artist, sound improviser and art therapist Alice Hui-Sheng with prolific American, Zürich-based experimental vocalist, sound artist, electronics...
Jacob Kirkegaard: two haunting sound works
"The work of Danish composer, sound artist, and field recordist Jacob Kirkegaard explores ways to reflect on complex, unnoticed, or unapproachable conditions and environments His works have treated themes such as radioactivity in...
Stephen Davis Unit – The Gleaming World
British, Belfast-based drummer-percussionist-composer Stephen Davis plays in Anthony Braxton’s The New Standard quartet. He has worked with Evan Parker, Alexander Hawkins (who also plays in Braxton’s New Standard quartet, and employs Davis as the...
Tommaso Rolando / Domiziano Maselli – Enjoy Country Music
Italian, Genova-based experimental double bass player (and the founder and director of the Torto Editions label) Tommaso Rolando has a highly personal, unorthodox approach to his instrument, and his improvisational work extends beyond music,...
Stephanie Pan & Ensemble Klang. The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto
Stephanie Pan is a classically trained vocalist, composer, interdisciplinary artist, performer, and curator currently based in The Hague. She focuses on the notion of pure communication and searches for forms of contact with the...