With Dmitri Kourliandski and his string quartets
FANCYMUSIC, a Russian label specializing in contemporary classical music and jazz, has just released String Quartet Series, a CD that collects the three string quartets by composer Dmitri Kourliandski (1976) performed by the Vacuum...
Inserto recensioni improv Italia, part 1
The antinomy between composition and improvisation is often a false one; much contemporary improvised music, even when eschewing any pre-existing formal strictures or explicit structures, shows a predisposition toward a sensibility deeply molded by...
Maya Attoun / Adaya Godlevsky / Lior Ashkenazy – 24/24
In April 2021, during the COVID-19 lockdowns, late Israeli multidisciplinary artist Maya Attoun (1974-2022) invited musicians-sound artists Adaya Godlevsky and Lior Ashkenazy to perform a live soundtrack for her exhibition, Solar Mountains & Broken...
Timothy McCormack’s Geological Soundscapes
Pull up an image of a karst and you’re likely to see a distressed, often vertiginous landscape of water-carved rock faces pitted with crevices and caves. Under the surface may be running water, but...
Patrick Ozzard-Low: In opposition
Many make a mistake of evaluation when they reflect on the innovative value of Boulez and Barraqué's sonatas on the piano: the musical literature was complicit in that approach that pervaded the world of...
Open String Minimalism or, What Is the Sound of One String Vibrating?
Il contrabbasso è stato in prima linea nello sviluppo delle risorse timbriche della musica d'arte contemporanea, messe a disposizione dei compositori ed esecutori in egual modo. Paradossalmente l'espansione dei mezzi per l'esplorazione timbrica del...
Franck Bedrossian: Twist, Edges, Epigram
Rightly Thomas Meyer in the internal notes raises the question of how alive the interest for music defined as "excess of sound" among the experts and he does it in the right place, that...
Ayman Fanous / Joe Morris – Zuhour
Zuhour (زَهْر , flowers in Arabic) is the debut, free improvised guitar duo album of American, Brooklyn-based Ayman Fanous and Joe Morris, both playing electric and nylon-string guitars.
Fanous’ guitar playing is informed by his...
Voutchkova/Džukljev/Zarić/Barrett – clouds in a cloudless sky
clouds in a cloudless sky features a pan-European, free improvising electro-acoustic quartet - Bulgaria-born, Berlin-based violinist-vocalist Biliana Voutchkova (the founder and curator of the DARA String Festival), Serbian, Novi Sad-based pianist-educator Marina Džukljev (co-curator...
Evan Johnson: Forms of complaint
There is an area of music research that has focused its interest on the physicality of the performance. It can be obtained in many ways, increasing the difficulties of the score, applying a kind...
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Wien Modern 2026
Il tema del prossimo festival Wien Modern (la 39ª edizione) è incentrato sugli ecosistemi, esplorazione del mondo sonoro planetario che viene reso attraverso la...
