Sonic Circuits 2014: A Festival of Experimental Music
Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center, Silver Spring, Maryland USA
3-5 October 2014
http://dc-soniccircuits.org
by Daniel Barbiero
For fifteen years or so, the Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music has brought challenging sound and multimedia performances to the Washington DC...
Ricardo Jacinto – SOLO
Portuguese, Lisbon-based Ricardo Jacinto is an experimental cellist, conceptual composer, sound artist and designer, and architect who thinks of solo free improvisation as an exploration of the relation between sound and space. He is...
Notes on Field Recording
(My recent work on Doubting All Things Aligned, a collaboration with Chris Lynn that combines field recordings with composed and improvised music, stimulated these thoughts on field recordings—the part of the collaboration I was...
Koning, Stadhouders, Baggiani – The Selfkickers – Johnny van Doorn
Johnny van Doorn (1944-1991) was a Dutch writer, poet, and performer and a cult hero of the sixties. He called himself Johnny the Selfkicker, referencing his adrenaline-fueled kicks on “the self.” This nickname best...
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...
Seth Parker Woods: Music as Choreography
Playing an instrument is, among other things, an action. At a fundamental level, a performance involves a sequence of purposive gestures—a set of intentions embodied in certain movements of the body directed toward the...
Ensemble 5: The summary of 4
Without being considered a mad visionary, I could show you how the music of Ensemble 5 has a subliminal discursive character: you have to think of the musical instruments as creative objects observed as...
Creative Sources Records
Daniel Barbiero
Creative Sources Records, based in Portugal, was conceived in 1999 by violist/composer Ernesto Rodrigues as an outlet not only for his own work but for the kind of challenging, non-commercial music that appealed...
Drank (Ingrid Schmoliner / Alexander Kranabetter – Breath in Definition
Austrian pianist Ingrid Schmoliner (who is also a vocalist and educator, known for her duo with master drummer Hamid Drake, and the sound-sculpting trio GRIFF with the Berlin-based percussionist Emilio Gordoa and bassist Adam...
Louis-Michel Marion
When handled as a generator of sound, as French bassist Louis-Michel Marion does, the double bass reveals itself to be the versatile container of sonic multitudes that it is. That this is so is...
Notizie
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....
