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...
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....
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...
Two Argentinian cellists: Violeta García and Cecilia Quinteros
Two experimental Argentinian cellists from Buenos Aires - Violeta García and Cecilia Quinteros - keep exploring and expanding the sonic palettes of their instrument.
Violeta García is a composer and curator now based in Bern,...
Relational Improvisation: Music, dance and contemporary art
Quando Luciano Berio affermava che la musica aveva più funzioni non si sbagliava affatto. Si potrebbe aggiungere a quanto intuito dal compositore che la musica in tal modo presenta dei paradossi, degli estremi di...
Peter Herbert & Wolfgang Mitterer: Quiets Riots
Viennese double bass-composer-educator Peter Herbert and pianist-electronics player-composer Wolfgang Mitterer are old friends but an odd musical couple. Herbert is a much-in-demand bass player, mostly for jazz outfits (but he also played with Paul...
Reinhold Friedl & Costis Drygianakis – τὰ ἀμφότερα ἓν / ta amfótera en /...
τὰ ἀμφότερα ἓν / ta amfótera en / two into one (a quote borrowed from the book of Ephesians in the New Testament) documents the first collaboration between German avant-garde pianist-composer and the artistic...
Paralleli, azzardi, rivelazioni
Qualche riflessione sulle recenti novità discografiche di Setola di Maiale.
Da circa 40 anni è stato possibile affrontare in musica temi dal senso recondito: narrazioni dell'alienazione, isolazionismo, forme utopiche o al contrario distopiche, sono tutti...
Endings: l’ultima pubblicazione Full Spectrum
one last journey across the horizon line, reaching toward the Infinite Future
Il 175esimo disco Full Spectrum certifica la fine delle pubblicazioni per l’etichetta statunitense. È sempre un dispiacere, per tutti gli appassionati dei nuovi...
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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....
