Beyond the Machine with Gonçalo Gato
The focus of much of the music of Lisbon-born, London-based composer Gonçalo Gato (b. 1979) is on the incorporation of computer algorithms into the compositional process. To judge from the work included in NowState,...
Ryan Carter: Chamber works
In music the average listener usually tries to find a rhythm in any composition but modern music changes his perceptions: the composer tends to elaborate rhythm, to segment it, to stratify it. Stravinsky began...
Hannes Kerschbaumer: schraffur
Many people today complain that much of the music that is labeled as contemporary has always the same characteristics. Such a statement would need to be revised, especially considering the fact that we are...
Lisa Streich: Augenlider
Nella lingua svedese la parola älv serba in sé una serie di significati che sono in grado di costruire una semantica perfettamente specchiata in una memoria operativa dell'immaginazione: con essa posso indicare ciò che è...
Bernhard Lang: ParZeFool
"...The words and actions of men give rise to bare, material repetitions, but as effect of more profound repetitions of a different kind ("effects" in casual, optical and vestiary sense). Repetition is pathos and...
Franco Donatoni: Chamber works
Chi ha avuto la voglia e la pazienza di approfondire la musica di Franco Donatoni, si sarà accorto di come il compositore italiano abbia stabilito nel tempo una propria posizione nel firmamento dei grandi...
Vinko Globokar: Les soliloques décortiqués
Back in the mid-1960s, French-Slovenian composer and trombonist Vinko Globokar was one of a very few instrumentalists with the skills, imagination and commitment needed to realize the technically groundbreaking works then being composed for...
Catherine Lamb: String Quartets
Attraverso la fascinazione che l'Umanità ha avuto per la matematica e le sue forme, si potrebbe tracciare la storia del mondo. Nel Quadrivio della didattica medievale, la musica e l'aritmetica convivevano accanto a geometria...
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...
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“…e adesso musica!”: la decima edizione a Bergamo
Il 14 febbraio prossimo partirà ...e adesso musica!, la stagione di musica contemporanea a Bergamo organizzata dall'Associazione Musica Aperta che coinvolge i membri dell'ACHЯOME...
