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...
Philippe Petit – Emperor Tomato Ketchup
The Japanese experimental short film Emperor Tomato Ketchup (トマトケチャップ皇帝, Tomato Kechappu Kōtei, 1971. When it was first released it was in a 27-minute version but the director’s cut that was 75-minute and its wa...
Anna Clementi & Thomas Stern – DOPPELMOPPEL – Poems by Kurt Schwitters
German revolutionary artist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) is known today for his periodical editions of Merz paintings and his Dadaist sound poetry. His famous poetic work, Ursonate (Original sonata), was performed by Dutch vocal artist...
Farzia Fallah e la monografia su Wergo
Tutti i compositori che si sono trasferiti in altro paese già in età giovanile portano dentro di loro non solo le loro personalità ma anche un'identità culturale che si è sviluppata per forza di...
Marina Džukljev in trio and solo piano
Serbian, Novi-Sad-based pianist-organist-educator Marina Džukljev is a classically-trained musician who performed free improvised, classical and contemporary music. She has collaborated with like-minded, innovative European improvisers, and sound and multimedia artists such as dieb13, Michael...
Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, Wendy Eisenberg: The Possibility of a New York for Electric...
MF: I wrote a piece for electric guitar,
and I tried to overcome the fact of an electric guitar
Nel 1966 Morton Feldman scrisse un pezzo per chitarra elettrica. Lo scrisse per l'amico e compositore...
Laszlo Umbreit, Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat – Là
Là refers to Là-bas, the 2006 film by Belgian-Jewish director Chantal Akerman (1950-2015), in which Akerman expressed her ambivalent relations with the Israeli state, especially its settler-colonial narrative. Phonetically, Là (meaning ‘there’ in French)...
Marina Džukljev con Michael Thieke e con Ilia Belorukov
Marina Džukljev con Michael Thieke (Motionless Pool; scatterArchive) e Ilia Belorukov (Everything Changes, Nothing Disappears; Acheulian Handaxe)
Non capita tutti i mesi di avere l’occasione di recensire due pubblicazioni per due distinte etichette che comprendono...
Age Veeroos: Outlines of the Night
E' utile ribadire che le tecniche estensive sono state in grado di creare una nuova filologia della musica. Non si tratta solo di scoprire suoni non convenzionali, ma di interpretare un mondo con le...
Jean-Luc Guionnet + Ensemble ONCEIM & Motus
Tournures Cessent / Tournures Cessent Orchestrales offers two extended, intriguing variations of a composition by French alto sax player-sound artist-conceptual composer Jean-Luc Guionnet, composed, recorded and mastered between 2016 and 2020, in memory of...
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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....
