Urs Leimgruber in a quintet and as a soloist

Lucerne documents a live, free improvised meeting of Swiss, Lucerne-based pioneer free improviser and master soprano sax player Urs Leimgruber with his long-time Swiss comrades, double bass (and devics) player Bobby Burri (with whom...

Bennett/Eden/Keller – tafeljura

Three highly articulate improvisers  enter a room with objects that only loosely agree to be instruments. American, Philadelphia-based percussionist Ben Bennett, who explores the timbres of simplified instruments in the membranophone and idiophone families; ...

Idiomi e idioti

La free improvisation riesce a suscitare riflessioni anche nell'epoca degli 'standard'. Come tutta la musica d'avanguardia e sperimentale del post seconda guerra mondiale, anche la free improvisation sta vivendo un paradosso radicale, poiché pur...

Alvin Lucier: Musica 109. Lezioni sulla musica sperimentale

Come già visto con Cage, Schaeffer e Stockhausen, la collana Classici della Nuova Musica della Shake Edizioni, procede stavolta alla traduzione in italiano del conosciutissimo libro di Alvin Lucier Music 109. Notes on Experimental...

Sean Ali – The Harmonica in My Life

Sean Ali is an American, New York-based double bass player, improvisor, multi-instrumentalist (mandolin, guitar, violin, harmonica, oud), composer, poet, and visual artist. His work explores themes of fractured selves, the unreliability of memory, violence...

Kr-Krr – Nebulage

Nathalie Forget is a French Ondes Martenot (early electronic instrument) virtuoso player who also studied musical philosophy, with a focus on Olivier Messiaen, and in visual arts (photography and performance). She is regularly invited...

Nea Ensemble – Orizzontale

Orizzontale (Horizontal) is the first release by Nea Editions, an Italian, Matera-based, multidisciplinary, electroacoustic collective which operates the Nea Ensemble, dedicated to experimentation in sound art, vintage electronics, dub, noise, free jazz, echoes of...

Lauro/Pruvost/Orins – Dans-sons as we are

Audrey Lauro is a Belgian, Brussels-based alto sax player, devoted to experimental music and particularly to free improvisation, constantly questioning the language of instrument, phrase and sonic event. French, Lille-based and long-time comrades, trumpeter...

Frangenheim/Keune – new traces

German, Berlin-based double bass player Alexander Frangenheim has worked as an improviser since the late 1980s and has been a member of experimental ensembles such as vario-34, vario-50, and Zeitkratzer. He is also the...

Marco Fusi e i suoi lavori con la Populist Records

Nell'ambito della ricerca su una possibile evoluzione estetico-strutturale della viola d'amore, Marco Fusi ha più volte motivato il fatto che lo strumento barocco è un laboratorio acustico unico nel suo genere. Ha scritto saggi,...

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Pasquale Punzo: Arcipelaghi insonni/Soglie

E' un'agenda felice quella del compositore Pasquale Punzo. Dopo aver vinto il Théodor-Gouvy Preis 2023, Punzo ha ottenuto una prestigiosa commissione per la Deutsche...