Gayageum and doublebass: in conversation with Sylvain Monchocé

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photo Christian Moser

In free improvisation creative acts are the result of a series of implications that concern the personal sphere of each musician. Free improvisation is a communicative state based on previous skills, intuitions and openness to dialogue, a practice capable of avoiding that terrible questioning that afflicts written music, that is, considering whether it is a language with a stable grammar: given that one does not improvise from nothing, free improvisation is an almost therapeutic place, with expressions that meet on the basis of a tactile relationship.
Sylvain Monchocé and Daniel Studer seem to thrive in improvisational dialogue and a few months ago they published DUO for Impakt R., 7 improvisations between gayageum, a traditional instrument of Korean origin and the double bass. We have already spoken about

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Music writer, independent researcher and founder of the magazine 'Percorsi Musicali'. He studied music, he wrote hundreads of essays and reviews of cds and books (over 2000 articles) and his work is widely appreciated in Italy and abroad via quotations, texts' translations, biographies, liner notes for prestigious composers, musicians and labels. He provides a modern conception of musical listening, which meditates on history, on the aesthetic seductions of sounds, on interdisciplinary relationships with other arts and cognitive sciences. He is also a graduate in Economics.