Two types of absence and six mementi

Some thoughts about three new Setola di Maiale's CDs: -Massaria/Kneer/Hertenstein: The Absence of Zero -Mario Cianca Trio: Komuso -Donatello Pisanello: Mementi The Absence of Zero is the title of a long poem by Canadian poet R. Kolewe, published...

The 2015 Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music, 18-20 September 2015

The 2015 Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music, the DC area’s fourteenth annual weekend-long program of experimental music and multimedia works, was held at the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Silver Spring, MD, the...

Gato Barbieri (1932-2016)

Although probably best known for his soundtrack to the 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci film Last Tango in Paris, tenor saxophonist Leandro “Gato” Barbieri, who died on April 2, was an innovator in fusing elements of...

The Nabatov String Trio & Z-Country Paradise

Within various streams of contemporary music the notion of genre seems to be something that exists in a state of suspension between persistence and nothingness--as an inheritance to be confounded or a perverse ideal...

From the Borderland between Sound and Music

Uno dei tratti distintivi della musica colta del XX secolo è l'emergere del timbro come oggetto di interesse musicale a sé stante, del tutto indipendente dal tono, armonia o ritmo. Il "classico" di Robert...

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Festival Archipel 2025

Inutile ribadire come l'Archipel, uno dei principali festival di musica in Svizzera che si tiene a Ginevra, abbia modificato le sue vesti nel tempo....

Stio Festival 2025