Making the Contrabass Contemporary: Bertram Turetzky and the Reinvention of the Double Bass

Fino ad un paio di decenni fa il contrabbasso è stato ampiamente trascurato come strumento solista dalla voce complessa. Relegato soprattutto alle sue funzioni tradizionali di supporto all'interno degli ensembles, il contrabbasso ha dovuto...

Else Marie Pade

Even before she began composing musique concrète and electronic music in the early 1950s, Else Marie Pade lived what can only be called an eventful life. Born in Ain Aarhus, Denmark in 1924, Pade as...

Multiple perspectives of improvisation

Some thoughts on these new selected works: -George Lewis, Recombinant Trilogy, New Focus Recordings -Fred Frith & Ikue Mori, A Mountain Doesn't Know It's Tall, Intakt R. -Jeremiah Cymerman & Charlie Looker, A Horizon Made of Canvas,...

“To Play Is Both a Sign and a Symptom of Existence”: David Toop’s Into...

  The usual caveats warning against generalizations aside, it’s safe to say that in the arts as in other fields of life, the second half of the twentieth century was an era of improvisation. Encouraged...

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AngelicA 35

Straordinario programma di qualità all'AngelicA festival 2025 che inizierà il 30 aprile al Centro di Ricerca Musicale dicasi Teatro S. Leonardo di Bologna fino...

I festival dei Baltici

Peter Ablinger RIP