Mirela Ivičević: Scarlet Songs
When speaking of her fundamental approach to composing, Mirela Ivičević, a Croatian native currently based in Vienna, has described herself as focusing on using as basic materials “bits and pieces of reality abducted from...
Anthony Cheung: Music for Film, Sculpture, and Captions
It’s just as the title would have it. Music for Film, Sculpture, and Captions, the fifth monograph album from composer Anthony Cheung, contains three works written for, or inspired by, film, sculpture, and closed...
Hèctor Parra and the orchestra
When in 2006 the composer Hèctor Parra Esteve composed Lumières Abyssales-Chroma and Karst-Chroma II, involving the Orchester National d'Ile de France and the Orchester Philharmonique de Liège, the idea of how to highlight the...
Spectral dilations and cybernetic constructions: Marisol Jiménez
In life as well as in a professional career, it is not easy to make the right choices. If we try to build a future, this does not necessarily happen immediately and therefore any...
Piano, Korg Wavestate and voice: on the current music of Thollem
our eyes possess, just wanting it, an inexhaustible capacity for enjoyment. In the morning, when I go to work, I am surrounded by numerous other workers who rush towards me, still sleepy, cold...
With Dmitri Kourliandski and his string quartets
FANCYMUSIC, a Russian label specializing in contemporary classical music and jazz, has just released String Quartet Series, a CD that collects the three string quartets by composer Dmitri Kourliandski (1976) performed by the Vacuum...
Christoph Erb: his latest trio and a short conversation
It is said that the fruits of knowledge are gathered along the way. It's true! For Christoph Erb this sentence is relevant when we think that the Swiss musician spent a long time in...
Clemens Gadenstätter: multimedia semantic studies
On these pages I have often remarked how good music can be the consequence of a formidable thought implemented in the score. If I look at Clemens Gadenstätter's music, I have no doubt that...
Øyvind Brandtsegg: Persistent Disequilibrium
What is the virtuous path of a musician? The answer is obviously not univocal and admits several solutions, but certainly virtuosity must be interpreted, it cannot be seen only as the achievement of an...
On Tanja Feichtmair
Any improvised structure has to deal with phrasing. It is an essential theme of the way of playing that can be solved in many ways: with an instrument you can be angular, elastic, liminal...
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Mike Ratledge
Chi ama il free jazz non può dimenticarsi di Mike Ratledge. Innamorato di Cecil Taylor, Ratledge ha traslato nel mondo del rock alcune qualità...
