Patrick Ozzard-Low: In opposition
Many make a mistake of evaluation when they reflect on the innovative value of Boulez and Barraqué's sonatas on the piano: the musical literature was complicit in that approach that pervaded the world of...
Helmut Lachenmann: Schreiben/Double (Grido II)
Lately someone have complained of Helmut Lachenmann's inactivity, interpreting it as an exhaustion of ideas, a lack of will in dealing with the failure of the current contemporary music; the situation is also complicated...
Liza Lim: Extinction events and dawn chorus
Rather special rules apply for the recognition of the style of a composer like Liza Lim (1966). The Australian composer with Asian origins is part of that large group of composers who implicitly adhered...
Thomas Buckner/Joelle Leandre/Nicole Mitchell: Flowing stream
One of the principal purpose of Joelle Leandre is to test many of the theories in the field of sound and of the expressiveness of singing; in the ideal of improvisation, the French musician...
Reinhard Fuchs: Mania
A gifted class was undoubtedly that of Michael Jarrell at the University of Music in Vienna in the period 1995-2002, inspired by a composer particularly inclined toward interpretations, viewed as an autonomous, interactive model...
Ramanan/Jackson/Thompson: Zubeneschamali
"Zubeneschamali," a title inspired by the brightest stars in the firmament, it would be a special adventure of cosmic observation, certainly an exploration not in line with musical convention, where the real musical references...
Discovering Salim Javaid
Salim Javaid is a 30 year old Czech-Pakistani saxophonist who works and lives in Cologne. Javaid is the tangible demonstration of how today the training of musicians can be a path crossing the realities...
Clemens Gadenstätter: Semantical investigations
One of the most difficult things for philosophers, critics and music scholars is to create a unique theory on mature listening: the quantity and variability of the elements involved are remarkable and all those...
A new talent of free singing: Hanna Schörken
"...the voice is much more than a musical instrument. Through speech it connects us to the social world, and thence to traditions of poetry, drama, comedy, etc. It reveals much about the speaker, from...