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,...
Quentin Rollet & Jérôme Lorichon – Planisphère
French, Paris-based sax player and analog synth and phone apps player Quentin Rollet (and producer and founder of the legendary Rectangle Records, together with guitarist Noël Akchoté, and of Bisou Records) and modular synth...
Charlemagne Palestine & Seppe Gebruers – Beyondddddd The Notessssss
New York's legendary minimalist composer (who considered himself a maximalist), pianist, and visual artist Charlemagne Palestine (b. 1947) began his musical career as a 16-year-old carillonneur in the church directly across from the famous...
“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...
Fridolin Blumer – Anklam
Swiss, Zürich-based double bass player Fridolin Blumer works in the fields of modern jazz, free improvisation, and contemporary music. He says that his music is inspired by everyday life and seeks illiterate or musical...
Franck Bedrossian’s Don Quixote
In Cervantes' Don Quixote of La Mancha, at a certain point, the protagonist of the novel lets himself be lowered into the Montésino's cave and he discovers a world composed of hidden wonders: Don...
About angles, modules and geometric shapes: a focus on Anna Webber
It could be objected that an angular art is not the result of the intuition of modern times, but that it was already installed in the minds of many very ancient men, as a...
Irving Fine’s Twelve-tone Neoclassicism
Mid-20thcentury art music in America was largely dominated by twelve-tone composition. Other types of music were being composed, neoclassicism among them, but in the postwar years it was serial and other forms of composition...
Focus on Margaux Oswald
Free improvisation owes much to human philosophy. For example, if you take Escher’s poetics, you will find that the famous engraver was constantly projecting impregnable and uncertain situations, as many musicians have done; Escher...
Notizie
Peter Ablinger RIP
E' incommensurabile il contributo che Peter Ablinger (1959-2025) ha dato alla musica. Tutto ha un enorme valore nella sua vita e nel suo percorso...
