Sulle strade di Aristotele: le percussioni di Vasco Trilla
Spesso si ha una conoscenza sbagliata sulla provenienza di alcune percussioni abbondantemente usate dai musicisti. Prendete il caso dei gongs, per esempio, la cui origine sembrerebbe orientale: in realtà, le prime tracce della loro...
Antonio Bertoni: 1/2 h(our) drama
Joseph Beuys holds a special place in the history of those human "meteors" who did not have the right weight: in the sixties the equivalent in Europe of the spectacular and unconventional art-pop of...
On Christopher Trapani: ‘Horizontal Drift’ and a conversation
Really Coming Down, composition for electric guitar and live electronics from 2007, caused a rather important change in the artistic life of Christopher Trapani (1980), for several reasons. It is the first piece in...
François Carrier: the Japan suite CD and an interview
Su Percorsi Musicali non si può dire certo che siano mancate le segnalazioni della musica del sassofonista alto canadese François Carrier. Da quando sono entrato in contatto in lui (parecchi anni fa), ho recensito...
Airi Yoshioka & the Violin Alone
Much has changed in Western art music since the modern violin family was developed in Northern Italy in the early 16thcentury. Formal conventions have come and gone, tonality has evolved, broadened and dissolved, and...
Gesture – Event – Structure
di Daniel Barbiero
In questo sito, del contrabbassista Daniel Barbiero ho già avuto modo di parlare (1). Residente a Washington DC, Daniel è uno dei più attivi ed oculati musicisti di quella zona, sempre proteso...
Signe Emmeluth: her first solo sax and a conversation
John Cage argued that art was not an expression of oneself, but an alteration of the personality that had the power to make the artist more open to relationships and more aware of the...
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...