Elisabeth Coudoux: the cello, the Emiszatett’s project and an interview
In the improvisational act the relationships between the musicians are fundamental and the action is supreme. A part of philosophy and pedagogy's world have increased emphasis on the importance of the experiential factor tenfold...
Notes on the Music of Sound II: Timbral Music and Plastic Values
Notes on the Music of Sound II: Timbral Music and Plastic Values
Daniel Barbiero
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Much contemporary experimental music puts sound color, or timbre, to the foreground, generally through extended techniques or...
Tanja Feichtmair / Fredi Proll / Uli Winter: Trio Now!
"Trio Now!" is based on a strong charge of enthusiasm, with the conscious (but not identical) pride of the "now" of Max Roach's times (We insist!); we are on the border between free, abstract...
Enrico Fazio Critical Mass: Shibui
Also in this recording Fazio provides a value musical product, which has a strong point in the freshness of the musical solutions and in the emotional transport of the musicians of the band.
In "Shibui"...
Bonanza of Doom
Here in the third decade of the 21st century, it almost seems irrelevant to think in terms of genre. Certainly a good number of musicians working in the more exploratory areas of their fields...
Marcio Mattos: “Cello Is the Bit of the Bass That Was Missing”
The relationship between the cello and double bass isn’t quite as straightforward as it might seem. More first cousins than siblings—the double bass is thought to derive from the old viols, while the cello...