Vinko Globokar: Les soliloques décortiqués
Back in the mid-1960s, French-Slovenian composer and trombonist Vinko Globokar was one of a very few instrumentalists with the skills, imagination and commitment needed to realize the technically groundbreaking works then being composed for...
Pierluigi Billone: Mani.Giacometti/2 Alberi
The history of Western art music has been, among other things, the history of the evolution of performance techniques. Particularly since the end of the Second World War the extension of the ranges and...
Perelman’s 30th anniversary: Amalgam with Shipp and an interview
In musica si cerca sempre di dare spiegazioni al ruolo che i musicisti svolgono nei processi esecutivi. Chi sono? Medium espressivi? Portatori di messaggi? E' qualcosa che ha a che fare molto con quanto...
Nuove estetiche a Reykjavik: Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson
Quando facciamo riferimento al termine "liminale" spesso vogliamo indicare una situazione al confine, tra la realtà e la finzione, sperimentata sotto l'effetto indotto di un evento: liminale può essere quella fase che si vive...
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...
Martino Traversa: Hommage
There are many ways to go against the grain in the musical world. One of the most dangerous is composing in a style that no longer seems to belong to the fashions or compositional...
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...
Evan Johnson: Forms of complaint
There is an area of music research that has focused its interest on the physicality of the performance. It can be obtained in many ways, increasing the difficulties of the score, applying a kind...
Miguel Farìas: Up and down
The growing awareness of being able to offer further points of reference in contemporary music is one of the most appreciated resources exhibited by current Chilean composition. In a nation for a long time...
Michael Pelzel: Gravity’s Rainbow
When we talk about the complexity of music, we often fear that it may express various kind of chaos or instability without being able to benefit from the sentiment portrayed by the music itself....
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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...
