An Alternative Modernism: David Diamond’s String Quartets Nos. 2, 9 & 10
The American composer David Diamond would seem to have been something of a master of unfortunate timing. Holding to the indispensability of melody and traditional compositional techniques when both were thought to be in...
Thinking is perceiving: Kaja Draksler at Artacts
Rudolf Arnheim noted that sensory perception was as important as the certainties of rationality and was an anticipation of intellectual knowledge: in the area of the communicative functions of art, the German author recognized...
The Quatuor BRAC
Daniel Barbiero
Il Quatuor BRAC è un quartetto internazionale improvvisazionale composto da violino, viola, violoncello e contrabbasso. Adottando un approccio non convenzionale di musica, nonché di strumenti, il gruppo crea un suono che può essere...
Ivo Perelman: Living Jelly/The gift/The clairvoyant
Living Jelly
Perelman chooses to represent the stories of "Living Jelly" in a trio with Joe Morris on guitar and Gerald Cleaver on drums. This collection of poetic divagations of Lispector is very enigmatic...
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...
After All, Saxophone is a Metal Instrument: Ulrich Krieger’s “Acoustic Electronics”
By most accounts, one of the most perplexing rock albums ever released was Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music. Was it a taunting prank directed at Reed’s fans, the grudging fulfillment of a contractual obligation...
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Musica in Prossimità 2024
Ritorna dal 29 novembre il festival di Musica in Prossimità a Pinerolo. Come sempre, dietro la rassegna c'è l'associazione Metamorfosi Notturne con la mano...
