Thomas DeLio and the Aesthetics of Intermittence

Thomas Delio (b. 1951) è un compositore che lavora con un senso espansivo dei suoni e degli spazi interni ad essi. Una raccolta di opere selezionate, pubblicate dall'etichetta discografica Neuma, fornisce un compendio efficace...

Roland Dahinden & Hildegard Kleeb: Recall Pollock

   One of the main qualities that I love in music is that of coherence: many artists over time have made ​​a bad use of it, especially when they saw increase their success with the...

Ivo Perelman and his new works

The atonality and the contemporary theories in general have taught us that their importance lies in the representation of reality focused on some physiological states of our lives; the subtle concept that implies a...

Sun Ra: Live in Ulm 1992

For the centenary of Sun Ra's birth, Leo Feigin releases one of the last concerts of the American pianist, a performance with the Arkestra, held in 1992 in Ulm, Germany. The concert is contained...

Vykintas Baltakas: b(ell tree)

"....I cannot claim to have discovered Vykintas Baltakas (born 1972): he was recommended to UE by various contact. This maverick Lithuanian, a pupil of Wolfgang Rihm and Peter Eotvos, speaks a musical language all...

The Timbre of Neither/Nor: Morton Feldman’s Clarinet & String Quartet

In the 1972 essay “A Compositional Problem,” Morton Feldman mentioned a contradiction he felt faced him as a composer: The contradiction between instrumental color and the immediacy of sound. For a composer with a...

Clemens Gadenstätter: multimedia semantic studies

On these pages I have often remarked how good music can be the consequence of a formidable thought implemented in the score. If I look at Clemens Gadenstätter's music, I have no doubt that...

On Tanja Feichtmair

Any improvised structure has to deal with phrasing. It is an essential theme of the way of playing that can be solved in many ways: with an instrument you can be angular, elastic, liminal...

Kudryavtsev/Vincent/Logofet: Free Trees

In a thriving alveolus of free techniques and with frequent use of gadgets and objects on the cello, the art of 'Free Trees' follows characteristic moments with a sort of apologetic thought; it is...

On Making The Rationale for a Space Telescope

The Rationale for a Space Telescope, the latest release from If, Bwana, includes four tracks featuring my electronically processed contrabass.  If, Bwana is Al Margolis’s electroacoustic music project, which has been active since 1984. Starting...

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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...