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...
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...
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...
Ensemble Nikel: Radio Works
Ensemble Nikel is the quartet of American, Switzerland-based percussionist Brian Archinal, Israeli electric guitarist Yaron Deutsch (who teaches at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel), Swiss pianist and keyboard player Antoine Françoise and German...
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...
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...
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...
Lukas Ligeti/Thollem McDonas: Imaginary images
In "Imaginary images" we have two musicians who put aside the research, the frills of the composition or the musical traditions, and confront one another solely on the obvious reality of their instruments.
Of course...
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...
Tod Dockstader (1932-2015)
The work of American sound artist Tod Dockstader (1932-27 Feb 2015) ran parallel to the technological changes that took electronic music from tape manipulation to the synthesizer.
Dockstader started out in the visual arts, working...
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Lo Spontaneous Music Festival a Poznań
Nelle tante ricerche che ho svolto per conoscere meglio le realtà musicali nelle varie nazioni europee, devo riconoscere che per la Polonia ho avuto...
