Signe Emmeluth: her first solo sax and a conversation
John Cage argued that art was not an expression of oneself, but an alteration of the personality that had the power to make the artist more open to relationships and more aware of the...
Great perspectives for the electric guitar: Yaron Deutsch
Data la giovinezza del repertorio per chitarra elettrica nella musica classica, molti si sentono in dovere di fare già un primo punto della situazione: qualcuno ha raccolto tutti gli interventi in un libro, altri...
Togetherness music: Alexander Hawkins at his best
On these pages, talking about the music of the English pianist Alexander Hawkins is becoming an increasingly frequent occurrence. There are two reasons for our interest, one linked to the quantity of ideas and...
A new talent of free singing: Hanna Schörken
"...the voice is much more than a musical instrument. Through speech it connects us to the social world, and thence to traditions of poetry, drama, comedy, etc. It reveals much about the speaker, from...
François Carrier: the Japan suite CD and an interview
Su Percorsi Musicali non si può dire certo che siano mancate le segnalazioni della musica del sassofonista alto canadese François Carrier. Da quando sono entrato in contatto in lui (parecchi anni fa), ho recensito...
Ian Power: Maintenance Hums
Nella filosofia della musica ci si è imbattuti spesso nel problema della significatività: teorici come Koopman o Davies hanno riconosciuto che la musica possa fornire dei significati, anche nell'assenza della parola, dove un Kivy,...
Timothy McCormack’s Geological Soundscapes
Pull up an image of a karst and you’re likely to see a distressed, often vertiginous landscape of water-carved rock faces pitted with crevices and caves. Under the surface may be running water, but...
Beyond the Machine with Gonçalo Gato
The focus of much of the music of Lisbon-born, London-based composer Gonçalo Gato (b. 1979) is on the incorporation of computer algorithms into the compositional process. To judge from the work included in NowState,...
Giacinto Scelsi Revisited
Music cannot exist without sound, but sound can certainly exist without music. Therefore it would seem that sound is more important. We can start from here (Giacinto Scelsi).
Kairos R. pubblica ufficialmente il set di...
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...
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RIP Sofia Gubaidulina
Con un corposo comunicato la Boosey & Hawkes ci avverte della scomparsa della compositrice Sofia Gubaidulina (leggilo qui). La notizia fa molto dispiacere. La...
