Zooom Trio: What’s for dessert
Zooom trio renews the feelings of the language of Davis's Bitches Brew, but changes two essential parameters: there is more space for freedom of the rhythm section and the climate of improvisation is immersed...
Marino Formenti: Liszt inspections
Liszt distilled musical rhetoric at the end of his career, attenuated harmonic connections, reduced sonorities, gambled with abrupt juxtaposition and silence, cultivated simplicity, and highlighted the fragmentary. Late Liszt has forced us to rethink...
Airi Yoshioka & the Violin Alone
Much has changed in Western art music since the modern violin family was developed in Northern Italy in the early 16thcentury. Formal conventions have come and gone, tonality has evolved, broadened and dissolved, and...
Callas and other personalities in the new works of Ivo Perelman
Ivo Perelman's new works suggest an explicit reference to some fundamental musical figures of the past: the sources of inspiration of the saxophone player are Maria Callas (a novelty for his style), the great...
The Unstable Stasis of Acoustic Drone & The Pitch
Sebbene sia frequentemente associata a fonti sonore esclusivamente elettroniche, la drone music può essere suonata su strumenti acustici con risultati gratificanti. L'ensemble internazionale The Pitch mostra come la drone music acustica può essere composta...
Else Marie Pade
Even before she began composing musique concrète and electronic music in the early 1950s, Else Marie Pade lived what can only be called an eventful life.
Born in Ain Aarhus, Denmark in 1924, Pade as...
Open String Minimalism or, What Is the Sound of One String Vibrating?
Il contrabbasso è stato in prima linea nello sviluppo delle risorse timbriche della musica d'arte contemporanea, messe a disposizione dei compositori ed esecutori in egual modo. Paradossalmente l'espansione dei mezzi per l'esplorazione timbrica del...
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Il Music Unlimited festival a Wels
Prende il via domani uno dei principali e storici festival europei di improvvisazione. A Wels, città austriaca situata nella zona bavarese del paese, per...
