Music as Sound as Music: On Making Nostos
Nostos, a collaboration between bassist/electronics artist Cristiano Bocci (Follonica GR) and myself, represents a melding of the organic, acoustic sounds of the double bass with after-the-fact timbres and supplementary compositional structures afforded by the...
Acqua Pesante – Shaping the Time
The Italian-Portuguese free improvising trio Acqua Pesante (Heavy Water)—Italian no-input trombonist Carlo Mascolo, drummer Giacomo Mongelli, and Portuguese double bass player Hernâni Faustino—was casually formed in between gigs at the Italian Free Flow Fest...
Anto Pett/Bart Van Rosmalen: Playwork
It's often essential to choose the right combinations of sounds in an improvisation. Today in this field of music we have a plethora of artists coming from a lot of different styles that very...
Ilinx – Flipperen
Ilinx is the trio of Romanian, New York-based vocalist-guitarist Suzana Lașcu, Dutch pianist-synth player Reinier van Houdt, and sound artist-DJ-clarinetist-guzheng and electronics player Robert Kroos, all are genre-defying composers who work in the realm...
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...
Bruno Duplant – de ce paysage au loin nous ne percevons que des sons
de ce paysage au loin nous ne percevons que des sons (From this landscape, in the distance, we only perceive sounds) is the poetic title of the new sound work by French composer, sound...
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...
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...
Notizie
Peter Ablinger RIP
E' incommensurabile il contributo che Peter Ablinger (1959-2025) ha dato alla musica. Tutto ha un enorme valore nella sua vita e nel suo percorso...
