Grace Note: Fuentes, Haring, Brus
Combining music with the other arts has been attempted frequently, but a true and complex qualitative leap was effected only with the advent of interdisciplinary modernism; little by little, the representations that originally involved...
Bernd Richard Deutsch: Dr. Futurity
The new thing of Austrian contemporary music has discreetly raised some new elements not completely contained within the field of music; the interference initially directed towards the branches of ancient philosophy and literature (especially...
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...
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...
Afro Garage: Eighteen Ways to Miss Egypt
“Eighteen Ways to Miss Egypt" highlights the center of gravity of improvisation. It deals with a varied, oblique and ironic, ethnic and insightful situation, with a good degree of oddness—a different way of organizing...
Helen Bledsoe & Alexey Lapin: Ghost Icebreaker
There is a kind of symbolism hidden in the music of Bledsoe / Lapin, that it does not reflect a simple emulation of arctic sounds. Although the two musicians do not communicate any introspective...
Making the Contrabass Contemporary: Bertram Turetzky and the Reinvention of the Double Bass
Fino ad un paio di decenni fa il contrabbasso è stato ampiamente trascurato come strumento solista dalla voce complessa. Relegato soprattutto alle sue funzioni tradizionali di supporto all'interno degli ensembles, il contrabbasso ha dovuto...
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...
Ming Tsao: Die Geisterinsel
"Die Geisterinsel" is based on one of the last works of Shakespeare and tells the story of Prospero, exiled to a Mediterranean island, which uses all his powers to make fall in love his...
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KLANG: Hyperstition
Nell'ambito delle attività dell'ufficio stampa Sfera Cubica, un luogo di promozione musicale con sede in Emilia Romagna, ci sono anche i progetti di KLANG,...
