Ensemble 5: The summary of 4 vol. 2
The second volume of Swiss recordings after the Japan tour brings us again in that devious state of description, apt to represent the attitudes of the musical scenario. A situation that I had enucleated...
Rank Ensemble: Papilio Noblei
Rank Ensemble is a highly respected quartet, with an academic training, orbiting in the Finnish scene of free improvisation; the four musicians carry out an unusual line of expression between contemporary music and free...
Authenticity, scenarios and movement: a dialogue with Harri Sjöström
Keepers of so-called "good taste" should always improve their interpretations when evaluating a painting and should abandon their prejudices. Let us take, for example, Nude Descending a Staircase no.2, the great painting by Marcel...
Reid / Kitamura /Bynum /Morris – Geometry of Phenomena
Geometry of Phenomena is the the fourth album of the Geometry supergroup comprised of four idiosyncratic, experimental musicians-improvisers-bandleaders-eductors, all affiliated with legendary composer Anthony Braxton. Cellist Tomeka Reid participated in the recordings of Braxton’s...
Methods for exploring the sonic matter: in conversation with Lei Liang
The path of a composer is often guided by the desire to make new discoveries and to try to contribute to complex and seemingly borderless topics. On this point, an example comes from the...
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...
Électronique…? Pensate l’impensabile! Giuseppe Giuliano «visto da»… Pierre Yves Artaud e Yuri Kasparov
Ammetto di avere un debole per la musica di Giuseppe Giuliano. Su queste pagine, tramite recensioni e note critiche, ho già rivelato l’afflato moderno e l’intrigante raccordo della sua musica con le libertà e...
Karl Berger & Ivo Perelman: Reverie
"Reverie" is composed of six songs that are musical pills of wisdom, that demonstrate an immense knowledge of the expression: these improvisations reflect Berger's pianistic entretien but constitute a real test for the Brazilian...
Luca Perciballi and Ivan Valentini’s “Letting Things Follow Their Lead”
Room Music
A freely improvised performance doesn’t exist as a work until it’s finished in real time; in a way it’s analogous to a narrative that has no definite meaning until it reaches that point...
Piano, Korg Wavestate and voice: on the current music of Thollem
our eyes possess, just wanting it, an inexhaustible capacity for enjoyment. In the morning, when I go to work, I am surrounded by numerous other workers who rush towards me, still sleepy, cold...
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Musica in Prossimità 2024
Ritorna dal 29 novembre il festival di Musica in Prossimità a Pinerolo. Come sempre, dietro la rassegna c'è l'associazione Metamorfosi Notturne con la mano...
