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...
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...
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...
Pascal Niggenkemper: blòc
One of the fundamental principles animating much 21st century music, whether improvised or composed, is the creative integration of an expanded field of sound or sound-producing gestures into the basic fabric of the work....
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...
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...
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...
Contemporary flute and piano: a range of action and 10 pieces to survive
Bruno Mantovani stated that writing a score for an orchestral instrument in combination with a piano was one of the most difficult things to manage; it was a difficulty that arose in the sclerotization...
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Lo Spontaneous Music Festival a Poznań
Nelle tante ricerche che ho svolto per conoscere meglio le realtà musicali nelle varie nazioni europee, devo riconoscere che per la Polonia ho avuto...
