Sun Ra: Live in Ulm 1992
For the centenary of Sun Ra's birth, Leo Feigin releases one of the last concerts of the American pianist, a performance with the Arkestra, held in 1992 in Ulm, Germany. The concert is contained...
The Timbre of Neither/Nor: Morton Feldman’s Clarinet & String Quartet
In the 1972 essay “A Compositional Problem,” Morton Feldman mentioned a contradiction he felt faced him as a composer: The contradiction between instrumental color and the immediacy of sound. For a composer with a...
On Tanja Feichtmair
Any improvised structure has to deal with phrasing. It is an essential theme of the way of playing that can be solved in many ways: with an instrument you can be angular, elastic, liminal...
Vykintas Baltakas: b(ell tree)
"....I cannot claim to have discovered Vykintas Baltakas (born 1972): he was recommended to UE by various contact. This maverick Lithuanian, a pupil of Wolfgang Rihm and Peter Eotvos, speaks a musical language all...
Judith Schwarz & Manu Mayr – PRCDR
PRCDR, the album, and the Viennese experimental duo of drummer-composer Judith Schwarz and bassist-composer-producer Many Mayr bring together two busy musicians with diverse and versatile musical interests.
Schwarz plays in the electric dance trio Other:M:other,...
The Hemphill Stringtet – Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill
Next week will be the 30th yahrzeit of one of the greatest jazz musicians of the 20th century, sax player-composer Julius Hemphill (1938-1995), co-founder of the multidisciplinary arts collective Black Artists’ Group, founder of...
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...
Intelligent Dissonances in Improvisation: Han-earl Park
It is not obvious to ask whether it is possible to give a form to improvisation based on an underlying topic. Is it possible to transform topics from everyday life, art or politics into...
On Making The Rationale for a Space Telescope
The Rationale for a Space Telescope, the latest release from If, Bwana, includes four tracks featuring my electronically processed contrabass.
If, Bwana is Al Margolis’s electroacoustic music project, which has been active since 1984. Starting...
Lea Bertucci + Olivia Block – I Know the Number of the Sand and...
Lea Bertucci is a New York-based experimental musician whose works revolve around electronic and spatial extensions of woodwind instruments and vocal artistry, as well as bridges performance, installation, and multichannel activations of site-responsiveness and...