Un simposio per il contrabbasso: le basi di una nuova era (parte seconda)
Alisei & Stefano Scodanibbio’s Poetics of the Double Bass
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In a recent piece I suggested that the contemporary equivalent or near-equivalent of the old Common Practice of functional harmony just might be found in the...
Michael Pelzel: Gravity’s Rainbow
When we talk about the complexity of music, we often fear that it may express various kind of chaos or instability without being able to benefit from the sentiment portrayed by the music itself....
Helmut Lachenmann: Schreiben/Double (Grido II)
Lately someone have complained of Helmut Lachenmann's inactivity, interpreting it as an exhaustion of ideas, a lack of will in dealing with the failure of the current contemporary music; the situation is also complicated...
New harmonies from spectralism: Rozalie Hirs
Today it is legitimate to ask where the new developments of contemporary music lie and in particular what happens to its most recent subdivisions. For example, the qualities of spectralism have long been invoked,...
Introducing Japanese saxophonist Ryoko Ono
Two new free-improv works of Ryoko Ono - a duo with Satoko Fujii and a solo album -:
1) Ryoko Ono / Satoko Fujii - Hakuro (Self-Released, 2023)
2) Ryoko Ono - The Days (Relative Pitch,...
Distrubio – Les Mauvaises Fréquentations
Distrubio is the experimental duo of French Musique concrète composer-sound artist-improviser Jérôme Noetinger, known for his unique usage of the reel-to-reel tape recorder Revox B77 as an instrument, and Viennese, Mexican-born composer-sound artist Angélica...
Acre – Praxis
Acre is the Italian, Rome-based trio of drummer Ermanno Baron, guitarist Ginomaria Boschi (who plays on prepared guitar, electric guitar and m’bira) and live electronics player Marco Bonini, that combines the immediacy and the...
Timothy McCormack’s Geological Soundscapes
Pull up an image of a karst and you’re likely to see a distressed, often vertiginous landscape of water-carved rock faces pitted with crevices and caves. Under the surface may be running water, but...
Tanja Feichtmair / Fredi Proll / Uli Winter: Trio Now!
"Trio Now!" is based on a strong charge of enthusiasm, with the conscious (but not identical) pride of the "now" of Max Roach's times (We insist!); we are on the border between free, abstract...