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...
Robert Erickson’s Orchestral Colors: Auroras & Other Works
I lavori orchestrali di Robert Erickson sono importanti per il modo con cui incarnano molti dei principi della composizione timbrica elaborati nel suo libro "Sound Structure in Music". I quattro pezzi orchestrali raccolti sul...
From the Borderland between Sound and Music
Uno dei tratti distintivi della musica colta del XX secolo è l'emergere del timbro come oggetto di interesse musicale a sé stante, del tutto indipendente dal tono, armonia o ritmo. Il "classico" di Robert...
Frank Gratkowski sextet: Skein
Skein's theme represents, through music, the chemical process that accompanies the movement of molecules, starting from the awareness of having to dig into a skein looking for reactions; the group accomplishes a detailed fragmentation...
Lukas Ligeti/Thollem McDonas: Imaginary images
In "Imaginary images" we have two musicians who put aside the research, the frills of the composition or the musical traditions, and confront one another solely on the obvious reality of their instruments.
Of course...
Ultima Armonia: Someone Killed the Swan; Laments On South-eastern Europe
"Someone killed the swan; Laments on South-eastern Europe" is addressed to an audience that goes beyond the borders of Serbia. But it's not important just for the fact that it was recorded in a...
Sonic Circuits 2014: A Festival of Experimental Music
Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center, Silver Spring, Maryland USA
3-5 October 2014
http://dc-soniccircuits.org
by Daniel Barbiero
For fifteen years or so, the Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music has brought challenging sound and multimedia performances to the Washington DC...
Notes on the Music of Sound III: Time and Plastic Organization in Timbral Music
Daniel Barbiero
Astratto: Il tempo è un elemento strutturale nelle opere timbriche. Esso svolge un ruolo sintattico grazie alla sua capacità di integrare e separare eventi sonori. Spazi negativi, silenzi, sono elementi di tempo che...
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...
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...
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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,...
