Marlies Debacker’s first solo piano: focus on Shimmer and a conversation with her
In free improvisation there is already a conspicuous literature addressed to musicians who are heavily immersed in the interior of the piano. Recent examples of explorations managed by seeking a massive accommodation in the...
John Wolf Brennan/Tony Majdalani/Marco Jencarelli: Pilgrims
After all, John Wolf Brennan has accustomed us to meetings between East and West: those who remember his masterpieces recorded long ago have always perceived his proximity to some aspects of non-Western thought, so...
Christopher Otto: Rag’sma
The twentieth century was undoubtedly the century of discoveries in microtonality as well as other areas in music. Since the times of Carrillo and Ives, a lot of water has passed under the bridge...
Gayageum and doublebass: in conversation with Sylvain Monchocé
In free improvisation creative acts are the result of a series of implications that concern the personal sphere of each musician. Free improvisation is a communicative state based on previous skills, intuitions and openness...
Hannes Kerschbaumer: schraffur
Many people today complain that much of the music that is labeled as contemporary has always the same characteristics. Such a statement would need to be revised, especially considering the fact that we are...
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...
Polymath Elliott Sharp explores the world of mandolins
American, New York-based polymath Elliott Sharp is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and author, the bandleader of the Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics and Terraplane with compositional strategies that borrow themes from fractal geometry, chaos theory and...
Marino Formenti: Liszt inspections
Liszt distilled musical rhetoric at the end of his career, attenuated harmonic connections, reduced sonorities, gambled with abrupt juxtaposition and silence, cultivated simplicity, and highlighted the fragmentary. Late Liszt has forced us to rethink...
Marius Neset & Leif Ove Andsnes – Who We Are
Renowned Norwegian sax player-composer Marius Neset and pianist-educator Leif Ove Andsnes grew up in small towns near Bergen. They chose different musical careers, focusing on stylistic models in their expressive idioms. The Oslo-based Neset...
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Peter Ablinger RIP
E' incommensurabile il contributo che Peter Ablinger (1959-2025) ha dato alla musica. Tutto ha un enorme valore nella sua vita e nel suo percorso...
