Creative Sources Records
Daniel Barbiero
Creative Sources Records, based in Portugal, was conceived in 1999 by violist/composer Ernesto Rodrigues as an outlet not only for his own work but for the kind of challenging, non-commercial music that appealed...
Notes on the music of sound: Material, Medium & Manner (first part)
Daniel Barbiero
(These notes aren’t intended to be a systematic consideration of timbral music; instead, they record some suggestions and impressions.)
The music of timbre considered qua sound imagines timbre as something in itself, as a...
Ivo Perelman and his new works
The atonality and the contemporary theories in general have taught us that their importance lies in the representation of reality focused on some physiological states of our lives; the subtle concept that implies a...
Ensemble 5: The summary of 4
Without being considered a mad visionary, I could show you how the music of Ensemble 5 has a subliminal discursive character: you have to think of the musical instruments as creative objects observed as...
Fifty Years After the Way: James Tenney’s Meta+Hodos
Composer James Tenney’s Meta+Hodos was an early formulation of what he described as a “conceptual framework for musical description and analysis.” Tellingly, Tenney chose as his title an etymological breakdown of the word “method,”...
Gesture – Event – Structure
di Daniel Barbiero
In questo sito, del contrabbassista Daniel Barbiero ho già avuto modo di parlare (1). Residente a Washington DC, Daniel è uno dei più attivi ed oculati musicisti di quella zona, sempre proteso...
Stefano Pastor & Charlotte Hug: Paragone d’archi
"Paragone d'archi" is a collaboration aimed at the rebalancing of power relations between violin and viola, namely the meaning attributed by the musical history of their relations, an archetype or pamphlet from the past:...
Matthias Schubert/Simon Nabatov: Descriptions
If the goal of music is to provide an image or represent a feeling, nothing better than to try to make explicit these aspects through descriptive methods. In this way they will be able...
Anne-Liis Poll/Anto Pett/Vlady Bystrov: The enchanted 3
"The enchanted 3" shows the powerful exercises to control the directionality of improvisation, where the interaction among the musicians is an essential condition for their full expression. It is all based on research, through...
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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,...
