Else Marie Pade
Even before she began composing musique concrète and electronic music in the early 1950s, Else Marie Pade lived what can only be called an eventful life.
Born in Ain Aarhus, Denmark in 1924, Pade as...
Marco Colonna and Giulia Cianca: Undici pianeti
The contemporary world often seems to be nothing short of a permanent atopia – a place in which one is perpetually out of place, a locus of transience in which one is forever a...
Anna McMichael & Clocked Out – Peak Plastique
Peak Plastique is a clever musical examination of the surprising sonic characteristics of plastic, while reflecting on the ubiquitous, paradoxical presence of this material across our environment and our complex relationship with it despite...
Roland Dahinden & Hildegard Kleeb: Recall Pollock
One of the main qualities that I love in music is that of coherence: many artists over time have made a bad use of it, especially when they saw increase their success with the...
Russian jazz musicians: between free and contemporary jazz
Many critics of free improvisation/free jazz insist to give an appropriate value to the sounds that can evoke images or become simulations of an event or an object: this theory is based mainly on...
Reid / Kitamura /Bynum /Morris – Geometry of Phenomena
Geometry of Phenomena is the the fourth album of the Geometry supergroup comprised of four idiosyncratic, experimental musicians-improvisers-bandleaders-eductors, all affiliated with legendary composer Anthony Braxton. Cellist Tomeka Reid participated in the recordings of Braxton’s...
Ensemble Nikel: Radio Works
Ensemble Nikel is the quartet of American, Switzerland-based percussionist Brian Archinal, Israeli electric guitarist Yaron Deutsch (who teaches at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel), Swiss pianist and keyboard player Antoine Françoise and German...
Making the Contrabass Contemporary: Bertram Turetzky and the Reinvention of the Double Bass
Fino ad un paio di decenni fa il contrabbasso è stato ampiamente trascurato come strumento solista dalla voce complessa. Relegato soprattutto alle sue funzioni tradizionali di supporto all'interno degli ensembles, il contrabbasso ha dovuto...
Bernd Richard Deutsch: Dr. Futurity
The new thing of Austrian contemporary music has discreetly raised some new elements not completely contained within the field of music; the interference initially directed towards the branches of ancient philosophy and literature (especially...
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I Leoni della Biennale Musica 2025 a Venezia
Pubblichiamo il comunicato stampa appena ricevuto dall'ufficio stampa della Biennale Musica di Venezia in merito all'assegnazione dei Leoni d'oro e d'argento dell'edizione 2025.
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