Håkon Thelin’s Folk Music for Double Bass
Any musical instrument represents a certain set of possibilities. Constrained by the instrument’s particular characteristics—both as a unique individual and as a member of a class of instruments—these possibilities offer a range of potential...
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...
The 2015 Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music, 18-20 September 2015
The 2015 Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music, the DC area’s fourteenth annual weekend-long program of experimental music and multimedia works, was held at the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Silver Spring, MD, the...
Uwe Oberg: Twice, at least
"Twice, At least" is a further test of Uwe Oberg's intelligent formula, who confirms the stylistic line of the German musician, a whirlwind of 70 years of jazz pianism: starting from Monk, he forges...
Music as Sound as Music: On Making Nostos
Nostos, a collaboration between bassist/electronics artist Cristiano Bocci (Follonica GR) and myself, represents a melding of the organic, acoustic sounds of the double bass with after-the-fact timbres and supplementary compositional structures afforded by the...
An Alternative Modernism: David Diamond’s String Quartets Nos. 2, 9 & 10
The American composer David Diamond would seem to have been something of a master of unfortunate timing. Holding to the indispensability of melody and traditional compositional techniques when both were thought to be in...
Zooom Trio: What’s for dessert
Zooom trio renews the feelings of the language of Davis's Bitches Brew, but changes two essential parameters: there is more space for freedom of the rhythm section and the climate of improvisation is immersed...
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...
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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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