Jon Rose & Erik Griswold – Unnamed Road
Unnamed Road is the first musical project of two Australian innovators - England-born, Alice Springs-based violinist-composer-improviser-luthier Jon Rose and United states-born, Brisbane-based contemporary composer-pianist-electronics player Erik Griswold. Both Rose and Griswold are genre-defying, multi-media...
Callas and other personalities in the new works of Ivo Perelman
Ivo Perelman's new works suggest an explicit reference to some fundamental musical figures of the past: the sources of inspiration of the saxophone player are Maria Callas (a novelty for his style), the great...
Signe Emmeluth: her first solo sax and a conversation
John Cage argued that art was not an expression of oneself, but an alteration of the personality that had the power to make the artist more open to relationships and more aware of the...
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...
Ryan Carter: Chamber works
In music the average listener usually tries to find a rhythm in any composition but modern music changes his perceptions: the composer tends to elaborate rhythm, to segment it, to stratify it. Stravinsky began...
Sérgio Carolino: Below 0
Those who have followed the artistic path of Sérgio Carolino know very well his eclecticism. The Portuguese artist is one of the modern interpreters of the tuba, one of the most appreciated in the...
Peter Herbert & Wolfgang Mitterer: Quiets Riots
Viennese double bass-composer-educator Peter Herbert and pianist-electronics player-composer Wolfgang Mitterer are old friends but an odd musical couple. Herbert is a much-in-demand bass player, mostly for jazz outfits (but he also played with Paul...
Symbolist: The Age of Bronze
The Berlin-based experimental trio Symbolist features American percussionist-composer Stephen Flinn, who has worked with Steve Beresford, Cecil Taylor, Lol Coxhill, Wolfgang Fuchs, Denman Maroney, and Axel Dörner, and is known for his work with...
Potage du jour: Go South!
"Go south!" draws the potential of Franziska Baumann's voice, without distinctions, following a path entirely fortuitous: piano and sax (Christoph Baumann and Jurg Solothurnmann) provide an excellent and fantasious coverage of free jazz, useful...
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Festival Archipel 2025
Inutile ribadire come l'Archipel, uno dei principali festival di musica in Svizzera che si tiene a Ginevra, abbia modificato le sue vesti nel tempo....
