Michael Pelzel: Gravity’s Rainbow
When we talk about the complexity of music, we often fear that it may express various kind of chaos or instability without being able to benefit from the sentiment portrayed by the music itself....
Airi Yoshioka & the Violin Alone
Much has changed in Western art music since the modern violin family was developed in Northern Italy in the early 16thcentury. Formal conventions have come and gone, tonality has evolved, broadened and dissolved, and...
Vinko Globokar: Les soliloques décortiqués
Back in the mid-1960s, French-Slovenian composer and trombonist Vinko Globokar was one of a very few instrumentalists with the skills, imagination and commitment needed to realize the technically groundbreaking works then being composed for...
Rank Ensemble: Papilio Noblei
Rank Ensemble is a highly respected quartet, with an academic training, orbiting in the Finnish scene of free improvisation; the four musicians carry out an unusual line of expression between contemporary music and free...
Christian Moser – Abrash
Swiss, Basel-based Christian Moser plays the Middle-Eastern lute, the oud, like no other. In his youth, he studied the violin but at 18 he discovered the oud, and after a few years of taking...
Clara Levy: Outre-Nuit
Clara Levy is a French, Brussels-based violinist-improviser who focuses on developing solo projects addressing different topics at the core of contemporary music practice, experimental music and free improvisation. She plays in European contemporary music...
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...
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...
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...
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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....
