Tom Johnson rip
American composer Tom Johnson (1939-2024), whose body of work included instrumental and vocal pieces employing pared-down musical material, died in Paris on the last day of 2024, at age 85.
Johnson grew up in the...
Laszlo Umbreit, Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat – Là
Là refers to Là-bas, the 2006 film by Belgian-Jewish director Chantal Akerman (1950-2015), in which Akerman expressed her ambivalent relations with the Israeli state, especially its settler-colonial narrative. Phonetically, Là (meaning ‘there’ in French)...
Experimental sound art with poetic, political references: Fear of the Object
Fear of the Object is an experimental audio-visual project of Norwegian video artist and video synth player Kjell Bjørgeengen, known for his work John Tilbury and Keith Rowe, and American, Mexico City-based percussionist and...
Sophie Agnel plays in two trios
French classically-trained pianist Sophie Agnel escaped jazz for its too-strict treatment of harmony and timbre and now she is one of the most fascinating free improvisers. She plays the piano in the most unconventional...
Polymath Elliott Sharp explores the world of mandolins
American, New York-based polymath Elliott Sharp is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and author, the bandleader of the Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics and Terraplane with compositional strategies that borrow themes from fractal geometry, chaos theory and...
Brûlez les meubles – Folio #5
Canadian, Québecesque, Rimouski-based electric bassist-composer (and the bandleader of the ensemble GGRIL luthier, and singer-songwriter) Éric Normand quotes on his website the famous saying of Greek poet Sophocles: “For those who are afraid, everything...
Jason Kahn x 2: with Alice Hui-Sheng Chang and with Katsura Yamauchi
I Smile When the Sound Is Singing Through the Space (Editions, 2024) brings together Taiwanese experimental vocal artist, sound improviser and art therapist Alice Hui-Sheng with prolific American, Zürich-based experimental vocalist, sound artist, electronics...
Gaudenz Badrutt x 2: with Tetrao Tetrix and solo
Tetrao Tetrix is the free improv meets sound art trio of three experienced and innovative sonic explorers - Swiss electroacoustic musician Gaudenz Badrutt, French alto sax player Jean-Luc Guionnet, and French-Japanese violist Frantz Loriot....
Jacob Kirkegaard: two haunting sound works
"The work of Danish composer, sound artist, and field recordist Jacob Kirkegaard explores ways to reflect on complex, unnoticed, or unapproachable conditions and environments His works have treated themes such as radioactivity in...
Stephanie Pan & Ensemble Klang. The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto
Stephanie Pan is a classically trained vocalist, composer, interdisciplinary artist, performer, and curator currently based in The Hague. She focuses on the notion of pure communication and searches for forms of contact with the...
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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....
