After All, Saxophone is a Metal Instrument: Ulrich Krieger’s “Acoustic Electronics”
By most accounts, one of the most perplexing rock albums ever released was Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music. Was it a taunting prank directed at Reed’s fans, the grudging fulfillment of a contractual obligation...
Marlies Debacker & Salim(a) Javaid: Convolution
Pianist Marlies Debacker and saxophonist Salim(a) Javaid, both based in Cologne, have been long-time collaborators since meeting as students at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, where they both now teach. Debacker, originally...
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...
Jeff Arnal / Dietrich Eichmann – Tides of Unrest / Berlin 2023
The duo of American drummer-percussionist-composer Jeff Arnal and German pianist-composer Dietrich Eichmann has forged a dynamic musical partnership spanning more than two decades, beginning with the recording of The Temperature Dropped Again in 2002...
Ricard Capellino suona le Veredas di Alberto Posadas
Nella vita ci sono ispiratori e benefattori. Ciò vuol dire parecchio nella monografia di composizioni per sassofono di Alberto Posadas suonata da Ricard Capellino Carlos. Se è vero che nel mondo musicale c'è un...
Joëlle Léandre / Lotte Anker / Kresten Osgood Trio – Worlds
During the 2023 edition of the Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Danish drummer Kresten Osgood curated the I/O series and invited a few of the first generation of female free improviers, including British vocal artist Maggie...
Joke Lanz & Petr Vrba – Mutants in Siberia
Czech experimental trumpeter-electronics player Petr Vrba (the founder of Prague Improvisation Orchestra with American double bass player George Cremaschi, the dramaturgist for Alternativa festival in Prague and Radio DJ at Radio 1) and Swiss,...
Great perspectives for the electric guitar: Yaron Deutsch
Data la giovinezza del repertorio per chitarra elettrica nella musica classica, molti si sentono in dovere di fare già un primo punto della situazione: qualcuno ha raccolto tutti gli interventi in un libro, altri...
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...
Liza Lim: Extinction events and dawn chorus
Rather special rules apply for the recognition of the style of a composer like Liza Lim (1966). The Australian composer with Asian origins is part of that large group of composers who implicitly adhered...
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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....
