Giacinto Scelsi Revisited
Music cannot exist without sound, but sound can certainly exist without music. Therefore it would seem that sound is more important. We can start from here (Giacinto Scelsi).
Kairos R. pubblica ufficialmente il set di...
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....
Stefan Weglowski: From 1 to 7
From 1 to 7 is a seven-part composition that combines two distant regions of music. In explaining the method of construction of this piece, I must say that Stefan Weglowski has synthetically combined an...
Impermances, reworkings and voices’ pandemonium
Some thoughts on three new CD of free improv:
-Ana Kravanja & Elisabeth Harnik: Vrtinci Minljivosti (Vortices of Impermanence), Creative Sources
-Cory Smythe: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Pyroclastic Records
-VocColours: 66, Tonkunkst Manufaktur
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Since last year, Slovenian...
Ming Tsao: Die Geisterinsel
"Die Geisterinsel" is based on one of the last works of Shakespeare and tells the story of Prospero, exiled to a Mediterranean island, which uses all his powers to make fall in love his...
Bernd Richard Deutsch: Dr. Futurity
The new thing of Austrian contemporary music has discreetly raised some new elements not completely contained within the field of music; the interference initially directed towards the branches of ancient philosophy and literature (especially...
Grace Note: Fuentes, Haring, Brus
Combining music with the other arts has been attempted frequently, but a true and complex qualitative leap was effected only with the advent of interdisciplinary modernism; little by little, the representations that originally involved...
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...
Perelman’s 30th anniversary: Amalgam with Shipp and an interview
In musica si cerca sempre di dare spiegazioni al ruolo che i musicisti svolgono nei processi esecutivi. Chi sono? Medium espressivi? Portatori di messaggi? E' qualcosa che ha a che fare molto con quanto...
Friedrich Cerha: Nacht/Drei Orchesterstucke
The two orchestral compositions included in this long-awaited new CD of work by the composer Friedrich Cerha have a deep tie with the astrolabe and the oriental mystic. To give more detail, both Nacht...
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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....
