Claudio Sanna – Luciano Chessa: Lands End
Italian contemporary composer-interdisciplinary artist-scholar Luciano Chessa works in media art, audiovisual performance, installations, music, and history. He is known for his research on Luigi Russolo and the Futurist movement, and his Orchestra of Futurist...
Jacqueline Kerrod / Joe Morris – Morpeth Contemporary 2024
Exceptionally virtuosic and sensitive, South African, New York-based harpist Jacqueline Kerrod feels perfectly at home across multiple genres. She has been touring internationally with composer and multi-reedist Anthony Braxton, both in a duo and...
The Hemphill Stringtet – Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill
Next week will be the 30th yahrzeit of one of the greatest jazz musicians of the 20th century, sax player-composer Julius Hemphill (1938-1995), co-founder of the multidisciplinary arts collective Black Artists’ Group, founder of...
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...
New harmonies from spectralism: Rozalie Hirs
Today it is legitimate to ask where the new developments of contemporary music lie and in particular what happens to its most recent subdivisions. For example, the qualities of spectralism have long been invoked,...
a conversation with cristiano bocci
It’s been said that music is really just applied mathematics. For Cristiano Bocci, an instrumentalist/composer/sound artist from Follonica, Italy, that statement is true in ways that go beyond the obvious. For in addition to...
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...
A focus on current times: Sergej Maingardt
I think that the Cologne Hochschule für Musik und Tanz began to regain a leading role of academic electronics with the arrival of Michael Beil in 2007. Beil's teachings were oriented towards an interdisciplinarity...
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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....
