Methods for exploring the sonic matter: in conversation with Lei Liang
The path of a composer is often guided by the desire to make new discoveries and to try to contribute to complex and seemingly borderless topics. On this point, an example comes from the...
Núria Andorrà: on the interdisciplinary nature of free improvisation
Many times the best music comes across through an observation of the creative idea, something that puts in communication the essence of an idea or a musical development early established in the mind of...
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...
Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø and His Dystopian Dancing
A relevant aesthetic problem of modern music is that of the modification of timbre, and authoritative interventions have questioned its value with never decisive arguments. Jean-Jacques Nattiez, for example, was skeptical about creating works...
Mirela Ivičević: Scarlet Songs
When speaking of her fundamental approach to composing, Mirela Ivičević, a Croatian native currently based in Vienna, has described herself as focusing on using as basic materials “bits and pieces of reality abducted from...
Anthony Cheung: Music for Film, Sculpture, and Captions
It’s just as the title would have it. Music for Film, Sculpture, and Captions, the fifth monograph album from composer Anthony Cheung, contains three works written for, or inspired by, film, sculpture, and closed...
Hèctor Parra and the orchestra
When in 2006 the composer Hèctor Parra Esteve composed Lumières Abyssales-Chroma and Karst-Chroma II, involving the Orchester National d'Ile de France and the Orchester Philharmonique de Liège, the idea of how to highlight the...
Spectral dilations and cybernetic constructions: Marisol Jiménez
In life as well as in a professional career, it is not easy to make the right choices. If we try to build a future, this does not necessarily happen immediately and therefore any...
Piano, Korg Wavestate and voice: on the current music of Thollem
our eyes possess, just wanting it, an inexhaustible capacity for enjoyment. In the morning, when I go to work, I am surrounded by numerous other workers who rush towards me, still sleepy, cold...
With Dmitri Kourliandski and his string quartets
FANCYMUSIC, a Russian label specializing in contemporary classical music and jazz, has just released String Quartet Series, a CD that collects the three string quartets by composer Dmitri Kourliandski (1976) performed by the Vacuum...
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Il Music Unlimited festival a Wels
Prende il via domani uno dei principali e storici festival europei di improvvisazione. A Wels, città austriaca situata nella zona bavarese del paese, per...
