Øyvind Brandtsegg: Persistent Disequilibrium
What is the virtuous path of a musician? The answer is obviously not univocal and admits several solutions, but certainly virtuosity must be interpreted, it cannot be seen only as the achievement of an...
On Tanja Feichtmair
Any improvised structure has to deal with phrasing. It is an essential theme of the way of playing that can be solved in many ways: with an instrument you can be angular, elastic, liminal...
On Christopher Trapani: ‘Horizontal Drift’ and a conversation
Really Coming Down, composition for electric guitar and live electronics from 2007, caused a rather important change in the artistic life of Christopher Trapani (1980), for several reasons. It is the first piece in...
On Alberto Posadas’ poetics
Today, the need to find a poetics for our life does not seem to be part of our primary needs. It is something that has been increasingly overlooked after humanity has accelerated its ambitions...
Thieke and Fagaschinski: The International Nothing
What has the twenty-first century taught us so far? I have repeatedly spoken of a century of idiocy but, if we go into the details, we could also say that the strangeness that is...
Sérgio Carolino: Below 0
Those who have followed the artistic path of Sérgio Carolino know very well his eclecticism. The Portuguese artist is one of the modern interpreters of the tuba, one of the most appreciated in the...
Discovering Salim Javaid
Salim Javaid is a 30 year old Czech-Pakistani saxophonist who works and lives in Cologne. Javaid is the tangible demonstration of how today the training of musicians can be a path crossing the realities...
Jessica Pavone: Synthesis and action
Sometimes art moves through historical syntheses. The musician's experiences can travel together as a refraction of principles, of previous knowledge, able to connect to his sensitivity and, as Kant said, show the signs of...
field anatomies: Laura Cocks
The evolved musician builds a demanding path to reach certain quality standards. Today it is no longer enough to learn to play an instrument with an excellent visual and perspective capacity for the scores,...
Franck Bedrossian’s Don Quixote
In Cervantes' Don Quixote of La Mancha, at a certain point, the protagonist of the novel lets himself be lowered into the Montésino's cave and he discovers a world composed of hidden wonders: Don...
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Lo Spontaneous Music Festival a Poznań
Nelle tante ricerche che ho svolto per conoscere meglio le realtà musicali nelle varie nazioni europee, devo riconoscere che per la Polonia ho avuto...
