Notes on the music of sound: Material, Medium & Manner (first part)
Daniel Barbiero
(These notes aren’t intended to be a systematic consideration of timbral music; instead, they record some suggestions and impressions.)
The music of timbre considered qua sound imagines timbre as something in itself, as a...
Martino Traversa: Hommage
There are many ways to go against the grain in the musical world. One of the most dangerous is composing in a style that no longer seems to belong to the fashions or compositional...
Un simposio per il contrabbasso: le basi di una nuova era (parte seconda)
Alisei & Stefano Scodanibbio’s Poetics of the Double Bass
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In a recent piece I suggested that the contemporary equivalent or near-equivalent of the old Common Practice of functional harmony just might be found in the...
Jane in Ether – Oneiric
The Berlin-based trio Jane in Ether - recorder player Miako Klein, hyper-pianist Magda Mayas and violinist-vocalist Biliana Voutchkova, was founded in 2019, and focuses on slowly developing, long form compositions created in real-time and...
Togetherness music: Alexander Hawkins at his best
On these pages, talking about the music of the English pianist Alexander Hawkins is becoming an increasingly frequent occurrence. There are two reasons for our interest, one linked to the quantity of ideas and...
Ian Power: Maintenance Hums
Nella filosofia della musica ci si è imbattuti spesso nel problema della significatività: teorici come Koopman o Davies hanno riconosciuto che la musica possa fornire dei significati, anche nell'assenza della parola, dove un Kivy,...
Un simposio per il contrabbasso: le basi di una nuova era (parte prima)
Introduzione
Nell'area delle sfide e delle interposizioni di genere musicale, il contrabbasso può vantare una nuova storia: gli attuali orientamenti permettono di acclarare una certa effervescenza su quanto si produce nelle rinnovate visuali di compositori...
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...
Notizie
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....
