The Nabatov String Trio & Z-Country Paradise

Within various streams of contemporary music the notion of genre seems to be something that exists in a state of suspension between persistence and nothingness--as an inheritance to be confounded or a perverse ideal...

Électronique…? Pensate l’impensabile! Giuseppe Giuliano «visto da»… Pierre Yves Artaud e Yuri Kasparov

Ammetto di avere un debole per la musica di Giuseppe Giuliano. Su queste pagine, tramite recensioni e note critiche, ho già rivelato l’afflato moderno e l’intrigante raccordo della sua musica con le libertà e...

From the Machine to the instruments: Branciforte & Kirschner

Solo qualche mese fa mi esprimevo a proposito degli algoritmi, immaginandoli come dei "fantasmi" evoluti in grado di risolvere problemi complessi, uno strumento per modificare decisioni e pregiudizi della composizione. Questi modelli rinchiusi nei...

Mimmo, Mevel, Waziniak: Constellative Trio

The Constellative Trio is the improvising trio of French musicians Gaël Mevel and Thierry Waziniak, along with the Italian soprano saxophonist Gianni Mimmo. Although this self-titled album is their debut release as the Constellative...

Vinko Globokar: Les soliloques décortiqués

Back in the mid-1960s, French-Slovenian composer and trombonist Vinko Globokar was one of a very few instrumentalists with the skills, imagination and commitment needed to realize the technically groundbreaking works then being composed for...

Marco Colonna and Giulia Cianca: Undici pianeti

The contemporary world often seems to be nothing short of a permanent atopia – a place in which one is perpetually out of place, a locus of transience in which one is forever a...

Tanja Feichtmair / Fredi Proll / Uli Winter: Trio Now!

"Trio Now!" is based on a strong charge of enthusiasm, with the conscious (but not identical) pride of the "now" of Max Roach's times (We insist!); we are on the border between free, abstract...

Timothy McCormack’s Geological Soundscapes

Pull up an image of a karst and you’re likely to see a distressed, often vertiginous landscape of water-carved rock faces pitted with crevices and caves. Under the surface may be running water, but...

The 2015 Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music, 18-20 September 2015

The 2015 Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music, the DC area’s fourteenth annual weekend-long program of experimental music and multimedia works, was held at the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Silver Spring, MD, the...

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Musica in Prossimità 2024

Ritorna dal 29 novembre il festival di Musica in Prossimità a Pinerolo. Come sempre, dietro la rassegna c'è l'associazione Metamorfosi Notturne con la mano...