Clemens Gadenstätter: Semantical investigations

One of the most difficult things for philosophers, critics and music scholars is to create a unique theory on mature listening: the quantity and variability of the elements involved are remarkable and all those...

Nuove estetiche a Reykjavik: Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson

Quando facciamo riferimento al termine "liminale" spesso vogliamo indicare una situazione al confine, tra la realtà e la finzione, sperimentata sotto l'effetto indotto di un evento: liminale può essere quella fase che si vive...

Pierluigi Billone: Sgorgo Y . N . oO

A good analysis of the new cycle of Pierluigi Billone's compositions for electric guitar and effects, can be well comprehended by the words of guitarist Yaron Deutsch. In the inner booklet of the CD,...

Sonic balancing act: Camille Émaille

I don’t go to conservatories very often but there is a teaching that should be the basis of any training activity for musicians: after having found and activated their sound sources, musicians must feel...

Facebook Cantos e le pluralità musicali di Peter Alexander Thoegersen

Nelle abitudini imprescindibili del ventunesimo secolo c'è quella di frequentare ed incontrarsi virtualmente sui social networks. Molti sociologi e uomini di cultura hanno evidenziato le parecchie distorsioni di queste frequentazioni, dove circolano notizie false,...

Notes on Field Recording

(My recent work on Doubting All Things Aligned, a collaboration with Chris Lynn that combines field recordings with composed and improvised music, stimulated these thoughts on field recordings—the part of the collaboration I was...

Sonic Circuits 2014: A Festival of Experimental Music

Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center, Silver Spring, Maryland USA 3-5 October 2014 http://dc-soniccircuits.org by Daniel Barbiero For fifteen years or so, the Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music has brought challenging sound and multimedia performances to the Washington DC...

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...

Seth Parker Woods: Music as Choreography

Playing an instrument is, among other things, an action. At a fundamental level, a performance involves a sequence of purposive gestures—a set of intentions embodied in certain movements of the body directed toward the...

Ensemble 5: The summary of 4

Without being considered a mad visionary, I could show you how the music of Ensemble 5 has a subliminal discursive character: you have to think of the musical instruments as creative objects observed as...

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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....

Stio Festival 2025