Making the Contrabass Contemporary: Bertram Turetzky and the Reinvention of the Double Bass
Fino ad un paio di decenni fa il contrabbasso è stato ampiamente trascurato come strumento solista dalla voce complessa. Relegato soprattutto alle sue funzioni tradizionali di supporto all'interno degli ensembles, il contrabbasso ha dovuto...
Ibridi dei tempi: Alexandra Grimal e Lynn Cassiers
Uno svecchiamento necessario dell'improvvisazione libera può arrivare certamente da una sua caratterizzazione. Quanto viene rimproverato agli improvvisatori da un pubblico non preparato a decifrare immediatamente gli aspetti estetici del peregrinaggio libero delle loro capacità,...
Else Marie Pade
Even before she began composing musique concrète and electronic music in the early 1950s, Else Marie Pade lived what can only be called an eventful life.
Born in Ain Aarhus, Denmark in 1924, Pade as...
“To Play Is Both a Sign and a Symptom of Existence”: David Toop’s Into...
The usual caveats warning against generalizations aside, it’s safe to say that in the arts as in other fields of life, the second half of the twentieth century was an era of improvisation. Encouraged...
Multiple perspectives of improvisation
Some thoughts on these new selected works:
-George Lewis, Recombinant Trilogy, New Focus Recordings
-Fred Frith & Ikue Mori, A Mountain Doesn't Know It's Tall, Intakt R.
-Jeremiah Cymerman & Charlie Looker, A Horizon Made of Canvas,...
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...