Roman Haubenstock-Ramati: Konstellationen
To speak of Roman Haubenstock-Ramati is to enter into a large semiotic and emotional debate: many theorists, critics and musicologists have downplayed the innovative power of the Polish-born composer, considering that its main feature,...
Friedrich Cerha: Nacht/Drei Orchesterstucke
The two orchestral compositions included in this long-awaited new CD of work by the composer Friedrich Cerha have a deep tie with the astrolabe and the oriental mystic. To give more detail, both Nacht...
Marino Formenti: Liszt inspections
Liszt distilled musical rhetoric at the end of his career, attenuated harmonic connections, reduced sonorities, gambled with abrupt juxtaposition and silence, cultivated simplicity, and highlighted the fragmentary. Late Liszt has forced us to rethink...
Grace Note: Fuentes, Haring, Brus
Combining music with the other arts has been attempted frequently, but a true and complex qualitative leap was effected only with the advent of interdisciplinary modernism; little by little, the representations that originally involved...
Bernd Richard Deutsch: Dr. Futurity
The new thing of Austrian contemporary music has discreetly raised some new elements not completely contained within the field of music; the interference initially directed towards the branches of ancient philosophy and literature (especially...
Ming Tsao: Die Geisterinsel
"Die Geisterinsel" is based on one of the last works of Shakespeare and tells the story of Prospero, exiled to a Mediterranean island, which uses all his powers to make fall in love his...
Helmut Lachenmann: Schreiben/Double (Grido II)
Lately someone have complained of Helmut Lachenmann's inactivity, interpreting it as an exhaustion of ideas, a lack of will in dealing with the failure of the current contemporary music; the situation is also complicated...
Beat Furrer: Wüstenbuch, ira-arca, Lied, Aer
Riguardo al teatro di Beat Furrer vanno compiute almeno due considerazioni preliminari: la prima riguarda la concettualità della musica e l'altra l'afflato letterario.
Furrer è già da tempo che si impegna in una sorta di...
Agata Zubel: Not I
Quando ormai si erano perse le speranze, la Polonia ha saputo rimettere assieme una nuova interessante generazione di compositori dopo che la famose triade contemporanea Lutoslawski-Penderecki-Gorecki lentamente ha svanito i suoi effetti. Pur trattandosi...
Dai Fujikura: Ice
L'allargamento degli orizzonti in favore delle tematiche degli armonici e delle risonanze è circostanza che trova sempre più conforto nelle nuove generazioni di compositori. Penalizzando forse il livello strumentale di insieme e accorciando le...
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Experimental sound art with poetic, political references: Fear of the Object
Fear of the Object is an experimental audio-visual project of Norwegian video artist and video synth player Kjell Bjørgeengen, known for his work John...
