Gli incanti di Simone Movio
Nell'analisi di Massimo Scaligero, tesa a scardinare la materialità e la misurazione dei processi chimici, si rinviene un'eccitante superamento dei sensi in cui si afferma che è doveroso andare oltre la materia e le...
From Afar: Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann
Questo è il primo cd che la Kairos R. dedica ad un compositore di origini peruviane. Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann (1973), padre peruviano e madre brasiliana di discendenza austriaca, ha dovuto molto presto trasferirsi in...
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...
Pierluigi Billone: Mani.Giacometti/2 Alberi
The history of Western art music has been, among other things, the history of the evolution of performance techniques. Particularly since the end of the Second World War the extension of the ranges and...
Patrick Ozzard-Low: In opposition
Many make a mistake of evaluation when they reflect on the innovative value of Boulez and Barraqué's sonatas on the piano: the musical literature was complicit in that approach that pervaded the world of...
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...
Liza Lim: Extinction events and dawn chorus
Rather special rules apply for the recognition of the style of a composer like Liza Lim (1966). The Australian composer with Asian origins is part of that large group of composers who implicitly adhered...
Evan Johnson: Forms of complaint
There is an area of music research that has focused its interest on the physicality of the performance. It can be obtained in many ways, increasing the difficulties of the score, applying a kind...
Miguel Farìas: Up and down
The growing awareness of being able to offer further points of reference in contemporary music is one of the most appreciated resources exhibited by current Chilean composition. In a nation for a long time...
Michael Pelzel: Gravity’s Rainbow
When we talk about the complexity of music, we often fear that it may express various kind of chaos or instability without being able to benefit from the sentiment portrayed by the music itself....
Notizie
Tom Johnson rip
American composer Tom Johnson (1939-2024), whose body of work included instrumental and vocal pieces employing pared-down musical material, died in Paris on the last...
