Martina Bertoni – Electroacoustic Works for Halldorophone
Italian, Berlin-based experimental cellist-composer-educator Martina Bertoni explores the curious instrument Halldorophone, originally designed by Halldór Úlfarsson in 2008, as an algorithmic system to examine tunings and the mathematical relationships between harmonic frequencies, in her...
Judith Schwarz & Manu Mayr – PRCDR
PRCDR, the album, and the Viennese experimental duo of drummer-composer Judith Schwarz and bassist-composer-producer Many Mayr bring together two busy musicians with diverse and versatile musical interests.
Schwarz plays in the electric dance trio Other:M:other,...
The Hemphill Stringtet – Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill
Next week will be the 30th yahrzeit of one of the greatest jazz musicians of the 20th century, sax player-composer Julius Hemphill (1938-1995), co-founder of the multidisciplinary arts collective Black Artists’ Group, founder of...
Il Caino e Abele di Grifa
Posto che ancora oggi c'è una diatriba tra coloro che vedono la musica come un'arte astratta e quelli che invece la pensano come linguaggio, va da sé che l'organizzazione sistematica del musicista debba far...
Lea Bertucci + Olivia Block – I Know the Number of the Sand and...
Lea Bertucci is a New York-based experimental musician whose works revolve around electronic and spatial extensions of woodwind instruments and vocal artistry, as well as bridges performance, installation, and multichannel activations of site-responsiveness and...
Germano Scurti: Fly. Electronic Music for Accordion
Germano Scurti è attualmente considerato uno dei massimi esponenti in ambito internazionale del repertorio contemporaneo interpretato con il bayan, strumento di origini russe brevettato nel 1907, variante più evoluta tra i diversi modelli di...
Carlo Mascolo & Thollem McDonas – Quattro frecce e buonanotte
American, globe-trotting, pianist-synth player-vocalist Thollem McDonas calls his improvisations that often turn into instant compositions “post-classical circus punk world jazz free music, for people and everyone else”. His irreverent, exploratory approach fits perfectly with...
Marina Džukljev con Michael Thieke e con Ilia Belorukov
Marina Džukljev con Michael Thieke (Motionless Pool; scatterArchive) e Ilia Belorukov (Everything Changes, Nothing Disappears; Acheulian Handaxe)
Non capita tutti i mesi di avere l’occasione di recensire due pubblicazioni per due distinte etichette che comprendono...
Philippe Petit – Emperor Tomato Ketchup
The Japanese experimental short film Emperor Tomato Ketchup (トマトケチャップ皇帝, Tomato Kechappu Kōtei, 1971. When it was first released it was in a 27-minute version but the director’s cut that was 75-minute and its wa...
Julius Eastman: Femenine
Nell'interessante libro Composing While Black di Harald Kisiedu and George E. Lewis, emerge solo in tempi recenti il deciso cambiamento che il mondo contemporaneo ha abbracciato nei confronti della composizione di colore. Nonostante sia...
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Peter Ablinger RIP
E' incommensurabile il contributo che Peter Ablinger (1959-2025) ha dato alla musica. Tutto ha un enorme valore nella sua vita e nel suo percorso...
