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Italian improvisers break out of Musica Improvvisa box
by Mark Corroto
VariousMusica Improvvisadie Schachtel2010 Sometimes a box set of music becomes a fetish item. One that listeners (or collectors) form an irrational or excessive commitment to because it embodies some sort of magical or spiritual powers. Such may be the case for the 10-CD/DVD set Musica Improvvisa, a collection of improvised music from Italy.The names of the artists heard here will undoubtedly be new to most, as ...
Continue ReadingAlessandro Bosetti: Expos
by Mark Corroto
Music is a language. Sure, but there is also the music of spoken language. Both communicate. But beneath each, at perhaps the cellular (or bit rate) level, there is an entire universe of activity that goes unnoticed by people in conversation or during music listening.Composer, artist and musician Alessandro Bosetti, born in Milan, has been investigating this subterranean crossroads of speech and sound lately. His last project Her Name (Crouton Music, 2007), is an orchestration of found voices ...
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