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Biennale Musica 2025 a Venezia

Read "Biennale Musica 2025 a Venezia" reviewed by Libero Farnè

by Libero Farnè

Biennale Musica 2025 Varie sedi Venezia 11--25 ottobre 2025 Si è scritto fin troppo sulla Biennale Musica 2025. Si sono contrapposti pareri pro e contro, alcuni di evidente tenore fazioso. Soprattutto, si è cercato di sottolineare il dirottamento delle scelte programmatiche rispetto alle impostazioni del passato, cosa che ha comportato una sensibile diminuzione dell'età media degli ascoltatori, rendendo più informali le modalità di fruizione. A ben vedere inoltre, in questa edizione ancor più che in ...

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Meredith Monk, Will Mason & The Fabulous Thunderbirds

Read "Meredith Monk, Will Mason & The Fabulous Thunderbirds" reviewed by Martin Longley

by Martin Longley

Meredith Monk Brooklyn Academy Of Music March 18, 2018 The multivalent Meredith Monk gave the world premiere of her Cellular Songs work at BAM over five days. Your scribe, burdened by a heavy rotation of electronic seances, live soundtrack silent movies and late night jazz jointing, opted for the Sunday matinee of this 75 minute song, movement, and visuals piece: its ultimate performance, at least for this run. Surely, by this time, Monk had ...

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Album Review

Meredith Monk: Piano Songs

Read "Piano Songs" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala

Le cose più interessanti prodotte da Meredith Monk si collocano sul piano della voce, della sua interdipendenza con il corpo, con la performance, la spazialità. Le tecniche più spericolate e gli anfratti più nascosti della fisicità, della sensualità e della spiritualità sono stati affrontati dall'artista statunitense con lo strumento vocale che passa attraverso lo spazio del corpo e della scena, che mescola tali spazi. “Non si ascolta Meredith Monk (almeno: nel senso in cui l'ascolto comporta un distacco, una certa ...

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Album Review

Meredith Monk: Impermanence

Read "Impermanence" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Si fa prima a rivelare cosa non è stata Meredith Monk nel corso della sua lunga carriera. Fuor di dubbio che dagli anni Sessanta i suoi lavori continuano ad incantare per la vivacità e l'eleganza che hanno. Le composizioni della Monk (da lei scritte e quasi sempre interpretate) nascono tutte, più o meno di proposito, dall'"intersezione" tra musica e movimento, immagini e oggetti, luci e suoni, in un continuo voler scoprire e mettere a nudo nuovi modi della percezione. La ...

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Album Review

Meredith Monk: impermanence

Read "impermanence" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman

impermanence is the ninth recording by Meredith Monk for ECM, six years removed from her previous recording, mercy (ECM, 2002). An interdisciplinary artist whose works combine vocals (with extended techniques that take it beyond singing), instrumental composition, dance and video, Monk's arrangements for CD of the original form of impermanence follow the strategy she used on mercy whereby much was significantly altered for a pure listening experience. Although the subjects of living life, aging and death have ...

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Album Review

Meredith Monk: Mercy

Read "Mercy" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman

Interdisciplinary artist Meredith Monk recorded mercy shortly before her sixtieth birthday in the year 2002, making it the eighth in a series of releases on the ECM New Series reaching back to Dolmen Music of 1981. The original production was a multi-media stage work done with installation artist Ann Hamilton, while the recording involved much reworking of individual sections and parts including the addition of clarinet parts played by Bohdan Hilash. The result is a highly unified ...

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Album Review

Meredith Monk: impermanence

Read "impermanence" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

The human voice may well be the most expressive instrument of all, capable of the subtlest of nuance and the most dramatic exclamation, but few have explored its full range as thoroughly as Meredith Monk. Over the course of eight ECM albums beginning with Dolmen Music (ECM, 1981) Monk--a composer, filmmaker, vocalist and pianist--has built a body of work that's been a significant reference point for multidisciplinary singers including America's Theo Bleckmann and Norway's Sidsel Endresen, whose One (Sofa, 2007) ...

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