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Silenzio
by AAJ Italy Staff
Silenzio di John Cage - trad. Giancarlo Carlotti Shake Edizioni - 2010 [Silence, ed. or. 1961, Wesleyan University Press]. “Silence" è la quintessenza del pensiero cageano. Contiene alcuni degli scritti più importanti e celebri di John Cage. Raccoglie ciò che fino al 1961 interessava Cage e la sua ricerca, a volte, come dice lo stesso compositore ...
Kyle Gann - Il silenzio non esiste
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il silenzio non esiste di Kyle Gann Isbn Edizion (2012) - Pagine 176 Nell'anno di celebrazioni cageane, era pensabile e giusto che venisse tradotto in Italia il bel volume di Kyle Gann su 4'33", un lavoro di un paio di anni fa, ma che già si era segnalato per la sua freschezza [Gann è compositore oltre ...
AA.VV.: Silence Happening
by AAJ Italy Staff
John Cage. Silence Happening. di AA.VV. Auditorium (2011); collana Book-Disc: cofanetto CD+Booklet 48 pp. La collana “Book Disc" delle edizioni Auditorium, a cura di Claudio Chianura e Leilha Tartari, ha proposto un volume + CD interamente dedicato a John Cage dal titolo Silence Happening contenente sedici pezzi del primo repertorio di John Cage e un libretto ...
Thomas Stronen: The Tin Drum
by Adriana Carcu
One of Norway's most prolific drummers, sampling percussionists and composers, Thomas Strønen is the co-founder of Food, along with British saxophonist Iain Ballamy. The group--which, since 2005, has whittled down from an original quartet that also featured Norwegians Arve Henriksen on trumpet and Mats Eilertsen on bass--released its most recent record, Quiet Inlet, in 2010 (its ...
Tyshawn Sorey: Composite Reality
by Daniel Lehner
Though Tyshawn Sorey's Oblique-I (Pi Recordings, 2011) is his most recent release to date, it's actually comprised of some of the percussionist/composer's earliest work. Containing music that is sonically dense, enormously challenging and (as the title suggests) consistently blurs and obscures the lines drawn between improvisation and composition, it has been hailed by critics and fans ...
The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra: Evocations
by Glenn Astarita
The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, led by pianist, trumpeter, composer and music director Mark Harvey, celebrates its sixth album for Leo Records. Recorded at various venues in the Boston, MA, area, the orchestra's empirical gait surges forward, as no two compositions are distinctly alike. Variety is always an underlying factor within the band's manifesto; from military orchestral ...
Tom Soloveitzik / Korhan Erel / Kevin Davis: Three States of Freedom
by Eyal Hareuveni
These three experimental musicians-- Israeli saxophonist Tom Soloveitzik, Turkish electronics player Korhan Erel (founding member of the Turkey's pioneering free improvisation group, Islak Köpek), and American expat cellist Kevin Davis met in Istanbul in 2009. This album was recorded a year later, in June 2010, following a short Israeli tour, conducted during troubled political times, both ...
The Beginnings of Free Form
by Sammy Stein
"Free form" is a term used to encompass a whole genre--or genres--outside mainstream jazz. Jazz has its roots in spiritual music, Dixieland, New Orleans, blues and ragtime, and after the 1940s these became fused into a catch-all assignation of genre. Jazz took on a predictability that was largely influenced not by the limitations of the players, ...
Lynda Arnold & Daniel Berkman Debut Instrumental Piano CD “Hammer Inventions”
Composers Lynda Arnold and Daniel Berkman have released their debut CD, Hammer Inventions. The 18 original instrumental compositions consist of acoustic piano orchestrations with electronic layered sampling, the latter of which were created entirely from sounds and noises generated from a wide variety of acoustic pianos, including several Yamaha pianos, which the duo endorses. The skilled ...
Bang on a Can Celebrates 25 Years with Triple Bill Concert at Lincoln Center
Bang on a Can takes over Alice Tully Hall presented by Lincoln Center’s Great Performers series in a triple-bill birthday bash on Saturday, April 28 at 7pm featuring the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Asphalt Orchestra, and MIT’s Gamelan Galak Tika. Bang on a Can is celebrating 25 years during 2012, having grown from a one-day ...
