Results for "Minimalist"

Kristina Socanski

Born: November 21, 1990

Kristina Socanski is a Serbian-Norwegian pianist and a diverse musician who explores both classical and modern repertoire. She performs regularly as a soloist, chamber musician and a collaborative pianist, in Norway and abroad. Kristina holds official degrees in piano performance from The Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. In 2019 she graduated from the “soloist class”, the advanced postgraduate program at RDAM in Copenhagen, specializing in chamber music and accompaniment. The most valuable musical impulses, she obtained through studies with professors Håkon Austbø, Einar Smebye and Niklas Sivelöv

From Medieval to Live Evil: We're All Minimalists Now

by Kurt Ellenberger
March 19, 2020

A Brief History of the Minimalist Aesthetic Minimalism is defined by Merriam-Webster as “a style or technique (as in music, literature, or design) that is characterized by extreme spareness and simplicity."  Musically speaking, this translates to a few characteristics common to most pieces: Slow-moving or static harmony;Small number of repetitive and simple rhythmic figures; ...

Bex Burch

Born: May, 1984

Composer, percussionist, producer and instrument maker Bex Burch has employed handmade xylophones and percussive instruments to carve out a unique sonic space. Her restless creativity and desire to embrace new challenges has seen her music straddle minimalism, avant-garde, post-punk, and improvisation with equal success.

Burch’s critically acclaimed 2023 solo album, 'There is only love and fear' was released via Chicago’s International Anthem and named The Guardian's Contemporary Album of the Month. She has previously released music as part of Boing! with Leafcutter John, and Flock with Sarathy Korwar and The Comet Is Coming’s Danalogue. She runs the band and label Vula Viel and has collaborated with influential artists like Peter Zummo, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Ben LaMar Gay, and Dan Bitney.

Minimalist

By Yakiv Tsvietinskyi

Label: Seventh Lane Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Lake Forest Boulevard; Prelude 1; Embankment; Open Form; Prelude 2.

Vula Viel

Born: January 28

"One of my discoveries for the 2015 London Jazz Festival.. Good is Good"Gilles Peterson

"Beautiful""Dance to it, Make Love to it, Consume it, Listen to it, Stare at the Clouds to it.." Iggy Pop

"They were the unexpected stars of a glitzy show " John Fordham

"One of the most exciting young UK groups I've heard this year, Vula Viel" Jez Nelson

Bex Burch is percussionist and composer, specialising in the Dagaare xylophone or Gyil. Following a series of chance encounters and a keen interest in groove based music / minimalism Burch was invited to be the apprentice to master Ghanaian xylophonist Thomas Segkura and lived in Dagaare Ghana making and playing Gyilli for 3 years. On passing out of the apprenticeship, she was given the name ‘Vula Viel’, meaning Good is Good and shared the name with her own group on returning to the UK where she continues to forge her own unique sound.