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Louis Sclavis Atlas Trio: Sources
by Ian Patterson
Multi-reedist, composer and improviser Louis Sclavis' ninth release for ECM sees this eternally restless seeker of new sounds and textures heading once more into personally unchartered territory; this is the first time Sclavis has led a trio of clarinet, guitar and piano. In guitarist Gilles Coronado and pianist Benjamin Mouassy, Sclavis has recruited open-minded musicians with ...
Matthew Bourne: Montauk, Billy Moon and the Lost Pianos
by Bruce Lindsay
"I've accepted that I'm not a traditional composer who sits and scores things out, plays them, learns them. I just have a rough sense of something and go out and do it. It often ends up being completely different," says pianist, improviser and composer Matthew Bourne. It's a characteristically honest appraisal, but it fails to do ...
A Capella Choral Works by Messiaen and His Students Stockhausen and Xenakis
The high-modernists did not typically work within an a capella choral framework. In fact the heyday of such a grouping belongs to the Middle Ages and the Rennaissance. After that there is a precipitous decline, except in religious-based music where of course liturgical traditions help encourage the continued emergence of new compositions for vocal groupings. Given ...
Karl-Heinz Stockhausen: Plus-Minus
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Karl-Heinz Stockhausen/Ives EnsemblePlus-Minushat(now)ART2010 There can be little doubt that the composer Karl-Heinz Stockhausen has had--and continues to have--an ever widening influence on contemporary music. Beginning in the 20th century and continuing on into the 21st century, Stockhausen's masterly use of tonal colour and advanced use of timbral ...
Pablo Held: Music
by Dan Bilawsky
Using the word “music" as an album title can be viewed as a bold and defining statement . . . or a simple word choice. Whether Held wanted to raise some eyebrows here or he was simply choosing an album title doesn't matter . . . but the music does! Held's original works defy easy description. ...
