It is one of a kind feeling when you are surrounded by the silence that is filled and trembling with music living inside it! This is exactly how it feels being around these giants. Giants in the physical and metaphysical sense. I’ve seen these before. On a paper… on a screen.. in a ‘coffee-table-book’ size……
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Preisser and LaVelle: moving the 30’s and 40’s
June Preisser warming up and “getting the kinks out” in Babes in Arms (1939). Miriam LaVelle, acrobatic tap dancer routine in Seven Days Ashore (1944)
Ten years ago today… a Star-Knower died. Only to give birth to future
It seems only appropriate to start this post with simply putting this here: And it would be easy to just also finish here. Because this music… it tells tales that words cannot do justice.But, as this specific piece, and performance, also carry a very personal meaning, and a tale, I will proceed. I didn’t know…
remembering. reliving. rebuilding. self.
Haukur þór Harðarson’s music balances between what is perceivable and non-perceivable, yet physically felt and present.If one would to listen to his “Through the Whole Fabric of Your Being” they would constantly be bounced and flipped between the layers of air. One of which freely moves, and the other one slowly crystalizyng in front of…
Pomen II – the seductive dance of the world of living and the world of dead
Last week tonight was THE night – had the outmost chance of listening live performance of Milica Djordjevic’s “Pomen II” for solo viola, played by Paul Beckett (ensemble recherche) at Ultraschall Berlin.And boy oh boy what a performance it was! Milica Djordjevic leads us into the intriguing coquetry of life and death. Celebration and grief.…
Listening to Galaxies faraway, here and now.
I don’t think that there will ever be words accurate and nuanced enough to express the love and admiration I have and feel for Iannotta’s music, and all the “imaginatoriums” that it takes my mind to. Her sound world is so extraordinary, and extraordinarily detailed and different for each work that sort of each one…
Other Times, Other Places.
An invisible particle of light,on a sound pendulum,swinging back and forth,enveloped in the sound of other time-space. Until the gravity brings it to its equilibrium. In front of our eyes.But it is the ears that are seeing it. ▪︎ Live performance of Christopher Fox’s “Other Times, Other Places” by Angharad Davies (violin) & Tom Jackson…
Migration into eternity
As the Darmstädter ferienkurse für neue musik 2018 continues to unwrap its treats, quite a special ear-candy was on the menu on this fourth to last day! Among the pieces on the program on this Wednesday 25th, Centro de Experimentación y Producción de Música Contemporánea played a piece “Migracion” by Marisol Jimenez. And her sensibility and…
Atlas of the Sky. Atlas of us.
“Atlas of the Sky”… One of those magical pieces one simply must try to catch and experience live! Liza Lim‘s sound is always special. It is different. It is one of those things that seems you have never heard before, even if you might have. But you haven’t really. As if it has never been…
Immersed in Orchestra… on a Wire
The Darmstädter ferienkurse für neue musik had its very first performance of the festival. Well… No. Not a performance. Not an installation. A sound immersion! Because Christina Kubisch’s ‘Orchestra on a Wire’ was just that (for me at least). An offer of experiencing an orchestra, a performance, in a way you haven’t before, proximity to…