Newsbits: Abrams / Falzone / Dal Niente / Rother

March 7, 2012 — Mike

English: Muhal Richard Abrams, moers festival 2009

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James Falzone and group will play Quartet For The End Of Time Mar. 30th + Apr. 1st in Chicago.

On April 28, at Montgomery County Community College, Philadelphia saxophonist/bandleader Bobby Zankel’s big band the Warriors of the Wonderful Sound will premiere a new piece written expressly for the ensemble by legendary pianist/composer Muhal Richard Abrams, who will conduct the ensemble. Ars Nova Workshop has the second of a series of articles about the event.

Ottawa’s Stretch Orchestra is profiled.

Recent Chicago performances of MusicNOW and Dal Niente are reviewed.

Michael Rother of Kraftwerk and Neu! is interviewed.

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ISSUE Project Room interviews C. Spencer Yeh

March 7, 2012 — Mike

From the ISSUE Project Room:

C. Spencer Yeh: I’ve worked some ‘structured improvisations’ into my project Burning Star Core when it involved other band members, but without any micro-level direction of their sounds. I knew the players pretty well, and knew what they could do, so the structured improvisations were definitely shaped with that in mind. I suppose that selecting players is a composition unto itself.

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Kaija Saariaho’s ‘Voix, Espace’ at Zankel Hall Reviewed

March 7, 2012 — Mike

From NYTimes.com:

In an onstage interview at her Making Music concert at Zankel Hall on Monday evening, the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho explained her approach to “From the Grammar of Dreams,” a 2007 setting of Sylvia Plath texts, by making a fascinating distinction between wakefulness and dreaming. When you are awake, she told Jeremy Geffen, the moderator, you speak in sentences that move sequentially through time. But when you dream, your speech can be four-dimensional.

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Alvin Curran Interview

March 7, 2012 — Mike

English: The American composer Alvin Curran pl...

From the Harvard Crimson:

Curran co-founded the avant-garde group Musica Elettronica Viva in Rome in 1966. He has created over 150 compositions and sound installations, and his pieces incorporate everything from synthesizers and taped natural sounds to rock and classical instrumentation. He was born in Providence, R.I., and attended Brown University, then studied under composer Elliott C. Carter, Jr. ’30 at the Yale School of Music. Curran now teaches privately in Rome and continues to conceive new pieces.

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Touching Extremes Reviews

March 7, 2012 — Mike

From Touching Extremes:

THE REMOTE VIEWERS – Nerve Cure
I TRENI INERTI – Luz Azul
PETER WRIGHT – Ghost Haven
ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE – Emilio
TERRY RILEY – Aleph
CHRISTINA VANTZOU – No.1
PHILIP CORNER – Pieces From The Past: By Philip Corner For The Violin Of Malcolm Goldstein

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Free Jazz Blog Reviews

March 7, 2012 — Mike

From Free Jazz:

Gunter ‘Baby’ Sommer, The New Trio – Melting Game (Jazzwerkstatt, 2011) ****
Nakatani, Tiner, Drake – Ritual Inscription (Epigraph, 2012) ****½
BABs – Diving Bells (Loop Records 2012) ****
Baloni – Fremdenzimmer (Clean Feed, 2011) ****½

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