Source: Mikroton.

Ken Ganfield x Kurt Liedwart x Petr Vrba
Something Wrong There

The science fiction yearning for utopia sometimes falls into dystopian space. Kurt Liedwart with Ken Ganfield and Petr Vrba tried to follow the impulse of getting to the ideal world but their most powerful and fearful predictions and prophesies came to the fore and “Something Wrong There” happened all the time. Liedwart recently became dissatisfied with the improvisation’s disability to create sonically fresh sound worlds and completely remixed the studio recordings. Did it prevent him from making something wrong here? Try to guess. What you hear is a combination of elements of trogged-out electronic psychedelia with a deadly serious mid-European minimalism and dreamy modal ambient improvisations that owe more to the outer limits of cutting-edge electronic music and burnt-out free music from Germany. Pulpy quasi-cinematic tension, blasts of voidal motorik, raptures of psychedelic intensity, these dangerously seductive imagery exists in the space between the serious and the banal, science and mysticism, experiment and pop, knowledge and intuition, mastership and failure.

Wabi Experience
Wabi Experience

It all began in 2002, or it might have been also in 2001, I don’t remember anymore. For whatever reason, I had an idea to remix songs of Czech country hero Wabi Daněk, who’s music I remembered from my childhood, from singing around the fireplace. I thought this will be some sort of funny game for me, with which I will spend few weeks the most. I worked with sampler Roland JS-30, borrowed from a friend. It had no external memory, so I had to always keep it on. The result was not so special, but I got hooked on the material. I continued exploring its possibilities, which I just began to see. At some point I deliberately erased everything I had, so I would start again from zero. I started working with computer and various softwares and I totally changed the course of where the whole thing was heading previously. I stopped talking about remixing and started to think about deconstruction. I did some stuff, which I finally liked, but then my computer crashed and I lost everything again. I started again, with new computer, new software, new direction. I still wanted to finish this project, it became a kind of obsession. I felt this needed to be finished, one way or another.

Source: Dark Companion.

KEITH & JULIE TIPPETT / LINO CAPRA VACCINA / PAOLO TOFANI – A Mid Autumn Night’s Dream
A Mid Autumn Night’s Dream faithfully report a one-shot concert that took place at Conservatorio Nicolini in Piacenza on October 1st, 2016. The four giants of new music never played together before: Keith Tippett, Julie Tippetts, Lino Capra Vaccina, and Paolo Tofani.

VINCENZO RAMAGLIA – Atomic City
Vincenzo Ramaglia is a Roman composer active in contemporary music experimentation and in what he calls PEM (“popular experimental music”). After the academic training — at the end of which he won the TIM (Tournoi International de Musique) with an orchestral work — his music research insinuates itself into the alchemy between score and improvisation, between electronics, acoustic instruments (often investigated in their extended techniques) and voice.

MARKUS STOCKHAUSEN / ALIREZA MORTAZAVI – Hamdelaneh Intimate Dialogues
Dark Companion label head Max Marchini on Hamdelaneh Intimate Dialogues (January 2019): “Another true masterpiece from Dark Companion Records. I met Markus Stockhausen after inviting him and his wife to ‘Musiche Nuove In Piacenza’ festival in autumn 2018.”