Image by andyw23 via Flickr ResonanceFM will feature two 3-hour online radio shows featuring the music of Iancu Dumitrescu, one of the most important living composers. Born and bred under the yoke of Ceaucescu’s “communist” regime in Rumania, Dumitrescu proposes an intolerable intensity that blossoms and decays like natural sound in cosmic space. For his…
Mute magazine hosts an article on modern music by Ben Watson. Just when I thought ‘contemporary music’ should be renamed ‘missed opportunity’, I came across the music of Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram, two composers from Bucharest in Romania. Despite support from the Romanian government, they’ve made little impact on the pusillanimous music scene in…
From Brooklyn’s West Nile, coming May 16: iO Quartet performs Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram with interludes by Mario Diaz de Leon and Doron Sadja curated by Mario Diaz de Leon “The music of Iancu Dumitrescu explores the ultimate sense of sound guiding the listener through new spheres of sonic adventure, a kind of cryptic…
Image via Wikipedia Planam offers some new recordings: DENDOSHI: Dendoshi 2 LP “Dendoshi is Keith Connolly (No Neck Blues Band), Raymond Dijkstra (Asra), Dave Nuss (No Neck Blues Band) and Timo Van Luyk (Af Ursin, In Camera). Dendoshi: ‘he who comes to propagate the ceremony’ or ‘missionary’ (Japanese). There had actually been a previous incarnation…
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