Mariachi is the amazing solo guitar project of Nina Garcia. Feedback, crackling, short circuits, impacts, harmonics, grindings noises, overflowings, notes and an almost perfect chord: an inventive new approach of noise improvisation with a guitar, a pedal and an amplifier. Her first LP was released in October 2018 on No Lagos Musique.
Mariachi live at Sonic Protest in Paris - 7 july 2021
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Frederic Rzewski (born April 13, 1938 in Westfield, Massachusetts and unfortunately died in june 2021) is an American composer and virtuoso pianist. He began playing piano at age 5. He attended Phillips Academy, Harvard and Princeton, where his teachers included Randall Thompson, Roger Sessions, Walter Piston and Milton Babbitt. In 1960, he went to Italy, a trip which was formative in his future musical development. In addition to studying with Luigi Dallapiccola, he began a career as a performer of new piano music, often with an improvisatory element. A few years later he was a co-founder of Musica Elettronica Viva with Alvin Curran and Richard Teitelbaum. Musica Elettronica Viva conceived music as a collective, collaborative process, with improvisation and live electronic instruments prominently featured. In 1971 he returned to New York. In 1977 Rzewski became Professor of Composition at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique in Liège, Belgium. Occasionally he teaches for short periods at schools and universities throughout the U.S. and Europe.
Frederic Rzewski, pianiste et compositeur, est né en 1938 à Westfield, dans le Massachussetts. Il entreprend des études musicales avec Charles Mackey, étudie à Harvard et à Princeton sous la conduite notamment de Walter Piston, Randall Thompson, Roger Sessions et Milton Babbit. En 1960 il séjourne à Florence, tout en entamant une carrière de pianiste spécialisé dans les musiques nouvelles. Il prendra part aux premières performances de K. Stockhausen. À Rome, il fonde en 1966, avec Alvin Curran et Richard Teitelbaum, Musica Elettronica Viva, un collectif avant-gardiste qui mêle improvisation et musique électronique, qui rassemble des musiciens classiques et avant-gardistes.
L'œuvre de Rzewski est marquée depuis le début par un engagement politique inconditionnel. Marxiste et antimilitariste déclaré, le compositeur prend la défense de tous ceux qui subissent aliénation et injustice. Ainsi son œuvre la plus connue, puissamment exécutée par ses soins, ”The People United Will Never Be Defeated !” est constituée, sur le modèle des "Variations Diabelli" de Beethoven, de 36 variations sur la chanson révolutionnaire latino-américaine, "El pueblo unido jamás será vencido". La plupart des œuvres des années 1980 explorent des nouvelles voies dans l'utilisation de la technique dodécaphonique. Ses œuvres les plus récentes font appel à une écriture plus libre et spontanée. "The Triumph of Death" (1987-1988), la plus monumentale à ce jour, est un oratorio de deux heures sur des textes adaptés de la pièce de Peter Weiss, Die Ermittlung ; dans les années 1990, il a composé "The Road", une formidable pièce de cinq heures pour piano seul. source
”Je ne pense pas avoir jamais développé ce que l’on pourrait appeler ”un style”. Chaque musique que je crée semble très différente se ce qui l’a précédée. On ne peut plus se reposer sur une tradition historique” - Rzewski in the 70s dans la revue Vertigo N°36 Amérique - 2009
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a biography (in french langage) on larsenmag
"The People United Will Never Be Defeated", a serie of 36 variations on the iconic song "El pueblo unido jamás será vencido" written by Sergio Ortega et Quilapayún.
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Frederic Rzewski plays Frederic Rzewski on the 8th "Calefax PAN Festival" , December 30, 2011 in Amsterdam: 3 pieces for Piano solo: 1. Salouette - for Salomé Lou Ginsburgh / 2. The Revelator - for Blind Willie Johnson / 3. That's That! - for Mikhail Bulgakov
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2 nouvelles pièces video de notre ami Bob Kohn
"Lux variations" - musique de François Narboni
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pour lequel j'ai eu le plaisir de composer musique et sound design.
Tous les nombreux autres travaux de Bob Kohn
sont visibles sur son site "Bob fictions"
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Quelques nouveautés, en vrac, à découvrir et écouter.
A few news to explore.
The world premiere performance of "Trio for violin, piano and percussion" composed by Charles Shere performed by the Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio. Commissioned by Other Minds for the OM Festival 3 in 1996, the recording was thought to be lost until very recently.
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"The new me" de Quentin Rollet (alto and sopranino saxophones) avec Andrew Sharpley (computer) sur Reqords
et aussi "Shampanskoye" avec Alexei Borisov, Jérôme Lorichon, Olga Nosova, Quentin Rollet
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"Middle ground" is a Robert Honstein's longform explorations mining the endless possibilities of the violin, performed by violinist Kate Stenberg, focusing on each instrument’s capabilities to find complexity. Each movement highlights a different aspect of the violin’s wide range.
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Phil Minton is one of the great virtuoso experimental voice among others like David Moss, Demetrio Stratos, Jaap Blonk, Charmaine Lee, Catherine Jauniaux, Shelley Hirsch, Diamanda Galàs, Joan La Barbara, Carla Kihlstedt ... ...
He played trumpet and sang with the Mike Westbrook Band in the early 1960s, then in dance and rock bands in Europe for the later part of the decade.
Phil is best known for his completely free-form work, which involves "extended techniques" that can be as unsettling as they can be mesmerising. His vocals often include the sounds of retching, burping, screaming, and gasping, as well as childlike muttering, whining, crying and humming; he also has an ability to distort his vocal cords to produce two notes at once.
Phil Minton at Cafe Oto, February 2012
Drawing by Geoffrey Winston.
Copyright 2012. All Rights Reserved
"Phil Minton has been exploring the liminality of the human voice for the
best part of four decades, with a series of solo records (the
“doughnut” albums) beginning in 1982... Utilizing a
number of unorthodox techniques — utterances, gasps, belches, whistles,
etc. — Minton has forged an alternative lexicon, one that seemingly
forgoes the constraints of tradition and language. The result is a
perverse, evocative set, the kind of performance that forces a reaction
and demands attention be paid to it — music that has the power to cause
unrest and revulsion in the listener." Soe Jherwood for Tiny Mix Tapes
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official Minton's website and discography
a solo performance:"eaaa variations" at Kunstraum Düsseldorf, February 27, 2014
& don't miss the famous quartet 4 Walls (Minton with Luc Ex, Veryan Weston & Michael Vatcher)
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"Laboratoire soluble" est une exposition réalisée par l'artiste Delphine Mogarra dans le cadre d'une résidence en août 2020 avec un groupe d'adolescents entre 11 et 15 ans à la MPT de Saint-Mauront (Marseille).
Elle est présentée jusqu'au 26 juin 2021 à la Galerie art-cade* à Marseille.
"Laboratoire soluble" is an exhibition produced by the artist Delphine Mogarra as part of a residency in August 2020 with a group of teenagers. The exhibition is showed until June 26, 2021 at the Galerie art-cade* in Marseille.
all circles on "beyond the coda"
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