All contemporary-composition Items

15 Questions to Johannes Maria Staud Contemporary composers often have to deal with an image of grumpy young man feeding on a diet of too much ...

15 Questions to Pedro Carneiro When "Improbable Transgressions" was released in 2007, the only reason it was not received as a sensation was Pedro Carneiro ...

CD Feature/ Keith Kramer: "Casual Dualism" Repeated rhythmical patterns & the art of arrangement: Kramer has not made things easy for himself.

CD Feature/ Prism Quartet: "William Albright: Music for Saxophones" Towards a satisfying explanation: Poking in open wounds with a broken heart.

CD Feature/ Erik Satie & Mike Svoboda: "Phonométrie" Gradually isolates certain aspects of Satie’s pieces: Chanson-style pieces and avantgardistic experiments.

CD Feature/ Ying Quartet: "Dim Sum" A musical handshake: Bridging the gap between traditional Chinese music and the Avantgarde.

Impersonal Revelations Important questions: Olivia Block's trilogy of miraculous snow mountain symphonies.

Ties Mellema: Dramatic injury prompts slew of commissions Recovering from a serious injury, Dutch Saxophone player Ties Mellema has asked befriended composers to write short pieces for him ...

CD Feature/ Vincent Bergeron: "Philosophie Fantasmagorique" A visionary new music statement: Utterly idiosyncratic music.

CD Feature/ Steve Peters: "Filtered Light (Chamber Music 4)" One possible cycle of thirty-two segments: Subcutaneously active music played by a Museum.

15 Questions to Michael Blake To Michael Blake, composing is not just the process of placing notes on a piece of paper. It is a ...

Kenneth Gaburo: An influential Thinker awaits posthumous Breakthrough Pogus are paying tribute to a man some call “an undersung hero with a profound influence on a generation of ...

Bebe Barron: First lady of electronic music dies aged 82 American electroacoustic composer Barry Schrader has reported on the death of his colleague Bebe Barron. Barron, a pioneering, widely respected ...

CD Feature/ David Watson: "Fingering an Idea" A bagpipe-disc and a guitar-disc: Complete resistance against clear-cut tonal and melodic centres.

CD Feature/ William Stalnaker: "About Lear and Others" Rhythmic elation: William Stalnaker is a happy child of the Avantgarde.