AMN Reviews: Eduardo Raon – On the Drive for Impulsive Actions [shhpuma 007]
With its timbral versatility and expansive range of tones, the harp is an instrument well-suited to avant-garde and experimental music. Like any other string instrument—but perhaps even more so—it can...
View ArticleAMN Reviews: Simao Costa –π_ANO PRE•CAU•TION PER•CU•SSION ON SHORT CIRCUIT...
Portuguese pianist/composer Simao Costa’s new CD explores the multiplicity of sounds available to a piano that has been prepared, electronically altered or supplemented, and even played in its native...
View ArticleAMN Reviews: Sandro Sciarratta – Pietra [kmp productions cd02]
Sandro Sciarratta’s (mostly) solo CD Pietra reflects the diverse interests that have been part of the Sicilian double bassist’s work since the 1980s. Moving from jazz in the 1970s to improvisation and...
View ArticleAMN Reviews: IKB Ensemble – Anthropométrie sans titre [cs263]
The IKB Ensemble is named for International Klein Blue, a kind of synthetic ultramarine blue patented in 1961 by French painter Yves Klein, which he used in nearly 200 monochromatic paintings. Klein...
View ArticleAMN Reviews: Triple Point – Phase/Transitions [pogus 21078-2]
Electroacoustic improvisation has the potential to be a music of timbral complexity, of rapid shifts of sound colors within a multi-layered environment. Throughout this bountiful 3-CD set Triple Point...
View ArticleAMN Reviews: Ron Nagorcka – Atom Bomb Becomes Folk Art [pogus P21076-2]
“The very essence of electronic music is distortion!” This declaration, one of the spoken passages of Ron Nagorcka’s Atom Bomb for toy instruments, cassette tape records and miscellaneous devices,...
View ArticleAMN Reviews: Longstone – Risaikaru [linear obsessional LOr056]
The title of this new release by the UK electronic group Longstone is Japanese for “recycling.” Recycling here carries many different meanings. First is the impetus behind the recording—the recycling...
View ArticleAMN Reviews: Inside/Outside – Territory and Rooms [bandcamp]
Electronics artist Don Campau and percussionist Russell Leach have released several albums as the duo Inside/Outside. For their two most recent releases they have constructed suites featuring the two...
View ArticleAMN Reviews: If, Bwana – The Joy of Photography [2014; Bandcamp]
If, Bwana’s The Joy of Photography isn’t about literal photographic images, but it’s liable to provoke vivid mental images in the receptive listener. Originally issued as a three-cassette box set on...
View ArticleAMN Reviews: Ingar Zach / Miguel Angel Tolosa – Loner [SOFA545]
Collected over a period of ten years, the tracks making up Ingar Zach and Miguel Angel Tolosa’s debut duo release Loner combine percussion with electronics, electric guitar and field recordings. Zach,...
View ArticleAMN Reviews: Kevin Cogen – Electroacoustic Miscellaneous [bandcamp]; Todd...
The appeal of early electronic music systems consisted in their capacity to allow composers and performers access to a spectrum of sounds that literally had been unheard before. Over the ensuing...
View ArticleAMN Reviews: Chambel, Duplant, Rossique – Sonho Perdido [Audiotalaia at077]
Sound is a momentary ripple that disturbs the air and then just as quickly is gone. With Sonho Perdido, a slowly developing suite in four parts, Pedro Chambel (electronics), Bruno Duplant...
View ArticleAMN Reviews: Alberto Novello & Flavio Zanuttini – Le Retour des Oiseaux...
John Cage may have had a book titled For the Birds, but his contemporary, Olivier Messiaen, often composed from the birds. Messiaen’s adaption of birdsong to art music was the foundation of his work...
View ArticleAMN Reviews: Paco Rossique – Collages & Dispersions [Linear Obsessional LOR063]
Collages & Dispersions, a solo recording by Canary Islands pianist and sound artist Paco Rossique, is an atmospheric recording that presents the sonic portrait of an invented, artificially resonant...
View ArticleAMN Reviews: Jane Rigler – Rarefactions [Neuma 450113]
The rarefaction of the title of this collection—a lessening of density or pressure in a medium, as when a sound wave passes through air—is meant as an overall metaphor for the music it contains. All of...
View ArticleAMN Reviews: Yair Elazar Glotman –Études [Subtext SUB013]
In recent years, the uniquely resonant properties of the double bass have attracted both composers and improviser/performers interested in exploring the implications of its distinctive sonic profile....
View ArticleAMN Reviews: Uliben Duo – Shared Memory [Creative Sources CS327]
Memory has fascinated humans for as long as there have been humans. With their CD Shared Memory the Uliben Duo take this fascination and from it make a metaphor in sound for memory and its sometimes...
View ArticleAMN Reviews: Francesco Sani – Of Cosmic Bodies and Infinite [xylem records]
Francesco Sani, a musician living and working in Aberdeen, Scotland, brings a multifaceted, cosmopolitan perspective to experimental music. A violinist with a background in the standard repertoire of...
View ArticleAMN Reviews: Meerenai Shim – Pheromone [Aerocade Music]
Pheromone, the third solo recording by San Francisco-area new music flutist Meerenai Shim, is a fine collection of new electroacoustic works, all but one of which were commissioned for this recording....
View ArticleAMN Reviews: Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø – Melting into Foreground [Sofa SOFA550]
Some instruments or classes of instruments are particularly known for their capacity to create acoustic musique concrète. Think of the low strings—especially the double bass—and their rich overtone...
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