For Thursday’s concert at Roulette, Camilla Hoitenga and Taavi Kerikmäe will present two new works by Estonian composers Tatjana Kozlova & Helena Tulve, & classic works by Niccolò Castiglioni & Herbert Brun, and Australian-based composer and improviser Erik Griswold presents the New York premiere of his prepared piano tour-de-force “Wallpaper Music.” Here are a couple photos of Taavi […]
by Kurt Gottschalk The Interpretations series brought an inspired first time pairing to Roulette (Oct. 11th) in the form of trumpeter Peter Evans and visiting German bassist John Eckhardt, each playing short solo sets before an exploratory duet. Eckhardt opened with a surprisingly rich arco growl and slowly crawled up the neck, deftly moving between […]
by Mike Chamberlain What do the sequencing of “Revolution #9” and “Good Night” on the Beatles’ White Album and the contrasting passages in the second movement of Charles Ives’ 4th Symphony have in common? They both inspired guitarist and composer Tim Brady to liberate himself from notions of genre. “The juxtaposition is so incredibly powerful,” […]
Bonnie Wright of Henceforth Records shares some photos and thoughts on April’s 4-day run of Robert Ashley’s latest opera, THE OLD MAN LIVES IN CONCRETE! Click Here to see her full blog post!
by Seth Colter Walls “A Presentation of Work From Radical Composer Robert Ashley Shows An Oeuvre In Flux” Inimitable art has a way of inoculating itself from any critical approach that relies on analogy. Potentially evocative points of reference can seem halfway correct though also not quite right. When it comes to the radical American […]