Su consiglio di Werner Durand Arnold Dreyblatt incontra a Berlino i quattro Horse Lords - con temporaneo sostituto - e li coinvolge nella sua pluridecennale esplorazione di risonanze, accordature naturali e microtonalità in Extended Field, nuovo capitolo della serie FRKWYS ideata dalla newyorkese RVNG Intl per favorire la collaborazione tra compositori e musicisti di diversa età ed esperienza sul terreno della ricerca e della sperimentazione sonora: "Extended Field unites Horse Lords and Arnold Dreyblatt for the eighteenth volume of FRKWYS, an intergenerational collaboration of adventurous musicians drawn to the sonically radiant world of just intonation - an ancient tuning system in which scale intervals are derived from whole-number ratios. Dreyblatt first immersed himself in this approach in New York during the 1970s, while Horse Lords began exploring and applying its possibilities nearly four decades later. Together, they create a vibrant harmonic environment, fueled by a shared devotion to rhythm, achieving a marriage of discreet but related aesthetics for the ages."

https://www.dreyblatt.net
http://www.horselords.org

Primi a celebrare il centenario della nascita di Morton Feldman, nato a New York il 12 gennaio 1926, gli infaticabili attivisti di Other Minds - associazione di San Francisco impegnata da oltre trent'anni in ogni forma di sostegno, promozione e documentazione delle più avventurose musiche contemporanee - hanno voluto dedicargli qualche giorno fa uno speciale evento nella pregiata serie PastForward presentando Triadic Memories, celebre composizione del 1981 raramente eseguita in concerto, affidandola all'espertissima pianista Amy Williams. Così di Triadic Memories disse a suo tempo l'autore: "Without getting overly technical, the music is made of essentially just two different kinds of intervals: a minor second, a major second, which of course is also a minor seventh and a major seventh. And it is by superimposing other like intervals that the chord formations are made. I was always very interested in writing music, where you thought one way and yet it sounded another. And this piece is really no exception."

Other Minds is dedicated to the encouragement and propagation of contemporary music in all its forms through concerts, recordings, broadcasts, audio preservation, and public discussions that bring together artists and audiences of diverse traditions, generations, and cultural backgrounds. By fostering cross-cultural exchange and creative dialogue, and by encouraging exploration of areas in new music seldom touched upon by mainstream music institutions, Other Minds is committed to expanding and reshaping the definition of what constitutes 'serious music'. Founded in 1993, Other Minds in San Francisco is a leading organization for new and experimental music, devoted to championing the most original, eccentric, and underrepresented creative voices in contemporary music, with an emphasis on composers of the American Experimental Tradition. From festival concerts, film screenings, radio broadcasts, and the commissioning of new works, to producing and releasing CDs, preserving thousands of interviews and concerts and distributing them free on the Internet, Other Minds has become one of the world’s major conservators of new music’s ecology.

https://www.otherminds.org/feldman-at-100
https://feldmanedition.bandcamp.com

Realizzato dall'autorevole Partch Ensemble guidato da John Schneider esce per Bridge Records il primo documento discografico contenente per intero il ciclo di composizioni che Harry Partch (1901-1974) ideò a partire dalle proprie incredibili avventure tra vagabondi, autostoppisti e altri irregolari viaggiando nell'ovest degli Stati Uniti nella seconda metà degli anni Trenta (una decina d'anni prima, cioè, dell'ambientazione scelta da Kerouac per On The Road): The Wayward.

"Harry Partch was that rare thing of a true original. Born in California in 1901, Partch went on to create his own musical scale, construct his own highly idiosyncratic musical instruments and compose some of the strangest and most delightful music of the 20th century. This glorious disc from the Partch Ensemble brings to life one of Partch's most intriguing and affecting series of works, The Wayward, in a world premiere recording. Partch describes The Wayward as 'a collection of musical compositions based on the spoken and written words of hobos and other characters - the result of my wanderings in the Western parts of the United States from 1935 to 1941.' This recording brings together, for the first time, all five pieces that comprise the 'ollection."

https://www.harrypartch.com
https://partchensemble.org
https://bridgerecords.com/products/9611
https://www.youtube.com/@partchensemble2514