Dublin's improvised music organization and annual festival presenter i-and-e has released some really great high definition videos from their last edition. Multiple camera angles, clear picture, and great sound from the likes of Jean-Luc Guionnet, Seijiro Murayama, Keith Rowe, Paul Vogel, Patrick Farmer, Daniel Jones, and others. Check them out here.
The Listen Series of the lovely The Watchful Ear blog has a new release for free download. Last heard in piercing, glitchy mode on their fantastic In Six Parts cd, Tim Feeney and Vic Rawlings are in a more earthy mode here, with distant-sounding loops and percussive clatter slowing looming and unfolding over the two 65 minute tracks comprising "Day" and "Night."
Download here.
Although I haven't listened to this yet, a duo of Tim Olive and Alfredo Costa Monteiro sounds great on (virtual) paper. Each has developed his own idiosyncratic and unique take on prepared guitar, frequently ending up in noisy, gritty territory. The lovely Zeromoon label has made a free download release of the duo available here.
Here's what Costa Monteiro's website says:
The duo produces a rough, feral music with moments of surprising calm and beauty, using basic technology to blast into outer realms, dark atmospheres of varying density and great textural variety. Sharp cuts and gradual transformations carry the listener from seemingly chaotic noise to ordered spaces, pierced by shafts of light.
Saxophonist John Butcher, a formidable and frequently brilliant improviser (I particularly recommend his recent duo CD with Rhodri Davies, Carliol) has a great essay on the Point of Departure website, titled "Freedom and Sound - This time it’s personal," republished in its original English from a translation in a German book. Butcher does as good a job as I've ever seen attempting to reconcile some of the supposed "contradictions" inherent in playing improvised music within certain internal and external aesthetic constraints, as well as to address the tension inherent in "improvising" within working groups or in other familiar situations. Throughout, he's engaging, insightful, and highly articulate, even bringing in recent psychological research.
Read the essay here.
Via the Rambler blog, interviews with Jürg Frey and Manfred Werder, two key composers from the Wandelweiser collective. The first video seems to be busted at the link, so I'll embed it below.
The always-interesting MACBA (Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona) has inaugurated a new series on collecting with an interview with Whitehouse's William Bennett. Check it here (PDF).
In another recent interview, he talked about his own work.
Interesting experimental music tidbits from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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