“Philosophy is essentially a reflective activity. It always requires a surface to bounce on. In a cultural void we would not exist.” DJ Spooky in Cox, Franck, Hinant, Miller, Murphy, Paci Dalò, Quinz, Szepanski, “Millesuoni, […]
Category: Writings
Domenica 21 settembre 2014: incontro con Steve Reich nella Sala delle Colonne a Palazzo Giustinian, Venezia
Simpatico, gentile, disponibile. Steve Reich fa il suo ingresso nella Sala delle Colonne di Palazzo Giustinan a Venezia, sede amministrativa della prestigiosa Biennale di Venezia per un incontro informale con il pubblico. E’ la seconda volta che ho […]
Le chitarre di Steve Reich su #neuguitars #blog
L’arrivo alla Biennale di Musica di Venezia 2014 di Steve Reich per la consegna del Leone d’Oro alla carriera, giusto e meritato riconoscimento per la mole incredibile di lavoro svolto in oltre cinquant’anni di […]
Music by changes … does music play dice?
“As contemporary music goes on changing in the way I am changing it what will be done is to more and more completely liberate sounds… I am talking and contemporary music is changing.” John Cage […]
I giardini e la musica di Toru Takemitsu
“I love gardens. They do not reject people. There one can walk freely, pause to view the entire garden, or gaze at a single tree. Plants, rocks and sand show changes, costant changes.” David […]
Shut Up and Play your Guitar: Frank Zappa and his guitar playing on #neuguitars #blog
Frank Vincent Zappa (Baltimore, December 21 1940 – Los Angeles, 4 December 1993) was one of the most interesting american musicians, guitarist, composer from the last century. Rock’n’roll, blues, contemporary classical, jazz, doo-Woop, vaudeville, […]
Robbie Basho: a guitar flying on Raga
Robbie Basho is a cult figure in the world of lovers of acoustic guitar and fingerpicking. A discreet and quiet man, not inclined to the notoriety and the theatricality of the musical world he has […]
File under Futurism: moviment and manifesto, frequencies and judgments, avantgard and resolution, speed and dynamism on #neuguitars #blog
Terms like Futurism and Futurist have got in these days a general meaning that the common use applies equally to architecture, a furniture, to an object. A meta meaning widely used by marketing and […]
