A balance between intuition and reflection. Interview with Abul Mogard and Grand River

For the last decade, Berlin-based Dutch-Italian composer and musician Aimée Portioli, aka Grand River, has been circling the perimeter of electronic music and sound art, crafting heady electroacoustic soundscapes while simultaneously devising multichannel installations and rupturing the boundary between the gallery and the performance space. Abul Mogard is the alter ego of Italian musician Guido Zen, known for evocative albums and immersive live performances.

CFP #47: Posthumanizm / Posthumanism

W #47 numerze magazynu „Glissando” chcemy przyjrzeć się kategoriom człowiek/zwierzę i wspólnie zastanowić się, czy rzeczywiście porządkują nasze myślenie o współczesnych praktykach dźwiękowych, czy raczej przesłaniają zjawiska, które wymykają się binarnym podziałom.

My voice will always be my sword. Interview with Zola Jesus

Zola Jesus is the moniker of Nika Roza Danilova, who has been making music and performing for almost 20 years. Revered for her powerful voice, the artist is not afraid of challenges and experiments. One of them is an upcoming concert with the Tri-City chamber ensemble NeoQuartet, which specializes in performing contemporary classical music.

Narratives of recorded histories. Interview with Maral Mahmoudi

I had been trying to figure out ways of playing Iranian music at the club since I’ve always been compelled to share the sounds of Iran with my friends and show it in a wider context. Most Iranian music has a melancholy to it that makes it hard to play in a party setting so by combining it with club & reggaeton beats I was able to imbue my DJ sets with the spirituality of the music while people could still dance. I had just moved to Los Angeles from Virginia and was exposed to so much amazing music by the Mexican community in LA. From reggaeton to cumbia, I noticed that the rhythm of reggaeton complimented the Iranian music and allowed the music to step outside of its normal constraints and fell in love with the combination. I wanted to capture that feeling of sitting in my apartment with the windows open listening to Iranian classical and pop music while a car drove by blasting reggaeton. 

CFP #46: Polityczność / The Political

Słuchanie muzyki jest słuchaniem wszystkich szumów, zdaniem sobie sprawy, że ich zawłaszczanie i kontrola są odzwierciedleniem władzy, że są one przede […]

A sign is just a metaphor. Interview with Andreas Lutz

His works refer to alternative human machine interaction and the approach to create integrated and universal communication systems. He analyzes and reveals phenomenons of perception versus reality and principles of abstract aesthetics with audio-visual installations. The creation of experimental soundscapes and the relation of semiotics and sound are further aspects of his work. Meet Andreas Lutz.

Gender, Canon, and Eastern European Women Pioneers of 20th-century Electronic Music

Feminist readings of 20th-century electronic music history cannot avoid questioning the notion of canon and canon-oriented historiographical practices. Shedding light on women composers from non-Western contexts can further come in handy in searching for ways to engage with the history of gender in music beyond mainstreaming and the rhetoric of exceptionalism.

I think about the repertoire and music history as a kind of shared, common subconsciousness. Interview with Simon Steen-Andersen

I wanted to ask about your newest project – Don Giovanni’s Inferno. This is the third and perhaps the most […]

Kathryn Williams and her breathtaking “Coming Up For Air” project

Kathryn Williams is a flautist and educator based in Manchester. A core member of The House of Bedlam, she has also performed […]

Archiwa dźwiękowe: Call for audio papers

Glissando Call for Audio Papers: Archiwa dźwiękowe (red. prow. dr Marta Michalska)