FREE TIME

Andrea Belfi discusses his latest album, Eternally Frozen, a canon-based composition for percussion, electronics, and brass ensemble. Inspired by a visit to … More

Lino Capra Vaccina

Lino Capra Vaccina is one of the greats of Italian minimalism. In the early 1970s he was a founding member of … More

Down On Darkened Meetings

Low key yet lyrical melodies balance on the cusp between accessible and weird, at turns mournful and celebratory. Untitled tracks … More

Subversive Communication Nine Years After 68

[Bologna, 1977] Semiologist Umberto Eco, professor at the University of Bologna, author of The Open Work and The Absent Structure, … More

COGNITIVE DISSONANCE

This episode features Giuseppe Esposito, a Neapolitan musician who runs the tape label Archivio Diafònico, an operation that mostly documents … More

Francesco Gregoretti ~ Solid Layers, Deafening Shapes

Many of my favorite artists trained as architects, while many of my favorite composers had their origins in the rhythm … More

Enrico Coniglio ~ Songs from Ruined Days

Enrico Coniglio is a Venetian sound artist, creating pieces out of washed-out drones and ambient guitar loops while integrating them into … More

Liminaria / Interferenze 2022

I spent 23 June – 3 July 2022 in rural southern Italy as artist-in-residence as part of the Liminaria / … More

Sonic Topographies of the South

Sonic Topographies of the South: Rural Futurity as Resonance and Dissonance One of my earliest sonic memories is of the … More

Franco Battiato: all the records and all the songs

In recent years, audiences in the United States have finally been discovering the Italian artist Franco Battiato. Battiato’s reputation has … More

Americans in Rome

AMERICANS IN ROME Musica Elettronica Viva’s Trastevere Commune by Valerio Mattioli from Superonda: Storia Segrete della Musica Italiana (2016), pp … More

Dropping Out Into Music: The Audience as Orchestra

Dropping Out Into Music: The Audience as Orchestra Edith Schloss The Village Voice (August 7, 1969), Pg. 27. Rome – … More