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41/2021
X - Tradycja
In #41 we look at tradition. Tradition - but not peasantish, nostalgic turns, yet folklore unveiled and dissected. How it was, how it is, how it will be.
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Three Building Blocks, Two Missed Opportunities, and One Recommendation. A Review of the 62nd International Festival of Contemporary Music “Warsaw Autumn”
The words “Warsaw Autumn is a brand” accidentally fall into my ear when I pass a chatting group during a break between the concerts. […]
Dusting off old keys
Jimmy Smith’s flourishes on the Hammond organ; Herbie Hancock’s and Chick Corea’s experiments with the Rhodes piano; Jon Lord playing […]
We got the presence, but where is the essence?* – Unsound Cracow 2018 essay
The 2018 edition has attracted 30,000 attendees from all over the world and featured 129 music acts, finally making Unsound […]
“As many dreams of freedom as we can get” – on gender and inclusivity in electronic music at the Mutek festival’s “Keychange :: Amplify” symposium
I recall an interaction when I was travelling to Montreal for the first time in the summer of 2017, when a fellow […]
Towards a New, Better Festival
Festivals are one of my favorite forms of musical reception. I like listening to music performed live. I like listening to the […]
Oedipus of Tufnell Park
This opera was written out of youthful anger. And maybe even perversity as well, for Mark-Anthony Turnage did not at […]