Besides the release of my album “Gost Trance Solos” from november last year, some other publications appeared over the past few months on my ongoing research on the music of Anthony Braxton. This time in written form!
First and foremost I’m incredibly happy to share my first published academic article “A Ritual of Openness. The (meta-)Reality of Anthony Braxton’s Ghost Trance Music.”, which appeared in the latest edition of Forum + magazine. This article zooms in on the Ghost Trance Music compositions by the American composer Anthony Braxton. Simultaneously, it gives a broader perspective on Braxton’s oeuvre as a whole, as well as offering critical observations on the canon of post-war western art music. Read the full article here!
In december last year, the German magazine Neue Zeitung fur Musik published an interview I did for the Rainy Days Festival in Luxemburg, where I was scheduled to play Braxton’s Ghost Trance Music with my septet in November. The concert had to be rescheduled to the next edition due to the pandemic (new date: november 13 2021, mark your calendar! :) ), but I’m very happy to share this interview! Very nice to see Braxton’s work being featured in this magazine <3 Download the original publication (in German) here OR an english rendition here !
In February I had the opportunity to present a first try-out of a new version of Anthony Braxton’s visionary work “Echo Echo Mirror House Music” in collaboration with Carl Testa from Tri-Centric Foundation. We managed to do a first transatlantic live performance, where Carl was controlling the EEMHM sound collage and electronics from his home in New Haven, through a server in Amsterdam and then engaging the live musicians in Antwerp. The performance, which was part of the Articulate Research Days of the Antwerp Conservatory, received a wonderful review in the New Haven Independent. Carl and I also wrote down some reflections on working on this rarely performed work by Anthony Braxton and its possibilities for future development. You can read this text on the Tri-Centric Website!