\n\nMusica Nova 2025 (Part 3)Being the risky, aspiringly cutting edge things that they are, contemporary music festivals always tend to be a bit hit and miss. Very little i heard at Musica Nova 2025 fell into the latter category, but there were a few pieces that slipped through the quality net, being memorable for \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Christopher McFall \u2013 Four Feels for FireFour Feels For Fire was Christopher McFall\u2018s first physical release, put out on CD by renowned Belgian label Entr\u2019acte in 2007. At 50 minutes\u2019 duration, it was also his longest work so far, structured in five sections, the first four titled after the points of the compass, with a closing \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Musica Nova 2025 (Part 2)Especially prominent at this year\u2019s Musica Nova festival was the lavish organ in Helsinki\u2019s Musiikkitalo concert hall, unveiled at the start of 2024. The largest modern concert hall organ in the world, its construction was partly made possible by one of Finland\u2019s greatest composers, the late Kaija Saariaho, who in \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Christopher McFall \u2013 A Little Rouge20 years ago, US sound artist Christopher McFall quietly emerged via a Spanish netlabel with his first release, A Starved-Strafe Lancing Machine, an album i wrote about in 2022. Throughout his career, McFall\u2019s output has deeply and consistently impressed me, and his releases have featured in many of my Best \u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\r\n
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