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pan y rosas release blue amsterdam by sonicbright!

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Blue Amsterdam

meeting under the influence of the philosophical text tractatus logicophilosophicus by wittgenstein, violinist gaëlle deblonde and musician and visual artist errika manta, searched to expand this text by transforming it into music. the fruit of this collaboration gave birth to a musical performance, tractatus 24.3, which took place at the msh (house of human sciences foundation) in paris, 2010, and led to an ongoing collaboration.

the duo was invited by the artist, dina roussou, to participate in a residence, which was held at the gerrit rietveld academy (academy of fine arts) in amsterdam in october, 2011. the result of this residence was a musical performance called blue amsterdam. the album also contains the shorter piece np 2 which was recorded in 2014.

get the album here!

pan y rosas release string theory by sarah j ritch

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the newness for the advent of springtime in the northern hemisphere comes from chicago composer and improviser sarah j ritch. her interest in classical composition arose from both her studies in piano and cello as well as explorations of the guitar and bass in punk and metal bands in las vegas between 1996 and 2003. she eventually landed in chicago and earned a bachelor of music from roosevelt university and a post-baccalaureate certificate in sound from the school of the art institute of chicago.

on her debut album, string theory, sarah displays her interest in both improvised noise and notated tonal music as she explores the acoustic structures of strings and sines. over the course of the album electronically treated cello gives way to droning and pizzicato violin; a pure drone at the center resolves itself with a rising and falling violin sonata; and a cello converses with itself in woodtones. get it here!