by Nate Chinen SEM and Ostravska Banda perform Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis, & Roscoe Mitchell // The Trio (Abrams/Lewis/Mitchell) “Reductio ad absurdum!” Thomas Buckner pronounced, in stentorian voice, at one point in “AACM50,” a momentous new-music concert on Wednesday night at the Bohemian National Hall. It was just one of many lines of text, […]

by George Grella Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble perform Somei Satoh, The Passion; Iannis Xenakis, Mikka, Mikka “S”; and Petr Kotik, There Is Singularly Nothing Concerts like this one defy the normal means and language of criticism, and I mean this in a positive sense. The music is either so new, like the Satoh world […]