Julius Eastman – Femenine

This is the première release of Julius Eastman’s Femenine, for chamber ensemble. It is also the work’s only known recording, documenting a 1974 performance by the S.E.M. Ensemble (with the composer on piano) which has lain unheard for decades.

Thomas Brinkmann – A Certain Degree of Stasis

Often associated with sparse electronic music, A Certain Degree of Stasis sees Thomas Brinkmann in command of a maximalist’s palette. A sonic counterpart to Agnes Lux’s visual work, the piece explores both fierce digital textures and sustained crystalline calm.

Remembering Eberhard Blum

Flutist, performer, and visual artist Eberhard Blum died on March 5th 2013 in Berlin. We asked his friends and closest colleagues to share their remembrances.

Morton Feldman – Crippled Symmetry: at June in Buffalo

In 2000, Eberhard Blum, Nils Vigeland, and Jan Williams came together once more as “The Feldman Soloists” to perform Crippled Symmetry, the trio Feldman composed for them, on the 25th anniversary celebration of the festival he founded.

A Conversation with Jakob Ullmann

“So I spent this time in an elliptic orbit around Bach and Bruckner. I did not like the so called ‘New Music’ of Schoenberg etc. which my father played on the piano, and did not try to understand it.”