Antoine Beuger

Two Contrasting Albums on Another Timbre?

by John Eyles
February 21, 2025

On the surface, the latest batch of releases from the Another Timbre label looks pretty much as expected, with each sleeve having the label's usual front cover format of a monochrome photograph of a landscape or work of art beneath which is printed the composer's name beneath which the album title beneath which the performers' names. ...

Betula

By Germaine Sijstermans

Label: Elsewhere
Released: 2022
Track listing: A Song; Jasminum; Untitled; Lavendula; M; Call, there; A Song

Germaine Sijstermans: Betula

by John Eyles
September 22, 2022

Given that past albums on the Elsewhere label have already featured such Wandelweiser favourites as Dante Boon, Jürg Frey, Anastassis Philippakopoulos, Michael Pisaro-Liu, Stefan Thut and Guy Vandromme, it was no surprise when the label released Betula, the debut album from Dutch composer and clarinetist Germaine Sijstermans. Her track “M" had already appeared on the album ...

New to Another Timbre

by John Eyles
January 18, 2022

Any music fan casually scanning the credits of Another Timbre's catalogue of releases (which is rapidly nearing the two hundred mark) could not fail to be impressed by such established names as John Cage, Morton Feldman, Antoine Beuger and Jurg Frey. Just as impressive are those who have increased in popularity as a result of their ...

Seamus Cater & Kai Fagaschinski: Secrets

by John Eyles
December 20, 2019

Available on twelve-inch 45rpm vinyl or as a download, Secrets is the debut album from the duo of Seamus Cater and Kai Fagaschinski, released after six years of secluded, painstaking work. Alongside Michael Thieke, Fagaschinski is half of the renowned clarinet duo The International Nothing, and he is also a member of the innovative clarinets-plus-vocals quartet ...

Gil Sans��n / Lance Austin Olsen: Works on Paper

by John Eyles
March 4, 2019

Coinciding with the first anniversary of the formation of the Elsewhere label, its sixth release maintains the high standards set by the previous five. If anything, the two-CD set Works on Paper may be slightly more experimental, even risk-taking, than its predecessors--none of which could ever be described as safe. First, some history. Back ...

Ockeghem Octets

By Antoine Beuger

Label: Another Timbre
Released: 2017
Track listing: 1 �C 25 Ockeghem Octets

Antoine Beuger: Ockeghem Octets

by John Eyles
July 14, 2017

Between “dedekind duos" (2003) and “ihwe tunings for twenty" (2005), Wandelweiser co-founder Antoine Beuger wrote a series of pieces for groupings of all sizes from two members up to twenty, the scores being published by Wandelweiser. In each piece, the musicians softly play long, sustained notes designated in the score, with the ebbing and flowing tones ...

Cristi��n Alvear, Seijiro Murayama: Karoujite

by John Eyles
June 21, 2017

Before coming together in this duo, the Chilean acoustic guitarist Cristi��n Alvear and the Japanese percussionist Seijiro Murayama were both well-established Potlatch artists. Alvear has built a reputation as a performer of compositions by Wandelweiser members such as Jürg Frey and Antoine Beuger, as exemplified by his fine album of Michael Pisaro pieces Melody, Silence (Potlatch, ...