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Claudio F. Baroni (with Anne La Berge & Yannis Kyriakides)

Claudio F. Baroni is a composer whose work is characterized by what he calls “a systematic exploration of sound”, with particular attention to timbre, material, and physical properties. Originally from Rosario, Argentina, he has lived in Amsterdam most of his working life, where he has received commissions and performances from numerous ensembles across Europe, including Maze Ensemble, Slagwerkgroep Den Haag (HIIIT), Champ d’Action, Ensemble Integrales, and several Italian quartets. He has several recordings released on Unsounds and Moving Furniture Records, MOTUM, The Body Imitates the Landscape, Ursae Minoris, and the recent Re-Genetic. All of which we will like to talk about in this interview.

https://claudiofbaroni.net/

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Alison Isadora (with Anne La Berge & Yannis Kyriakides)

https://alisonisadora.org/

Alison Isadora is an Aotearoa / New Zealand-born artist who has made Amsterdam her home since the late 1980s. She is a "composer/performer/educator/curator/host/producer/guide," and her pieces treat musicians, audiences, spaces, and even scores as equal partners in creating music together.

Her ongoing Together series, running since 2018, is built on indeterminate scores, community participation and reflects deeper concerns: ecology, decolonial perspectives on Western art music, and what it means to really listen together.

In 2024, Alison created the work Diffractive Readings for MAZE, inspired by the extended hermeneutics practice of Jennifer Lacey, and based on different so-called readings of Wind Horse by Pauline Oliveros.

She was also a member and composer of The Maarten Altena Ensemble that was the ensemble that MAZE grew out of.

The music at the end of the episode is Part 6 by Alison Isadora performed by the Maarten Altena Ensemble.