Bridging the Seam: Jakob Davidsen, Ursula Andkjær Olsen, and the Avant-Garde Avant-Garde

Executive Overview For three decades, Danish composer and pianist Jakob Davidsen has operated at the precarious, fertile intersection where written composition and improvised music meet. In his latest major recording project—commissioned by the renowned contemporary chamber group Figura Ensemble and captured in the resonant acoustics of Trekroner Church in Roskilde—Davidsen returns to the visionary poetry … Read more

Unsettling Landscapes: Robyn Jacob’s New Forevers and the Vinyl Avant-Garde

Executive Overview Since its inception in 2001 by Jordan Nobles and Mark Takeshi McGregor, Redshift Records—the recording arm of the North Vancouver concert society founded in 2007—has charted a fiercely independent path through contemporary Canadian classical music. Operating out of North Vancouver, the label has consistently championed living composers, staging spatial presentations of new music … Read more

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