The rarely performed music of Horatiu Radulescu, the iconoclastic Romanian composer and self-described founder of spectralism, will be at the center of an ambitious upcoming three-day festival at Acker Stadt Palast in Berlin on October 19-21. Organized by Iranian composer and conductor Arash Yazdani and his Ensemble for New Music Tallinn (ENMT) in honor of Radulescu’s 75th birth year, this two-part festival (the first part took place in Tallinn earlier this month) titled Sound-Plasma—Festival of Microtonal Music features performances by violist Vincent Royer, glissando flutist Erik Drescher, cellist Juho Laitinen, clarinetist Samuel Ekkehardt Dunscombe, and flutist Rebecca Lane and includes new works by Marc Sabat, Klaus Lang, Asia Ahmetjanova, Ernstalbrecht Stieble, Dror Feiler, Yazdani, and, full disclosure, me.


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William Dougherty is a composer, sound artist, and writer based in Seattle. His work has been published in Tempo, Music & Literature, and elsewhere. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the experimental...