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The death of compositional music?! Dumitrescu and Avram are successful rebuttals. Although two of the most compelling and exciting living composers…” Josh RONSEN, Austin, Texas

* “The extraordinary and uncategoriseable Dumitrescu / Avram team…” Chris CUTLER, ReR Megacorp – London

* “Iancu DUMITRESCU and Ana-Maria AVRAM. They have become leading figures in contemporary classical music, developing a musical language that sweeps boldly from very small scale insect-like sounds to vast noise laden soundscapes. In recent times they have attracted a lot of attention from musicians outside of the classical field, as the music is relevant to the post-ambient, post noise, post classical aesthetic which is the sound of the moment. “ FORCED EXPOSURE – Boston

* “Dumitrescu’s acousmatic compositions are restless, detailed forays into the aesthetic of noise, dramatically penetrating the very fabric of instruments and articulating entirely new sounds – by turns violent, reflective, impassioned and eerily disarming.”
London. Royal Festival Hall, New Aura Series, LMC-BBC 3, march 1997

“Seems like these Romanians are engaged in a similar kind of sonic research to that which resulted on the masterpieces of Giacinto Scelsi and Ennio Morricone: collective endeavor, genuine “deep listening”. The results are similarly overpowering, a million miles from the tooting inconsequence or most of what passes for New Music in the classical world.” Ben WATSON – “The WIRE”, London

Dumitrescu’s work is a negation, from the depths, of everything in contemporary music symptomatic of distraction, of banalisation, and of a radical loss of purpose. His music is not a new convolution in the knot of modern music, but an unraveling of the curse. (…)” Tim HODGKINSON – RESONANCE Magazine – London

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