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27/04/2026

News from Arnold Dreyblatt, if you are in Berlin:

BERLIN CAROUSEL:
THE ACADEMY AS A LIVING ARTISTIC PRACTICE
A project by Arnold Dreyblatt and the Akademie der Künste
in cooperation with raumlaborberlin
1.May.–7.June, 2026
Program:

Über 40 internationale Künstler*innen verschiedener Disziplinen erzeugen simultane, nicht lineare Ereignisse in einer von Arnold Dreyblatt entwickelten…

01/04/2026

Descendants | Arnold Dreyblatt review in DaMusic by Mario De Block

‘Descendants’ zet daarmee orgels in hun puurste vorm in, helder en zonder veel roezig ruisen, daarmee verder illustrerend hoe het eeuwenoude instrument ook in de vrij uitnodigende handen van een avantgardist een renaissance beleeft.

'Descendants' thus deploys organs in their purest form, clear and without much reckless rustling, further illustrating how the age-old instrument also experiences a renaissance in the inviting hands of an avant-gardist.

https://damusic.be/dossier/schemerzone-9-6467.html

-garde, Arnold Dreyblatt, , Reinier van Houdt
Orgelpark Echonance Festival

Schemerzone #9

07/03/2026

Arnold Dreyblatt | Descendants
review by Peter Margasak in Best Contemporary Classical on Bandcamp.

"Descendants is an extended drone marked by an austere chill, but over time, the music’s deeply immersive quality seems to melt any of that iciness as the piece unfolds. Shifting harmonies produce fleeting, beating patterns; drifting chords expand and contract; and the timbre regularly changes, moving from almost airy to ominous. "

https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-contemporary-classical/the-best-contemporary-classical-music-on-bandcamp-february-2026

Reinier van Houdt, Orgelpark, Arnold Dreyblatt

Our guide to the month’s crucial contemporary classical LPs.

27/02/2026

Re-Genetic by Claudio F Baroni, review in Chain D.L.K. by Vito Camarretta

"Two pieces, modest forces, a CD that does not scream for attention. And yet Claudio F. Baroni is doing something quietly radical here: he listens so intensely to speech that he turns listening itself into composition."

https://www.chaindlk.com/reviews/13375

Reinier van Houdt, Isabelle Vigier, Dario Calderone, Jeroen Kimman,

23/02/2026

Lean Left!

23/02/2026

Annea Lockwood The Piano Works | Xenia Pestova Bennett review in Five Lines (NZ) by Elizabeth Kerr

About Ear-walking Woman: "The sonic world is resonant and atmospheric. We’re travelling amongst fascinating timbres and effects, big singing gongs with gamelan colours, or deep grandeur from the low register of the grand piano. Pianist and composer are exploring together and the listener needs to “ear-walk” with them on this slow journey – you’ll need to stop and admire the sonic vistas."

https://www.fivelines.nz/articles/ul6rxqym544d6azd0h47eczz0ov0q8

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Reviews of three recent releases from New Zealand artists featuring composers Annea Lockwood and Anthony Ritchie and classical guitarist Matthew Marshall.

22/02/2026

Arnold Dreyblatt | Descendants, review in Inactuelles Musiques Singulières, by Dionys

"Nous sommes dans le brasier des sons, tantôt dans les braises elles-mêmes, enrobées de vibrations formant un lit de continuités, tantôt dans les vives flammes surgissantes, vite amorties dans le halo montant des harmoniques du soubassement."

https://inactuelles.over-blog.com/2026/02/arnold-dreyblatt-descendants-music-for-four-pipe-organs-in-one-space.html

Orgelpark Echonance Festival Arnold Dreyblatt Reinier van Houdt

Né en 1953 à New-York, le compositeur et artiste multimédia Arnold Dreyblatt travaille à Berlin, où il est codirecteur de la Section des Arts Visuels de l'Académie des Arts, depuis les années quatre-vingt. On trouve déjà l'une de ses œuvres, Escalator,...

09/02/2026

Arnold Dreyblatt | Descendants, Review in Percorsi Musicali by@ Eyal Hareuveni

"The composition offers a highly immersive listening experience with elusive sensibilities of time and space. The sustained, ethereal sounds of the four organs filled Orgelpark’s main hall with gradually changing resonances. Orgelpark sounded like a vivid, vulnerable entity, as if it were breathing with its own independent, almost static pulse. "

https://www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/02/09/arnold-dreyblatt-descendants-music-for-four-pipe-organs-in-one-space/

Reinier van Houdt, Orgelpark, Echonance Festival, Arnold Dreyblatt

Descendants is a composition by American, Berlin-based media artist and composer Arnold Dreyblatt, commissioned by the Echonance Festival #3 in 2024 for the multiple organs of the main hall of the Orgelpark in Amsterdam, a concert stage focusing on diverse organ-based compositions. It was recorded in...

06/02/2026

Album Launch: Descendants by Arnold Dreyblatt
This is the third volume in a collection of works commissioned by and recorded on the occasion of Echonance Festival in Amsterdam. The festival's 4th edition opens today, the album will be launched at the Orgelpark on this occasion.

Made with support by AFK Amsterdam fonds voor de Kunst, Johan Luijmes, Orgelpark, stichting Solaris. A collaboration Unsounds records / Echonance Festival

Arnold Dreyblatt, Albert H C Manders

06/02/2026

OUT NOW! Descendants | Arnold Dreyblatt
We are delighted that the album, composed especially for the main hall of the Orgelpark in Amsterdam, with its historical organs, co-curated by Echonance Festival is available as of today online in CD and DL.
Get your copy on Bandcamp:
https://unsounds.bandcamp.com/album/descendants
or on our website.

Echonance Festival Arnold Dreyblatt Reinier van Houdt Orgelpark

15/12/2025

Best New Music Recordings 2025 by George Grella in Kill Yr Idols
https://killyridols.substack.com/i/181378149/best-new-music-recordings
Annea Lockwood, The Piano Works | Xenia Pestova Bennett

We are thrilled for Xenia and Annea, this is very deserved: this album is magnificent.

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