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Composer Conversations with Daniel Vezza

Composer Conversations is an outlet where composers can discuss their experiences living and working in the contemporary music world, the effect it has on their approach to music making, and hopefully in the process break down some of the mythology about what a composer is. In short it is a weekly interview series that focuses on the politics and daily life of the international new music scene from the point of view of the people living in it, alongside the music that the featured composer has written. These long form conversations often drift into other regions of the composer’s life outside of aesthetics and are meant to be informal, accessible, personal in nature, and above all candid.
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Episodes

podcast 7-Andrew Greenwald

Andrew is a composer studying and teaching at Stanford. He is also one of the resident composers of Ensemble Pamplemousse . You can check out his music at http://www.andrewgreenwald.net In our conversation we talk about many topics including the movie A Serious Man and a book called Foreskin’s Lament , but a good chunk of the conversation is about the importance composers place on the musical document and the purpose of complexity in Andrew’s music. So if you want to see what we‘re talking about...

Oct 29, 20121 hr 18 min

podcast 6-Iñigo Giner Miranda

Iñigo is a composer from Bilbao Spain who is now living in Berlin. As mentioned in the beginning of this podcast a lot of his work is quite theatrical, so check out the video on his website www.iginermiranda.com/ In out conversation we talk about his time living in Amsterdam, what it is like working as a foreign composer in Berlin, and if it’s a positive development if music can be qualified by people’s ability to talk about it.

Oct 22, 20121 hr 1 min

podcast 5-Philip White

Philip is a composer living in New York. The piece played in this podcast uses what he calls non-linear feedback system. He is also part of duo called R We Who R We with Ted Hearne who is mentioned in the beginning of this interview. We talk about his life as a jazz guitarist in Charleston and the idea of self-sabotage during an improvisation. You can listen to more of Philip’s music at http://www.prwhite.net/...

Oct 16, 20121 hr 1 min

podcast 4-Jarkko Hartikainen

Jarkko is a composer based in Helsinki. We met while he was living in Berlin on a grant from the Finnish government. In our conversation we talk about the problems of post-grant life and what it’s like to write music for different types of audiences. You can check out more of his music on his SoundCloud page http://soundcloud.com/jarkko-hartikainen

Oct 09, 201257 min

podcast 3-Aaron Einbond

Aaron and I talk about his time at IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique), his relationship to music and technology, and the difference between writing music for Europeans and Americans. Listen to more of his music at http://aaroneinbond.wordpress.com/ Special thanks to Yarn/Wire and Carrier Records for permission to use Aaron’s piece Passagework....

Oct 02, 20121 hr 13 min

podcast 2-Abel Paúl

Abel Paúl is a composer from Valladolid Spain who now lives in Berlin. If you like the piece played in this podcast you can listen to more of it on his website www.abelpaul.net/ In our conversation we discuss our lives as expats in Berlin, his experience as a finalist in the Gaudeamus Music Competition , and the problems that arise when writing music with no association with an institution....

Sep 25, 20121 hr 14 min

podcast 1-Andrew Norman

In this inaugural podcast Andrew and I talk about why he writes orchestral music as well as the problems of working with large ensembles as a young composer. You can visit Andrew’s website at andrewnormanmusic.com . Special thanks to Andrew Gourlay and the BBC Symphony for permission to use Andrew’s piece “Unstuck”

Sep 16, 20121 hr 3 min
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