podcast 40-Andrew Noble

Andrew is a composer and musicologist who has been living in Berlin since 2003. He holds a Bachelor of Music in Composition from the Manhattan School, and a Masters of Music in Composition from the University of Southampton. He has also earned a doctorate in Musicology at the Technische Universität Berlin. His articles have been published in scholarly journals and he has taught courses in Musicology and Music History at the Technische Universität. If you live in Berlin you can hear more of his music performed by KNM Berlin tomorrow (19.06.13) at Villa Elisabeth.

In our conversation we talk about his beginnings as a Jazz Saxophonist, how he composes around the social setting of the concert hall, and composition as a tool for introspection. The intro music is a excerpt from Andrew’s piece titled The Beauty of the Dream Vanished and the piece played in this interview is the second half of a 40 minute work titled The Party Line.