Etudes: An Interview with Sharon Gal
Having submitted her work, Etudes, to our physical collection, composer Sharon Gal spoke to Sound and Music's Heather Blair about the work's conception, and her hopes and intentions for its future.
New Voices
New Voices
Bootleg Spatial Recall - Otto Willberg
New Voices 2019 composer Otto Willberg talks us through Bootleg Spacial Recall, a public sourced archive, and tool for listening closely to the parts of our environment that get ignored and forgotten.
Pianoless Composers - Georgia Denham
New Voices 2020 composer Georgia Denham speaks to fellow composers who don't play piano, exploring the stigmas that still surround this in contemporary music
Breathing and Co-Musing: Liz Dilnot Johnson’s Scintilla
Marking the culmination of her Sound and Music’s New Voices 2018 project, we present 3 films from composer Liz Dilnot Johnson in collaboration with filmmaker Oli Clark.
Tom Barnes on Pre-recorded Sounds and Improvisation
"These days I see composing as a slowed-down version of improvisation, which is why I think I'm drawn to making music as opposed to just playing it."
Tom Lawrence on music education and opportunities
"As a child all these opportunities seemed perfectly normal, but I now realise how fortunate I was, and it makes me determined to try and repay some of this good fortune by teaching and creating similar opportunities for the kids in Hull."
Julian Brooks on copyright and computers
"I truly believe composers play along like fixed odds machine gamblers..."
Eleanor on collaboration and livestreaming
" I think what is true at the moment is my preference to make things that are beyond me, things that are realised away from my direct involvement - wishes that may become true, words that may be interpreted one way or another, descriptions of experiences that become sounds."
Ailís Ní Ríain on creating and change
"For me, as someone who considers themselves conceptually led, the term composer can often be too limiting..."
Donghoon Shin on Pink Floyd and Mahler
"I am very interested in creating a labyrinth and in combining different materials together..."
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