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Composer Jörg Widmann: About the difficulty of producing sound
Listening to all of Composer Jörg Widmann's String Quartets at the Eclat Festival Stuttgart on one night was something of a revelation to me. Here was a composer who was ...2009-09-08
15 Questions to JB Floyd
JB Floyd loves to play. He has performed pieces by Chopin and Wayne Shorter, Prokofieff and Gershwin, Brahms and Jonny Green as well as his own work both in public ...2008-11-19
15 Questions to Elizabeth Brown
If the Interpretations series in New York has set out to erradicate artifical borders between genres and warring camps, then Elizabeth Brown should officially be named their ambassador. A latecomer ...2008-10-21
Gabriel Prokofiev: Concerto for Turntable rocks the RSNO
The grandson of one of the 20th century’s eminent composers, Sergei Prokofiev, is due to take classical music into the next millenium. On June 19th, Gabriel Prokofiev will team up ...2008-06-04
Imagining the Future
Complete control: Jerry Gerber writes grand-scale scores for virtual orchestras.2008-06-04| 1 comment
15 Questions to Johannes Maria Staud
Contemporary composers often have to deal with an image of grumpy young man feeding on a diet of too much coffee, cigarettes and Kant while facing a lifetime of fighting ...2008-06-03
Impersonal Revelations
Important questions: Olivia Block's trilogy of miraculous snow mountain symphonies.2008-05-02
15 Questions to Michael Blake
To Michael Blake, composing is not just the process of placing notes on a piece of paper. It is a way of going about things creatively, of balancing divergent elements ...2008-04-27
Kenneth Gaburo: An influential Thinker awaits posthumous Breakthrough
Pogus are paying tribute to a man some call “an undersung hero with a profound influence on a generation of musical thinkers”: Kenneth Gaburo. The upcoming “LINGUA II: MALEDETTO / ...2008-04-23
Bebe Barron: First lady of electronic music dies aged 82
American electroacoustic composer Barry Schrader has reported on the death of his colleague Bebe Barron. Barron, a pioneering, widely respected and seminally influential artist, died of natural causes on April ...2008-04-21
CD Feature/ William Stalnaker: "About Lear and Others"
Rhythmic elation: William Stalnaker is a happy child of the Avantgarde.2008-04-09
Col Legno Festival: New Music Academy
Austrian Label Col Lengo is taking the leap from releasing records to curating concerts by organising their first festival. Idylically situated in the region of Toscany, Italy, the event will ...2008-04-03
Anthony Braxton: Ghost Trance Music explained
Anthony Braxton is doing his fans a great favour by not only releasing an album yet again dedicated to the style (or more precisely, performance and composing method) he pioneered ...2008-04-02
CD Feature/ Rebecca Saunders: "Stirrings Still"
Silence as an arena: Saunders challenges your notion of what an instrument can do, but also takes sound to a state where the source is no longer of interest.2008-03-31
The Tonality of Broken Ropes
Hidden meanings in sound: Noone will be able to follow sound pioneer Pierre Henry all the way.2008-03-31
