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15 Questions to Carl Stone Nowadays, laptops have become the norm and a familiar and recognisable element of experimental music performances. In fact, they have, ...

CD Feature/ Barry Schrader: "EAM" Symphonic music of the next millenium: Classical allusions and timbral explorations.

CD Feature/ Asmus Tietchens: "Zwingburgen des Hedonismus/Mysterien des Hafens" "Conventional" music: A matrix-organised set of variations on the B-A-C-H theme.

15 Questions to Marco Oppedisano The biographies of grammy winners are straight and linear, the story of Marco Oppedisano has been winding and curved: After ...

15 Questions to Lex van Delden This is definitely one of the more unusual interviews we've ever done, for the reason alone that composer Lex van ...

CD Feature/ Lex van Delden: "Complete String Quartets" Harmony and atonality: Like drinking a glass of red wine with a knot of sadness in your throat.

CD Feature/ Graham Bowers: "Eternal Ghosts" A brutal exorcism: Clustered choirs, textured cymbalpads and weird biomechanical structures.

CD Feature/ Taylor Deupree & Kenneth Kirschner: "Post_Piano 2" An inbuilt memory of its prior life: Deconstructing the piano without loosing its characteristics.

CD Feature/ Graham Bowers: "Transgression" Ligeti would have been proud.

CD Feature/ Limpe Fuchs: "pianobody" Her methods are rooted in the moment, not in metavisionary complexes.

15 Questions to Alexander Danilevski Everything is relative and yet Alexander still believes in the power of music and that it can be a factor ...

15 Questions to Alejandro Viñao Alejandro Vinao does not like to depict the status of "serious" music any more agreable than it is: "In social ...

CD Feature/ Barry Schrader: "Beyond" No direct answers: You have to stay wide awake until the very end.

Interview with Richard Lainhart 2 Richard has never really been away from the electronic music scene, but as long as the public still regards albums ...

15 Questions to Barry Schrader "I don't think "new" is that important a qualification for music.", Barry says, "It doesn't guarantee anything." He speaks from ...