“I quite like decorating and colouring things in quite a sparkly fashion, and I think that’s what gives some of my work that zinginess, and life and energy; because it’s got that bright colouration.”
Author: agitatedworlds
PRXLUDES | Atefeh Einali
“Even if I have a really restrictive structure in my compositions, I always have some kind of freedom inside. Even if I don’t have improvisation in the composition, I am thinking like an improviser.”
PRXLUDES | Andrew Chen
“[It’s] almost like a very slow improvisation… I like to think of the music as writing itself. I’ll have ideas of fragments, chords, sketches, but I’ll listen to the music and what it wants to do, and follow that instinct, rather than trying to impose a pre-defined structure.”
PRXLUDES | Roxani Chatzidimitriou
“In my compositions, I search for answers about me, about the world. All humans have a need to create: and I have this need to create through sound.”
PRXLUDES | Tom Baker
“If you’re gonna ask what my central ethos for everything I do is, it’s that: build a community, build a scene, get people involved and break down that barrier. You "can" do it.”
PRXLUDES | Ben Nobuto
"The ‘hysterical sublime’ … As soon as I read that, I knew [it] summed up exactly the world I wanted to create. This collapsing of the sublime and the ridiculous to the point where they’re indistinguishable."
PRXLUDES | Emily Hazrati
“Breath feels like such an important part of that process of performing, how you’re feeling when you’re performing, the sound that you make. The way you breathe informs how gradual, or direct, or stable or unstable, that sound is.”
TRACK BY TRACK | “anthem”: a celebration and dissection of liveness (Birmingham Record Company)
"The music collected on this album is more than just a document of something that happened: it’s a celebration of the vitality and variety of musical performance today."
PRXLUDES | Francesca Fargion
“I work a lot with humour: keeping everything quite silly, and simple. When working with text, I enjoy finding language that doesn’t quite make sense. I enjoy the humour that comes out of finding something that’s just a bit off in both language and music.”
PRXLUDES | Alex Tay
“When I write, I feel really manic — I feel a lot of adrenaline coursing through my veins. Even though what I make comes out very slowly, I feel like I’m going at a million miles an hour.”
PRXLUDES | Jasmine Morris
“I’m not so much interested in 'changing the sound', per se. What I’m really interested in is creating sound worlds, and sound paintings. I find that electronically, that is probably the easiest way of achieving that; you can create an orchestra of those reed sounds, just in whatever software you use.”
TRACK BY TRACK | Matt Phillips’ “The Calderstones”: exploring cultural identity and folk history through cello, improvisation, and druidic stones
"If there wasn’t a regional folk tradition for me to tie my musical identity to, then fine — I was going to invent my own."
PRXLUDES | Sonia Killmann
“That’s why it’s called audiovisual music: because it’s not really one over the other, but they both complement each other, and are [as] equally important as each other.”
PRXLUDES | Jeremy Rosenstock
"For organic materials such as shells or leaves, the DNA within these objects can be traced back over multiple millennia and further. To interact with these objects in a musical context is to juxtapose the limited nature of human time with that of the environment."
PRXLUDES | Emma-Kate Matthews
“It’s not like making a piece of work in a space where the space is just a container for the performance. The two worlds are completely linked — physically, conceptually, and in every other way. So sometimes I’m thinking like an architect and sometimes like a composer, and of course all the bits in between.”
PRXLUDES | Ábel Misha Gille Esbenshade
“Every composer has listened to, and listens to, lots of music that isn’t contemporary classical music, or classical music. We can try and make this division within ourselves between the music we listen to outside of our work and the music we compose. [But] for me, something that has brought a lot of life into my score-based music is trying to dissolve that barrier as much as possible.”
PRXLUDES | Robert Crehan
“I’m not setting text, I’m not trying to manipulate it or dilute its impact; I’m trying to present it, as I feel like it deserves to be presented, and using that as a stimulus for my own creativity.”
PRXLUDES | Tanna Chamberlain
“I make things to say 'this is how I see the world', and to ask if you see it the same way.”
PRXLUDES | Steve Tromans
“I’m not saying that music is the notes of the piano, and philosophy is just the words. There is philosophy in the notes of the piano, and there is music in the words.”
PRXLUDES | Aileen Sweeney
“I just try and write something that is, in any shape or form, going to be enjoyable.”
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