“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.”
Author: agitatedworlds
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.”
PRXLUDES | Mathis Saunier
“Then you realise that you do Rammstein with string quartet, but with your rock band, you do Debussy — and somehow, there’s just these layers and layers.”
PRXLUDES | Sara Stevanovic
“Do memories make us who we are? And if we lose them, does that mean we automatically lose ourselves?”
PRXLUDES | Jake Adams
“After confronting my anxieties about myself, I came to the conclusion that my music ‘is’ me; my perspective will always be part of my music, whether I try to or not.”
PRXLUDES | Sun Keting
“My musical inspiration always comes from the essential principle of Eastern philosophy, that is: everything is flowing, interconnected, dependent on each other.”
PRXLUDES | Holly Gowland
“I really like to explore different sonorities — different sounds that can be used with electronics and acoustic instruments — trying to get some form of middle ground between the two.”
PRXLUDES | Darlene Zarabozo
“That’s what it feels like when I’m working with electronics — I feel like I’m creating a moment, a live moment for someone to listen to.”
PRXLUDES | Luke Deane
“We should really look after the score, and the idea of the score, because it’s one of the only things that capitalism hasn’t taken away from us.”
PRXLUDES | Cheltenham Composers Academy 2021 (2/2)
"It’s not an isolated experience at all; it’s immersive, communal, and we’re all helping each other out."
PRXLUDES | Cheltenham Composers Academy 2021 (1/2)
"It's very much in the spirit of exploration; it feels like the ensemble are as willing and excited to work with your music as you have been to write it."
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