“The way that I experience music is, in a way, very physical; it’s very often about impacts and certain touches.” Continue reading PRXLUDES | Pepijn Streng

“You see a colour, you see an image, and that is gonna have an impact on how you play a piece, especially if you have some freedom on how to do it. But you, as a player, need to be open to that.” Continue reading PRXLUDES | Jimena Maldonado

“I find there’s always lots of music drifting about in my head; like a big ball of yarn, with strings you can gently pull to see if they unravel.” Continue reading PRXLUDES | Rylan Gleave

“I came, genuinely, from just wanting to compose. I’ve had an orchestra playing through my head since I was nine, and I didn’t know how to notate it.” Continue reading PRXLUDES | Kirsten Strom

“Rather than “the system is the piece”, the system is creating something which then I may or may not feel free to change and adjust. It became more of a balance between the abstract and the process.” Continue reading PRXLUDES | Patrick Ellis

“It’s the interaction between what I’ve created and what that performer is gonna create that I thrive off.” Continue reading PRXLUDES | Catherine Mole

“Whenever you write something, whenever you make something, you’re trying to discover a truth — “a” truth — whatever that is.” Continue reading PRXLUDES | Joshua Jones

“Improvising with nonclassical musicians definitely opened me up to the fact that you can use violin in almost any scenario, almost any genre.” Continue reading PRXLUDES | Anna Maria Olsson

“You need to suspend your disbelief just to accept that somebody’s singing on stage. Anything can be singing on stage; it could be a person called Tosca, or a positron.” Continue reading PRXLUDES | Daniel Blanco Albert

“I just didn’t wanna be sad all the time in my music, I just felt like it wasn’t helping me.” Continue reading PRXLUDES | Kern Parks

“I really like absurdity — the space between trying to put a meaning into everything you do, and the fact of knowing that you can’t find meaning for everything.” Continue reading PRXLUDES | Victoria Benito

“Just like in David Bowie’s song: ‘Fame… what you get is no tomorrow’.” Continue reading PRXLUDES | Polina Korobkova

“It’s more about catharsis… kind of like a release. You can listen to the album just for the vibes, and be like “I like how this sounds, I like how hard this track goes”, but if you wanted to pay attention to my lyrics and experience the things I’ve been through with me, you can.” Continue reading PRXLUDES | May Chi

“I never set out to be a political composer, or an activist as such. I set out to make art, I channel my frustrations with the system through the medium of art.” Continue reading PRXLUDES | George West

“My favourite feeling to make someone feel is confusion, particularly when they’re seeing or experiencing something… especially something they’ve paid for.” Continue reading PRXLUDES | James McIlwrath

“I think I produce my best work when I’m working cross-collaboratively. They are the most draining creatively, but I enjoy that feeling. I always work with a stimuli, whether it’s another person, or something else.” Continue reading PRXLUDES | Amelia Clarkson

“A huge amount of space in my brain is, a lot of the time, filled up with different rhythms going on; I’m fascinated by things like metric modulation and polyrhythms… They’re so powerful.” Continue reading PRXLUDES | Luke Harrison

“[Moyo is] definitely a collection of me becoming more comfortable with my identity as a black woman, and not being afraid to just make music that is about these things that I have experienced.” Continue reading PRXLUDES | Millicent James

“That’s the thing I love about playing live; it’s such a rush because you’re doing things where you’re at the edge of your seat, but if you pull it off, it feels amazing. There’s so much adrenaline going through you.” Continue reading PRXLUDES | Torsten Jensen

“It’s nice to celebrate and show what you do, it’s nice to get recognition for what you do, but also… I want to be able to make art, and enjoy making art, have value in it no matter what the situation.” Continue reading PRXLUDES | Emily Abdy