“It was completely about 'let’s play how we feel', that’s what it was all about — communicating with each other, expressing our emotions to an audience — beyond that, it didn’t really matter what it sounded like.”
Category: Interviews
PRXLUDES | Alex Paxton
“I’m just trying to make the most sonically sensuous, magic sound-stuff-thing that I can.”
PRXLUDES | Pepijn Streng
“The way that I experience music is, in a way, very physical; it’s very often about impacts and certain touches.”
PRXLUDES | Jimena Maldonado
“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.”
PRXLUDES | Rylan Gleave
“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.”
PRXLUDES | Kirsten Strom
“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.”
PRXLUDES | Patrick Ellis
"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."
PRXLUDES | Catherine Mole
“It’s the interaction between what I’ve created and what that performer is gonna create that I thrive off.”
PRXLUDES | Joshua Jones
“Whenever you write something, whenever you make something, you’re trying to discover a truth — “a” truth — whatever that is.”
PRXLUDES | Anna Maria Olsson
“Improvising with nonclassical musicians definitely opened me up to the fact that you can use violin in almost any scenario, almost any genre.”
PRXLUDES | Daniel Blanco Albert
“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.”
PRXLUDES | Kern Parks
“I just didn’t wanna be sad all the time in my music, I just felt like it wasn’t helping me.”
PRXLUDES | Victoria Benito
“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.”
PRXLUDES | Polina Korobkova
"Just like in David Bowie’s song: 'Fame… what you get is no tomorrow'."
PRXLUDES | May Chi
"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."
PRXLUDES | George West
"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."
PRXLUDES | James McIlwrath
“My favourite feeling to make someone feel is confusion, particularly when they’re seeing or experiencing something… especially something they’ve paid for.”
PRXLUDES | Amelia Clarkson
"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."
PRXLUDES | Luke Harrison
“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.”
PRXLUDES | Millicent James
"[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."
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