“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."
PRXLUDES | Kat Wallace
"I see [visuals] as very integrated into the piece, and the process. I feel like some people make visuals that you don’t need to have with pieces, but mine are very integrated — one doesn’t work without the other."
PRXLUDES | Lara Jones
“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.”
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.”
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"As a creator, not only has it been difficult to find the inspiration to create art, it’s also been really difficult to discover new music that just clicks with me, that gives me the spark and the desire to write new music."
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.”
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