“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.”
Tag: composer
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 | 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 | 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."
PRXLUDES | Torsten Jensen
“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.”
PRXLUDES | Emily Abdy
"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."
PRXLUDES | Si Paton
"When you’re always made to feel like an outsider, you start thinking 'well, fuck you, I’ll go and do my own thing'.”
PRXLUDES | Rosie Cochrane
“Why do we have these divides between popular and classical music? I just want to make music that people listen to, that I think is cool.”
PRXLUDES | Michele Deiana
"I don’t conceive composition as a sonic process. For me it’s something that has to do with visuals, with words, with movements… with everything."
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