“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.”
Tag: opera
PRXLUDES | Sara Stevanovic
“Do memories make us who we are? And if we lose them, does that mean we automatically lose ourselves?”
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 | 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.”