Soundmaking

Composer Richard Baker discusses the work "Motet" from his March 2024 NMC release The Tyranny of Fun Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Composer Henrik Hellstenius presents his latest album Public Behaviour released in February 2024 on BIS Records. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vilde & Inga discuss their amazing double album "How Forests Think" , released on Sofa Music . A short documentary about the making of the album can be found here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Composer and pianist Aaron Wyanski speaks about his new 'session orchestra' arrangement of Schoenberg's op.25, part of his Schoenberg in Hi fi series. https://aaronwyanski.bandcamp.com/album/schoenberg-suite-op-25 https://www.aaronwyanski.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Composer and guitarist Fredrik Rasten presents his latest disc, Lineaments , out on SOFA Music , as well as other work reflecting his fascination for just intonation and related sound phenomena. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Composer Jonah Haven discusses the track Gasser from his recent portrait release on WERGO . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kerry Young discusses his project Cover Me Cage Kerry Yong is a performer, composer and arranger based in east London. He trained as a pianist and now also performs on keyboards and electronics. His piano repertoire includes unusual classical repertoire (such as the Alkan’s arrangement of Mozart’s D minor Concerto K 466 for solo piano), new compositions, and his own project Cover Me Cage: electron...

Juliana Snapper and Andrew Infanti speak about their under-water opera “You Who Will Emerge from the Flood”. At the end of the episode, you will hear Blorkra Suite, a 6-minute mash-up of electronic music and vocal recordings from several site-specifics productions of this work. The work has been presented at AKSIOMA, Institute for Contemporary Art (Ljubljana); Queer up North Festival (Manchester);...

Sarah Saviet speaks about Every Strand of Thread and Rope , a four movement work for solo violin work by Soosan Lolavar, released on All That Dust. The episode features extracts from the first and second movements and the entirety of the final movement at the end. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Singer Mimi Doulton and composer Neil Luck present "Five English Folk Songs" out May 1, 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Composer Tansy Davies and keyboard player Zubin Kanga discuss the track "Star-Way" from Zubin's upcoming release "Machine Dreams" on nonclassical . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jesse Broekman (electronics) and Christian Smith (Drums) in Contrafacta present their debut album "a place to sing at night" released on Moon Villain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

American pianist Richard Valitutto presents his solo album Nocturnes & Lullabies out on New Focus Recordings Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Xenia Rubinos talks about tracks off her album Una Rosa , released on ANTI. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sound artist Lasse Marhaug discusses the making of " Context" , released on Smalltown Supersound. Check out more releases by Lasse here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Composer and Percussionist John Lane presents the album Trigger – Artists respond to gun violence . Also check out a video on The Innocents https://www.the-innocents.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

San Francisco based composer and electronic musician Jon Leidecker  (AKA Wobbly) discusses his new album Popular Monitress, released on Hausu Mountain Records. Read more and purchase the album here: https://w0bbly.bandcamp.com/album/popular-monitress Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Australian pianist Lisa Moore talk about her album No Place to Go But Around  with pieces by Frederic Rzewski . The album was released by Cantaloupe Music in June 2022, and may be purchased here Watch the album trailer: https://youtu.be/RVNGR_FDgUw …and the video made for the opening track To His Coy Mistress: https://youtu.be/CcbiJB4sPhE The New York times wrote about the album: “That inviti...

London-based composer WIlliam Marsey and pianist Joseph Havlat present their album Dutch Indoor Subjects. The album and sheet music can be bought here Streaming links are here Dutch Indoor Subjects is inspired by the Dutch paintings of painting, everyday scenes from the 15- and 1600s. Track 7, Belmont Chill, was nominated for BASCA British Composer Award 2018 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...

For this episode of Soundmaking we spoke with Swedish composer  Lisa Streich about her orchestral work Segel, which was completed in 2017. This recording is the first track of a profile CD of Lisa's work released in 2018 on Wergo . The work is performed by LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY, conducted by Gregor A. Mayrhofer This episode is released a few days before the 2022 edition of t...

Composer Catherine Lamb and electronic musicians Bryan Eubanks and Xavier Lopez discuss the release Wave/Forming (astrum) , which was mixed and mastered by Newton Armstrong and released on the All that Dust label. Also check out the duo's 2021-release "Natural Realms" here . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Composer, singer, and bandleader Ted Hearne talks about his album Place. The episode includes 2 of the 19 parts from this work: "Boundary" and "What about my son?" Place conceived by Ted Hearne, Saul Williams and Patricia McGregor Video version of Place : https://vimeo.com/426800787 Released on New Amsterdam Records (2020) Taylor Levine, electric guitar Braylon Lacy, electric bass guitar RC Willia...

Producer Ian Brennan speaks about the Yanna Momina's album Afar Ways , the 10th release in Glitterbeat’s “Hidden Musics” series. Afar Ways was recorded live in a stilt-hut in Djibouti in the spring of 2018, and may be purchased here: https://yannamomina.bandcamp.com/album/afar-ways https://glitterbeat.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anders Førisdal from asamisimasa talks about the release Spätstil , with music by Trond Reinholdtsen . The albums was released as gatefold vinyl in September 2022, and may be purchased here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

London based electronic music composer Giacomo Fargion discusses Sixty Miniatures . The project features 60x1 minute pieces that are heard on a purpose built website and encountered in a random order. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.