Soundmaking

Composer Richard Baker discusses the work "Motet" from his March 2024 NMC release The Tyranny of Fun

Composer Henrik Hellstenius presents his latest album Public Behaviour released in February 2024 on BIS Records.

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.

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-25https://www.aaronwyanski.com/

Composer Jonah Haven discusses the track Gasser from his recent portrait release on WERGO.

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: electronic arrangements of various prepared piano works by John Cage.He performs in groups such as Apartment House, Plus-Minus Ensemble and WeSpoke, and has appeared in many new music festivals including Audiograft, Borealis, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, LCMF, MaerzMusik, ISCM World Music Days, Ultima; in series such as Kammer Klang, Music We’d Like To Hear and NonClassical; on BBC Radio and recording labels Another Timbre and Wirripang.Kerry studied piano with Stephanie McCallum in Sydney and completed a doctorate at the Royal College of Music in London studying piano with Andrew Ball. He is also Director of Music of Grace Church Hackney, where they are happy to use ancient chants, traditional hymns and new works with choirs, bands, electronics, objects and the like.

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); TRAMA Festival de Artes Performativas (Porto); Teatr Dramatyczny Migracje Festiwal (Warsaw); La Bâtie - Festival de Genève; and Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music.https://www.julianasnapper.com/?pg=work-you-who-will-emerge-from-the-flood

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.