modern composition

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To Participate More Fully in the World ~ An Interview With Mario Diaz de Leon

Photograph by Ebru Yildiz, courtesy Ramp Global Mario Diaz de Leon is an artist and professor from the US who has worked across different musical

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Polarity is a different but no less engaging album from William Ryan Fritch, the first of a trilogy addressing the planet’s water crisis.

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It would have been easy for us to pack our Top Ten Albums of 2023 with works of modern composition, as the field is so fertile at this time of

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This year, artists surprised us by not only making memorable music, but experimenting with the form of presentation. One composer recorded an album

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There was a time when the apocalypse seemed far enough away that movies like The Road and series like The Walking Dead were, whilst undoubtedly

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Those who follow Jameson Nathan Jones‘s popular and highly amusing YouTube channel already know he’s an avid collector of synthesisers with a

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What is the Missing Island? Snowdrops dances around the title, touching on multiple themes: the elements, the unconscious, the search for meaning

1 min read 2022-11-22 07:01:37

Anna Rose Carter, Ed Hamilton and Alex Kozobolis join forces as To Move, their self-titled album an invitation to muse on the nature of change and

2 min read 2022-11-19 07:01:26

Silence. A piano melody outlines a familiar shape: dominant start, rising and settling on the tonic. A second phrase: a drop down low, followed by a

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We’re extraordinarily lucky to have Vanessa Wagner. A first class pianist capable of genuine virtuosity, she chooses to use her exquisite

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Many composers have tried to emulate the composing spirit of Jóhann Jóhannsson, but few have done so as convincingly as Jonas Colstrup. Having

2 min read 2022-11-12 07:01:00

Quartets: One-Four is a dream come true for Peter Gregson, a long-time goal achieved. From 2016-17, the cellist released a pair of string quartet

2 min read 2022-11-11 07:01:39

A perennial part of the human experience is trying to figure out an answer to a superficially simple question: “Who am I?” Philosophers and

2 min read 2022-10-31 07:01:56

With Theory of Becoming, the Ukrainian-Russian composer Evgueni Galpertine has come full circle. He was once asked to write film music based on

2 min read 2022-10-31 07:01:56

With Theory of Becoming, the Ukrainian-Russian composer Evgueni Galperine has come full circle. He was once asked to write film music based on a