Legendary guitarist, composer, songwriter, producer and record label mogul Jim O’Rourke returns to the Samuel Andreyev Podcast to discuss artists who have influenced him, why he is not thrilled with his album ‘Eureka’, and much more. SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEW ALBUM https://divineartrecords.com/recording/samuel-andreyev-in-glow-of-like-seclusion/ LINKS YouTube channel Official Website Twitter Instagram Edition Impronta, publisher of Samuel Andreyev’s...

Dr Lola Salem graduated from the École Normale Supérieure, Lyon, in 2015 (MA Musicology), the Sorbonne in 2018 (MA Aesthetics and Philosophy of Arts) and the University of Oxford in 2023 (D.Phil. Musicology). Her academic research lies in the fields of 17-18th centuries opera, performers, patronage and material conditions, with a specific focus on law. In 2018, one of her papers won the Young Scholar Prize at the STIMU Symposium, Utrecht. Since 2018, Lola has taught Music undergraduates...

Matthew Sheeran is a UK-based composer, violinist and arranger. His new album, arranging music by the American microtonal composer Easley Blackwood, has just been released and can be found at the link below. This interview was filmed on December 18, 2023. SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEW ALBUM https://divineartrecords.com/recording/samuel-andreyev-in-glow-of-like-seclusion/ LINKS YouTube channel Official Website Twitter Instagram Edition Impronta, publisher of...

Ian Pace is a pianist, musicologist and Professor of Music, Culture and Society at City, University of London. This is his third appearance on the Samuel Andreyev Podcast. IAN PACE’S WEBSITE https://ianpace.com/ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEW ALBUM https://divineartrecords.com/recording/samuel-andreyev-in-glow-of-like-seclusion/ LINKS YouTube channel Official Website Twitter Instagram Edition Impronta, publisher of Samuel Andreyev’s scores EPISODE...

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Gary Barwin is a novelist, composer, poet. This conversation was recorded 4 December 2023 via zoom. GARY BARWIN WEBSITE https://garybarwin.com/bio/ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEW ALBUM https://divineartrecords.com/recording/samuel-andreyev-in-glow-of-like-seclusion/ LINKS YouTube channel Official Website Twitter Instagram Edition Impronta, publisher of Samuel Andreyev’s scores EPISODE CREDITS Post production: Philippe Gosselin Podcast artwork photograph ©...

Jim O’Rourke is a composer, singer-songwriter, producer, archivist, and former member of Sonic Youth. JIM O’ROURKE ON BANDCAMP https://steamroom.bandcamp.com/ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEW ALBUM https://divineartrecords.com/recording/samuel-andreyev-in-glow-of-like-seclusion/ LINKS YouTube channel Official Website Twitter Instagram Edition Impronta, publisher of Samuel Andreyev’s scores EPISODE CREDITS Post production: Philippe Gosselin Podcast artwork...

I had an impromptu discussion with British composer Julian Anderson about harmony. It was recorded in the Hotel de l’Hermitage in Monte Carlo, Monaco, on 11 October 2023. SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox ORDER SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEWEST RELEASE In Glow of Like Seclusion LINKS YouTube channel Official Website Twitter Instagram Edition Impronta, publisher of Samuel Andreyev’s scores EPISODE CREDITS Podcast artwork photograph © 2019 Philippe Stirnweiss Support the show

**EPISODE IN FRENCH / EPISODE EN FRANÇAIS** Né en 1960, Jean-Luc Hervé fait ses études au Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de Paris avec Gérard Grisey. Il y obtient un premier prix de composition. Sa thèse de doctorat d’esthétique ainsi qu’une recherche menée à l’IRCAM seront l’occasion d’une réflexion théorique sur son travail de compositeur, sa résidence à la Villa Kujoyama de Kyoto un tournant décisif dans son œuvre. Sa pièce pour orchestre Ciels a obtenu le prix Goffredo Petrassi en...

Dr. Tyler Foster is a mathematician and composer working in machine learning. This conversation was recorded over Zoom on March 23rd, 2023. MUSIC EXCERPTS HEARD IN THIS PODCAST, IN ORDER: Voice Leading — Beatmatching Study This Brutal World HEAR TYLER FOSTER’S MUSIC https://soundcloud.com/tyler-foster SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox ORDER SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEWEST RELEASE Iridescent Notation LINKS YouTube channel Official Website Twitter Instagram Edition Impronta, publisher of...

Laurence Osborn (b. 1989) is a British composer currently based in London. His music has been commissioned and/or programmed by the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Modern, Britten Sinfonia, The Riot Ensemble, Manchester Collective, 12 Ensemble, GBSR Duo, Ensemble Klang, and Ensemble 360, among others. He has also written for solo performers Sarah Dacey, Mahan Esfahani, Bartosz Glowacki, Zubin Kanga, Lore Lixenberg,...

Robin Holloway is a British composer and professor at the University of Cambridge. This conversation was filmed at the composer’s home in Cambridge on 25 January 2023. SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox ORDER SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEWEST RELEASE Iridescent Notation LINKS YouTube channel Official Website Twitter Instagram Edition Impronta, publisher of Samuel Andreyev’s scores EPISODE CREDITS Post production: Arkadiusz Buchala Podcast artwork photograph © 2019 Philippe Stirnweiss Support...

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I spoke with four members of Ensemble Proton Bern immediately following a recording session for my composition ‘Sonata da Camera’ at the SRF Radiostudio in Zürich, Switzerland on 19 June 2022. We talked about our forthcoming album with conductor Luigi Gaggero, how our collaboration has evolved over the past 10 years, the advantages and disadvantages of CDs vs vinyl, the peculiar challenges involved in performing contemporary repertoire, and more. Episode guests: Jan-Filip Ťupa, cellist Coco...

Michael Finnissy is a British composer and pianist. This conversation was recorded via Zoom on 27 April 2022. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:12 The composition process 00:06:38 Serialism 00:10:05 MF’s critique of Grand narratives 00:13:30 On teaching 00:27:36 On originality 00:38:36 On being an outsider 00:48:13 Present-day obsessions 00:52:13:08 Microtonality 00:55:16:22 Instrumentation 01:00:47:13 How MF works with pitch 01:19:09:16 Patreon question: Drawing inspiration from...

Ian Pace is a pianist, musicologist and professor at City, University of London. This is his second appearance on the Samuel Andreyev Podcast. The conversation was recorded in London, UK on 5 April 2022. IAN PACE WEBSITE https://ianpace.com/sample-page/ FOLLOW IAN PACE ON TWITTER https://twitter.com/ianpacemain?s=20&t=DUDr8v0n9oLmpj0SpOD40Q IAN PACE WRITINGS https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/view/creators_id/ian=2Epace=2E1.html SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox ORDER SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S...

**EPISODE IN FRENCH / EPISODE EN FRANÇAIS** Hugues Dufourt privilégie les continuités et les lentes transformations d'un discours musical qui n'est que rarement interrompu. Il conçoit des formes par évolution de masses et travaille sur les notions de seuils, d'oscillations, d'interférences et de processus orientés. Pionnier du mouvement spectral, il lui accorde toutefois une définition plus large, cherchant à mettre en valeur l'instabilité que le timbre introduit dans l'orchestration. Sa...

Born in Donetsk (Ukraine), Dina Pysarenko is a pianist, accompanist at the National Tchaikovsky Music Academy of Ukraine, soloist of the Ukho Ensemble Kyiv and a laureate of the Levko Revutsky Award (2014) as well as the 6th International S. Prokofiev Competition (Saint-Petersburg, 2013). While still studying at the Donetsk Specialized Music School for gifted children, Dina was twice a laureate of the International Competition in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz in Kyiv. She graduated with Honours...

00:00 Introduction 00:41 Pieces that changed my life 06:04 Thoughts on the ‘saturation’ movement 08:48 Music and other art forms 11:38 Is western music shallow? 14:59 Beauty and modernism 17:46 Are major keys happy and minor keys sad? 20:11 Music and the body 23:54 The techniques of today 26:40 Early modernist harmony 30:55 Finding your voice 32:03 What is good counterpoint? 34:05 Composition vs. tradition 36:47 Avant-garde composers and the listening experience 38:51 Will you make another...

Kenneth Goldsmith is an American poet. His writing has been called some of the most exhaustive and beautiful collage work yet produced in poetry by Publishers Weekly. He is the founding editor of UbuWeb, and is a senior editor of PennSound at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches. He hosted a weekly radio show at WFMU from 1995 until june 2010. He has published many books of poetry, notably Fidget, Soliloquy, Day, and his American trilogy.  He is the editor of I’ll Be Your Mirror,...

Alexander Goehr is a composer for whom the conventional labels of new music seem increasingly inadequate. A latent nonconformism is already suggested by the essential biographical facts. He was born in Berlin in 1932, son of the conductor and Schoenberg pupil Walter Goehr. Still in his early twenties, he emerged as a key figure in the celebrated ‘Manchester School’ of post-war British composers. In 1955-56 he joined Oliver Messiaen’s masterclass in Paris. Thereafter, he worked as a BBC...

Nuria Schoenberg-Nono was born in Barcelona in 1932 to parents Arnold and Gertrud Schoenberg. She grew up in Los Angeles, California, and settled to Europe in 1954, marrying the composer Luigi Nono. In 1993 she founded the Luigi Nono Archive, and today she is president of the Board of the Arnold Schoenberg Centre in Vienna. Her experience is unique, in that the has been close to two major 20th century composers, both of whom can be said to have had a lasting impact on the music of our time....

The music of Augusta Read Thomas has been performed all over the world by conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Mstislav Rostropovich, Seiji Ozawa, Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin, Vimbayi Kaziboni, Christoph Eschenbach and many others. She is Vice President for Music at The American Academy of Arts and Letters, among many other distinctions, and is a long-standing, exemplary citizen of the profession at large supporting the work of others. Her music is published by G Schirmer...