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·Nov 30

Composers on their disabilities: Georgia Scott on cerebral palsy

Watch my interview with Australian contemporary art music composer Georgia Scott on her cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy is a group of disorders that affect a person’s ability to move and maintain balance and posture. Georgia’s music aims to explore identity and lived experience. Georgia has worked with the Sydney, Tasmanian…

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Composers on their disabilities: Georgia Scott on cerebral palsy
Composers on their disabilities: Georgia Scott on cerebral palsy
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·Nov 28

Composers on their disabilities: Marco Donnarumma on deafness

Watch my interview with Marco Donnarumma on his deafness. He is a Berlin-based artist, performer, stage director, and scholar weaving together contemporary performance, new media art, and interactive computer music since the early 2000s. Touring consistently for the past fifteen years across major and independent theaters, concert halls, festivals, and…

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Composers on their disabilities: Marco Donnarumma on deafness
Composers on their disabilities: Marco Donnarumma on deafness
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Nov 25

Composers on their disabilities: Carlie Schoonees on autism spectrum disorder

Read my interview with Carlie Schoonees on how autism spectrum disorder shapes her music life. She is a South African composer based in Cologne. Please read my interviews with JĀNIS PETRAŠKEVIČS, CARLIE SCHOONEES, BENJAMIN STAERN, AILÍS NÍ RÍAIN, MARCO DONNARUMMA, and GEORGIA SCOTT in POSITIONEN print version (in German). These…

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Composers on their disabilities: Carlie Schoonees on autism spectrum disorder
Composers on their disabilities: Carlie Schoonees on autism spectrum disorder
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·Nov 23

Composers on their disabilities: Benjamin Staern on synaesthesia

Watch my interview with contemporary art music composer Benjamin Staern on his synaesthesia. He has sound-color synesthesia where certain sounds or music might evoke the perception of colors or shapes. Benjamin Staern (b. 1978) has established himself as one of the leading Scandinavian composers of the younger generation and the…

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Composers on their disabilities: Benjamin Staern on synaesthesia
Composers on their disabilities: Benjamin Staern on synaesthesia
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·Nov 15

Composers on their disabilities: Jānis Petraškevičs on stuttering

Read my interview with contemporary art music composer Jānis Petraškevičs who has stuttering. He lives and works in Rīga, works for acoustic instrumentations. His music has been performed in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK, including once…

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Composers on their disabilities: Jānis Petraškevičs on stuttering
Composers on their disabilities: Jānis Petraškevičs on stuttering
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·Mar 25

Iwan Gunawan: Music as intercultural creativity

Read my interview with Iwan Gunawan. He is an Indonesian composer and teacher from Bandung. The composer represents his cultural identity by using various instruments and techniques that are widely used in his country or the region, citing gamelan as one of the most important elements in his work. Gunawan…

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Iwan Gunawan: Music as intercultural creativity
Iwan Gunawan: Music as intercultural creativity
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·Feb 14

Tomomi Adachi: Music of sound poetry

Read my interview with Japanese contemporary art music composer Tomomi Adachi. He describes himself as a performer and a composer primarily, but also as a sound poet, because many of his works are connected with the sound of language as well as visual arts. Adachi believes that music is an…

Contemporary Music

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Tomomi Adachi: Music of sound poetry
Tomomi Adachi: Music of sound poetry
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·Jan 30

Alexander Schubert on Sleep Laboratory

Watch my interview with contemporary music composer Alexander Schubert on his piece Sleep Laboratory. It is a 60-minute immersive participatory VR installation piece for ensemble musicians/performers and VR Video. It mimics a group sleeping session based on topics of embodiment, virtuality, and simulation. …

Contemporary Music

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Alexander Schubert on Sleep Laboratory
Alexander Schubert on Sleep Laboratory
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·Jan 25

Marco Donnarumma: Body as music instrument

Read my interview with Marco Donnarumma. He is an Italian composer who has spent years of his musical journey in the UK and Germany. The composer has a degenerative condition which, since ten years, is making him progressively deaf. Donnarumma uses his body as a musical instrument with the extension…

New Music

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Marco Donnarumma: Body as music instrument
Marco Donnarumma: Body as music instrument
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·Jan 21

Grace Oforka: African music with classical instruments

Watch my interview with an African (Nigerian) Art Composer, Vocal Coach, and Art Musician Grace Oforka. She has written numerous works ranging from solo Instruments, chamber works, orchestra, songwriting, and operas. Her works have been commissioned, premiered, and performed at Doctoral and masters recitals at several Music departments at Universities…

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Grace Oforka: African music with classical instruments
Grace Oforka: African music with classical instruments
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