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. …

Watch my interview with Marco Donnarumma. 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. He manipulates bodies, creates choreographies, engineers machines, and composes sounds, thus combining disciplines, media, and emerging technologies into an…

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…

Watch my interview with a Puerto Rican-born composer and multi-instrumentalist Angélica Negrón. She writes music for voices, orchestras, and films as well as robots, toys, and plants. Angélica lives in Brooklyn, where she’s always looking for ways to incorporate her love of drag, comedy, and the natural world into her work. Her recent commissions include works for Opera Philadelphia, the LA Philharmonic, the NY Philharmonic, the Seattle Symphony, Sō Percussion, Kronos Quartet, Roomful of Teeth, and an original score for the HBO docuseries Menudo: Forever Young. She regularly performs a solo show and is a founding member of the tropical electronic band Balún. As an educator, Angélica has been a teaching artist with NY Philharmonic’s Very Young Composers program (2013–2021) and with Lincoln Center Education (2014–2018).

Watch my interview with Norwegian contemporary art music composer and vocalist Trond Reinholdtsen. He creates multimedia music with his own music theatre methodology. He has developed himself in a performative direction; conventional music passages are fused with performance-based forms of expression including essayistic interpretations, live-camera filming, and elements including statistical…

Watch my interview with contemporary art music composer Natacha Diels about her piece “The God-Fearing Woodsman”. The God-Fearing Woodsman is both a commentary on the human ability to derive meaning from repetition and an exploration of the meaning. …

Watch my interviews with Nigerian composer, arranger, teacher, songwriter, and choirmaster Echie Israel Uchenna. He specializes in classical music composition. His love for Church music led him to be the first Nigerian to write an oratorio. He currently works at St.Albert Major Seminary, Idowu-Offonran, Abeokuta, Ogun state, Nigeria where he teaches the theory of music and sacred music. He has taught music in several schools, Churches, and Chorale groups. He is the founder of the Resonate Chorale group. He wrote the book “GREGORIAN CHANTS MADE EASY”, which is widely used in most Catholic churches today.

Watch my interview with an experimental composer Viola Yip on her work Bulbble. It is an electronic DIY instrument that allows music created from the pulse-timbre continuum of acoustic sounds that are generated from relays, the electromagnetic relationships between relays as well as incorporating pulses of relays, electricity, lights, and…

Watch my interview with new music composer Marko Ciciliani on his work “11 Rooms”. It is a concert work that expands beyond the concert space. While it already starts in the entrance hall in front of the auditorium, it ends in the virtual space by inviting the audience to load…