Watch my interview with the contemporary music composer Tristan Coelho who lives in Sydney (Australia). He writes music largely inspired by nature or our digital, data-driven world. Tristan graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2006 with the University Medal and then went on to study at the Royal College of Music from 2007–2008 on a full scholarship. He has studied composition formally with Michael Smetanin, Damien Ricketson, Mary Finsterer, Trevor Pearce and David Sawer, and piano with Stephanie McCallum. As a music educator, Tristan has taught the full spectrum of ages and abilities, writes works for student ensembles and runs creative music workshops.

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Watch my interview with an Egyptian new music composer Kholoud Adal Stbsa. She is an Egyptian artist who is working as a composer, singer, actress, dancer, dubbing actress and director. She is studying composition at the High Arabic Music Institute, Academic of Arts. Also, she won CGC (Cairo Collective Guitar) competition for young Egyptian composers at American University Cairo in May 2018. She likes to merge several genres like Jazz, Egyptian scales and moods, and oriental.

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Watch my interview with contemporary music composer Toru Iwatake, who lives in Japan. He is a cyber-media composer and Professor Emeritus of Computer Music at Keio University. He has composed music for various ensembles all over the world, e.g. US, Japan, Sweden, Greece, etc. He is the author of numerous books and research papers on computer music.

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Watch my interview with Amir Khalaf. He is a contemporary music composer from Cairo, Egypt. In his music, Amir explores the notion of deficiency and decay as well as the limited sonorities of musical instruments. He is interested to transform motion into sound objects by creating ephemeral and insufficient acoustic environments inspired by nature, folk music, and electronic music. He also works as a film composer and teaches film music at the British University in Cairo.

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Watch my interview with Hongshuo Fan 范弘硕. He is a Chinese cross-disciplinary composer, new media artist and creative programmer. His work has involved various real-time interactive multimedia contents, such as acoustic instruments, live electronics, generative visuals, light, and body movements. His research and creative interest focus on the fusion of traditional culture and cutting-edge technology in the form of contemporary music. His output spans chamber music, live interactive electronics, installations, and audio-visual works. His works have been presented at many international events and festivals (ICMC, AIMC, NIME, etc.). He was a faculty of the Electronic Music Department at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music and a member of the Sichuan Key Laboratory of Digital Media Arts.

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