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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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. …

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…

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…