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Written conversations with working musicians — considered questions, answered in the artist’s own time, published in four languages.
Interview Reviews & Interviews 27 min read
Ozzy Moysey on running a sixteen-piece orchestra out of Leeds: the arithmetic behind what he lets himself write, why he composes for people rather than instruments, and what a conductor's hand is really saying.
Interview Reviews & Interviews 18 min read
The Australian fingerstyle master — one man, one guitar, a whole band at once — on Chet Atkins and the CGP title, keeping the risk alive, a childhood on the road, getting sober, and turning seventy-one, in the week of his Vilnius concert.
Interview Reviews & Interviews 10 min read
The Japanese composer Yasuhiko Fukuzono, who records as aus, on making Everis from what a theft left behind: field recordings as the sediment of time, the koto's brief decay, and why the relationships between sounds matter more than any single one.
Interview Reviews & Interviews 13 min read
The British cellist and composer on whole worlds from a single instrument, the scrapes and breath a cleaner mix would erase, what recomposing Bach taught him, and why music may be one of the last spaces where listening survives.
Interview Reviews & Interviews 9 min read
The Grammy-nominated Argentine cellist on Solo, his first record for unaccompanied cello — the mirror of a single line, the tango in his blood, the album he once lost to theft, and the story he hopes comes to belong to the listener.