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Music For Writers: Bryce Dessner Strikes A New Chord Stick
Bryce Dessner. Image: Shervin Lainez ‘Dreaming Of Music For There Wasn’t An Instrument’ When you listen to Bryce Dessner’s newly released recording of Music For Wood And Strings, you’re hearing sounds...
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Music For Writers: John Supko’s ‘Rest’ For Musicians
John Supko / Image: Kyle Yamakawa ‘The Algebraic Picture Of My Self And Soul’ In last week’s Music for Writers interview with Bryce Dessner (for his Music For Wood and Strings), the composer told us: I...
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Music For Writers: Michel van der Aa’s ‘Hovering’ Flight
Michel van der Aa / Image: Marco Borggreve ‘I’m An Art Omnivore’ She meets herself again and again and again. Indeed there are three of her. There appear to be three vertically accessed underground...
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Music For Writers: Lisa Bielawa’s Emotional Economy
Lisa Bielawa at Berlin’s Tempelhof. Image: Daniel Clark ‘Communion With Music And Audience’ Lisa Bielawa at Crissy Field in San Francisco. Image: Anastasia Chernyavsky When I last spoke with composer...
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Music For Writers: Laura Karpman’s ‘Your Mama’
Laura Karpman / Image: Histeria Producciones ‘Conversation Between Black And White America’ In one of the most effective instances of a difficult form to pull off, composer Laura Karpman lets you know...
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Music For Writers: Tristan Perich’s Percussionists, Human And Not
Tristan Perich / Courtesy of the composer ‘Blur And Back Again’ When composer Tristan Perich puts his work Parallels on its feet, one of the results is something that Q2 Music’s Hannis Brown correctly...
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Music For Writers: Philip Glass’‘Not-Ninth’ Symphony
Image provided by Richard Guerin, PhilipGlass.com The Composer Calls It His ‘Not-Nine Symphony So maybe the new weekly blog post coming to PhilipGlass.com on Mondays won’t be the first stop every...
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Music For Writers: Matt Haimovitz’s Cello Solos Go Into ‘Orbit’
Matt Haimovitz. Image: Steph Mackinnon Four Hours: ‘A Small Part Of The Repertoire’ You could do worse than play a 1710 cello made by the Venetian luthier Matteo Goffriller, but what Matt Haimover now...
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Music For Writers: Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Light Air Of Restraint
Anna Thorvaldsdottir / Image: Hrafn Asgeirsson ‘To Perform The Audio Visually’ As you’ll know if you’ve been following our Music for Writers series here at Thought Catalog, we seem to be in a golden...
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Music For Writers: A Ravishing Fever Dream From Sarah Kirkland Snider And...
Sarah Kirkland Snider. Image: Willy Somma ‘Ghostly Chorus’ Childhood trauma is such alluring material for writers. It’s also fiendishly hard to render it with real impact. Kids’ frights tend to fall...
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Music For Writers: Jodie Landau In Iceland, Romancing ‘You’
Jodie Landau. Image: Hörður Sveinsson ‘You’re The Choice I Make’ Let me offer you some artful goosebumps. This is a man at 23 speaking to you about what happens when he sings his music: All of my...
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Nadia Sirota: New Music’s Most Articulate Ambassador
Nadia Sirota. Image: Samantha West On Traveling Musicans And Deep Woods Off In this chance to talk to globe-trotting violist Nadia Sirota for #MusicForWriters, we found her going beyond her usual stage...
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Scott Wheeler: ‘Deeply Emotionally Invested’
Scott Wheeler. Image: Susan Wilson ‘You Can Get All Balled Up’ Scott Wheeler’s music captures the American contemporary classical idiom with commanding grace. He can speak to us in searing orchestral...
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Michel van der Aa: ‘No Lines To Cross Over Anymore’
Michel van der Aa. Image: Marco Borggreve ‘We Must Use Everything We See And Hear’ Dutch composer-filmmaker Michel van der Aa’s The Book of Sand is a digital, interactive song cycle created to live...
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Gity Razaz: ‘The Emotional Map’ Of A Composer’s Voice
Gity Razaz. Image provided by the composer ‘Music As Seeing/Feeling’ Composer Gity Razaz started playing piano at age 7, started writing music when she was 9—”I didn’t even know what composition was at...
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Matthew Guard’s Skylark Ascending: Music To Die To
‘End Of Life Visions And Meditations’ As our colleague Doyle Armbrust is writing over at New York Public Radio’s and WQXR Q2 Music, it’s just too bad that when your time comes to leave this Earth, you...
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Mehmet Ali Sanlikol: ‘Reconstructing My Identity’ In Music
Composer Mehmet Ali Sanlikol is a singer and instrumentalist who has performed in his own “coffeehouse opera,” “Othello In The Seraglio.” Image: Provided by the composer ‘Those Who Don’t Know Us’ Sufi,...
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Kronos’ David Harrington: ‘There Is No Such Thing As Easy Music’
From left, the Kronos Quartet is Sunny Yang (cello), Hank Dutt (viola), David Harrington (violin and founding artistic director), and John Sherba (violin). Image: Jay Blakesberg Kronos: Commissioning...
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Matthew Welch, Bagpiper and Composer: ‘My Music Sounds Like An Optimistic...
Matthew Welch. Image: Michael Weintrob The Sound ‘Continues To Move In Space’ An avant-garde bagpiper may not be the guy you expect to meet, even here at our eclectic Music for Writers. But last week,...
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Cellist Michael Nicolas In Transition: ‘All Art Is Technology’
Michael Nicolas. Image: Erin Baiano ‘Something From Deep Down Inside’ “This is a new thing for me. I’ve been a freelancer in New York since graduating” from Juilliard. “I had an orchestral job right...
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