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🌹 NEW PRXLUDES OUT NOW: AUGUST 2024 🌹Three new interviews with incredibly exciting composers in the new music sphere, including Anna Semple #BobbieJaneGardner and Will Gardner 🌹 Read now: buff.ly/3yIZvVq
Check out Anna Semple's new interview on PRXLUDES - and hear her work on St John's College Choir's new album, Magnificat 4, out now on Signum Classics 🎶
Published the August issue of PRXLUDES today 🎉 an absolute pleasure to chat with wonderful composers Anna Semple and Will Gardner for this, and read Patrick Ellis's incredible conversation with #BobbieJaneGardner 🙏✨ read now at: prxludes.net
"In terms of my compositional voice — I’m quite interested in line. When I was studying, I did a lot more of this — but I’d use line drawing as a fruitful stimulus for structuring, for getting an idea of what I wanted textures to be." Anna Semple buff.ly/3WSXYV3
"Very simple chord progressions; with this slightly eerie nature to them, so that it isn’t pure repetition of things that have come before — it’s a genuine progression of them." Will Gardner buff.ly/4dEsbxW
Anna Semple (Anna Semple) is a London-based composer and singer. Anna’s work engages with her interests in music and gender, and explores processes of embodiment as a way of subverting the classic mind vs body/masculine vs feminine dichotomy: buff.ly/4dqY6lr
William Gardner's (Will Gardner) opera 'The Prisoner' performs TONIGHT 18:00 at the Britten Theatre, @RCMlondon as part of Tête à Tête 🎭 - learn more about William and the opera on PRXLUDES: buff.ly/3WYGero
🔥 This month, we published three new interviews with cutting-edge composers Anna Semple (Anna Semple), Bobbie-Jane Gardner, and William Gardner (Will Gardner) - read about all three of these stunning composers NOW on PRXLUDES: buff.ly/3yIZvVq
"In terms of my compositional voice — I’m quite interested in line. When I was studying, I did a lot more of this — but I’d use line drawing as a fruitful stimulus for structuring, for getting an idea of what I wanted textures to be." Anna Semple buff.ly/4dqY6lr
"For me, I want to approach writing an opera from the perspective of: what is the emotional state? What do I want the audience to feel, and what is that character feeling? So the instrumentation, the harmony — that has to come first." Will Gardner buff.ly/3WYGero
"The choral pieces I’ve found most artistically satisfying have been ones where it’s been almost entirely all unmetered. Maybe “aleatoric” isn’t the right word, but “free” — much more of a literal translation of these weaving lines." Anna Semple buff.ly/4dqY6lr
From the archives: British composer Christian Drew (Christian Drew) speaks about listening, subconsciousness, and composing from unreliable memory - learn more about Christian and his compositional process on PRXLUDES: buff.ly/3PO1Aoh
"When I was studying, I spent quite a lot of time thinking about embodied processes of writing. That’s where drawing came into things, and working with physical improvisation; seeing how that affected sound." Anna Semple buff.ly/4dqY6lr
William Gardner (Will Gardner) is an Anglo-Irish composer based in London. Known primarily for his operas, William's work blends lush liminal textures with expressive vocal writing - learn about more William on PRXLUDES: buff.ly/3WYGero