🌹 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

"So I’m connected to that aspect of looking at the experimental world; making it accessible and lyrical and adding a splash of soul and jazzier harmonies. It has to move me — I have to feel something." buff.ly/4dMNUU7 Photo by Brian ‘B+’ Cross

"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

"It’s such a challenge when you are writing a piece with new tonalities because [of] the time you need to immerse yourself in that soundworld. With microtonality, you can know it abstractly, but it is a different matter to really implement it." buff.ly/4dsVeoi

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

Bobbie-Jane Gardner is a composer and arranger based in Birmingham, UK. Her music, described as “harmonically subtle and rhythmically agile”, often takes as inspiration the sound worlds of jazz, soul and funk. Read our interview with Bobbie here: buff.ly/4dsVeoi

"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

"I often find that I’m affected by a good piece of theatre in a way that I am not in film. Sometimes, I will walk away from a truly excellent piece of theatre in disbelief that it’s not real at all — or it is real, in a deeply personal way." buff.ly/4coLVF2

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

"I’m connected to that aspect of looking at the experimental world; making it accessible and lyrical and adding a splash of soul and jazzier harmonies. It has to move me — I have to feel something." buff.ly/4dsVeoi

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

“I felt this enhanced passion for bringing people together into different kinds of spaces; not only in performing music, but in talking about why we play this music, and talking about why we work with these people. How we work together as a group.” buff.ly/3Upbboo