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Let's talk with Paul Clouvel : about music streaming
01/12/2023
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Let’s talk with Paul Clouvel (part 1 : about streaming revenues)

We discuss different subjects such as streaming, gender equality in music, the life of a label today and other subjects with Paul Clouvel, composer, performer and especially the one who runs Elektramusic. Let's start with a subject that annoys many: revenue from music streaming. Elektramusic is a very active label online. Do you have a particular link to the internet? Yes from the start. For me the internet was emancipation. At the time, I was close to a major contemporary music institution in a small town in France. This kind of institution which has total contempt for the young composers that we were at the time. We were scheduled for their festival on Thursday...

23/05/2023
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James O’Callaghan interview on our Youtube channel

A meeting in Berlin with the Canadian composer James O'Callaghan. James explains his links with electroacoustic music, his way of working, how concert is important, and also presents his work "Reasons" for amplified book and electronics. https://www.youtube.com/embed/JUuJ39wT0LA ...

23/05/2023
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Juliana Hodkinson – Insight Music

In this episode of Insight Music, music curator Wioleta Zochowska meets composer Juliana Hodkinson at Musikbrauerei in Berlin. Juliana is known for works that combine acoustic instruments, electronics, field recordings and installation and visual elements. https://www.youtube.com/embed/02e01k5MqbY ...

23/05/2023
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 Ricardo Eizirik

In this second episode of Insight Music, music curator Wioleta Zochowska meets composer Ricardo Eizirik at Betahaus in Berlin. Ricardo Eizirik speaks about his musical life and practice as a composer, and also introduces his piece "Placeholder" https://www.youtube.com/embed/cc7bALhU7IA ...

23/05/2023
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Meet Eda Er on our Youtube channel

Let's meet composer Eda Er in Berlin. Eda is a musician born in Turkey and currently living in California. She tells us about her work, her relationship to other arts, and her collaboration within the Duo Esse. https://www.youtube.com/embed/AxXEKXrZ-lA ...

28/07/2022
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Please meet… Tiri Carreras and his album “Aquasmatique”!

Drummer and improviser, Tiri Carreras started practicing the instrument as a teenager, playing immediately in a band. After a rocky start, Tiri turned to jazz and then to free improvisation.  Member of the duo zBlug, Tiri Carreras has composed this new album as a solo artist. Discover his new album here ! When and how did you discover contemporary music? Contemporary music came to me by chance through encounters. Even if I went through the conservatory, I did not follow a very advanced academic training. I mostly learned by playing in groups, first pop/rock, then jazz and finally free-jazz. So I had no initial training in contemporary music.It is at the beginning of...

13/06/2022
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Rediscover… Gilles Fresnais and his single “Sonner-résonner”

Paris-born composer Gilles Fresnais studied acoustic and sound engineering. He attended the audio mixing of the Alain Robbe-Grillet film Trans-EuropExpress, performed by Michel Fano, which showed him the innate beauty of natural and ”concrete” sounds. Discover his new single here ! Why did you choose to release an isolated piece named "Sonner-résonner"? Sonner-Résonner was composed differently from the other pieces in my Des sons de la nature album. While the other pieces were all composed with sound objects sourced from nature, such as rocks, water, wind, or whale and bird songs, this was not the case for Sonner-Résonner. The piece was created using sounds from two man-made objects: a mixing bowl and a...

30/05/2022
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Learn more about… Doriene Marselje – “in a landscape”

Doriene Marselje has been surrounded by music since before she was even born so naturally she started playing an instrument at a very young age. Much to her parents’ delight she chose the harp! Doriene Marselje’s career as a soloist includes performances in some of the most prestigious concert halls in The Netherlands and in various countries around Europe.  Discover her new album here ! Vinyl release of in a landscape: Doriene Marselje, with the support of Elektramusic, is thrilled to announce the launch of a crowdfunding campaign to produce vinyl records of in a...

30/05/2022
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News from… José Gallardo Arbeláez and his album “Resonancias”

José Gallardo Arbeláez is a composer-Medellín EAFIT University. He graduated from the National University of Colombia with a Master of Aesthetics. He has composed for various ensembles, especially dedicated to experimenting with computer generated music and traditional instruments. Discover his new album here ! What was your first approach to contemporary/electroacoustic music and how did you start doing it? My first approach was listening to music from Xenakis, Varese, and latin american composers like: Adina Izarra, Jacqueline Nova, Juan Reyes. I was 14 or 15 years old and I was studying classical guitar at the University of Antioquia, then I tried to study these techniques with a tape recording and cakewalk in...

08/04/2022
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Explore… Thu Bird and her album “black mind”

As Thu bird, composer Tuce Alba creates spatial and temporal spaces in different ways in the music with using analogue synthesizers, instruments, field recordings, all kinds of tools that break the silence that turns into sound. Discover her new album here ! How did you get interested in and start doing experimental music?   I have been into music since my childhood. That's why sound expression has become a normal activity for me in the flow of life. It just made me concentrate on it more than anything else I've ever done. While my search for sound was in traditional music, it turned into electronic music, which removes infinity and instrument boundaries. I try...