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11/12/2024

"I’m trying to take a bit of an autoethnographical approach with my doctorate. One way I’m doing that is getting more and more into my DJing. What I’ve been learning to do for the past two years [is] to incorporate that into my composing as much as possible. When you’re a DJ, you feel like you’re performing the music — even though you’re just pressing play." Composer Blasio Kavuma on incorporating DJing into compositional practice - read more on PRXLUDES:
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09/12/2024

In our most recent issue of PRXLUDES: composer Robert Crehan writes about balancing a career in composition with a full-time job in the civil service. Have a read now:
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07/12/2024

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06/12/2024

"At that time I felt a lot of rage which has now diffused — it was a rage which became focused on the ways things were taught and conceptualised, and the way that composing in particular was assumed to be." Composer Joanna Ward on pedagogical methods of composition - read now on PRXLUDES:
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05/12/2024

From the archives: our 2022 conversation with Greek composer and Royal Holloway graduate Roxani Chatzidimitriou - read now on PRXLUDES:
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04/12/2024

"This interplay between roles as “working professionals” and as composers can cultivate a creative fusion that, I believe, can strengthen artistic expression. Rather than diminishing our identities as composers or artists, our day jobs can actively support them." Robert Crehan reflects on balancing a career in composition with a full-time job:
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03/12/2024

"Classical music, for so long, was dance music. So many of the pieces we look up to as 'great works' have their origins in dance music of the time; yes, some of it was extracted into a more formalised concert setting, but so much of it would have still resonated as a form of dance music. So I was like: 'Well I listen to a lot of dance music — why am I not letting that into the weird soup of inspiration?'" Composer Alex Groves on incorporating electronic dance music into his compositional practice - read more on PRXLUDES:
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02/12/2024

Blasio Kavuma is a London-based composer, producer and DJ based exploring how to integrate Black musical thought into his work. He was a Royal Philharmonic Society Composer of 2023, a Nonclassical Associate Composer from 2019-21, and a Sound and Music Pathways composer in 2017; we spoke with Blasio about Afro-diasporic traditions, cyclical time frameworks, signifying, cultural associations, and more…
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30/11/2024

"[The band circuit] feels, in a strange way, a much healthier model. Almost everyone isn’t really talking about making lots of money, or any money, from touring or gigging, but they are dedicated to it and love it, and they find the time to practise — and most importantly, it forms a community." Composer Joanna Ward () on the DIY music scene - read more on PRXLUDES:
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29/11/2024

"I like how repeat performances are, necessarily, always different. That’s what makes music special — the living evolution of a piece." In August, we published our interview with British composer Anna Semple - have a read on PRXLUDES:
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28/11/2024

From the archives: our interview with electronic musician and audiovisual artist Sonia Killmann on interdisciplinarity and specialisation - read more on PRXLUDES:
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27/11/2024

"I still consider myself a composer at my core. Why should I feel any less of a composer simply because I have another job that supports my ability to create? I don’t believe that not being able to compose full-time makes anyone less of a composer. Not everyone has the luxury to dedicate time solely to composition and that’s perfectly valid." This month on PRXLUDES - Robert Crehan writes about balancing a composition career with a full-time job:
https://buff.ly/4fHu2TP

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26/11/2024

"You have a rhetorical dependence on what’s come before; maybe it’s music you heard growing up, or music that’s influenced the scene, or tradition, that you’re in. You take that — those ideas — and you repurpose them." Blasio Kavuma on incorporating signification and Afro-diasporic traditions into composition practice - read more on PRXLUDES:
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25/11/2024

Joanna Ward is a composer, performer, and writer from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, currently based in London. Joanna’s score-making ranges from the relatively conventional to the very experimental; she often works with pre-recorded audio, video, and in close collaboration with other musicians and artists - learn more about Joanna's pioneering artistic practice on PRXLUDES:
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23/11/2024

"In this work, political murder is exposed in all its inefficiency: in the attempt to erase an idea through the death of the opponent, the idea itself is certified as immortal and hereditary." Learn about Riccardo Perugini's opera 'Il pellegrino del nulla' on PRXLUDES - album out now on all streaming platforms ✨
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22/11/2024

"My identity as a composer isn’t tied to how often I compose or by my productivity within a specific timeframe. For me, being a composer is about an inner commitment to creativity and self-expression. Even if composing isn’t my primary occupation, it remains, and will always be, my current preoccupation." Robert Crehan writes about balancing a composition career with a full-time job:
https://buff.ly/3AMrd4C

21/11/2024

This month on PRXLUDES:

🔥 Joanna Ward on field recordings, "bean" pieces, writing for friends, and financial inequity in composition
🔥 Blasio Kavuma on Afro-diasporic traditions, cultural associations, and cyclical time frameworks
🔥 Robert Crehan writes about balancing a composition career with a full-time job

Read now on PRXLUDES: https://buff.ly/4fObRvq

20/11/2024

"It’s really engaging with the rawness of what I find fun and interesting. It’s extricating myself from this very intellectualised framework of composition." This month on PRXLUDES - pioneering composer Joanna Ward discusses working with graphic notation, field recordings, and playing in bands - read more on PRXLUDES:
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