Category: episodes
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VT016 | Liza Lim: sentience of nature
After Summer holidays, Vortex Temporum podcast is back. Current guest is Australian composer Liza Lim (Perth, 1966), who shares some episodes on the making of her most recent work for Lucerne Festival, Multispecies Knots of Ethical Time [2023]. Do have a listen to her reflections on her relation with ‘more than human’ nature! lizalimcomposer.com credits:Extinction…
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VT015 | Johannes Kreidler: this podcast will be replaced
German composer Johannes Kreidler (Esslingen, 1980) is a professor of music composition at the Hochschule für Musik Basel (Switzerland). In the 15th episode of Vortex Temporum podcast he reads us in a very personal manner three texts by three distinguished philosophers: Friedrich Nietzsche, Theodor W. Adorno and Gilles Deleuze. Find out what do they have…
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VT014 | Enno Poppe: vortex of knowledge
On the 14th episode of Vortex Temporum podcast, German composer Enno Poppe (Hemer/Sauerland, 1969) tells us about what interests him the most. In a conversation occurred at Casa da Música (Porto), the composer reveals how difficult it is for an artist to talk about something that has nothing to do with his own work and…
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VT013 | Kees Tazelaar: on Jaap Vink
The 13th episode of Vortex Temporum podcast brings us some thoughts of Dutch composer Kees Tazelaar (1962) on Jaap Vink (1930 – 2023). In this tribute to his first teacher, deceased last January, Tazelaar uses excerpts of two of his own works – Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande [2014] and Wellen…
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VT012 | Mary Jane Leach: acoustic highlights
The 12th episode of Vortex Temporum podcast brings us the New York based American composer Mary Jane Leach (1949), who shares some thoughts about acoustic spaces and her memories on occasional sound experiments. In the background we may listen to her organ work Pipe Dreams [1989], performed by herself. mjleach.com
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VT011 | Elżbieta Sikora: hunting sounds
In the 11st episode of this podcast, Elżbieta Sikora tells us about some of the adventures she lived while “hunting sounds”. One of them occurred in Portugal and resulted on a saxophone and tape piece commissioned by GRM that testifies the urgency of the projects that artists can’t give up. elzbietasikora.com credits: Lisboa, tramway 28…
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VT010 | Jan Martin Smørdal: as trying to
A co-founding member of Ensemble neoN, Jan Martin Smørdal (Horten, 1978) is a Norwegian composer and guitar player whose musical background is routed in jazz, pop and other non-classical expressions. He was awarded the prestigious Arne Nordheim Composers Prize in 2022.In the 10th episode of Vortex Temporum podcast, he reflects on some recurring topics in…
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VT009 | Karim Haddad: reflections
On the 9th episode of Vortex Temporum podcast, Paris based Lebanese composer Karim Haddad (Beirut, 1962) offers us a piece of sound art composed by a mixture of excerpts of his own music, reflecting on texts by Friedrich Hölderlin, Antonin Artaud and T. S. Eliot.The composer himself leaves us some notes to contextualise this episode.…
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VT007 | Dmitri Kourliandski: to lose a place
The first Vortex Temporum’s episode of 2023 (the seventh of this podcast series) bring us a few reflections on life and music by the Russian composer Dmitri Kourliandski (Moscow, 1976), living in France since last year. His words are here complemented with an excerpt from his most recent single. kourliandski.com credits:abandoned playgrounds | mats scheidegger…