Author: Ed Williams
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ECHO CHAMBER Episode 7 – Daniel Williams
My guest this time is composer and sound-designer Daniel Williams. As a composer, he works mostly in the theatre, writing, playing and mixing live soundtracks with a variety of companies including DEREVO, Freaks und Fremde, Theatre Subversion, Das Gegenteil (Valentin Tszin), JuWie Dance Company, as well as with a variety of other dancers. In…
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ECHO CHAMBER Episode 6 – Stepha Schweiger
This time I was with singer/songwriter and experimental composer Stepha Schweiger from Berlin. One of her most recent works, called The Mark On The Wall, is a music theatre work based on a text by Virginia Woolf, and deals with a lot of the themes that we discuss, such as the overarching importance of…
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ECHO CHAMBER Episode 5 – Adam Goodwin
My guest this time is double bassist, composer and visual artist Adam Goodwin, from Texas. I had a lot of fun chatting with him about the Berlin scene, where’s he’s based now, and Classical music training, hallucinations and really delving into what it is to make music. Having completed music degrees in both classical…
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ECHO CHAMBER Episode 4 – Audrey Chen
My guest for this episode, the fourth, is improviser Audrey Chen, whose work with voice, cello and analog electronics has been described by David Harrington of the Kronos Quartet as “possessing something extremely vital and vivid….”. Recent projects include duos with artists such as Phil Minton, Maria Chavez, Jean-Yves Evrard, Richard Scott, Flandrew Fleisenberg,…
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ECHO CHAMBER Episode 4 update
! ATTENTION ! My greatest apologies as I won’t be uploading the newest episode of ECHO CHAMBER this week. This is due to terrible bandwidth where I’m currently hiding out in the woods and means that I have to push the release of the next episode to next Wednesday – April 25. Sorry. Episode 4…
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ECHO CHAMBER Episode 3 – Hannes Buder
My guest for this third episode is improviser and composer Hannes Buder, whose work concentrates on issues of movement, authenticity, intuition, minimalism, density and slowness. Buder’s current projects include the bands ‘Zug Zug’ with Todd Capp and Andrew Lafkas, ‘Gravity’ with Hannes Lingens and Andrew Lafkas, the duo with Luc Houtkamp, the dance company…
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ECHO CHAMBER Episode 2 – Benedict Taylor
Here’s the second episode, this time with Benedict Taylor. Whilst chatting over coffee we talk academic training, crossovers between visual and sonic art, the birth of language, and the importance of chatting over coffee in making great music. Thanks Benedict! We held the discussion on a bustling summer afternoon on the sidewalk outside Café…
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ECHO CHAMBER Episode 1 – Sam Mackay
Here it is, the first episode. I talk with Sam Mackay, researcher and co-founder of the London Contemporary Music Festival. We chat about improvised and experimental music practices, being uni grads from Edinburgh, and noise in a post-colonial setting. Listen, enjoy, leave a comment! Don’t be afraid to get in touch.
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ECHO ORGAN – A Substructured Loss project
For the Substructured Loss residency, I invited several active musicians in the experimental scene in Berlin to take part in interviews in which we talked about their life as musicians and the emotional struggle and release involved in the art they practice. Space played a key role throughout the project, not only in the interview…
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SUBSTRUCTURED LOSS update week 4
Got the chance earlier this week to spend two hours talking about architecture and musical improv with the one and only Klaus Kürvers. A quietly ticking clock features throughout the whole interview, I discovered listening back, which given the structured-time context of the whole thing is quite fitting. A few days later I had the…
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