I have just started a new podcast series: Blackbox. The idea behind this podcast project is that I would like to share with you some of the experiences and questions that arise from my everyday work as a musician.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Blackbox #003: How Méandres meandersThe third episode of Blackbox is on Bert van Herck’s piano piece Méandres. The main focus of this episode lies on the question of how the composer transforms a musical idea that seems secondary at first into an important supporting pillar of his work. Of course, you will also find out how all of this [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Blackbox #004: My Chamber Music Partner is a Computer!Welcome to the fourth episode of Blackbox. This episode of Blackbox will introduce a composition that employs not only solo piano but also live-electronics: Zellen-Linien (Cells and Lines), composed by one of the most important electronic music composers of our time: Hans Tutschku. I will particularly focus on one fascinating aspect of this composition which [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Blackbox 005: Fuchs vs. Brahms – 1 : 1
Robert Fuchs and Johannes Brahms
As you all know in this podcast series I usually talk about contemporary music, but this time I would like to focus on music that is new not in the sense that it was composed recently, but that is new because it is still undiscovered for the wider public: the piano [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Blackbox 005: Fuchs vs. Brahms – 1 : 1
Robert Fuchs and Johannes Brahms
As you all know in this podcast series I usually talk about contemporary music, but this time I would like to focus on music that is new not in the sense that it was composed recently, but that is new because it is still undiscovered for the wider public: the piano [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Blackbox #004: My Chamber Music Partner is a Computer!Welcome to the fourth episode of Blackbox. This episode of Blackbox will introduce a composition that employs not only solo piano but also live-electronics: Zellen-Linien (Cells and Lines), composed by one of the most important electronic music composers of our time: Hans Tutschku. I will particularly focus on one fascinating aspect of this composition which [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Blackbox #003: How Méandres meandersThe third episode of Blackbox is on Bert van Herck’s piano piece Méandres. The main focus of this episode lies on the question of how the composer transforms a musical idea that seems secondary at first into an important supporting pillar of his work. Of course, you will also find out how all of this [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Blackbox #002: Listening to Stockhausen’s Klavierstück IXIn the second episode of Blackbox, I will show you the six building blocks that make up Stockhausen’s famous piano piece No. 9. Recognizing these formal elements will help you find a way into this complex composition and hopefully increase your enjoyment of this fabulous piece!
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Blackbox #001: A conversation with Tolga YayalarI have just started a new podcast series: Blackbox. The idea behind this podcast project is that I would like to share with you some of the experiences and questions that arise from my everyday work as a musician.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website