Matthew Shlomowitz: musical experiences, internet archives and new music trends

Watch my interview with London based composer Matthew Shlomowitz on his muscial perspective and trends in new music landscape. He makes music and performance pieces.

He have developed three projects: Letter Pieces, open score pieces combining physical action and music; Popular Contexts, which combine recognisable recordings with instrumental music; and a series of lecture-pieces addressing aesthetic issues. He teaches at University of Southampton, and co-direct Plus Minus Ensemble with Mark Knoop and Vicky Wright.

Selection of works created by Matthew Shlomowitz

We have discussed those questions:

1. What is your musical idea and signature?
2. What are your criteria for a good musical composition?
3. What is your process of composing?
4. What do you as a composer fear the most?
5. Why do you still compose?
6. Looking 10 years back, what are the changes in your musical idea? And how would you explain them?
7. How development of technologies has influenced your music?
8. What are the biggest changes in music composition (in general) in the last 25 years?
9. How has the audience of new music changed (in general) in the last 25 years?
10. What are the main future trends (or trajectories) in new music now? Who shapes them?
11. What is the role of new music in society, now?
12. What is your definition of multimedia music?
13. How is it different from previous paradigms?
14. What music pieces are good examples of multimedia music?
15. What composers are good examples of multimedia music?
16. How did you start to compose multimedia music?

source: www.shlom.com