Q & A: How Can Composers Earn a Living?

00:00 Introduction
00:41 Pieces that changed my life
06:04 Thoughts on the ‘saturation’ movement
08:48 Music and other art forms
11:38 Is western music shallow?
14:59 Beauty and modernism
17:46 Are major keys happy and minor keys sad?
20:11 Music and the body
23:54 The techniques of today
26:40 Early modernist harmony
30:55 Finding your voice
32:03 What is good counterpoint?
34:05 Composition vs. tradition
36:47 Avant-garde composers and the listening experience
38:51 Will you make another album like The Tubular West?
42:23 What is my favourite tonal music of today?
43:25 Closing remarks

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Post production: Marek Iwaszkiewicz
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