This Church Was Built to Confuse You
A commission to write about Gaudí's Sagrada Família — performed inside its opposite: a raw concrete church in Lucerne, on an organ I switched half off fifteen minutes before the concert.
A commission to write about Gaudí's Sagrada Família — performed inside its opposite: a raw concrete church in Lucerne, on an organ I switched half off fifteen minutes before the concert.
A commission for Ash Wednesday in Munich Cathedral — and the instrument I chose for a piece about mortality was a 1990s toy keyboard, its sound crushed into ashes.
Producing an orchestral session at Abbey Road Studios with the Philharmonia Orchester in Studio 1 — and writing a new piece on the spot when the vocalist's visa got stuck in Sri Lanka.
Berlin Cathedral, a Conch Horn, and 1,100 people: a very risky Christmas premiere — and what happens when an unusual instrument meets a 7,000-pipe organ.
AI vs human composition at the Fanny Mendelssohn Förderpreis — can artificial intelligence write classical music that holds up next to a human composer?