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Sofia Avramidou (1988) reflects on both the creative process and her roots as a Greek musician.

credits:
What can that be but my apple-tree? [2023], for string quartet | 2e2m string quartet // Géranomachie [2021], for large ensemble and electronics | Ensemble Intercontemporain // A hug to die [2023], for ensemble | Ensemble Intercontemporain
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Instead of letting us listen to his own music, Spanish composer Manuel Rodríguez-Valenzuela (Valencia, 1980) prefers to show us the music he grew up with, which is part of his most intimate story. 
While trying to recognise Manuel's multiple references, we can not avoid the nostalgia of a lost world where Time was much slower.
Have a listen and share with us the most important works you discovered in your own journey.
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The 28th episode of Vortex Temporum podcast brings us Vienna based Italian composer Lorenzo Troiani (1989) with some thoughts about perception and attentiveness.

credits:
Dalla voce. Instabile [2012] for contrabass | Florentin Ginot > double bass
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The Irish composer Karen Power (1977) shares a couple of stories about some of the wildest listening experiences she has had.
credits:
field recording made in Rainforest in Laos // Instruments of Ice [2015] | Quiet Music Ensemble & Arctic Ice (to be released later in 2024).
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The UK based Argentinean composer Alejandro Viñao (Buenos Aires, 1951) stars the 26th episode of our podcast and invites us to "look at the world from the opposite point of view" we normally hold. Alejandro quotes Eduardo Galeano, Laurent Binet and also Walt Whitman and, by listening to him, we immediately feel the urge to do the (not so) simple exercise of thinking the world in the perspective of the other.

credits: 
POEMS & PRAYERS [2023], for 16 singers, 2 pianos and 4 percussion players | The Yale Choral Artists & The Percussion Collective; Jeffrey Douma > conductor


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In this episode of Vortex Temporum, Leigh Landy (1951) first shares his sadness about the lack of impact of most innovative music and suggests that things don’t have to be this way. He then engages in a dialogue with re-re-composed samples from his Radio Series in which connections with listeners’ experience are made, attempting to demonstrate, as stated in German in the final sample of this podcast, that ‘everything that you hear turns into musical sound’.
credits:
Oh là la radio [F, 2007] (8 ch) // To BBC or Not [UK, 2008] (8 ch) // Radio-aktiv [D, 2011] // China Radio Sound [CN, 2013] (5.1) made in collaboration with students from the Shenyang Conservatory of Music // Mezihlas -- Přeshlas – Nahlas (Radio – Voice – Overs) [CZ, 2017] (8 ch) // On the Éire [IRL, NI, 2018] (8 ch) // Aplican Términos y Condiciones [MX, 2022] (8 ch)
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