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A few days before the Portuguese premiere of Silvia Borzelli's (Rome, 1978) A Self-portrait (with Anatsui in the background) [2022], this Netherlands based Italian composer shares some insights on her own music, erosion, resistance and whatever comes before music.

credits: stalagma (Anna Politkovskaja in memoriam) [2007], for piano | Emanuele Torquati > piano // zattere [2013], for piano and stereo soundtrack | Vittoria Quartararo > piano // hyper-image [2020, rev. 2023], for piano concertante and 5 instruments | mdi ensemble // A Self-Portrait (with Anatsui in the background) [2022], for prepared piano | Paolo Gorini > piano

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Right before the release of the album “City Walk”, in which Nuno Aroso and his ensemble (Clamat - colectivo variável) perform João Pedro Oliveira (Lisbon, 1959) percussion music, Portuguese composer based in Santa Barbara - California, tells us about the universe from which his music arises.
Would it all be rock?

credits: In the House of the Glass King [2021], concerto for marimba, vibrafone, percussion ensemble and fixed media electronics | Clamat – Colectivo Variável; Nuno Aroso and Henrique Ramos as soloists// Vox Sum Vitae [2011], for vibraphone and fixed media electronics | Nuno Aroso > vibraphone // Broken Loops [2013], for 2 percussion players | Vitória do Bem and João Pedro Lourenço

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One of Sivan Cohen Elias’ (Jerusalem, 1976) major interests must be sound puppetry. In Vortex Temporum episode number 39, this Israeli composer lets us listen to a conversation she has with her husband and collaborator, Rey Hulme, about this central matter of her own music.

credits:
How to Make a Monster [2021], for a performer with objects and live electronics | performance by Winnie Huang // Escape Room [2024], for trio percussion | ensemble Line Upon Line Percussion // Whistle Town [2022], for 8 musicians, live electronics, and video | ensemble soundinitiative // .onion - short opera, for tenor, soprano, electric guitar, percussion, cello, string orchestra, and fixed media.

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In episode 38 of Vortex Temporum podcast, Sara Stevanović (Belgrade, 1998) reflects on Harry Lehmann's 'Ideologiemaschinen: Wie Cancel Culture funktioniert'.

credits:
search: pink fingers fragile archives [2024]. live performance by Ensemble Recherche at the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik festival 2024.

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Swiss composer with roots in Trinidad and Tobago Jessie Cox (1995) reflects on what music can be beyond music. Isn’t it about existence after all ?

credits:
Invocation: Nebula, from When You're a Star [UT007]

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Riccardo Nova (Milan, 1960) gave us an interview to produce a Vortex Temporum podcast episode and he told us about his marvellous adventures as an innate traveller. Finally, the composer in him prevailed and he could not help but make us a beautiful piece of music.

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Vortex Temporum podcast's intermission finally comes to an end with Zara Ali's cookbook. The young and promising North-American composer Zara Ali (Memphis, 1995) lets us get into her home and loud thoughts before discussing with her partner a couple of their families' specialties. Can you smell it?

credits:
Isolation Forest [2023] | IEMA-Ensemble 2022/23 (impuls festival) // BABY BOT BUILDS A MUSIC BOX [2023] for orchestra and electronics | Sinfonieorchester Münster // Red City [2021] | acousmatic (vocals from Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart)

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The last Vortex Temporum episode of 2024 Spring introduces us to the delicate universe of Canadian composer Chiyoko Szlavnics (Toronto, 1967), who takes us on a brief journey through the mysteries of listening.

credits:
For Eva Hesse [2006] sinewaves - excerpts) // Oracle I & II (excerpts). Ensemble Contrechamps (dress rehearsal, at Bellelay Abbey, Switzerland).
Field recordings: Canada, Germany, Poland, Switzerland.
Test recordings made at Bellelay Abbey, Switzerland.
Research recordings made at St. Pierre Cathédrale, Geneva. Vincent Thevanaz: organ.

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