Vortex Temporum

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 Intercontemporainvortextemporum.com

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

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 bassvortextemporum.com

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).vortextemporum.com

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

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

The 24th episode of Vortex Temporum podcast brings us a dialogue between Klaus Ospald and Klaus Ospald (1956). Let’s check if this German composer agrees with himself.credits:Maíz raíz, menos criatura [2014/2015], for orchestra, piano and chamber choir, on text by Miguel Hernández | Markus Bellheim > piano; Singer Pur; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Peter Rundel > co

2024’s first episode of Vortex Temporum podcast features Nigerian born composer, based in Switzerland since 1968, Charles Uzor (Udo Mbaise, 1961). Charles guides us along the episode with his voice, thoughts and sounds in order to offer us his manifesto. If you do not know his work yet, you might be very well surprised by clicking play.credits:qui ainsi me refait…. veoir seulem

The last Vortex Temporum's episode of 2023 arrives from France, where Iranian born composer Sina Fallahzadeh (1981) lives and works. Sina shares with us some timeless thoughts on life and music surgically wrapped in delicate sound.credits: sound material from Arche [2020] // Yasnâ [2019], for choir and electronics - commissioned by IRCAM and Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choi

Closing the year 2023, Colone based Portuguese composer Luís Antunes Pena (Lisbon, 1973) reveals that, for himself, composing means to be able to dive into a domain that one does not control totally. Or perhaps this episode is about his addiction to buying books about anything. Anyway, have a listen to his beautiful analog synthesizer improvisation while discovering the his world.