019. Julien Malaussena

Julien Malaussena considers his compositional prism to be sound energy–not timbre nor time; not dynamics, pitch, nor the sound space, but rather this element straddling all of these, one less palpable, less quantifiable. He has been particularly influenced by the teaching of Chaya Czernowin and Pierluigi Billone. He also had master classes with Brian Ferneyhough, Raphaël Cendo, Alberto Posadas, Antoine Beuger, Dmitri Kourliandski, Georges Aperghis, Mark Andre, Beat Furrer, Franck Bedrossian, Rebecca Saunders and Ming Tsao. He has been selected for ‘Voix nouvelles’ program at Fondation Royaumont, “Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky city”, Etchings festival, Schloss Solitude SummerAcademy, Tzlil meudcan festival and Sirga Festival. His music has been played by ensembles like Court-Circuit, Xasax, les Cris de Paris, 2E2M, L'imaginaire,Nikel, le Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Ecce ensemble, Les solistes du Balcon, ensemble interface, ensemble Surplus, and Duo XAMP (microtonal accordions), in France, Israel, Switzerland, Belgium,Germany, Russia, Austria, Brazil, USA, Turkey and Spain. On this episode, Laura and Madison interview Julien about his piece '8 minutes after boiling,' composed for TAK in spring of 2020, and set for public release in spring 2021. To purchase Julien's music, go to https://enmossed.bandcamp.com/album/articulated-sound-energy To hear the music of Agnes Hvizdalek, who inspired the voice part of '8 minutes after boiling,' go to https://soundcloud.com/agneshvizdalek To download TAK's most recent album, Star Maker Fragments, go to http://takensemble.bandcamp.com/album/star-m…er-fragments http://takensemble.com