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The Samuel Andreyev Podcast

by Samuel Andreyev

Samuel Andreyev talks with the performers and composers who are changing the music world today.

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  1. Was modernism a mistake? October 2026 Q&A

    I answered questions from viewers. Recorded 21 October 2026. Join me on Patreon, where I share essays, archival materials, and works in progress: https://www.patreon.com/samuelandreyev Order Lukas’ new album, Notebook https://newworldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lukas-ligeti-notebook Hear a...

  2. Lukas Ligeti: Ugandan Court Music Changed My Life!

    Lukas Ligeti joined me in my Kehl studio for a wide-ranging conversation about his life, work, and new album, Notebook. Join me on Patreon, where I share essays, archival materials, and works in progress: https://www.patreon.com/samuelandreyev Order Lukas’ new album, Notebook...

  3. Pierre d'Alancaisez: The Crisis in Contemporary Art

    Pierre d’Alancaisez is a critic, curator, and researcher working with the multiple politics of the arts. His writing has appeared in outlets such as The Critic, ArtReview, The Spectator, and Compact. In 2024, he co-founded Verdurin, a space for experimentation in aesthetics, learning, and the...

  4. Zoot Horn Rollo: Why I Teach Online

    Samuel Andreyev sits down with Bill Harkleroad, AKA Zoot Horn Rollo, for a discussion of online teaching, and why Bill has chosen to go that route. Support the show

  5. Anthony Etherin: From Punk Poet to Experimental Composer

    Composer Samuel Andreyev and poet Anthony Etherin discuss Anthony’s work, transcending extreme literary constraints to produce exceptionally beautiful poems. Support the show

  6. Jean Sibelius’ 7th Symphony: An Inscrutable Labyrinth

    Composer Samuel Andreyev presents an overview of Jean Sibelius’ most enigmatic symphonic creation. == PRIVATE LESSONS IN COMPOSITION AND ANALYSIS Contact me via samuel.andreyev (at) gmail (dot) com SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEW ALBUM...

  7. A History of the Musical Avant Garde, with James Ingram

    Composers Samuel Andreyev and James Ingram discuss the tradition and history of avant garde notation in music. == PRIVATE LESSONS IN COMPOSITION AND ANALYSIS Contact me via samuel.andreyev (at) gmail (dot) com SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEW ALBUM...

  8. Jonathan Castellino: The Art of Abandoned Places

    Photographer Jonathan Castellino joins Samuel Andreyev for a wide-ranging discussion about their common hometown of Toronto, its urban fabric, the art of abandoned and forbidden places, and contemporary urban aesthetics. == PRIVATE LESSONS IN COMPOSITION AND ANALYSIS Contact me via…

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  9. Christian Bök and the Xenotext

    Poet Christian Bök joins Samuel Andreyev for a discussion about his recently completed, death-defying, 25-year project, The Xenotext. Filmed February 6th, 2025. == PRIVATE LESSONS IN COMPOSITION AND ANALYSIS Contact me via samuel.andreyev (at) gmail (dot) com SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox...

  10. Lola Salem: An Optimistic Vision for Music

    Dr. Lola Salem joins Samuel Andreyev for a discussion about the current state of the arts, especially music, and what a beautiful vision for the future might look like. == PRIVATE LESSONS IN COMPOSITION AND ANALYSIS Contact me via samuel.andreyev (at) gmail (dot) com SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon...

  11. Boulez at 100: Does He Still Matter?

    Composer Samuel Andreyev talks about Pierre Boulez, his influence, his public persona, and the state of his musical legacy. == PRIVATE LESSONS IN COMPOSITION AND ANALYSIS Contact me via samuel.andreyev (at) gmail (dot) com SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEW ALBUM...

  12. James Ingram: Life with Stockhausen

    James Ingram is a composer, music engraver and author. He lived and worked with Stockhausen for 28 years. Recorded December 3rd, 2024. == PRIVATE LESSONS IN COMPOSITION AND ANALYSIS Contact me via samuel.andreyev (at) gmail (dot) com SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEW…

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  13. August 2024 Q&A

    Samuel Andreye answers viewer’s questions. Recorded July 27, 2024. == PRIVATE LESSONS IN COMPOSITION AND ANALYSIS Contact me via samuel.andreyev (at) gmail (dot) com SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEW ALBUM...

  14. John Densmore: My Life with The Doors

    Composer Samuel Andreyev interviews drummer, actor and author John Densmore of The Doors. == PRIVATE LESSONS IN COMPOSITION AND ANALYSIS Contact me via samuel.andreyev (at) gmail (dot) com SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEW ALBUM...

  15. Jean-François Spricigo: Art as a Way of Life

    Composer Samuel Andreyev interviews Belgian photographer and multidisciplinary artist Jean-François Spricigo. == PRIVATE LESSONS IN COMPOSITION AND ANALYSIS Contact me via samuel.andreyev (at) gmail (dot) com SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEW ALBUM...

  16. Answering Questions from Listeners

    Samuel Andreyev answers viewer’s questions in this Q&A session. == PRIVATE LESSONS IN COMPOSITION AND ANALYSIS Contact me via samuel.andreyev (at) gmail (dot) com SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEW ALBUM...

  17. Curt Jaimungal: A Mathematical Physicist and Composer Walk into a Bar..

    A conversation between composer Samuel Andreyev and mathematical physicist Curt Jaimungal. Curt produces the wildly popular podcast Theories of Everything (TOE). The conversation was recorded on March 25th, 2024. PRIVATE LESSONS IN COMPOSITION AND ANALYSIS Contact me via samuel.andreyev (at)…

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  18. Rafael Toral: Ambient Music and its History

    This conversation between composers Rafael Toral and Samuel Andreyev was conducted on 25 March 2024. == RAFAEL TORAL’S WEBSITE https://rafaeltoral.net/ PRIVATE LESSONS IN COMPOSITION AND ANALYSIS Contact me via samuel.andreyev (at) gmail (dot) com NEW ALBUM COMING 17 NOVEMBER 2023!! Order yours...

  19. Jim O’Rourke & Samuel Andreyev: Round Two!

    Legendary guitarist, composer, songwriter, producer and record label mogul Jim O’Rourke returns to the Samuel Andreyev Podcast to discuss artists who have influenced him, why he is not thrilled with his album ‘Eureka’, and much more. SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEW…

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  20. Lola Salem: Opera Must Change, Or It Will Die!

    Dr Lola Salem graduated from the École Normale Supérieure, Lyon, in 2015 (MA Musicology), the Sorbonne in 2018 (MA Aesthetics and Philosophy of Arts) and the University of Oxford in 2023 (D.Phil. Musicology). Her academic research lies in the fields of 17-18th centuries opera, performers…

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  21. Matthew Sheeran: The Quest for Microtonal Music

    Matthew Sheeran is a UK-based composer, violinist and arranger. His new album, arranging music by the American microtonal composer Easley Blackwood, has just been released and can be found at the link below. This interview was filmed on December 18, 2023. SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox...

  22. Ian Pace, Round 3: The Artist in Society

    Ian Pace is a pianist, musicologist and Professor of Music, Culture and Society at City, University of London. This is his third appearance on the Samuel Andreyev Podcast. IAN PACE’S WEBSITE https://ianpace.com/ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEW ALBUM...

  23. Luigi Gaggero: The Art of Conducting

    Luigi Gaggero is a conductor and cymbalom soloist. SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox ORDER SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEWEST RELEASE In Glow of Like Seclusion LINKS YouTube channel Official Website Twitter Instagram Edition Impronta, publisher of Samuel Andreyev’s scores EPISODE CREDITS Podcast…

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  24. Martin Suckling: How to Write Beautiful Music

    Martin Suckling was born in Glasgow in 1981. After spending his teenage years performing in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and in ceilidh bands around Scotland, Suckling studied music at Clare College Cambridge and King’s College London. He was a Paul Mellon Fellow at Yale…

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  25. Gary Barwin: Artists Will Save the World

    Gary Barwin is a novelist, composer, poet. This conversation was recorded 4 December 2023 via zoom. GARY BARWIN WEBSITE https://garybarwin.com/bio/ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEW ALBUM https://divineartrecords.com/recording/samuel-andreyev-in-glow-of-like-seclusion/...

  26. Jim O’Rourke, composer

    Jim O’Rourke is a composer, singer-songwriter, producer, archivist, and former member of Sonic Youth. JIM O’ROURKE ON BANDCAMP https://steamroom.bandcamp.com/ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEW ALBUM...

  27. Fifty-One Minutes About Harmony, with composer Julian Anderson

    I had an impromptu discussion with British composer Julian Anderson about harmony. It was recorded in the Hotel de l’Hermitage in Monte Carlo, Monaco, on 11 October 2023. SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox ORDER SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEWEST RELEASE In Glow of Like Seclusion LINKS YouTube channel...

  28. Jean-Luc Hervé, compositeur [in French]

    **EPISODE IN FRENCH / EPISODE EN FRANÇAIS** Né en 1960, Jean-Luc Hervé fait ses études au Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de Paris avec Gérard Grisey. Il y obtient un premier prix de composition. Sa thèse de doctorat d’esthétique ainsi qu’une recherche menée à l’IRCAM seront l’occasion d’une...

  29. Dr. Tyler Foster, Mathematician and composer: Music and AI

    Dr. Tyler Foster is a mathematician and composer working in machine learning. This conversation was recorded over Zoom on March 23rd, 2023. MUSIC EXCERPTS HEARD IN THIS PODCAST, IN ORDER: Voice Leading — Beatmatching Study This Brutal World HEAR TYLER FOSTER’S MUSIC...

  30. Laurence Osborn, composer

    Laurence Osborn (b. 1989) is a British composer currently based in London. His music has been commissioned and/or programmed by the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Modern, Britten Sinfonia, The Riot Ensemble, Manchester...

  31. Robin Holloway, composer

    Robin Holloway is a British composer and professor at the University of Cambridge. This conversation was filmed at the composer’s home in Cambridge on 25 January 2023. SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox ORDER SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEWEST RELEASE Iridescent Notation LINKS YouTube channel Official...

  32. An Announcement — and a Special Bonus!

    HELP US REACH OUR CROWDFUNDING GOAL! Wemakeit page SUPPORT THIS PODCAST Patreon Donorbox ORDER SAMUEL ANDREYEV’S NEWEST RELEASE Iridescent Notation LINKS YouTube channel Official Website Twitter Instagram Edition Impronta, publisher of Samuel Andreyev’s scores EPISODE CREDITS Post production…

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  33. Ensemble Proton Bern

    I spoke with four members of Ensemble Proton Bern immediately following a recording session for my composition ‘Sonata da Camera’ at the SRF Radiostudio in Zürich, Switzerland on 19 June 2022. We talked about our forthcoming album with conductor Luigi Gaggero, how our collaboration has evolved…

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  34. Michael Finnissy, composer

    Michael Finnissy is a British composer and pianist. This conversation was recorded via Zoom on 27 April 2022. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:12 The composition process 00:06:38 Serialism 00:10:05 MF’s critique of Grand narratives 00:13:30 On teaching 00:27:36 On originality 00:38:36 On being an...

  35. Ian Pace, Round 2: Music in Higher Education

    Ian Pace is a pianist, musicologist and professor at City, University of London. This is his second appearance on the Samuel Andreyev Podcast. The conversation was recorded in London, UK on 5 April 2022. IAN PACE WEBSITE https://ianpace.com/sample-page/ FOLLOW IAN PACE ON TWITTER...

  36. La naissance de la musique spectrale : Hugues Dufourt

    **EPISODE IN FRENCH / EPISODE EN FRANÇAIS** Hugues Dufourt privilégie les continuités et les lentes transformations d'un discours musical qui n'est que rarement interrompu. Il conçoit des formes par évolution de masses et travaille sur les notions de seuils, d'oscillations, d'interférences et de...

  37. New Music in Ukraine: Dina Pysarenko

    Born in Donetsk (Ukraine), Dina Pysarenko is a pianist, accompanist at the National Tchaikovsky Music Academy of Ukraine, soloist of the Ukho Ensemble Kyiv and a laureate of the Levko Revutsky Award (2014) as well as the 6th International S. Prokofiev Competition (Saint-Petersburg, 2013). While...

  38. Q & A: How Can Composers Earn a Living?

    00:00 Introduction 00:41 Pieces that changed my life 06:04 Thoughts on the ‘saturation’ movement 08:48 Music and other art forms 11:38 Is western music shallow? 14:59 Beauty and modernism 17:46 Are major keys happy and minor keys sad? 20:11 Music and the body 23:54 The techniques of today 26:40...

  39. Kenneth Goldsmith, poet

    Kenneth Goldsmith is an American poet. His writing has been called some of the most exhaustive and beautiful collage work yet produced in poetry by Publishers Weekly. He is the founding editor of UbuWeb, and is a senior editor of PennSound at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches. He...

  40. Alexander Goehr, composer

    Alexander Goehr is a composer for whom the conventional labels of new music seem increasingly inadequate. A latent nonconformism is already suggested by the essential biographical facts. He was born in Berlin in 1932, son of the conductor and Schoenberg pupil Walter Goehr. Still in his early...

  41. Nuria Schoenberg-Nono: The Composers in my Life

    Nuria Schoenberg-Nono was born in Barcelona in 1932 to parents Arnold and Gertrud Schoenberg. She grew up in Los Angeles, California, and settled to Europe in 1954, marrying the composer Luigi Nono. In 1993 she founded the Luigi Nono Archive, and today she is president of the Board of the Arnold...

  42. Augusta Read Thomas, composer

    The music of Augusta Read Thomas has been performed all over the world by conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Mstislav Rostropovich, Seiji Ozawa, Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin, Vimbayi Kaziboni, Christoph Eschenbach and many others. She is Vice President for Music at The…

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  43. Martin Iddon: The Musical Riddles of John Cage

    In 2020, the composer and musicologist Martin Iddon and the pianist Philip Thomas published a 400-page monograph outlining, in extraordinary detail, the genesis and the substance of one of John Cage’s most enigmatic compositions: the Concert for Piano and Orchestra (1957-58). In this episode,...

  44. Christian Bök and the Aesthetics of Impossibility

    Born in Toronto, Christian Bök focuses on the intersection of language and science in his work. His first book of poetry, Crystallography, was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award. His book Eunoia, which won the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2002, is the best-selling Canadian poetry book of all time....

  45. Julian Nott: How to be a Film Composer

    Julian Nott came to music relatively late. After studying Music and Politics and Economics at Oxford University, he worked for a management consultancy firm in the City for a number of years. Finding that not entirely to his liking, he enrolled in the UK’s National Film And Television School,...

  46. In the Composer's Atelier

    In 2020, Edition Impronta published Samuel Andreyev’s second volume of solo piano pieces, n°s V—VIII. In this episode, he speaks about the genesis of this work, its aims, and presents each piece individually. The podcast includes recordings of each piece by Jana Luksts. MUSIC HEARD IN THIS…

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  47. Betsy Jolas: My Trip to Bali with Xenakis and Takemitsu

    In 1972, Betsy Jolas (b. 1926) traveled to Indonesia with Iannis Xenakis, Toru Takemitsu, Henri-Louis de la Grange, Maurice Fleuret and several others. While there, she encountered the Topeng dance, which, nearly 50 years later, inspired the composition of her 8th quartet, Topeng. This piece was...

  48. Larry Schoenberg: Arnold Schoenberg, My Father

    On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Arnold Schoenberg’s passing in July 13, 1951, Samuel Andreyev speaks with his son Lawrence Adam (Larry) Schoenberg. They discuss what it was like having Arnold Schoenberg as a father; Larry’s thoughts on his father's artistic legacy; Schoenberg’s…

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  49. Martin Keary (Tantacrul): composer, designer, polymath

    Martin Keary: biography I'm the head of design at MuseScore, with 14 years of experience working on applications and games for IOS, Android, Windows, Hololens, Ubuntu Touch, Voice Assistant (Cortana), Xbox One and Playstation 3. I'm an active musician with a MMUS in composition from the Royal...

  50. John Moraitis: harpsichordist and musicologist

    John Moraitis is a musicologist, harpsichordist, and pianist currently residing in Athens. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from Shorter College, a Master in Musicology from the University of Georgia in Athens, and a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of...

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