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The Samuel Andreyev Podcast — 91 episodes
Was modernism a mistake? October 2026 Q&A
Lukas Ligeti: Ugandan Court Music Changed My Life!
Pierre d'Alancaisez: The Crisis in Contemporary Art
Zoot Horn Rollo: Why I Teach Online
Anthony Etherin: From Punk Poet to Experimental Composer
Jean Sibelius’ 7th Symphony: An Inscrutable Labyrinth
A History of the Musical Avant Garde, with James Ingram
Jonathan Castellino: The Art of Abandoned Places
Christian Bök and the Xenotext
Lola Salem: An Optimistic Vision for Music
Boulez at 100: Does He Still Matter?
James Ingram: Life with Stockhausen
August 2024 Q&A
John Densmore: My Life with The Doors
Jean-François Spricigo: Art as a Way of Life
Answering Questions from Listeners
Curt Jaimungal: A Mathematical Physicist and Composer Walk into a Bar..
Rafael Toral: Ambient Music and its History
Jim O’Rourke & Samuel Andreyev: Round Two!
Lola Salem: Opera Must Change, Or It Will Die!
Matthew Sheeran: The Quest for Microtonal Music
Ian Pace, Round 3: The Artist in Society
Luigi Gaggero: The Art of Conducting
Martin Suckling: How to Write Beautiful Music
Gary Barwin: Artists Will Save the World
Jim O’Rourke, composer
Fifty-One Minutes About Harmony, with composer Julian Anderson
Jean-Luc Hervé, compositeur [in French]
Dr. Tyler Foster, Mathematician and composer: Music and AI
Laurence Osborn, composer
Robin Holloway, composer
An Announcement — and a Special Bonus!
Ensemble Proton Bern
Michael Finnissy, composer
Ian Pace, Round 2: Music in Higher Education
La naissance de la musique spectrale : Hugues Dufourt
New Music in Ukraine: Dina Pysarenko
Q & A: How Can Composers Earn a Living?
Kenneth Goldsmith, poet
Alexander Goehr, composer
Nuria Schoenberg-Nono: The Composers in my Life
Augusta Read Thomas, composer
Martin Iddon: The Musical Riddles of John Cage
Christian Bök and the Aesthetics of Impossibility
Julian Nott: How to be a Film Composer
In the Composer's Atelier
Betsy Jolas: My Trip to Bali with Xenakis and Takemitsu
Larry Schoenberg: Arnold Schoenberg, My Father
Martin Keary (Tantacrul): composer, designer, polymath
John Moraitis: harpsichordist and musicologist
Matthew Ricketts, composer
Michele Zaccagnini: the 'Adorno Rule'
Ermir Bejo: the Scorefollower project
Marco Fusi: The Mystery of Scelsi
Linda Catlin Smith, composer
Why You Need Carl Ruggles in Your Life
Alexander Sigman, composer
Brian Ferneyhough interview
Ask Me Anything!
Colin Matthews and Julian Anderson: a conversation among composers
Studying composition in 2020
Richard Haynes: Introducing the clarinet d'amore
Ian Pace: pianist and musicologist
On Extended Techniques
Andy Creeggan, composer and erstwhile pop star
Bill Harkleroad (Zoot Horn Rollo): the making of Trout Mask Replica
Anthony Etherin: From Punk to Palindromes
The Labyrinthine Worlds of Chris Dench
Jonathan Bell: From Ars Subtilior to Artificial Intelligence
Art Tripp’s journey from Stockhausen to Zappa
Questions and Answers
Cheryl Duvall, pianist
Conductor Luigi Gaggero
Episode 18: Composer - organist Thomas Lacôte
Episode 17: Stravinsky's late period explained
Episode 16: Nick Storring's Haunting Soundworlds
Episode 15: How does a Composer Write Music?
Episode 14: Making Sense of New Music with Dan Albertson
Episode 13: Chicago Lecture
Episode 12: Jeff Cotton ('Antennae Jimmy Semens') on the making of Trout Mask Replica
Episode 11: A conversation with Franck Bedrossian
Episode 10: A conversation with composer Julian Anderson
Episode 9: Arnold Schoenberg, a Concise Introduction
Episode 8: Mark Boston ('Rockette Morton') on the making of Trout Mask Replica
Episode 7: Samuel Andreyev in conversation with Paul Steenhuisen
Episode 6: Betsy Jolas interview
Episode 5: Adam Neely interview
Episode 4: Van Dyke Parks interview
Episode 3: How can composers earn a living?
Episode 2: John French ('Drumbo') on the making of Trout Mask Replica
Episode 1: How I solved a compositional problem