♫ Episode #24 – Composer Timo Andres on Contemporary Classical Music

Doug and Kirk welcome Timo Andres, composer and performer of contemporary classical music. This is the first part of a two-part interview.

One of the ways that […] any type of musician finds their style is by setting out to imitate something and failing.

This week’s guest:

• Timo Andres’s website
• Timo Andres on Nonesuch Records

Show notes:

• Alex Ross of the New Yorker on Timo Andres and other “student composers” in 2004
• Russell Platt of the New Yorker on Timo Andres in 2016
• Timo Andres: Shy and Mighty
• Timo Andres: Home Stretch
• Lou Reed: Metal Machine Music
• Boston Symphony Orchestra: World premiere of Timo Andres’s Everything Happens So Much, November 18, 2016

Our next tracks:

• Kirk: Steve Reich: Drumming on CD – Drumming on vinyl
• Doug: Brian Eno: Another Green World

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Special Guest: Timo Andres.

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