composer

How Art Works: Earworms

March 25, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Composer Jeff Lunden explains how songs stick in our heads.

How Art Works: Earworms

March 25, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Franz Liszt

March 25, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Exiled in Hollywood

March 25, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Franz Liszt

March 25, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Now Playing: Danny Elfman & Planet of the Apes

March 25, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Danny Elfman, composer of the quirky music for The Simpsons and nearly all of Tim Burton’s films, including Batman, talks with Kurt about his score for this summer’s big movie hit and Burton’s latest film, Planet of the Apes.

Song of Songs

March 25, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Poet Chana Bloch and composer Jorge Liderman describe their linguistic and musical translations of an ancient love poem from the Hebrew Bible.

Commentary: Who’s the New Brahms?

March 25, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Kurt wonders what contemporary composers will become the future cannon — and why we don’t know their names.

Brian Eno’s Self-Writing Music

March 25, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

A musician sets something in motion and watches it evolve beyond anything he could predict. Brian Eno’s been tinkering in his studio in London, trying to launch some music that writes itself.

Composer Tod Machover on Digital Art

March 25, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Kurt Andersen and composer and MIT Media Lab scientistTod Machover talk about the convergence between art and digital technology. Machoveris a composer and Professor of Music &Media at MIT’s Media Laboratory. His music uses highly eclectic combinations of electronic and acoustic sound, and his compositions have been performed around the world. His current projects include […]