  I spent several days last summer with composer, improviser and spinet-player Christoph Schiller at his somewhat legendary studio in Basel. Given the concentrated subject matter, and the sheer length, of the discussions, I decided to make a three-part Echo Chamber special that deals overall with the question of freedom in musical composition:- composition as […]

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ECHO CHAMBER #19 – Freedom & Composition with Christoph Schiller, part 2

ECHO CHAMBER is an interview series stemming from my sound installation ECHO ORGAN, which centers on grief and its relation to musical experiences. I’m documenting the experiences of other musicians to develop the question of music’s power to recall memories and incite deep emotions. Discussions are held with new artists and musicians and feature extracts of music as well as aphoristic fragments from text written by my dad, for whose death my grieving became the driving force of this project.

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