Listen to hcmf// 2009 talks now

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A selection of talks featuring leading names in contemporary music can now be downloaded for free from the hcmf// website. The four talks, which were all recorded during 2009’s Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, offer a fascinating insight into the motivations and creative processes of musicians and composers from the festival programme.

In a rare visit by the Portuguese composer to the UK, 2009’s Composer in Focus Emmanuel Nunes discusses his life and work with the Radio 3 presenter Robert Worby. James Dillon tells Worby about the discipline required to develop as a self-taught composer and reminisces upon the stir a piano composition of his caused at the very first hcmf// in 1978.

Worby also chairs a lively panel with Alvin Curran, Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum, the three members of Musica Elettronica Viva, whose camaraderie has sustained more than 40 years of revolutionary improvisation. Lastly, Sara Mohr-Pietsch from Radio 3’s Hear and Now interviews the composer and University of Huddersfield professor Liza Lim, unpicking the tangled octaves and ghostly resonances of Lim’s first work for solo piano, The Four Seasons (after Cy Twombly), which Rolf Hind performed in its UK premiere at the festival.

Click the panels on the right to stream the talks online now, or download them to listen on your computer or through an MP3 player whenever you wish.

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