To celebrate the winners of this year’s Seed Award, we caught up with all the selected artists and composers for a quick chat.
Here, we speak to Kath Buckler.
Can you tell us about your musical influences?
I’m inspired by the maths of music; patterns, loops, repetitions and evolutions. I started out in a very classical world and still reach for choral and string chamber works to help work out how to weave.
Bjork, Massive Attack and the whole Ninja Tune roster opened up new sounds to me and they still inspire me today. Currently, anything instrumental, close harmony and tentative captures my attention.
What are you working on at the moment?
I’ve started a collection of pieces called the Museum of Musical Memory which looks at how composition can be used to illuminate exhibits, text, images and oral histories. I’m excited about taking this from the digital realm into a live one.
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