Mai Fujisawa is “passionate about bringing various cultures together”
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON WITH STEPHANIE ESLAKE FOR LEVEL AND GAIN If you think of the best-loved cinematic franchises of all time, the worlds of Studio […]
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Fallout composer Inon Zur reveals his scoring techniques for open-world games
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON (CUTCOMMON’S GLOBAL EDITOR) FOR LEVEL AND GAIN As an Emmy Award-winning composer and the musical mind behind some of gaming’s most iconic […]
Berklee Online is boosting female representation among music students and staff
BY JASMINE MIDDLETON It shouldn’t have to be a novelty that an educational organisation achieves gender equality across its staff and student base. But unfortunately, […]
What will the lives and careers of musicians look like by 2050?
BY DR DIANA TOLMIE The population of Australian musicians largely live portfolio careers involving music and non-music contract and DIY employment. And, as we know, […]
Did you know the Glenn Miller Orchestra is still touring, 81 years on?
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE When I first heard the Glenn Miller Orchestra was still touring 100,000 miles a year, my heart jolted: I had missed the […]
It’s time to end Yellowface in the performing arts
BY SYLVIE WOODS, LEAD WRITER (NSW) Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker may be one of the world’s best-loved ballets. But in 2019, derogatory racial stereotyping, and use […]
LIVE REVIEW // New Music descends on Hull
BY MYLES OAKEY, EUROPE CORRESPONDENT PRS New Music Biennial 2019Various artistsHull, 12-14 July “Well that was interesting,” an elderly woman commented to her friend, sitting […]
Das Boot composer crafts a soundworld of war and “self-proclaimed heroism”
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON, GLOBAL SERIES EDITOR It’s been close to four decades since Oscar-nominated film Das Boot was released to the world. The 1981 film […]
Rakhi Singh and Seb Gainsborough on collaboration and musical freedom
BY MYLES OAKEY (EUROPE CORRESPONDENT) Shadowing five onstage performers, a flickering analogue film gestures a bleeding heart, which rests atop a woman’s bare chest. Layered […]
Herdís Stefánsdóttir scored a film while pregnant and says it was “awesome!”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE In her last trimester of pregnancy, Herdís Stefánsdóttir was exhausted. She was having trouble walking. She was feeling emotional. Oh, and she […]