composer

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.

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

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

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 […]