Strange Sounds with Ben Folds and Elena Kats-Chernin

Today’s guest is pianist and composer Elena Kats-Chernin! Best known for her opera, Wild Swans, Elena also creates orchestral works, solo pieces, as well as music for various mediums from dance to film. You’ll recognize works such as Clocks, Book of Rags, and Orpheus/Odysseus/Poppea. On this episode we talk about focusing on what you will do today instead of what you did yesterday, snippets of old pieces becoming part of something new, and improvising live. We also talk about if tools influence the work, being a working composer, and not reading to save your eyesight.

[@QuincyKane]

Sounds good!

[@t.a.m678]

Please include this full song on your next album! Pleeeease! It’s ace!

[@ezrac704]

Should've used the strange mouth sounds within the song