Send us a textAs listeners will soon notice, Portuguese composer Luís Salgueiro (1993) moves with ease between philosophy and music — two territories that, in his work, often mirror one another. In this episode, we join him in a quiet exploration of how thought becomes sound and how language shapes what we hear, while listening to a few fleeting excerpts from his own music.Do we still have the courage to speak about music?credits: Parroting [2025], soundscape // Wolf Town [2020], for saxophone quartet | Quatuor de saxophones Quasar // Expeletives censored with snippets frommir nichts, dir nichts [2024–5], for small ensemble | ars ad hocvortextemporum.com
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VT043 | Ludger Brümmer: structure / space
Send us a textAfter the summer break, we return with composer Ludger Brümmer (Werne, 1958) as the guest of the first episode of the 2025/26 season. Like many composers, Brümmer cannot resist speaking about music — yet he does so in a uniquely compelling way. The former director of ZKM shares insights into his approach to sound: the role of structure and intuition, space as narrative and as a field for exploration, as well as the possibilities of physical modelling. In this episode, we are invited to immerse ourselves in his sonic universe and the ideas that shape itcredits: La cloche sans vallees [1992], acousmatic composition // The gates of H. [1993], acousmatic composition // Spheres of Resonance [2015], acousmatic composition // Falling [2020], acousmatic composition // between twilight [2019], for 4 or 5 midi PianosLook @ CDs Sonic Patterns or Spheres of Resonance by WERGO / Spotify / AppleMusic. vortextemporum.com
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VT042 | Alessandro Perini: dumpsterdiving and food saving
Send us a textAmong the many ways of categorising composers, one is to distinguish between those who like to follow the rules and those who have the impetus to question them. As far as we can tell from listening to his documentary “dumpsterdiving and food saving”, Alessandro Perini (1983) belongs to those who like to defy the rules. He is the author of the longest episode of this podcast, with which we end the season reflecting on a major problem of our time.vortextemporum.com
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VT041 | Silva Borzelli: pianocast - on erosion and resistance
Send us a textA few days before the Portuguese premiere of Silvia Borzelli's (Rome, 1978) A Self-portrait (with Anatsui in the background) [2022], this Netherlands based Italian composer shares some insights on her own music, erosion, resistance and whatever comes before music.credits: stalagma (Anna Politkovskaja in memoriam) [2007], for piano | Emanuele Torquati > piano // zattere [2013], for piano and stereo soundtrack | Vittoria Quartararo > piano // hyper-image [2020, rev. 2023], for piano concertante and 5 instruments | mdi ensemble // A Self-Portrait (with Anatsui in the background) [2022], for prepared piano | Paolo Gorini > pianovortextemporum.com
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VT040 | João Pedro Oliveira: tense and harsh
Send us a textRight before the release of the album “City Walk”, in which Nuno Aroso and his ensemble (Clamat - colectivo variável) perform João Pedro Oliveira (Lisbon, 1959) percussion music, Portuguese composer based in Santa Barbara - California, tells us about the universe from which his music arises.Would it all be rock?credits: In the House of the Glass King [2021], concerto for marimba, vibrafone, percussion ensemble and fixed media electronics | Clamat – Colectivo Variável; Nuno Aroso and Henrique Ramos as soloists// Vox Sum Vitae [2011], for vibraphone and fixed media electronics | Nuno Aroso > vibraphone // Broken Loops [2013], for 2 percussion players | Vitória do Bem and João Pedro Lourençovortextemporum.com
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