Ranked #1
Magical Songwriting Tips with Jess and Peter
Magical Songwriting Tips with Jess and Peter
Jess Scherer and Peter Lund faced a songwriting quandry: what do you write about when you've been happily married for se... Read more
1 Jun 2016
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #2
Music Theory for the Bored with Justin Merritt
Music Theory for the Bored with Justin Merritt
In order to be more productive, composer Justin Merritt once tried polyphasic sleeping, meaning he slept only a couple h... Read more
9 Apr 2014
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41mins
Ranked #3
Dame Evelyn Glennie on Percussion and Dynamics
Dame Evelyn Glennie on Percussion and Dynamics
Evelyn Glennie lost her hearing by the age of 12, but that didn’t stop her from becoming a percussion virtuoso, a three-... Read more
7 May 2014
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41mins
Ranked #4
Merry Podmas: 7 Composition Podcasts
Merry Podmas: 7 Composition Podcasts
Welcome to this special Christmas episode of Composer Quest! Since I’ll be taking a break from interviews (until I find ... Read more
9 Dec 2014
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42mins
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Ranked #5
Composing with Knobs and Patch Cables, Featuring Mike Olson
Composing with Knobs and Patch Cables, Featuring Mike Olson
Mike Olson schooled me in the ways of old-fashioned analog electronic composing, where you only have dials and cords to ... Read more
29 Oct 2014
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59mins
Ranked #6
Tour 1: Games in Chicago
Tour 1: Games in Chicago
For the final season of the Composer Quest podcast, 110 Kickstarter backers decided it would be fun to send me on a two ... Read more
9 Nov 2016
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1hr 17mins
Ranked #7
Quest 9: Film Scoring for Live Orchestra
Quest 9: Film Scoring for Live Orchestra
The MNKINO filmmaking group and the Composer Quest podcast are teaming up to bring you a fun challenge for the summer. F... Read more
14 Apr 2014
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15mins
Ranked #8
Patchwork Scriabin Results
Patchwork Scriabin Results
100 years after the death of Alexander Scriabin, his music lives on in a form he would never have expected. A week ago, ... Read more
26 Apr 2015
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17mins
Ranked #9
Song Exploder’s Hrishikesh Hirway on Songwriting
Song Exploder’s Hrishikesh Hirway on Songwriting
Hrishikesh Hirway removes as much of himself as possible from his interviews with musicians in Song Exploder. In today’s... Read more
22 Apr 2015
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1hr 3mins
Ranked #10
Geriatric Songwriters and Music Therapy with Angela Johnson
Geriatric Songwriters and Music Therapy with Angela Johnson
It isn’t every day you hear about a CD release party at a nursing home. Music therapist Angela Johnson worked with some ... Read more
5 Nov 2014
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1hr 1min
Ranked #11
Tour 3: Theory in New York
Tour 3: Theory in New York
This episode, I'm in Philadelphia and New York to chat about music theory, film scoring, and slot machine composing.
23 Nov 2016
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1hr 59mins
Ranked #12
N64 Composer Grant Kirkhope Talks Banjo Kazooie, GoldenEye, Perfect Dark
N64 Composer Grant Kirkhope Talks Banjo Kazooie, GoldenEye, Perfect Dark
It was an honor interviewing legendary composer Grant Kirkhope about his time at Rare, where he worked on some of the mo... Read more
3 Dec 2014
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1hr
Ranked #13
Quest 20: Olympics
Quest 20: Olympics
Since I'll be on my Composer Quest World Tour this fall, I decided we had to do something worldly and big for the final ... Read more
20 Aug 2016
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11mins
Ranked #14
Quest 14: Patchwork Scriabin with UniqueSound
Quest 14: Patchwork Scriabin with UniqueSound
In honor of the 100th anniversary of Alexander Scriabin’s death, Composer Quest and UniqueSound are teaming up to bring ... Read more
15 Apr 2015
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8mins
Ranked #15
Chopin, Hendrix, and Pianist Paul Cantrell
Chopin, Hendrix, and Pianist Paul Cantrell
What do Chopin and Jimi Hendrix have in common? What do “Graceland” and “Yesterday” have in common? How do mp3s work? Wh... Read more
12 Nov 2014
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1hr 10mins
Ranked #16
Chiptune Composing with Ben Burnes
Chiptune Composing with Ben Burnes
In today’s episode of Composer Quest, I talk with fellow Minnesotan Ben Burnes, who has been writing chiptune music for ... Read more
26 Nov 2014
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56mins
Ranked #17
Tour 6: Creative Work in LA
Tour 6: Creative Work in LA
If you've ever thought about moving to Los Angeles to pursue a creative career, today's episode will give you a glimpse ... Read more
14 Dec 2016
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2hr 40mins
Ranked #18
Tour 4: Songwriting in New England
Tour 4: Songwriting in New England
From pig racing to public-access TV, this three-hour episode chronicles my adventure around New England. I talk with fou... Read more
30 Nov 2016
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3hr 10mins
Ranked #19
Episode 150: UBK on Music Production and Arranging
Episode 150: UBK on Music Production and Arranging
For this special 150th episode of Composer Quest, I got to talk with Gregory Scott, co-host of my favorite music product... Read more
7 Jun 2016
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1hr 19mins
Ranked #20
Behind the Curtain of Composing Wizard Tyler Tholl
Behind the Curtain of Composing Wizard Tyler Tholl
My talented friend Tyler Tholl evaded coming on the Composer Quest podcast for over a year, but finally my pestering pai... Read more
30 Apr 2014
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40mins
