Uncertainty was yesterday, today is chaos”. This was the title of an article that I read last week in the Harvard Business Review. Does the increasing complexity in life have an influence on the way the composers of today write music?

In many areas today the trend is that everything is getting bigger, faster, more colorful, louder and often just a little bit crazier. Futurologist Matthias Horx claims that every trend has a counter-trend that will eventually prevail. In the future, instead o

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Who is your favorite contemporary composer? I bet you would find an answer difficult. „Favourite“ music seems to be the domain of grand masters of the past like Bach and Beethoven, with some 20st century exceptions like Shostakovich.