Episode 108: Emily Koh
The Lexical Tones Podcast, hosted by Robert McClure, offers a weekly conversation with a guest composer, performer, and/or artist creating new works of contemporary art/music. Each creative supplies three adjectives about their work or themselves, and Rob tries to discover additional connections through discussion and listening examples (several complete compositions). These conversations often focus on aesthetics, technique, process, meaning, perception, and the musical origins of the featured guest.
Episode 2.2: Microtonal in Pink
Is This Music?!?! is a music education podcast about how people experiment with music. Your host is Justin Anthony Spenner, a baritone and lover of all things moody and complex. He interviews composers, performers, and other interesting folks about their art, the beauty of complexity, and New Music Icon impressions. Let's get your ears weird.
Episode 23: Emily Koh
I love talking to musicians, to hear about their unique journey and experiences-from moving abroad to the countless hours spent in practice rooms, and the anxiety of graduation. I am fascinated by these stories, tracing back to the moment where the love (or not so much) for music was kindled and how they have crafted out a career for themselves over the years. - Vincent Tan
Episode: Everything is Composing
This podcast aims to understand the creative process for experimental music by listening to new works and discussing them with their creators. Each episode focuses on one creator and their music. By understanding how and why they create can inform aspiring creatives and help audiences better understand and navigate experimental music.
Emily Koh
Conversations between host, Keturah Stickann, and librettists, lyricists, producers, and performing artists about opera text and storytelling to music.
S3E8 - Creating New Opera with Guerilla Opera
ESM student Rachel Smith chats with Aliana de la Guardia, Artistic Director of Guerilla Opera (Boston, MA), and composer Emily Koh about HER | alive.un.dead: a concert-length media opera about three generations of Asian women in a single family written by Koh.
Guerilla Opera won a Paul R. Judy Center for Innovation and Research grant from the IML to support the premier of this new opera, taking place at the Pao Arts Center in Boston on May 12-14, 2023. Smith chats with these trailblazers about creating new opera, and what makes Guerilla opera unique compared to other opera companies.