Episode 10: Noah Max

Welcome to episode ten of FORTE Podcast!

Noah Max is multi-talented artist: a composer, conductor, poet, filmmaker and painter.

I had the pleasure of being invited to his home in London to have a wonderful exchange of ideas.

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Timestamps:

(1:00) Being an 'Outsider'

(3:31) Leaving Royal Academy of Music after one term

(9:55) Absorbing oneself into the 'mainstream'

(11:17) Anti-semitism

(13:51) Abstraction in musical expression

(15:02) Compositional limits

(17:37) Listening to Understand

(18:45) Competitive spirit

(20:03) Collaboration vs. Conflict

(21:51) Negatives in Collaboration

(29:04) Mechanic and Engineer

(30:17) Economical composing

(32:06) Economy in Beethoven

(35:01) Writing for Duets

(36:05) Being a cellist in a quartet

(36:57) Mastering a medium

(39:48) Free Will in Inspiration

(47:44) Free Will in Interpretation

(54:11) Motivation and productivity

(59:33) Marx: The End of History

Episode 11: Philip Fowke