Out of Rich Darkness

Cathy Milliken


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  • How the pandemic influenced her listening and creating
  • Working with female choirs from Eastern Europe in her project Ode for All to help them
  • Meeting in Istanbul (link YouTube video 4”)
  • “Improvisers” vs. “readers”
  • Bringing very different people together to create new synergies
  • How she got into facilitating composition
  • Her book Zukunft@Bphil
  • How the design of a project should be like a composition
  • Planning a project the way you would plan a party to make everyone feel welcome and valuable: have a structure and then throw it away if necessary
  • The importance of having enough time in order to transport people out of their everyday
  • How improvising helps all performers, even if it’s only playing in your own room
  • The importance of good friends to help pick you up if a concert didn’t go so well, and of people who challenge you
  • Knowing the difference between challenging and destructive
  • Prejudice, intentional or not, against female composers
  • Switching from creator to performer
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