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Limitless technology with Tom Furse, Caroline Shaw, Holly Herndon, Arushi Jain and Mat Dryhurst

Tom Furse, Caroline Shaw, Holly Herndon, Arushi Jain and Mat Dryhurst discuss why using computers makes their music feel more human.

Tom Furse, Caroline Shaw, Holly Herndon, Arushi Jain and Mat Dryhurst discuss why using computers makes their music feel more human, using the sound of plant pots, and how new technology will be viewed as old fashioned and retro in a few years.

Tom Furse is the keyboard player with British rock band the Horrors, and is also a producer, remix artist, and β€œmaker of music”. He’s talking to Arushi Jain, a composer, pianist, synthesist, and singer from New York who grew up in Delhi. She blends her computer science and engineering studies with her musician influences, including Indian classical. Holly Herndon is an American experimental composer based in Berlin, and her husband, Mat Dryhurst, is a philosopher and digital artist. And Caroline Shaw is a Grammy and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and violinist based in New York. She’s written film scores and worked with rappers Kanye West and Nas, and her latest album brings together influences as wide ranging as Abba and author James Joyce.

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30 minutes

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Holly Herndon (Credit: Boris Camaca), Tom Furse, Caroline Shaw (Credit: Dayna Szyndrowski) and Mat Dryhurst (Credit: Suzy Poling)

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  • Sat 11 Sep 2021 21:06GMT
  • Sun 12 Sep 2021 14:06GMT
  • Sun 12 Sep 2021 15:06GMT

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