{"id":11976,"date":"2015-07-01T17:16:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T15:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nmz.de\/badblog\/?p=11976"},"modified":"2015-07-01T17:18:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T15:18:11","slug":"11976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nmz.de\/badblog\/2015\/07\/01\/11976\/","title":{"rendered":"An interview with Dan Tramte – creator of Score Follower channel on youtube (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Probably most of you have at some point used youtube to read scores along with the music. There are many fantastic videos around which follow the music exactly and turn the pages for you. Although many of these videos are for classical music there are dedicated channels especially for contemporary music, and they feature a lot of music that would probably be hard to get as scores.
\nBut who are the great people behind these efforts? Are they doing it as a hobby? Are they composers themselves? What drives them to put so much work into something that benefits the modern music community as a whole?
\nI took the opportunity to speak to Dan Tramte, creator of \u201cScore Follower\u201d channel and caretaker of \u201cIncipitsify\u201d channel, to answer these questions. Thanks so much to Dan for doing this (and for your patience)!
\nThe interview will be published in 2 parts\u2026.
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Dan Tramte<\/p><\/div>\n

1) Tell us a little about yourself \u2013 how did you get involved in contemporary music? Where do you live and work?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 My name is Dan Tramte, and I am a composer who frequently works with electronic and video mediums. I recently completed a PhD in music composition \/ computer music media at the University of North Texas. I am now based in Somerville, MA and currently work as a teaching assistant at Harvard University, where I teach courses in musicianship. I started getting into new music when I studied percussion in undergrad. I performed a number of contemporary works due to the simple fact that some of the most interesting percussion repertoire began to appear only in recent history. I enjoyed the performance practice of interpreting difficult scores, unraveling complex rhythms, and finding practical ways of consistently executing these challenging and thus rewarding works.
\nAs a listener then, I would still roll my eyes at the sounds of Webern, Carter, etc., but I respected those works on an intellectual level. I\u2019m not exactly sure when I began to sincerely enjoy listening to new music; it was a gradual process. I will say, however, that YouTube played a major roll in the process. When I saw these visualizations of Xenakis\u2019s works, Metastasis<\/p>\n