podcast 38-Ashley Fure

Composer Conversations with Daniel Vezza

Ashley is an American composer of acoustic, electroacoustic, and installation works that have been performed throughout Europe and North America. She holds degrees in composition from Oberlin Conservatory, IRCAM, and Harvard University. She has recieved a 2012 Darmstadt Stipendienpreis , a 2012 Staubach Honorarium, a 2011 Jezek Prize, an Adalbert W. Sprague Prize, and two ISCM World Music Days nominations. You can listen to more of her to music at www.ashleyfure.net.

In our conversation we talk about composing in comfort, intentionality vs. perception, and how she uses physically awkward movements to create tension in her music. The piece played in this interview is titled Soma.