YALE STUDENT COMPOSERS PROJECT                                              OHVII 11a

Adrian Knight

with Libby Van Cleve

New Haven, CT

March 30, 2011

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Affinity for quiet sounds — writing in different style prior to 2007 — finding new sounds through electronics and experimentation — Morton Feldman — earlier interest in Messiaen — spectral music — beginning with Suzuki piano lessons — bribed by father to learn to read music — born in Uppsala, Sweden — improvised before learning to read music — eventually learning notation and writing improvisations down — first time meeting other composers in college (Royal College of Music, Stockholm) — Per Lindgren — mandatory electronic music classes in college — necessity for writing electronic music — effect of technology on composition process — abstract narrative forms — Messiaen — discovering Messiaen at age twelve — coming to America — contrasting American and European music education — level of performance at Yale — state of the arts in Sweden — problems affecting the modern composer — hope for better government support for the arts, internationally — plans to move to New York — stage piece: avant-garde musical.