Max Richter Crafts a Cell Phone Symphony

Talking with avant-garde post-classical composer Max Richter about his influences is truly inspiring. In a single breath, he’s able to make connections between Romantic music of the 1800s and the work of Steve Reich and John Cage, all the way through Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, and Kraftwerk to Johan Johansson and Colleen, who he sees as contemporaries. “What’s interesting is that a lot of these things sound very different,” he explains via phone from his Berlin home....

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