Moving beyond bar lines: composer Nico Muhly on dancers reimagining his music
Choreographers hear, somehow, a larger heartbeat; it's fascinating and revelatory to have them reinterpret your compositions, writes the US musician, ahead of a triple bill featuring his music coming to Sadler's Wells. When I'm writing music, one of the primary challenges is figuring out how to notate rhythm in a way that is clear to the interpreters. When I hear a phrase in my head it is free of the confines of bar…