MOVING SOUNDS with James Heather – An Interview with Julia Gjertsen (18/09/2024)
On this month’s edition of Moving Sounds, James Heather interviews the Norwegian pianist and composer Julia Gjertsen about the music that has been most meaningful to her in her life and insights into a few of her own. Along the way they talk about the community Soundcloud brought to her early musical uploads, how she taught herself music production, growing up in Alta in the far north of Norway, and the nature that surrounded her has impacted her sound. The early influence of computer game music is also covered as well as how the album Kid A by Radiohead was a game changer for her. Julia Gjertsen is one of those artists who are in it for the right reasons, you can tell how deeply their practice of art is in their life and she is steadily building a formidable catalogue in the are of ambient and piano based music.
