In this clip from The Tonearm Podcast, Stephen Emmer explains how years in production music left him unable to compose without a brief, and how the decision to become "his own prompter" by improvising along to a cassette of Richard Burton reciting Yeats led to his foundational album 'Recitement'.

Listen to the full conversation: https://podcast.thetonearm.com/stephen-emmer-composing-at-the-edge-of-silence-assemytrical-dot/

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