Matthew Lee Knowles
British composer Matthew Lee Knowles on John Cage, laborious processes, long durations, and translating text to music
beyond genre
beyond genre
British composer Matthew Lee Knowles on John Cage, laborious processes, long durations, and translating text to music
Slovak composer Tímea Urban on performing together, creative crises, and empathetic approaches to composition

British composer Matthew Lee Knowles on John Cage, laborious processes, long durations, and translating text to music

Slovak composer Tímea Urban on performing together, creative crises, and empathetic approaches to composition

UK-based Iranian composer Ashkan Layegh on self-reflexivity, architecture, frames, and collective memory making

Amelia Clarkson writes on burnout, overworking, the reality of freelance life, and composing in hard times

London-based Sri Lankan multimedia performance artist Ushara Dilrukshan on coding, organs, cultural identity, and womanhood

London-based composer Molly Frances Arnuk on braiding patterns, meditation, Helen Frankenthaler, and moments of subversion

Thai composer Thanakarn Schofield on transformation, layers of time, chess, censorship, and “sonic ritual”

Berlin-based ensemble Kollektiv UNRUHE on collective composition, improvisation, arts funding, and finding common languages

Composer and performer Reuben Esterhuizen on movement, togetherness, ceramic artists, shedding the idea, and radical music-making

London-based composer and songwriter Kay Rowan on field recordings, folk clubs, breaking stylistic shackles, and the role of the artist

Leeds-born multimedia artist Jim Osman on opera directing, dub, speculative fiction, digital folklore, and gothic futurism

PLASTIC BODIES creators discuss care, open score-making, and co-creation in new experimental opera tackling abuse in the industry

Manchester-based composer Gloria Xia on narrative, ritual, accessibility, and autobiographical experiences in composition

Composer and conductor Luka Venter on ecological writing, clarity and rigour, visceral entanglement, and journeys in collaboration

Filipino-Thai composer Maile Pacumio on cross-cultural collaboration, synesthesia, burnout, and music as a universal language

Composer Ellie Wilson and scientist Jenna Lawson on their most recent collaboration, biodiversity decline, emotional reactions, and translating data into music

Amsterdam-based composer Boris Bezemer on cinematic surround sound, player pianos, building a practice, and composition as performance

Welsh-Australian composer Niamh J O’Donnell on environmental storytelling, childhood nostalgia, feminine rage, and performance as a feeling

Turkish-British composer Elif Karlıdağ on mass hysteria, 80s video games, absurdism, and working with graphic notation

UK-based composer Ryan Morgan on immediacy, transparency, passive resistance, and leading with compassion