LA-based composer Jack Herscowitz on rational intonation, subjectivities and ownership, and “anti-innovation”

beyond genre
beyond genre
LA-based composer Jack Herscowitz on rational intonation, subjectivities and ownership, and “anti-innovation”
Greek composer and pianist Athanasia Kontou on Antigone, emotional vulnerability, and autoethnographic composition
Mixed-ability contemporary music ensemble CoMA reflects on its inaugural composers-in-residence programme, featuring composers Megan Steinberg and Paul Evernden
Tuscan composer Riccardo Perugini on early music, alternate histories, vaporwave, and writing for period instruments
British composer Florence Anna Maunders on hyper-genre, writing for performers, main character syndrome, and the “post-experimental” age
String quartet Vulva Voce talk about celebrating music by women from across the centuries, groove, and playing with expectation
Boston/NYC-based composer Victoria Cheah on sine tones, repetition, intimacy, and body language in music
British composer Anna Disley-Simpson on opera, stylised reality, collage notation, and crafting vocal resonance
Scottish-Australian composer Aidan Teplitzky on class identity, familiarity, thriftiness, and creating working class music
Composer Kian Ravaei on heritage, tradition, and creating musical mosaics channeling Bach chorales, Iranian classical music, and EDM production
British composer Marcus Rock on synesthesia, active listening, internal and external composition processes, and George Lewis
Hong Kong-born composer and theatre-maker Carla Ng on empathy, burnout, performer and audience agency, and being a dramaturgical “fixer”
Welsh composer and jazz vocalist Claire Victoria Roberts on musical inconsistency, schmaltzy sound worlds, and moving to Barcelona
The Fidelio Trio give insights into the challenges faced in today’s contemporary music landscape, and impart career-building advice for emerging composers
Franco-British composer Finbar Hosie on amplification, juxtaposition, sound gesture, and creating “driftwood music”
Composer Lucy Armstrong on Stephen Sondheim, capturing drama, and making text sing
Scottish-Filipino composer Kevin Leomo on Wandelweiser, Glasgow’s experimental music scene, equitable collaboration, and radical creative practice
Composer Robin Fiedler on unbalanced ensembles, sentimentalism, organic processes, and the “everyday alien”
Composer and guitarist James M. Creed on indeterminacy, études, clowning, James Tenney, and Alvin Lucier
Scottish composer Gillian Walker on modular composition, “total theatre”, and the aesthetics of performance