London Symphony Orchestra’s 2025-26 Soundhub composers discuss endangered languages, cybernetic instruments, intermediality, and the physicality of sound
Amy Crankshaw
UK-based South African composer Amy Crankshaw on sensoria, ritual, eco-emotions, and empathy for nature
David Balica
Composer and bass-baritone David Balica on technology, vocal performance, postmodernism, politics, and “controlled chance”
Carmel Smickersgill
Manchester-based composer and performer Carmel Smickersgill on grassroots spaces, the Beach Boys, and being yourself
Samuel D Loveless
Interdisciplinary composer Samuel D Loveless on referentiality, notation, accessibility, and daily life as art practice
Claire Cope
Composer and bandleader Claire Cope on groove, emotional connections, becoming a mother, and “writing from the heart”
Vivek Haria
British composer Vivek Haria on breathing together, Jain spiritual traditions, qualia, recalibrating as a composer, and active listening
Tímea Urban
Slovak composer Tímea Urban on performing together, creative crises, and empathetic approaches to composition
Molly Frances Arnuk
London-based composer Molly Frances Arnuk on braiding patterns, meditation, Helen Frankenthaler, and moments of subversion
“Stronger than the sum of your parts”: a conversation with Kollektiv UNRUHE
Berlin-based ensemble Kollektiv UNRUHE on collective composition, improvisation, arts funding, and finding common languages
Jim Osman
Leeds-born multimedia artist Jim Osman on opera directing, dub, speculative fiction, digital folklore, and gothic futurism
Luka Venter
Composer and conductor Luka Venter on ecological writing, clarity and rigour, visceral entanglement, and journeys in collaboration
Maile Pacumio
Filipino-Thai composer Maile Pacumio on cross-cultural collaboration, synesthesia, burnout, and music as a universal language
Sounding Biodiversity: Ellie Wilson and Jenna Lawson on creating ‘Moth X Human’
Composer Ellie Wilson and scientist Jenna Lawson on their most recent collaboration, biodiversity decline, emotional reactions, and translating data into music
Niamh J O’Donnell
Welsh-Australian composer Niamh J O’Donnell on environmental storytelling, childhood nostalgia, feminine rage, and performance as a feeling
Ryan Morgan
UK-based composer Ryan Morgan on immediacy, transparency, passive resistance, and leading with compassion
Anibal Vidal
London-based Chilean composer Anibal Vidal on handheld instruments, tension and release, play, and composition as “intuitive abstract sudoku”
Angela Slater
British composer Angela Slater on mapping natural processes, orchestration, Brian Cox, Scottish folklore, and nurturing personal canons
Delyth Field
Japanese-Welsh composer Delyth Field on musical language combining “brostep”, Yayoi Kusama, vocaloid, shoegaze, and online communities
“We came because of you”: Nabihah Iqbal on her first classical commission
Musician and composer Nabihah Iqbal on her first classical commission for Manchester Collective, appreciating nature, SOPHIE, and representation in music