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