Composer-performer Emily Hazrati on breath, heritage, performance as ritual, and collaboration as dialogue
anthem: a celebration and dissection of liveness
Birmingham Record Company writes about their compilation highlighting composers Emily Abdy, Andy Ingamells, Ryan Latimer, Genevieve Murphy, and Corey Mwamba
Francesca Fargion
Composer-performer Francesca Fargion on predictive text, failure as an aesthetic, and creating imaginary worlds
Alex Tay
British composer Alex Tay on psychoacoustic illusions, musical quotations, and “manic” compositional process
Jasmine Morris
Composer and sound artist Jasmine Morris on viking instrumentation, butoh dance, and creating sound paintings
The Calderstones: cultural identity and folk history through cello and improvisation
Cellist Matt Phillips writes about his debut album exploring Liverpudlian identity, channeling druidic stones through improvisation and collaboration
Sonia Killmann
Multimedia artist Sonia Killmann on audiovisual composition, interdisciplinary collaborations, and working in Ukraine
Jeremy Rosenstock
LA-based composer Jeremy Rosenstock on sonority of abalone shells, postmodernism, and duration as the language of nature
Emma-Kate Matthews
Architect and composer Emma-Kate Matthews on “spatio-sonic” research, binaural microphones, and constructing sound and space
Ábel Misha Gille Esbenshade
Hungarian-American composer Ábel M.G.E. on farcical opera, musical quotation, cosmic nihilism, and the blending of genre
Robert Crehan
British composer Robert Crehan on setting text, institutional diversity, Steve McQueen, and the rhetoric of gesture
Tanna Chamberlain
British-Australian choreographer Tanna Chamberlain on reality TV, non-dance, escape rooms, and inspiration from the everyday
Steve Tromans
Jazz pianist Steve Tromans on Derek Bailey, improv night Fizzle, and the musical-philosophical
Aileen Sweeney
Scottish composer Aileen Sweeney on new tonalism, Celtic folk influences, and her podcast Ear to the Ground
Mathis Saunier
French composer and bandleader Mathis Saunier on Jonny Greenwood, Alexander Schubert, Black Mirror, and hands-on compositional process
Sara Stevanovic
Serbian composer Sara Stevanovic on memory, connect-the-dots notation, Slavoj Zizek, and sci-fi opera
Jake Adams
Composer and guitarist Jake Adams on cross-cultural composition, heavy metal, anxiety, and new music initiative Arc Project
Sun Keting
Chinese composer Sun Keting on Eastern philosophy, ikebana, the beauty of imperfection, and grounding oneself in nature
Holly Gowland
Composer and improviser Holly Gowland on electroacoustic processes, tram harmonics, and Mancunian identity
Darlene Zarabozo
Cuban-American composer Darlene Zarabozo on dramatism, double meanings, the physicality of electronics, and dealing with trauma