American composer Anna-Louise Walton on defamiliarisation, writing for voice, PVC pipes, found objects, and complexities of intuition
Joanna Ward
British composer Joanna Ward on graphic notation, field recordings, “bean” pieces, composing for friends, and financial inequality in classical music
Curating a Technological Repertoire: a conversation with Zubin Kanga
Pianist and technologist Zubin Kanga discusses composer-performer collaborations, new technologies, brain sensors, and building shared knowledge
Robert Nettleship
British composer Robert Nettleship on Sibelius MIDI, scratch lyrics, and enjoying the process
Bobbie-Jane Gardner
Birmingham-based composer Bobbie-Jane Gardner on community-building through music, DJing, visual artists, and arranging for Netflix
Alex Groves
British composer and curator Alex Groves on sculptures, hyperpop, artist-led curation, and embracing change
Patrick Giguère
Québécois composer Patrick Giguère on long-term collaborations, “innovation music”, longform duration, spontaneity, and compositional DNA
Mia Windsor
Leeds-based composer and improviser Mia Windsor on spectralism, pipe organs, experimental music spaces, and embracing glitches
Celia Swart
Dutch multimedia composer Celia Swart on illustration software, resonant doors, Dutch architecture, and self-exploration
Esther Wu
Hong Kong-based composer and songwriter Esther Wu on installations, societal intimacy, stage presence, and Jean-Paul Sartre
“There are a lot more of us than just us”: a conversation with Sawyer Editions
Contemporary music record label Sawyer Editions on creating an artistic ecosphere, DIY punk scenes, transparency, and cassette tape culture
Celebrate! A conversation with National Youth Choir’s Young Composers
National Youth Choir’s cohort of Young Composers speak about their album, Gen Z, modern madrigals, the physicality of choirs, and community
Clouds of Sound: Ailís Ní Ríain on ‘The Last Time I Died’
Irish composer Ailís Ní Ríain explores consent, sobriety, and deafness on her debut portrait disc ‘The Last Time I Died’
Laurence Osborn
British composer Laurence Osborn on cultural memory, mechanisms and automation, parenthood, and C.P.E. Bach
Fluxus, slow travel, and singing to cows: a conversation with Kirkos
Irish contemporary music ensemble Kirkos prepare for their upcoming debut at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Christian Drew
London-based composer Christian Drew on Laurence Crane, shoegaze, and composing from unreliable memory
Lise Morrison
South African composer Lise Morrison on debut album ‘No grief without joy’, nonlinear development, “super-instruments”, and quoting David Bowie
Sylvia Lim
Composer Sylvia Lim on unstable sounds, the physicality of instruments, and making fewer decisions
“Almost-songs”: a conversation with Avenue Azure
The latest project by members of Ensemble Klang channels organic collaboration and whispering intensity through stillness, surrealist art, and 90s Radiohead
Un-Specialisation: a conversation with Ivan Vukosavljević and Ensemble Klang
Ivan Vukosavljević’s album ‘The Burning’ explores new approaches to ensemble writing, combining deconstructed guitars, shared vocabulary, and sacred drones