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
Matthew Lee Knowles
British composer Matthew Lee Knowles on John Cage, laborious processes, long durations, and translating text to music
Tímea Urban
Slovak composer Tímea Urban on performing together, creative crises, and empathetic approaches to composition
Ashkan Layegh
UK-based Iranian composer Ashkan Layegh on self-reflexivity, architecture, frames, and collective memory making
Ushara Dilrukshan
London-based Sri Lankan multimedia performance artist Ushara Dilrukshan on coding, organs, cultural identity, and womanhood
Molly Frances Arnuk
London-based composer Molly Frances Arnuk on braiding patterns, meditation, Helen Frankenthaler, and moments of subversion
Thanakarn Schofield
Thai composer Thanakarn Schofield on transformation, layers of time, chess, censorship, and “sonic ritual”
Reuben Esterhuizen
Composer and performer Reuben Esterhuizen on movement, togetherness, ceramic artists, shedding the idea, and radical music-making
Kay Rowan
London-based composer and songwriter Kay Rowan on field recordings, folk clubs, breaking stylistic shackles, and the role of the artist
Jim Osman
Leeds-born multimedia artist Jim Osman on opera directing, dub, speculative fiction, digital folklore, and gothic futurism
Gloria Xia
Manchester-based composer Gloria Xia on narrative, ritual, accessibility, and autobiographical experiences in composition
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
Boris Bezemer
Amsterdam-based composer Boris Bezemer on cinematic surround sound, player pianos, building a practice, and composition as performance
Niamh J O’Donnell
Welsh-Australian composer Niamh J O’Donnell on environmental storytelling, childhood nostalgia, feminine rage, and performance as a feeling
Elif Karlidag
Turkish-British composer Elif Karlıdağ on mass hysteria, 80s video games, absurdism, and working with graphic notation
Ryan Morgan
UK-based composer Ryan Morgan on immediacy, transparency, passive resistance, and leading with compassion
Joy Ingle
Manchester-based composer and sound artist Joy Ingle on field recordings, digital processes, acousmatic storytelling, and Hildegard von Bingen
Anibal Vidal
London-based Chilean composer Anibal Vidal on handheld instruments, tension and release, play, and composition as “intuitive abstract sudoku”