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
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
Zhenyan Li
Chinese composer Zhenyan Li on noh theatre, Beijing Opera, political humour, and writing “sarcastic” music
Veronika Reutz Drobnic
Croatian composer Veronika Reutz Drobnic on 3D notation, instrumental augmentation, Japanese folk traditions, and Jennifer Walshe
Anthony R. Green
Composer and performer Anthony R. Green on Stockhausen, social justice, boundaries of composition and performance, and promoting Black artists
Olivia Murphy
Composer and bandleader Olivia Murphy on organising a jazz orchestra, writing for voice, and accessibility of jazz composition
Fraz Ireland
Composer and conceptual artist Fraz Ireland on unconventional programme notes, the concert experience, notation as invitation, and MS Paint
Cameron Biles-Liddell
Welsh composer Cameron Biles-Liddell on staticity and momentum, timbre, Birtwistle, and writing “sparkly” music
Atefeh Einali
Iranian composer and santoor player Atefeh Einali on fusion, improvisation, incorporating traditions, and the interaction between Iranian and Western repertoire
Andrew Chen
Australian composer Andrew Chen on anthropomorphosis, synthrumentation, self-promotion, and improvisation as compositional process
Roxani Chatzidimitriou
Greek composer and pianist Roxani Chatzidimitriou on dance, Greek poetry, self-motivation, and finding complexity in simplicity
Tom Baker
London-based electronic artist Tom Baker on musical purpose, compositional stimuli, and curating artistic communities
Ben Nobuto
British-Japanese composer Ben Nobuto on the hysterical sublime, accelerationism, postmodern hyperspace, and the “human 2.0”
Emily Hazrati
Composer-performer Emily Hazrati on breath, heritage, performance as ritual, and collaboration as dialogue