LA-based composer Jack Herscowitz on rational intonation, subjectivities and ownership, and “anti-innovation”

beyond genre
beyond genre
LA-based composer Jack Herscowitz on rational intonation, subjectivities and ownership, and “anti-innovation”
British composer Laurence Osborn on cultural memory, mechanisms and automation, parenthood, and C.P.E. Bach
Greek composer and pianist Athanasia Kontou on Antigone, emotional vulnerability, and autoethnographic composition
Tuscan composer Riccardo Perugini on early music, alternate histories, vaporwave, and writing for period instruments
London-based composer Christian Drew on Laurence Crane, shoegaze, and composing from unreliable memory
British composer Florence Anna Maunders on hyper-genre, writing for performers, main character syndrome, and the “post-experimental” age
Boston/NYC-based composer Victoria Cheah on sine tones, repetition, intimacy, and body language in music
British composer Anna Disley-Simpson on opera, stylised reality, collage notation, and crafting vocal resonance
Scottish-Australian composer Aidan Teplitzky on class identity, familiarity, thriftiness, and creating working class music
South African composer Lise Morrison on debut album ‘No grief without joy’, nonlinear development, “super-instruments”, and quoting David Bowie
Composer Kian Ravaei on heritage, tradition, and creating musical mosaics channeling Bach chorales, Iranian classical music, and EDM production
Composer Sylvia Lim on unstable sounds, the physicality of instruments, and making fewer decisions
British composer Marcus Rock on synesthesia, active listening, internal and external composition processes, and George Lewis
Hong Kong-born composer and theatre-maker Carla Ng on empathy, burnout, performer and audience agency, and being a dramaturgical “fixer”
Welsh composer and jazz vocalist Claire Victoria Roberts on musical inconsistency, schmaltzy sound worlds, and moving to Barcelona
Franco-British composer Finbar Hosie on amplification, juxtaposition, sound gesture, and creating “driftwood music”
Composer Lucy Armstrong on Stephen Sondheim, capturing drama, and making text sing
Scottish-Filipino composer Kevin Leomo on Wandelweiser, Glasgow’s experimental music scene, equitable collaboration, and radical creative practice
Composer Robin Fiedler on unbalanced ensembles, sentimentalism, organic processes, and the “everyday alien”
Composer and guitarist James M. Creed on indeterminacy, études, clowning, James Tenney, and Alvin Lucier