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”
Chloe Knibbs
British composer Chloe Knibbs on residencies, freewriting, musical pragmatism, and finding supportive communities
Angela Slater
British composer Angela Slater on mapping natural processes, orchestration, Brian Cox, Scottish folklore, and nurturing personal canons
Eden Lonsdale
British-German composer Eden Lonsdale on working with limitations, subtle implications, James Tenney and Alvin Lucier, and “forms within forms”
Delyth Field
Japanese-Welsh composer Delyth Field on musical language combining “brostep”, Yayoi Kusama, vocaloid, shoegaze, and online communities
Hugo Bell
British composer Hugo Bell on heartbeats as musical time, DMX lighting, learning new skills, reworking pieces, and being “wired differently”
Minzuo Lu
Germany-based Chinese composer and artist Minzuo Lu on beauty, calligraphy, fleeting moments, and Wolfgang Rihm
Arjan Singh Dogra
New York-based composer and performer Arjan Singh Dogra on temporality, oneness, Hindustani traditions, and “first person” music
Laila Arafah
London-based composer Laila Arafah on Sibelius MIDI, repeat performances, chat bots, and unexpected combinations in texture
Luke Mombrea
California-born composer Luke Mombrea on Berlin techno, microtonality, body horror, and balancing a career in concert and film music
Emily Pedersen
Composer Emily Pedersen on storytelling, Darmstadt, tackling abuse through opera, and approaching composition through empathy
Phoenix Rousiamanis
UK-based Greek composer Phoenix Rousiamanis on queer Greek mythology, witchcraft, discovering material, and balancing creative practices
Sami Seif
Lebanese composer Sami Seif on collaboration, Middle Eastern poetry, duration in language, and the experience of musical time