American composer Lily Koslow on noise, energetic forms, political agitation, Marxism, and creating alternate universes
Sam Rudd-Jones
British composer and electronic artist Sam Rudd-Jones on sonata form, comfort zones, music-as-itself, and pushing against genre expectations
Sofia Jen Ouyang
Chinese-American composer Sofia Jen Ouyang on working with text, positionality, dialectics, and the “impossibility of translation”
Robert Nettleship
British composer Robert Nettleship on Sibelius MIDI, scratch lyrics, and enjoying the process
Anna Semple
British composer and singer Anna Semple on writing for choir, aleatoric scoring, feminist music theory, and embracing physicality
Bobbie-Jane Gardner
Birmingham-based composer Bobbie-Jane Gardner on community-building through music, DJing, visual artists, and arranging for Netflix
William Gardner
Composer William Gardner on musical uncanniness, microtonality, metamodernism, and composing political opera
Alex Groves
British composer and curator Alex Groves on sculptures, hyperpop, artist-led curation, and embracing change
Rebecca Galian Castello
London-based French composer Rebecca Galian Castello on working with noise, distortion techniques, folk traditions, and DIY ethics
Darius Paymai
Iranian-American composer Darius Paymai on handwritten scores, cycles and stasis, Howard Skempton, and the “right material”
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
Zakiya Leeming
Manchester-based composer Zakiya Leeming on collaborating with scientists, AI in composition, centring human stories, and “thinking through music”
Sam Buttler
Welsh composer Sam Buttler on mythology, fairies, Pierrot Lunaire, country music, and not taking yourself too seriously
Celia Swart
Dutch multimedia composer Celia Swart on illustration software, resonant doors, Dutch architecture, and self-exploration
Crystalla Serghiou
UK-based Cypriot composer Crystalla Serghiou on “popera”, pastiche, Stepford wives, and staying authentic
Esther Wu
Hong Kong-based composer and songwriter Esther Wu on installations, societal intimacy, stage presence, and Jean-Paul Sartre
Ben Richter
Composer and accordionist Ben Richter on time dilation, liminal pitch relationships, and altered states of consciousness
Jamie Elless
Birmingham-born composer Jamie Elless on graphic scores, alternate notations, queer liberation, and “honest music”
Lara Agar
British composer Lara Agar on indeterminacy, sonic warping, channeling imperfection, and the closure of IKLECTIK