Composer Olivia Murphy writes on her debut orchestral album, discussing Greek myth, Little Women, and weaving threads of transformation
Train Travel, Voicenotes, and Working with Friends: Zahrah Hutton’s ‘here I am briefly’
Guitarist and composer Zahrah Hutton writes on her latest album, train travel, voicenotes, Joni Mitchell and working with friends
Decolmuseum: A Sonic Reckoning of Colonial Trauma
Cellist and composer Alfian Emir Adytia’s latest album explores Dutch colonialism and resistance through heavy metal and keroncong
A Shared Process: Simon Knighton’s ‘Sound Sculptures, Dynamical Systems, Natural Environments’
Manchester-based composer Simon Knighton writes on his debut album’s shared creative process, graphic scores, sampling, quantization, and pendulum waves
Improvisation Games and Meaningful Collaboration: ensemble Terra Invisus on debut album ‘Visions’
Contemporary music trio Terra Invisus’ debut album ‘Visions’, created in close collaboration with composers, explores improvisation and open notation
Prayer, breakcore, and Hatsune Miku: a journey through ‘Panopticon’
Composer and performance artist Phoebe Apfel’s debut EP explores disparate sampling, mental health, and writing for vocaloid software
Cortahojas: a different way of listening to Earth
Composer Luis Fernando Amaya’s album of instrumental and electronic duos explores environmentalism, insects, plants, and Latin American history
The vulnerability of understanding You Might Not Be As Good-Looking As You Think
Spanish composer Victoria Benito writes about her debut album channeling the surreal, the mundane, the self-absorbed, and the vulnerability throughout each
anthem: a celebration and dissection of liveness
Birmingham Record Company writes about their compilation highlighting composers Emily Abdy, Andy Ingamells, Ryan Latimer, Genevieve Murphy, and Corey Mwamba
The Calderstones: cultural identity and folk history through cello and improvisation
Cellist Matt Phillips writes about his debut album exploring Liverpudlian identity, channeling druidic stones through improvisation and collaboration