UK-based composer Ryan Morgan on immediacy, transparency, passive resistance, and leading with compassion
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Joy Ingle
Manchester-based composer and sound artist Joy Ingle on field recordings, digital processes, acousmatic storytelling, and Hildegard von Bingen
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
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
“Opera as a collaborative process”: a conversation with Guildhall’s Opera Makers
Composers and librettists on Guildhall’s Opera Making course discuss collaborative process, play and experimentation, and creating relevant work
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
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
To be bold, and to be caring
Eternal series director Sasha Elina writes on curation as a creative practice
“We came because of you”: Nabihah Iqbal on her first classical commission
Musician and composer Nabihah Iqbal on her first classical commission for Manchester Collective, appreciating nature, SOPHIE, and representation in music
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
“Structures that hold us all”: a conversation with Bastard Assignments
Experimental composer-performers Bastard Assignments prepare for two music theatre commissions exploring family, Dorset farmers, and haunted houses
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