PRXLUDES’ first commissioned composer Millicent B James discusses The Legend of Zelda, folk traditions, the value of patience, and getting closer to nature
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
Ashkan Layegh
UK-based Iranian composer Ashkan Layegh on self-reflexivity, architecture, frames, and collective memory making
Ushara Dilrukshan
London-based Sri Lankan multimedia performance artist Ushara Dilrukshan on coding, organs, cultural identity, and womanhood
“Stronger than the sum of your parts”: a conversation with Kollektiv UNRUHE
Berlin-based ensemble Kollektiv UNRUHE on collective composition, improvisation, arts funding, and finding common languages
Jim Osman
Leeds-born multimedia artist Jim Osman on opera directing, dub, speculative fiction, digital folklore, and gothic futurism
Sounding Biodiversity: Ellie Wilson and Jenna Lawson on creating ‘Moth X Human’
Composer Ellie Wilson and scientist Jenna Lawson on their most recent collaboration, biodiversity decline, emotional reactions, and translating data into music
Boris Bezemer
Amsterdam-based composer Boris Bezemer on cinematic surround sound, player pianos, building a practice, and composition as performance
Joy Ingle
Manchester-based composer and sound artist Joy Ingle on field recordings, digital processes, acousmatic storytelling, and Hildegard von Bingen
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”
Luke Mombrea
California-born composer Luke Mombrea on Berlin techno, microtonality, body horror, and balancing a career in concert and film music
Tayla-Leigh Payne
Welsh composer and sound artist Tayla-Leigh Payne on electronic music, dance, animation, landscapes, and continuously learning
Marisse Cato
London-born composer Marisse Cato on identity, installations, Julius Eastman, and the “ontology of Blackness”
Space to Play: a conversation with Nonclassical’s 2023-25 Artists in Residence
Nonclassical Artists in Residence Nneka Cummins and Beatrice Ferreira on approaches to voice, improvisation, pseudonyms, and big-picture strategies
Joanna Ward
British composer Joanna Ward on graphic notation, field recordings, “bean” pieces, composing for friends, and financial inequality in classical music
Curating a Technological Repertoire: a conversation with Zubin Kanga
Pianist and technologist Zubin Kanga discusses composer-performer collaborations, new technologies, brain sensors, and building shared knowledge
Robert Nettleship
British composer Robert Nettleship on Sibelius MIDI, scratch lyrics, and enjoying the process
Rebecca Galian Castello
London-based French composer Rebecca Galian Castello on working with noise, distortion techniques, folk traditions, and DIY ethics
Zakiya Leeming
Manchester-based composer Zakiya Leeming on collaborating with scientists, AI in composition, centring human stories, and “thinking through music”