London-based composer Christian Drew on Laurence Crane, shoegaze, and composing from unreliable memory
Florence Anna Maunders
British composer Florence Anna Maunders on hyper-genre, writing for performers, main character syndrome, and the “post-experimental” age
Victoria Cheah
Boston/NYC-based composer Victoria Cheah on sine tones, repetition, intimacy, and body language in music
Anna Disley-Simpson
British composer Anna Disley-Simpson on opera, stylised reality, collage notation, and crafting vocal resonance
Aidan Teplitzky
Scottish-Australian composer Aidan Teplitzky on class identity, familiarity, thriftiness, and creating working class music
Lise Morrison
South African composer Lise Morrison on debut album ‘No grief without joy’, nonlinear development, “super-instruments”, and quoting David Bowie
Kian Ravaei
Composer Kian Ravaei on heritage, tradition, and creating musical mosaics channeling Bach chorales, Iranian classical music, and EDM production
Sylvia Lim
Composer Sylvia Lim on unstable sounds, the physicality of instruments, and making fewer decisions
Marcus Rock
British composer Marcus Rock on synesthesia, active listening, internal and external composition processes, and George Lewis
Carla Ng
Hong Kong-born composer and theatre-maker Carla Ng on empathy, burnout, performer and audience agency, and being a dramaturgical “fixer”
Claire Victoria Roberts
Welsh composer and jazz vocalist Claire Victoria Roberts on musical inconsistency, schmaltzy sound worlds, and moving to Barcelona
Finbar Hosie
Franco-British composer Finbar Hosie on amplification, juxtaposition, sound gesture, and creating “driftwood music”
Un-Specialisation: a conversation with Ivan Vukosavljević and Ensemble Klang
Ivan Vukosavljević’s album ‘The Burning’ explores new approaches to ensemble writing, combining deconstructed guitars, shared vocabulary, and sacred drones
Lucy Armstrong
Composer Lucy Armstrong on Stephen Sondheim, capturing drama, and making text sing
Kevin Leomo
Scottish-Filipino composer Kevin Leomo on Wandelweiser, Glasgow’s experimental music scene, equitable collaboration, and radical creative practice
Robin Fiedler
Composer Robin Fiedler on unbalanced ensembles, sentimentalism, organic processes, and the “everyday alien”
James M. Creed
Composer and guitarist James M. Creed on indeterminacy, études, clowning, James Tenney, and Alvin Lucier
Gillian Walker
Scottish composer Gillian Walker on modular composition, “total theatre”, and the aesthetics of performance
Zhenyan Li
Chinese composer Zhenyan Li on noh theatre, Beijing Opera, political humour, and writing “sarcastic” music
Veronika Reutz Drobnic
Croatian composer Veronika Reutz Drobnic on 3D notation, instrumental augmentation, Japanese folk traditions, and Jennifer Walshe