Composer-performer Emily Hazrati on breath, heritage, performance as ritual, and collaboration as dialogue

beyond genre
beyond genre
Composer-performer Emily Hazrati on breath, heritage, performance as ritual, and collaboration as dialogue
Composer-performer Francesca Fargion on predictive text, failure as an aesthetic, and creating imaginary worlds
British composer Alex Tay on psychoacoustic illusions, musical quotations, and “manic” compositional process
Composer and sound artist Jasmine Morris on viking instrumentation, butoh dance, and creating sound paintings
Multimedia artist Sonia Killmann on audiovisual composition, interdisciplinary collaborations, and working in Ukraine
LA-based composer Jeremy Rosenstock on sonority of abalone shells, postmodernism, and duration as the language of nature
Architect and composer Emma-Kate Matthews on “spatio-sonic” research, binaural microphones, and constructing sound and space
Hungarian-American composer Ábel M.G.E. on farcical opera, musical quotation, cosmic nihilism, and the blending of genre
British composer Robert Crehan on setting text, institutional diversity, Steve McQueen, and the rhetoric of gesture
Jazz pianist Steve Tromans on Derek Bailey, improv night Fizzle, and the musical-philosophical
Scottish composer Aileen Sweeney on new tonalism, Celtic folk influences, and her podcast Ear to the Ground
French composer and bandleader Mathis Saunier on Jonny Greenwood, Alexander Schubert, Black Mirror, and hands-on compositional process
Serbian composer Sara Stevanovic on memory, connect-the-dots notation, Slavoj Zizek, and sci-fi opera
Composer and guitarist Jake Adams on cross-cultural composition, heavy metal, anxiety, and new music initiative Arc Project
Chinese composer Sun Keting on Eastern philosophy, ikebana, the beauty of imperfection, and grounding oneself in nature
Composer and improviser Holly Gowland on electroacoustic processes, tram harmonics, and Mancunian identity
Cuban-American composer Darlene Zarabozo on dramatism, double meanings, the physicality of electronics, and dealing with trauma
Amsterdam-based conceptual composer Luke Deane on post-Cageian thinking, fluidity, queer art, and alter ego Lisa
British composer Kat Wallace on inspiration from nature, swallow migrations, and integrating visuals into composition
Saxophonist and composer Lara Jones on J Frisco, geodesic domes, and her relationship to the saxophone