Glasgow-based composer Ollie Hawker explores the lines between classical and pop music, consonance and dissonance, and pleasant and interesting sounds
Luis Fernando Amaya
Mexican-born composer Luis Fernando Amaya on activism, accessible experimentation, and why we make music
Amy Crankshaw
UK-based South African composer Amy Crankshaw on sensoria, ritual, eco-emotions, and empathy for nature
Ty Bloomfield
Michigan-based composer Ty Bloomfield on worldbuilding, notation, programme notes, and creating vivid connections
David Balica
Composer and bass-baritone David Balica on technology, vocal performance, postmodernism, politics, and “controlled chance”
Carmel Smickersgill
Manchester-based composer and performer Carmel Smickersgill on grassroots spaces, the Beach Boys, and being yourself
Omri Kochavi
London-based composer and guitarist Omri Kochavi on community gardens, jazz guitar, ancient text, and intuitive decision-making
Yan Ee Toh
Singaporean composer Yan Ee Toh on ritual, choreography, dichotomies, and working with non-Western instruments
Samuel D Loveless
Interdisciplinary composer Samuel D Loveless on referentiality, notation, accessibility, and daily life as art practice
Nurturing Patience: catching up with “5 for 5” commissioned composer Millicent B James
PRXLUDES’ first commissioned composer Millicent B James discusses The Legend of Zelda, folk traditions, the value of patience, and getting closer to nature
Claire Cope
Composer and bandleader Claire Cope on groove, emotional connections, becoming a mother, and “writing from the heart”
Vivek Haria
British composer Vivek Haria on breathing together, Jain spiritual traditions, qualia, recalibrating as a composer, and active listening
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
Matthew Lee Knowles
British composer Matthew Lee Knowles on John Cage, laborious processes, long durations, and translating text to music
Tímea Urban
Slovak composer Tímea Urban on performing together, creative crises, and empathetic approaches to composition
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
Molly Frances Arnuk
London-based composer Molly Frances Arnuk on braiding patterns, meditation, Helen Frankenthaler, and moments of subversion
Thanakarn Schofield
Thai composer Thanakarn Schofield on transformation, layers of time, chess, censorship, and “sonic ritual”
“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