The latest project by members of Ensemble Klang channels organic collaboration and whispering intensity through stillness, surrealist art, and 90s Radiohead
Finbar Hosie
Franco-British composer Finbar Hosie on amplification, juxtaposition, sound gesture, and creating “driftwood music”
Kevin Leomo
Scottish-Filipino composer Kevin Leomo on Wandelweiser, Glasgow’s experimental music scene, equitable collaboration, and radical creative practice
Cortahojas: a different way of listening to Earth
Composer Luis Fernando Amaya’s album of instrumental and electronic duos explores environmentalism, insects, plants, and Latin American history
Veronika Reutz Drobnic
Croatian composer Veronika Reutz Drobnic on 3D notation, instrumental augmentation, Japanese folk traditions, and Jennifer Walshe
The vulnerability of understanding You Might Not Be As Good-Looking As You Think
Spanish composer Victoria Benito writes about her debut album channeling the surreal, the mundane, the self-absorbed, and the vulnerability throughout each
Tom Baker
London-based electronic artist Tom Baker on musical purpose, compositional stimuli, and curating artistic communities
Ben Nobuto
British-Japanese composer Ben Nobuto on the hysterical sublime, accelerationism, postmodern hyperspace, and the “human 2.0”
Francesca Fargion
Composer-performer Francesca Fargion on predictive text, failure as an aesthetic, and creating imaginary worlds
Jasmine Morris
Composer and sound artist Jasmine Morris on viking instrumentation, butoh dance, and creating sound paintings
Sonia Killmann
Multimedia artist Sonia Killmann on audiovisual composition, interdisciplinary collaborations, and working in Ukraine
Jeremy Rosenstock
LA-based composer Jeremy Rosenstock on sonority of abalone shells, postmodernism, and duration as the language of nature
Emma-Kate Matthews
Architect and composer Emma-Kate Matthews on “spatio-sonic” research, binaural microphones, and constructing sound and space
Holly Gowland
Composer and improviser Holly Gowland on electroacoustic processes, tram harmonics, and Mancunian identity
Darlene Zarabozo
Cuban-American composer Darlene Zarabozo on dramatism, double meanings, the physicality of electronics, and dealing with trauma
Lara Jones
Saxophonist and composer Lara Jones on J Frisco, geodesic domes, and her relationship to the saxophone
May Chi
Hong Kong composer and songwriter May Chi on channeling melancholia, dissociation, and ambient music processes
Rosie Cochrane
British-Canadian songwriter Rosie Cochrane on octopi, psychopaths, hedonism, and microtonal singing