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
Gloria Xia
Manchester-based composer Gloria Xia on narrative, ritual, accessibility, and autobiographical experiences in composition
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
Niamh J O’Donnell
Welsh-Australian composer Niamh J O’Donnell on environmental storytelling, childhood nostalgia, feminine rage, and performance as a feeling
Elif Karlidag
Turkish-British composer Elif Karlıdağ on mass hysteria, 80s video games, absurdism, and working with graphic notation
Joy Ingle
Manchester-based composer and sound artist Joy Ingle on field recordings, digital processes, acousmatic storytelling, and Hildegard von Bingen
Chloe Knibbs
British composer Chloe Knibbs on residencies, freewriting, musical pragmatism, and finding supportive communities
Delyth Field
Japanese-Welsh composer Delyth Field on musical language combining “brostep”, Yayoi Kusama, vocaloid, shoegaze, and online communities
“We came because of you”: Nabihah Iqbal on her first classical commission
Musician and composer Nabihah Iqbal on her first classical commission for Manchester Collective, appreciating nature, SOPHIE, and representation in music
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
Anna-Louise Walton
American composer Anna-Louise Walton on defamiliarisation, writing for voice, PVC pipes, found objects, and complexities of intuition
Further Than Sound: a conversation with Komuna Collective
Contemporary music group discuss their debut album, performing music at raves, TikTok, online spaces, and curating an experience
Jorge Ramos
UK-based Portuguese composer Jorge Ramos on technology-assisted orchestration, deconstructing sound, and rethinking tradition
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