American composer Lily Koslow on noise, energetic forms, political agitation, Marxism, and creating alternate universes
Sam Rudd-Jones
British composer and electronic artist Sam Rudd-Jones on sonata form, comfort zones, music-as-itself, and pushing against genre expectations
Bobbie-Jane Gardner
Birmingham-based composer Bobbie-Jane Gardner on community-building through music, DJing, visual artists, and arranging for Netflix
Alex Groves
British composer and curator Alex Groves on sculptures, hyperpop, artist-led curation, and embracing change
Darius Paymai
Iranian-American composer Darius Paymai on handwritten scores, cycles and stasis, Howard Skempton, and the “right material”
Twenty Years of Alternative Classical: a conversation with Nonclassical founder Gabriel Prokofiev
Nonclassical founder Gabriel Prokofiev on curating classical club nights, audience engagement, remix culture, and London’s alternative classical scene
Mia Windsor
Leeds-based composer and improviser Mia Windsor on spectralism, pipe organs, experimental music spaces, and embracing glitches
Zakiya Leeming
Manchester-based composer Zakiya Leeming on collaborating with scientists, AI in composition, centring human stories, and “thinking through music”
Celia Swart
Dutch multimedia composer Celia Swart on illustration software, resonant doors, Dutch architecture, and self-exploration
Esther Wu
Hong Kong-based composer and songwriter Esther Wu on installations, societal intimacy, stage presence, and Jean-Paul Sartre
Jamie Elless
Birmingham-born composer Jamie Elless on graphic scores, alternate notations, queer liberation, and “honest music”
Prayer, breakcore, and Hatsune Miku: a journey through ‘Panopticon’
Composer and performance artist Phoebe Apfel’s debut EP explores disparate sampling, mental health, and writing for vocaloid software
Lara Agar
British composer Lara Agar on indeterminacy, sonic warping, channeling imperfection, and the closure of IKLECTIK
Sasha Scott
British composer and electronic artist Sasha Scott on remixing, overwhelming feelings, and creating “rockstar moments”
Jack Herscowitz
LA-based composer Jack Herscowitz on rational intonation, subjectivities and ownership, and “anti-innovation”
“The right kind of challenge”: a conversation with CoMA London
Mixed-ability contemporary music ensemble CoMA reflects on its inaugural composers-in-residence programme, featuring composers Megan Steinberg and Paul Evernden
Victoria Cheah
Boston/NYC-based composer Victoria Cheah on sine tones, repetition, intimacy, and body language in 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
“Almost-songs”: a conversation with Avenue Azure
The latest project by members of Ensemble Klang channels organic collaboration and whispering intensity through stillness, surrealist art, and 90s Radiohead