LA-based composer Jack Herscowitz on rational intonation, subjectivities and ownership, and “anti-innovation”
Laurence Osborn
British composer Laurence Osborn on cultural memory, mechanisms and automation, parenthood, and C.P.E. Bach
Athanasia Kontou
Greek composer and pianist Athanasia Kontou on Antigone, emotional vulnerability, and autoethnographic composition
Fluxus, slow travel, and singing to cows: a conversation with Kirkos
Irish contemporary music ensemble Kirkos prepare for their upcoming debut at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
“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
Riccardo Perugini
Tuscan composer Riccardo Perugini on early music, alternate histories, vaporwave, and writing for period instruments
Christian Drew
London-based composer Christian Drew on Laurence Crane, shoegaze, and composing from unreliable memory
Florence Anna Maunders
British composer Florence Anna Maunders on hyper-genre, writing for performers, main character syndrome, and the “post-experimental” age
Rogue Acts: a conversation with string quartet Vulva Voce
String quartet Vulva Voce talk about celebrating music by women from across the centuries, groove, and playing with expectation
Victoria Cheah
Boston/NYC-based composer Victoria Cheah on sine tones, repetition, intimacy, and body language in music
Anna Disley-Simpson
British composer Anna Disley-Simpson on opera, stylised reality, collage notation, and crafting vocal resonance
Aidan Teplitzky
Scottish-Australian composer Aidan Teplitzky on class identity, familiarity, thriftiness, and creating working class 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
Sylvia Lim
Composer Sylvia Lim on unstable sounds, the physicality of instruments, and making fewer decisions
Marcus Rock
British composer Marcus Rock on synesthesia, active listening, internal and external composition processes, and George Lewis
Carla Ng
Hong Kong-born composer and theatre-maker Carla Ng on empathy, burnout, performer and audience agency, and being a dramaturgical “fixer”
Claire Victoria Roberts
Welsh composer and jazz vocalist Claire Victoria Roberts on musical inconsistency, schmaltzy sound worlds, and moving to Barcelona
“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
“Building that connection”: a conversation with the Fidelio Trio
The Fidelio Trio give insights into the challenges faced in today’s contemporary music landscape, and impart career-building advice for emerging composers