Interdisciplinary composer Samuel D Loveless on referentiality, notation, accessibility, and daily life as art practice
beyond genre
beyond genre

Interdisciplinary composer Samuel D Loveless on referentiality, notation, accessibility, and daily life as art practice

Guitarist and composer Zahrah Hutton writes on her latest album, train travel, voicenotes, Joni Mitchell and working with friends

Composer and performer Reuben Esterhuizen on movement, togetherness, ceramic artists, shedding the idea, and radical music-making

Turkish-British composer Elif Karlıdağ on mass hysteria, 80s video games, absurdism, and working with graphic notation

UK-based composer Ryan Morgan on immediacy, transparency, passive resistance, and leading with compassion

Manchester-based composer Simon Knighton writes on his debut album’s shared creative process, graphic scores, sampling, quantization, and pendulum waves

London-based composer Laila Arafah on Sibelius MIDI, repeat performances, chat bots, and unexpected combinations in texture

Nonclassical Artists in Residence Nneka Cummins and Beatrice Ferreira on approaches to voice, improvisation, pseudonyms, and big-picture strategies

British composer Joanna Ward on graphic notation, field recordings, “bean” pieces, composing for friends, and financial inequality in classical music

London-based composer Blasio Kavuma on Afro-diasporic traditions, cyclical time frameworks, signifying, and cultural associations

Pianist and technologist Zubin Kanga discusses composer-performer collaborations, new technologies, brain sensors, and building shared knowledge

British composer Robert Nettleship on Sibelius MIDI, scratch lyrics, and enjoying the process

British composer and singer Anna Semple on writing for choir, aleatoric scoring, feminist music theory, and embracing physicality

Iranian-American composer Darius Paymai on handwritten scores, cycles and stasis, Howard Skempton, and the “right material”

Contemporary music trio Terra Invisus’ debut album ‘Visions’, created in close collaboration with composers, explores improvisation and open notation

London-based contemporary ensemble standard issue on togetherness, interactive composition, and transcending performance boundaries

Birmingham-born composer Jamie Elless on graphic scores, alternate notations, queer liberation, and “honest music”

British composer Lara Agar on indeterminacy, sonic warping, channeling imperfection, and the closure of IKLECTIK

LA-based composer Jack Herscowitz on rational intonation, subjectivities and ownership, and “anti-innovation”

Mixed-ability contemporary music ensemble CoMA reflects on its inaugural composers-in-residence programme, featuring composers Megan Steinberg and Paul Evernden