Interdisciplinary composer Samuel D Loveless on referentiality, notation, accessibility, and daily life as art practice
Train Travel, Voicenotes, and Working with Friends: Zahrah Hutton’s ‘here I am briefly’
Guitarist and composer Zahrah Hutton writes on her latest album, train travel, voicenotes, Joni Mitchell and working with friends
Reuben Esterhuizen
Composer and performer Reuben Esterhuizen on movement, togetherness, ceramic artists, shedding the idea, and radical music-making
Elif Karlidag
Turkish-British composer Elif Karlıdağ on mass hysteria, 80s video games, absurdism, and working with graphic notation
Ryan Morgan
UK-based composer Ryan Morgan on immediacy, transparency, passive resistance, and leading with compassion
A Shared Process: Simon Knighton’s ‘Sound Sculptures, Dynamical Systems, Natural Environments’
Manchester-based composer Simon Knighton writes on his debut album’s shared creative process, graphic scores, sampling, quantization, and pendulum waves
Laila Arafah
London-based composer Laila Arafah on Sibelius MIDI, repeat performances, chat bots, and unexpected combinations in texture
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
Blasio Kavuma
London-based composer Blasio Kavuma on Afro-diasporic traditions, cyclical time frameworks, signifying, and cultural associations
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
Robert Nettleship
British composer Robert Nettleship on Sibelius MIDI, scratch lyrics, and enjoying the process
Anna Semple
British composer and singer Anna Semple on writing for choir, aleatoric scoring, feminist music theory, and embracing physicality
Darius Paymai
Iranian-American composer Darius Paymai on handwritten scores, cycles and stasis, Howard Skempton, and the “right material”
Improvisation Games and Meaningful Collaboration: ensemble Terra Invisus on debut album ‘Visions’
Contemporary music trio Terra Invisus’ debut album ‘Visions’, created in close collaboration with composers, explores improvisation and open notation
Intimate Spaces: a conversation with Standard Issue
London-based contemporary ensemble standard issue on togetherness, interactive composition, and transcending performance boundaries
Jamie Elless
Birmingham-born composer Jamie Elless on graphic scores, alternate notations, queer liberation, and “honest music”
Lara Agar
British composer Lara Agar on indeterminacy, sonic warping, channeling imperfection, and the closure of IKLECTIK
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