London-based composer and guitarist Omri Kochavi on community gardens, jazz guitar, ancient text, and intuitive decision-making
Samuel D Loveless
Interdisciplinary composer Samuel D Loveless on referentiality, notation, accessibility, and daily life as art practice
Tímea Urban
Slovak composer Tímea Urban on performing together, creative crises, and empathetic approaches to composition
Ushara Dilrukshan
London-based Sri Lankan multimedia performance artist Ushara Dilrukshan on coding, organs, cultural identity, and womanhood
“Stronger than the sum of your parts”: a conversation with Kollektiv UNRUHE
Berlin-based ensemble Kollektiv UNRUHE on collective composition, improvisation, arts funding, and finding common languages
Reuben Esterhuizen
Composer and performer Reuben Esterhuizen on movement, togetherness, ceramic artists, shedding the idea, and radical music-making
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
Boris Bezemer
Amsterdam-based composer Boris Bezemer on cinematic surround sound, player pianos, building a practice, and composition as performance
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
To be bold, and to be caring
Eternal series director Sasha Elina writes on curation as a creative practice
Hugo Bell
British composer Hugo Bell on heartbeats as musical time, DMX lighting, learning new skills, reworking pieces, and being “wired differently”
“Structures that hold us all”: a conversation with Bastard Assignments
Experimental composer-performers Bastard Assignments prepare for two music theatre commissions exploring family, Dorset farmers, and haunted houses
Luke Mombrea
California-born composer Luke Mombrea on Berlin techno, microtonality, body horror, and balancing a career in concert and film music
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
Marisse Cato
London-born composer Marisse Cato on identity, installations, Julius Eastman, and the “ontology of Blackness”
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