Artist and composer Otto Hashmi explores historical recontextualisation, dark ambient, Renaissance ricercate, and composer collaborations
Kámea Németh
Brummie/Hungarian composer Kámea Németh on scrapbooks, Renaissance magic, paprika-based graphic notation, and compositional whimsy
Oliwia Radomska
Composer and DJ Oliwia Radomska on sonically reflecting extreme sports, industrial techno, club aftercare, and human nature
Imogen Davey
London-based composer and sound artist Imogen Davey on collecting and transforming in electroacoustic and audiovisual practices
Paloma León
London-based composer and pianist Paloma León on queerness, cinema, classical and pop influence, and yearning for connection
The Architecture of a Performance: a conversation with Manchester Collective
Manchester Collective co-director Jasmin Kent Rodgman discusses commissioning, “casting” composers, drawing in audiences, and advice about authenticity
Sonia Lozina
Ukrainian composer and performer Sonia Lozina on starting from dramaturgy, storytelling, Ukrainian folklore, and bridges between generations
“Something out of the ordinary”: a conversation with LSO’s Soundhub composers
London Symphony Orchestra’s 2025-26 Soundhub composers discuss endangered languages, cybernetic instruments, intermediality, and the physicality of sound
Eleanor Cully Boehringer
Newcastle-based composer, performer, and choral conductor Eleanor Cully Boehringer on choral music, new trails, interlocking processes, and listening inside the sound
David Balica
Composer and bass-baritone David Balica on technology, vocal performance, postmodernism, politics, and “controlled chance”
Losing my Mind at BOUNDARIES Fest
Composer and cellist Toby Anderson writes on how an experimental music festival shifted his perspective as an artist
Omri Kochavi
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