Amsterdam-based composer Boris Bezemer on cinematic surround sound, player pianos, building a practice, and composition as performance
Decolmuseum: A Sonic Reckoning of Colonial Trauma
Cellist and composer Alfian Emir Adytia’s latest album explores Dutch colonialism and resistance through heavy metal and keroncong
Hugo Bell
British composer Hugo Bell on heartbeats as musical time, DMX lighting, learning new skills, reworking pieces, and being “wired differently”
Anna-Louise Walton
American composer Anna-Louise Walton on defamiliarisation, writing for voice, PVC pipes, found objects, and complexities of intuition
Robert Nettleship
British composer Robert Nettleship on Sibelius MIDI, scratch lyrics, and enjoying the process
Celia Swart
Dutch multimedia composer Celia Swart on illustration software, resonant doors, Dutch architecture, and self-exploration
Esther Wu
Hong Kong-based composer and songwriter Esther Wu on installations, societal intimacy, stage presence, and Jean-Paul Sartre
Lise Morrison
South African composer Lise Morrison on debut album ‘No grief without joy’, nonlinear development, “super-instruments”, and quoting David Bowie
“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
Un-Specialisation: a conversation with Ivan Vukosavljević and Ensemble Klang
Ivan Vukosavljević’s album ‘The Burning’ explores new approaches to ensemble writing, combining deconstructed guitars, shared vocabulary, and sacred drones
anthem: a celebration and dissection of liveness
Birmingham Record Company writes about their compilation highlighting composers Emily Abdy, Andy Ingamells, Ryan Latimer, Genevieve Murphy, and Corey Mwamba
Luke Deane
Amsterdam-based conceptual composer Luke Deane on post-Cageian thinking, fluidity, queer art, and alter ego Lisa
Pepijn Streng
Dutch composer Pepijn Streng on musical physicality, rhythm as harmony, and internal hierarchies of material
Jimena Maldonado
Mexican composer-photographer Jimena Maldonado on choreography, visual frames of reference, and inspiration from travelling
Patrick Ellis
British composer Patrick Ellis on The Hague, fragmentation, and the balance between abstract and process