London-based composer Christian Drew on Laurence Crane, shoegaze, and composing from unreliable memory

beyond genre
beyond genre
London-based composer Christian Drew on Laurence Crane, shoegaze, and composing from unreliable memory
British composer Florence Anna Maunders on hyper-genre, writing for performers, main character syndrome, and the “post-experimental” age
String quartet Vulva Voce talk about celebrating music by women from across the centuries, groove, and playing with expectation
British composer Anna Disley-Simpson on opera, stylised reality, collage notation, and crafting vocal resonance
Scottish-Australian composer Aidan Teplitzky on class identity, familiarity, thriftiness, and creating working class music
Composer Sylvia Lim on unstable sounds, the physicality of instruments, and making fewer decisions
British composer Marcus Rock on synesthesia, active listening, internal and external composition processes, and George Lewis
Hong Kong-born composer and theatre-maker Carla Ng on empathy, burnout, performer and audience agency, and being a dramaturgical “fixer”
Welsh composer and jazz vocalist Claire Victoria Roberts on musical inconsistency, schmaltzy sound worlds, and moving to Barcelona
The Fidelio Trio give insights into the challenges faced in today’s contemporary music landscape, and impart career-building advice for emerging composers
Franco-British composer Finbar Hosie on amplification, juxtaposition, sound gesture, and creating “driftwood music”
Composer Lucy Armstrong on Stephen Sondheim, capturing drama, and making text sing
Scottish-Filipino composer Kevin Leomo on Wandelweiser, Glasgow’s experimental music scene, equitable collaboration, and radical creative practice
Composer Robin Fiedler on unbalanced ensembles, sentimentalism, organic processes, and the “everyday alien”
Composer and guitarist James M. Creed on indeterminacy, études, clowning, James Tenney, and Alvin Lucier
Scottish composer Gillian Walker on modular composition, “total theatre”, and the aesthetics of performance
Chinese composer Zhenyan Li on noh theatre, Beijing Opera, political humour, and writing “sarcastic” music
Composer and bandleader Olivia Murphy on organising a jazz orchestra, writing for voice, and accessibility of jazz composition
Composer and conceptual artist Fraz Ireland on unconventional programme notes, the concert experience, notation as invitation, and MS Paint
Welsh composer Cameron Biles-Liddell on staticity and momentum, timbre, Birtwistle, and writing “sparkly” music