London-based composer and songwriter Kay Rowan on field recordings, folk clubs, breaking stylistic shackles, and the role of the artist
Jim Osman
Leeds-born multimedia artist Jim Osman on opera directing, dub, speculative fiction, digital folklore, and gothic futurism
Reclaiming Autonomy: PLASTIC BODIES creators on tackling abuse in opera
PLASTIC BODIES creators discuss care, open score-making, and co-creation in new experimental opera tackling abuse in the industry
Gloria Xia
Manchester-based composer Gloria Xia on narrative, ritual, accessibility, and autobiographical experiences in composition
Luka Venter
Composer and conductor Luka Venter on ecological writing, clarity and rigour, visceral entanglement, and journeys in collaboration
Sounding Biodiversity: Ellie Wilson and Jenna Lawson on creating ‘Moth X Human’
Composer Ellie Wilson and scientist Jenna Lawson on their most recent collaboration, biodiversity decline, emotional reactions, and translating data into music
Niamh J O’Donnell
Welsh-Australian composer Niamh J O’Donnell on environmental storytelling, childhood nostalgia, feminine rage, and performance as a feeling
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
Joy Ingle
Manchester-based composer and sound artist Joy Ingle on field recordings, digital processes, acousmatic storytelling, and Hildegard von Bingen
Anibal Vidal
London-based Chilean composer Anibal Vidal on handheld instruments, tension and release, play, and composition as “intuitive abstract sudoku”
Chloe Knibbs
British composer Chloe Knibbs on residencies, freewriting, musical pragmatism, and finding supportive communities
“Opera as a collaborative process”: a conversation with Guildhall’s Opera Makers
Composers and librettists on Guildhall’s Opera Making course discuss collaborative process, play and experimentation, and creating relevant work
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
Angela Slater
British composer Angela Slater on mapping natural processes, orchestration, Brian Cox, Scottish folklore, and nurturing personal canons
Eden Lonsdale
British-German composer Eden Lonsdale on working with limitations, subtle implications, James Tenney and Alvin Lucier, and “forms within forms”
Delyth Field
Japanese-Welsh composer Delyth Field on musical language combining “brostep”, Yayoi Kusama, vocaloid, shoegaze, and online communities
To be bold, and to be caring
Eternal series director Sasha Elina writes on curation as a creative practice
“We came because of you”: Nabihah Iqbal on her first classical commission
Musician and composer Nabihah Iqbal on her first classical commission for Manchester Collective, appreciating nature, SOPHIE, and representation in music
Hugo Bell
British composer Hugo Bell on heartbeats as musical time, DMX lighting, learning new skills, reworking pieces, and being “wired differently”