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