Michigan-based composer Ty Bloomfield on worldbuilding, notation, programme notes, and creating vivid connections
Molly Frances Arnuk
London-based composer Molly Frances Arnuk on braiding patterns, meditation, Helen Frankenthaler, and moments of subversion
Thanakarn Schofield
Thai composer Thanakarn Schofield on transformation, layers of time, chess, censorship, and “sonic ritual”
Maile Pacumio
Filipino-Thai composer Maile Pacumio on cross-cultural collaboration, synesthesia, burnout, and music as a universal language
Arjan Singh Dogra
New York-based composer and performer Arjan Singh Dogra on temporality, oneness, Hindustani traditions, and “first person” music
Luke Mombrea
California-born composer Luke Mombrea on Berlin techno, microtonality, body horror, and balancing a career in concert and film music
Sami Seif
Lebanese composer Sami Seif on collaboration, Middle Eastern poetry, duration in language, and the experience of musical time
Anna-Louise Walton
American composer Anna-Louise Walton on defamiliarisation, writing for voice, PVC pipes, found objects, and complexities of intuition
Marisse Cato
London-born composer Marisse Cato on identity, installations, Julius Eastman, and the “ontology of Blackness”
Lily Koslow
American composer Lily Koslow on noise, energetic forms, political agitation, Marxism, and creating alternate universes
Sofia Jen Ouyang
Chinese-American composer Sofia Jen Ouyang on working with text, positionality, dialectics, and the “impossibility of translation”
Darius Paymai
Iranian-American composer Darius Paymai on handwritten scores, cycles and stasis, Howard Skempton, and the “right material”
“There are a lot more of us than just us”: a conversation with Sawyer Editions
Contemporary music record label Sawyer Editions on creating an artistic ecosphere, DIY punk scenes, transparency, and cassette tape culture
Ben Richter
Composer and accordionist Ben Richter on time dilation, liminal pitch relationships, and altered states of consciousness
Jack Herscowitz
LA-based composer Jack Herscowitz on rational intonation, subjectivities and ownership, and “anti-innovation”
Victoria Cheah
Boston/NYC-based composer Victoria Cheah on sine tones, repetition, intimacy, and body language in music
Kian Ravaei
Composer Kian Ravaei on heritage, tradition, and creating musical mosaics channeling Bach chorales, Iranian classical music, and EDM production
James M. Creed
Composer and guitarist James M. Creed on indeterminacy, études, clowning, James Tenney, and Alvin Lucier
Anthony R. Green
Composer and performer Anthony R. Green on Stockhausen, social justice, boundaries of composition and performance, and promoting Black artists
Jeremy Rosenstock
LA-based composer Jeremy Rosenstock on sonority of abalone shells, postmodernism, and duration as the language of nature