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
Ábel Misha Gille Esbenshade
Hungarian-American composer Ábel M.G.E. on farcical opera, musical quotation, cosmic nihilism, and the blending of genre
Darlene Zarabozo
Cuban-American composer Darlene Zarabozo on dramatism, double meanings, the physicality of electronics, and dealing with trauma