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Landscapes and lyrics: Anselm McDonnell
All in the family: Cassandra Miller
Composer in Residence Profile: Lauri Supponen
Attempts to attune: Genevieve Murphy
Ourselves in shattered glass: Marta Śniady
Auscultation of the world: Olga Kokcharova
Exchange of views: Ville Aslak Raasakka
We dig repetition: Bryn Harrison
Composer in Residence Profile: Sarah Hennies
Watch our Artist to Artist talk with Lina Lapelytė and Kathy Hinde
Transcending time in Anthony Braxton’s Ghost Trance Music
Watch our Artist to Artist talk with Claudia Molitor and David Vélez
Listening to Humanity in the Creative Practice of Lina Lapelytė
Watch our Artist to Artist talk with Zubin Kanga and Atau Tanaka
Life cycles: Enno Poppe
Only connect: Claudia Molitor
Happy returns: The Arditti Quartet at 50
Inventing language: Wadada Leo Smith
Artist blog: Helen Anahita Wilson
Interview: Helen Anahita Wilson
Bass desires: Bára Gísladóttir
Watch our Q&A with Rebecca Saunders
In profundis clamavi: Žibuokle Martinaitytė
Watch our Artist to Artist talk with Charles Uzor and Liza Lim
The ecology of Liza Lim
All in: Laura Bowler
Dust collections: Rebecca Saunders at hcmf// 2023
Sculpting artistic identity with Arturas Bumšteinas
Terrain of possibilities: Jürg Frey
Voice is an archive: an introduction to Jennifer Walshe, hcmf// 2023 Composer in Residence
Philip Venables’ personal, political storytelling
Old ways, new music: 20 years of EXAUDI
Investigating the language of sound with 2022 Pulitzer Prize winner Raven Chacon
Justė Janulytė’s monochromatic transformations
The daring dualism of Lisa Streich, hcmf// 2022’s Composer in Residence
Watch our Artist to Artist talk with Rani Jambak and Supriya Nagarajan
Rani’s Residency Journal: Making a water wheel
An interview with Rani Jambak, our Musician in Residence
Claudia Molitor talks ‘Hausmusik Kollektiv’ with Robert Worby
Bethany Holloway on making ‘DJ’
Charlotte Roe on making her hcmf// 2021 installation ‘Entity’
Familiar faces and unknown worlds: John Butcher’s ‘Fluid Fixations’
Cath Roberts embraces disruption at hcmf// 2021
Brigitta Muntendorf’s ‘Memorial of Rebellion’ is a sprawling tribute to protest music
The quiet life of Eva-Maria Houben’s music
Laurence Osborn’s new hcmf// commission is… relaxing?
Watch our Q&A with Chaya Czernowin
hcmf// 2021: festival returns with 5-day programme of live events
Time goes inward: the music of Chaya Czernowin
Nicholas Moroz’s guide to Explore Ensemble
Nicholas Moroz on three of his defining pieces
Running on thin air: the evolution of Nicholas Moroz’s music
Heather Roche highlights her recent projects with students
L&P Blog: Improvising with Greenhead College
Two for contrabass clarinet: Heather Roche’s lockdown recordings
Unbound Listening #2
A non-explanation of Lauren Sarah Hayes’ music
Alex Ives highlights his label First Terrace Records
Alex Ives on exploring his identity through punk, noise and drone
The crowd-sourced nature of Leafcutter John’s ‘Lockdown Patchwork’
Feature: Specimens
Revisit the Zeitgeist Q&A and watch the Zeitgeist Commissions
Hayley Suviste, Ryan Woods and the Manchester Soundwalk Collective
Listen to Hayley Suviste’s ‘Lōka’
Hayley Suviste’s ‘A Meeting Place | 会议地点’
Hearing history: the music of Hayley Suviste
Oliver Leith
James Dillon
Matt Wright
Georgia Rodgers
Calliope Tsoupaki
Johan Svensson
Joanna Bailie
A Postcard from our Field Recordings Workshop
Celebrating the life and music of Simon H Fell
Watch a documentary about our 2019 programme for women in electronic music
Jake Burdass: Young Curator
Solos and plurals: the improvisation of John Butcher
Mayke Nas is looking for trouble
hcmf// 2019: Hidden Gems
Frail notes: the music of Evan Johnson
Evan Parker celebrates 75 years of collaborative revolution
Can and Klavier: the music of Irmin Schmidt
Juliet Fraser’s voice guides us through Naomi Pinnock’s ‘I Am, I Am’
Claudia Molitor’s music of things
Naomi Pinnock’s new work opens hcmf// 2019
Threads II
Meet Hanna Hartman, hcmf// 2019’s Composer in Residence
Harriet: Press Quotes & Production Shots
Christian Marclay: Picture This
Enno Poppe: material conductor
Zubin Kanga: musical trials and tribulations
Mandhira de Saram: balancing musical worlds beyond reason and expectation
40 years of Sciarrino at hcmf//
Salvatore Sciarrino: the music of touch
Aart Strootman: Pioneering Guitarist, Composer & Music Theorist
Heather Roche: Clarinettist. Experimentalist. Blogger. Risk-taker. Collaborator
In Here it’s not Prison: Engaging vulnerable and stigmatized communities in composition
Watch: Music for Young Players
Malin Bång: Playing with Time
CoMA Festival call for workshop leaders/conductors
Polwechsel: ‘Standstill has never been useful for us’
hcmf// 2017: Hidden Gems
Magnus Granberg: on fertile ground
Alexander Schubert: ‘It would be a stupid idea to try to recreate a rave event’
CeReNeM Masterclass – Composition Workshop with Hilda Paredes
The Riot Ensemble: Champions of Contemporary Music
Rhodri Davies: Time on his hands
Listening After Pauline Oliveros – A Meditation
Linda Catlin Smith: ‘I love to be in a state of mystery’
hcmf// highlights
Laura Jayne Bowler: ‘My pieces are never just a piece of music’
Graham McKenzie In Conversation With Claudia Molitor
Jennifer Walshe Q&A
Composer in Residence 2016: Georg Friedrich Haas
Eastern Waves
Enruptured: Berlin Splitter Orchester Q&A
Agata Zubel & Jagoda Szmytka: Poles Apart
Crossing the Lines: Naomi Pinnock Q&A
The sounds of science: Mauro Lanza Q&A
