The Contemporary Journal is the online publishing platform of Nottingham Contemporary. It is committed to long-term research and public study, publishing new commissions across multiple formats: essays, poetry, artists’ writings, moving image and sonic works.
In this sampled interview, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and conductor Hannah Catherine Jones discusses her work with the Peckham Chamber Orchestra, her ongoing series The Oweds, Wagner and Sun Ra, as well as sampling as a form of transtemporal sonic solidarity.
In this interview, artist and musician Hassan Khan discusses how decentering the singular voice, modulating words into other words, and producing algorithmically infinite beats offer a lived experience of multidimensionality.
In this operatic interview, artist Lina Lapelytė speaks of how music, musicians and scores enunciate shared forms of being and belonging as they relate to gender and life under capitalism.
In this sonic interview, artist, choreographer and host Isabel Lewis speaks to Reece Cox about explores non-linear composition”
In this melodic interview, artist Hajra Waheed dives into ‘Hum’ (2020), a sound installation exploring histories of sonic resistance.