Rants 2 was a fantastically vigorous event, with strong opinions and nuanced discussion taking place – not to mention book out funding surgeries from Arts Council England! We live tweeted the event with the hashtag composerrants and got a great response, so we published it as a Storify. Check it out to get a sense […]

We want to hear what you want from the Institute of Composing website. Have you got ideas for articles? Recommendations for contributors? Do you want to request particular topics or have something to say about our format? Let’s start a discussion in the comment section below to see what kind of space we should build!

The Institute of Composing has been operating as a space for the discussion of composition and new music for more than a year, with panel discussions, composer academies and ‘Rants’ attended by a wide variety of creators, musicians, critics and many others. We felt it was time to take this community online, to create a […]