Seed Award 2025 Q&A: Delyth Field

The Seed Award is a targeted package of support, including coaching sessions and a small bursary to enable artists to research and develop a particular project or take the next step in their creative journey. In this Q&A, we speak to Seed Award 2025 winner Delyth Field, a Japanese-Welsh composer whose work spans concert music, film scoring, electronic music, and audiovisual media.

Seed Award 2025 Q&A: Angélica Allen

The Seed Award is a targeted package of support, including coaching sessions and a small bursary to enable artists to research and develop a particular project or take the next step in their creative journey. In this Q&A, we speak to Seed Award 2025 winner Angélica Allen, who crafts dreamy yet danceable experimental pop with her project ‘my midnight heart’.

Seed Award 2025 Q&A: Ailie Ormston

The Seed Award is a targeted package of support, including coaching sessions and a small bursary to enable artists to research and develop a particular project or take the next step in their creative journey. In this Q&A, we speak to Seed Award 2025 winner Ailie Ormston, a composer and musician from Scotland making electronic music and chamber music that experiments with timbral abstraction, temporality, assemblage and improvisation.

Seed Award 2025 Q&A: Amble Skuse

The Seed Award is a targeted package of support, including coaching sessions and a small bursary to enable artists to research and develop a particular project or take the next step in their creative journey. In this Q&A, we speak to Seed Award 2025 winner Amble Skuse, a composer and sound artist who uses disability theory, body sensor technology, spoken word interviews and electronics to create unique sound works. She is interested in the interface between the disabled body and the exterior world, and has explored this through numerous sound walks using her wheelchair.

Seed Award 2025 Q&A: Lisa Meech

The Seed Award is a targeted package of support, including coaching sessions and a small bursary to enable artists to research and develop a particular project or take the next step in their creative journey. In this Q&A, we speak to Seed Award 2025 winner Lisa Meech, a composer, sound-designer, violinist and facilitator based in Glasgow. She enjoys making work which blends field recording, electronically produced textures and live instruments/vocals.

My work experience week by Fionë Ziesche Pacarada

In July, year 12 student Fionë Ziesche Pacarada joined the Sound and Music team for a week-long work experience placement. In her blog, Fionë takes us through her internship day by day, capturing what it’s really like to be part of the Sound and Music team.

Sound and Music and British Council partner to build global bridges through new music collaborations

We are proud to announce a new partnership with the British Council to deliver an international New Music Commissioning Programme: 2025/26, as part of the British Council’s Culture Connects Programme. This creative and cultural exchange initiative will pair three original music creators from the UK with peers from Official Development Assistance (ODA) partner countries to collaboratively compose and share new music that responds to our shared human experience.