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In this Q&A, we speak to In Motion 2026 creator Roxanna Albayati, an Iranian-Iraqi interdisciplinary artist, researcher and music educator. Driven by embodied artistic research, her transcultural practice centres around combining experimental music with multilingual art forms and audio-visuals, where her music merges cross-cultural improvisation with Persian Dastgah and the physicality of performance.

In this Q&A, we speak to In Motion 2026 creator SEAYOOL, a composer and performer, experiments with the ‘expansion of senses’ by traversing between the piri, a traditional Korean instrument, and electronic music. He explores human inner senses by interweaving the piri’s primal expressiveness with digital sounds, transforming breath into electronic waves and classical melodies into experimental rhythms.

In this Q&A, we speak to In Motion 2026 creator Hannah, a Danish Oxford-based composer and multi-instrumentalist. First drawn to music by overwriting cassette tapes of church sermons with a hairdryer and her brother’s asthmatic breathing, her solo show Pigeons in Transit sold out at Offbeat Festival 2024, and Before the Ashes Lose Their Leaves has featured at Radiophrenia and XMTR Fest.

In this Q&A, we speak to In Motion 2026 creator Sofia Grant, a rising star on the UK jazz scene, she writes about our relationship with the natural world. Lyrically bold and vocally dextrous, her songs about permafrost, species decline and degradation of mountains place her at the cutting edge of climate and sound. Her record Extinction released on the iconic Jazz re:freshed label has been critically acclaimed, championed by UK giants such as Gilles Peterson, Jamz Supernova, Jamie Cullum on BBC Radio and Jazz FM.

In this Q&A, we speak to In Motion 2026 creator Christo, a composer, installation artist and multi-instrumentalist whose practice sits at the intersection of science, art and performance. Currently, his work translates ideas from particle physics and sensory experience into immersive sonic environments.

In this Q&A, we speak to In Motion 2026 creator Alex Hitchcock, a London-born saxophonist, composer, arranger and producer inspired politically and musically by the radical Black American tradition, reckoning with its history, struggle, resistance and reinvention.

In this Q&A, we speak to In Motion 2026 composer Amy Bryce, a British composer based in London whose imaginative scores produce music that is strikingly visual or theatrical. Notable commissions include BBC Radio 3, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Stiftung Kunst und Musik für Dresden, the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, and the Royal Philharmonic Society.

In this Q&A, we speak to In Motion 2026 composer Belinda Zhawi, a literary & sound artist based in London (UK) & Marseille (FR), author of Small Inheritances (ignitionpress, 2018), and experiments with sound/text performance as MA.MOYO. Her works have been featured on various platforms including NTS, Boiler Room & BBC Radio.

In this Q&A, we speak to In Motion 2026 creator Simmy Singh, a violinist, composer, and Earth activist whose work dissolves the boundaries between classical, folk, electronic, and improvisational sound. Born in Cymru to Indian and English parents, her creative voice is rooted in a deep connection to land, lineage, and the sacred.

In this Q&A, we speak to In Motion 2026 creator Elischa Kaminer, a composer, performer and theatre-maker working on the intersections of music theatre, electronic, concert, queer-pop and yiddish musics. His work has been showcased across Europe, the U.S., Canada and Korea including performances at Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Schauspiel Hannover, Kampnagel Hamburg, Mousonturm Frankfurt, Sophiensäle Berlin, Sungmisan Theatre Seoul and The Music Gallery Toronto.