Mara is a composer and curator based in Eora / Sydney. She plays the viola and collaborates with her laptop to create live performances and recorded pieces for film, dance, and gallery spaces. Informed by interactions and perspectives within environments, her work questions the coexistence and understanding between those who inhabit them
Read MoreHelen Svoboda is a double bassist, vocalist and composer. Her work explores the melodic potential of the contemporary double bass, intricately weaving extended techniques and overtones with vocal tessiture amidst abstract song-writing and vegetable-themed compositions
Read MoreHassina Sakhri is an electroacoustic artist creating visionary soundscapes that are both healing and contemplative, drawing from intuition and the intellect. Her works strike a balance between control and improvisation. Hassina creates sonic art both in stand-alone pieces as well as for meditation.
Read MoreFulya Uçanok is an electroacoustic musician and pianist, composing, performing, and improvising. Her work takes forms of score-based or improvised performance, composition and artistic research. She works with acoustic pianos coupled with a variety of objects (inside-piano technique), electronics and sound recordings.
Read MoreMareike Dobewall is a director, scenographer, musician and composer. She is based in Stockholm since 2016. She studied filmmaking in Berlin, scenography at the Norwegian Theatre Academy and choreography at HZT in Berlin. Her specialisation lies in the creation of spatial sound performances.
Read MoreSarah Buchner is an improviser, experimental vocalist and composer based in Copenhagen. She is working with sonic fragmentation of human expression. She generates her sound through exploring acoustic spheres past common singing techniques, as well as de-contextualizing sounds of daily non-verbal communication.
Read MoreCynthia Zaven is a composer, pianist and artist based in Beirut. Her projects combine a variety of media including video, photography, performance and the use of archive material to explore the relationship between sound, memory and identity through interwoven narratives.
Read MoreTrained as a pianist, Patricia Dallio composes and interprets electronic music for keyboard and sensors. She pushes stylistic boundaries, and experiences include jazz, rock, experimental sonor art and contemporary music. Member of Art Zoyd for 30 years (1979 – 2009), she runs the “sound track” music company.
Read MoreChloë is an artist working in the areas of experimental sound performance, improvisation and early music. Her work draws on the sensate qualities of sound through the subversion and deconstruction of solo instrumental performance.
Read MoreCurrently based in North of the UK, my work often explores the documentation and transformation of materials including sound, text, film and reformatted objects. I am interested in reframing and dismantling narrative, subverting perceived normalities alongside the construction of personal or social behaviours and the inherent patterns of experience.
Read MoreMaria Bergström is a sound artist working with acoustic & electronic instruments and samples to build soundscapes to tell stories with focused presence as the main goal. Working with topics like mental space versus physical space, silence as something relative, and sound pollution, she is driven by creating human openness and sensory stimulation through sound.
Read MoreLisa Rae Bartolomei is a multidisciplinary artist and musician working predominantly in the realm of spatially based electroacoustic music for performance and installation. Her practice incorporates elements of site-specific field recording, spectralism and experimental musical composition. Her art veers between a fragile, melancholic, yet beautiful daydream and a nightmarish vision of Armageddon.
Read MoreGillian Lever is a sound artist and composer working across multichannel sound performance, diffusion and sound installation. Her practice examines the intertwined nature of the relationship between spatial sound, the space it inhabits, and the exploring listener.
Read MoreKlare Lanson is a performance poet and sound artist, investigating digital tensions and mobile entanglement in relation to mediated screen and sound experience, digital parenting, digital ethnography and networked versions of self. Concepts such as listening, digital disruption, and social wellbeing are topics of her creative practice-based PhD research.
Read MoreSadah Espii Proctor (Espii) is a VR director and sound/media designer for theatre and immersive experiences. Named by American Theatre Magazine as one of “6 Theatre Artists to Know” for multimedia storytelling, her work encompasses global stories of women, social issues, and the African Diaspora, often with an Afrofuturist/Cyberpunk lens.
Read MoreSound-artist,electronic musician, singer, guitarist, composer/performer of experimental, contemporary, improvised music with her Max/MSP programming for live-sound-processing. She makes music for robots, interactive sound (and video) art, and “Audio Chandelier” multi-channel sound works.
Read MoreMartina Bertoni is a Berlin based cellist. Classically trained, she skipped classic music to explore different territories of ambient, improvisation, experimental and electronic music. The core of her work is based on rebuilding her identity as a cellist and deconstructing the relationship with her instrument throughout compositional and performing techniques of electronic and ambient music.
Read MoreTaana Rose is a multi instrumentalist singer/songwriter who plays guitar and synthesiser, while performing with a Launchpad using electronic vocal looping. Her latest single Unexpected Love is set to be released on the 9th of March 2019.
Read MoreBorn and raised in the wild state of Idaho (USA), performer and composer Gretchen Jude has been heard across the globe, from Seoul to Helsinki. Gretchen’s work explores the liminal spaces between natural & artificial, tradition & experimentation, self & other, as she wanders the borderlands of contemporary experience. As a composer, she approaches music composition as ‘a channel for the desire to sing’ (to paraphrase Joel Ryan paraphrasing William Forsythe).
Read Morecrys cole is a Canadian sound artist working in composition, improvised performance and sound installation. By generating subtle and imperfect sounds through simple gestures, she creates textural works that continuously retune the ear, delicately seeking to both reveal, and obscure the intricacy of seemingly mundane sounds and sources.
Read MoreIrish composer Karen Power seeks to stimulate, engage and interact with audiences. Her work utilises two primary sources; acoustic instruments and everyday sounds, spaces and soundscapes. Karen’s output is diverse – both in its approach and delivery – and her primary aim is to capture and translate the essence of an idea through any artistic means necessary.
Read MoreDanish composer and keyboard player, best known from her constantly changing and innovative band Television Pickup and as a solo artist under the name Tuba Dynamite. Alongside being a live musician she works as a producer and makes sound design and music for computer games.
Read MoreJulie Herndon is an Oakland-based composer and performer working with internal/external space through song, electronics, text, graphics, and improvisation. Julie is currently pianist and vocalist in H/I Ensemble and a doctoral candidate at Stanford University.
Read MoreKezia Yap is a Sydney-based composer who specialises in acoustic chamber, and mixed music (a medium that combines live acoustic instrumental performance with electronic elements). Her work centres around an exploration of timbre and space, and the way that can be extended through the inclusion of electronics.
Read MoreWith a background in classical performance, Alexis Weaver had no idea that her musical interest would settle in the world of electroacoustic composition. She enjoys fusing her traditional musical education with the ever-expanding area of music technology, having composed soundtracks for animation, short stories, radio, and the Sydney Fringe Festival.
Read MoreKristina Warren (US, UK) is an electroacoustic composer, improviser, and researcher. Her diverse output — including electronic-vocal performance, non-traditionally notated scores, and scholarship on gender in electronic music — imagines the coherence of seemingly disparate processes, such as noise and individualized listening.
Read MoreLaura Mello is a composer and performer who sees voices as persons in sound, as well as language, gestures and field recordings as musical materials. Originally from Brazil and living between Vienna and Berlin, she plays with languages, field recordings and synthesized sounds to make instrumental compositions, performances, experimental music, radio art and sound installations.
Read MoreDiana Policarpo is a visual artist, composer and radio presenter (Rádio Quântica) based in London and Lisbon working in composition, sculpture, improvised performance and sound installation. Her work investigates power relations, popular culture and gender politics, juxtaposing the rhythmic structuring of sound as a tactile material within the social construction of esoteric ideology.
Read MoreKallie Marie has a Masters in Music Production from the Leeds College of Music. She specializes in Music Production and Composition. In addition to her work writing music for Film, TV, and Dance and producing and recording various artists, Kallie also teaches Audio For Multimedia at NYU SPS Center for Applied Liberal Arts, where she is an adjunct faculty member. Kallie is also a regular contributing write at Sonic Scoop.
Read MoreNina Dragičević (b. 1984) started her musical career as a classical violinist. Since 2008 she has been active as a drum’n’bass DJ and a member of the first female DJ collective in Slovenia, Female’s’cream . Since 2013 she has been focusing on creating her own music which she presents exclusively at alternative culture venues, such as Ljubljana’s Škuc Gallery , Kapelica Gallery , Pritličje , Autonomous cultural centre Metelkova , Social centre Rog etc.
Read MoreJudith Shatin composes with digital, electroacoustic, multimedia and expanded acoustic technologies. Founder of the Virginia Center for Computer Music, she has created music from recordings of wooden looms (Penelope’s Song), all kinds of tape (Tape Music), of a sculptor at work (Tree Music), sounds of a working coal mine (COAL, a folk oratorio).
Read MoreComposer. Percussionist. Paredes was born and raised in Lima, Peru. In search of a better education, she relocated to the United States at the age of 17, and settled in Florida. As a college student, she enrolled in music classes and began taking lessons from renowned percussionist Mike Davis. In 2008, Paredes transferred to Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, where she continued her studies as part of the Rollins Percussion ensemble led by Beth Gottlieb, and as a student in Gottlieb’s masterclasses.
Read MoreMusician and Mathematician, she combines her artistic activity with teaching Mathematics, creative programming and research.
Read MoreClara de Asís is a Spanish composer and guitarist based in France. She develops an approach to sound that highlights simplicity, non-intervention and active listening as means of music making. Her works display an extreme precision and intuitive openness, both distinctive of Clara de Asís manner, that involves a dedicated attention to sound on its details and its most pure forms.
Read MoreBased on the sound analysis of human and non-human voices, Silvia Rosani’s music strives to promote the recognition of her audience in the other. Silvia writes for acoustic instruments but also works and performs with electronics.
Read MoreHanan Hadžajlić is flutist, composer, music analyst and transdisciplinary art researcher from Bosnia and Herzegovina / Slovenia. As composer, she works in fields of “meccanical music” for acoustic instruments/ensembles, music theatre and real time electroacoustic composition. She is member of ensemble SONEMUS.
Read MoreSky High Diamonds is the musical outlet of Sarah Gatter who defines herself as an experimental DIY sound poet. Inspired by a combination of acoustic sounds, electronic sources, pre recorded and spontaneous sounds, Sarah also develops homemade percussion to explore space and rhythm.
Read MorePraised for her equally fierce and bold dramatic performance style, Sylvia Hinz is one of the leading recorder players worldwide, specialised in contemporary music and improvisation.
Read MoreFrench self-taught multi-instrumentalist, I mainly use alternatively tuned guitars synchronized with Kaoss Pads and EBows to create Experimental Sound landscapes. Inspired by many various genres (Electro-Acoustic, Ambient, Sound Art, Noise, Drone, Post-Rock, Electro, …) and pioneers like Brian Eno, Suzanne Ciani, Pierre Boulez, my aim is to deflect and bring harmonies and disharmonies normally used on acoustic instruments towards electric-modified ones.
Read MoreBorn in Belgrade 1979. violinist, sound artists, curator and researcher mostly active in the field of electro-acoustics, instrumental improv & experimental sound related arts. Graduated at the Belgrade Music Academy, then gained PGDip at the RCM, London. In the past years focused on developing own notation system (Violin Revealed, Alternative Guide to Violin’s Sonic Life) integrating intuitive graphics with microtonal instrumental approaches as well as development of cognitive memory in conceptual AV performance.
Read Moreisabel nogueira is a composer-performer-researcher that uses voice, synths, field recordings and electronic devices to make experimental music, noise and sound art.
Read MoreClodagh has been in an on/off relationship with The Music Business since 1968 when she released her first single “Feelin’ High” at the age of 15, with the band she formed at school, Mellow Candle. While still in her teens, she did sessions for Thin Lizzy, Mike Oldfield, and Jade Warrior.
Read MoreEchoZilla is a new sonic art project lead by multi-instrumentalist and electronics tinkerer Jodi Moore. We play spontaneous instrumental soundtracks for the films of the imagination.
Read MoreMaria Moles is a drummer/producer/educator based in Melbourne, Australia. Since completing a Bachelor of Music Performance (Improvisation) from the Victorian College of Arts in 2013, Maria has dedicated her time to performing experimental improvised music and playing with Melbourne art rock band ‘Jaala’.
Read MoreI am an improvising and experimental vocalist that works with synthesized and site-specific sounds. I have collaborated with choreographers, theatre makers), journalists, young people and more recently, constructed works for live music performance that fuse sound design and composed work with future directions in real-time improvisation.
Read MoreMarie e le Rose is a sound artist and a musician. She has done releases with many labels (No Problema Tapes, Time Released Sound, Laverna, Zamzam Records, Chemical Tapes,..) with many monikers referring to many concepts (Marie e le Rose, Moon Ra, MonoLogue).
Read MoreI am a musician, composer, sound and radio artist. I play a number of instruments, including double bass, guitars, and the piano. I use my field recording archive to create organic electro-acoustic soundscapes for my compositions and performances.
Read MoreSophia Loizou is a music producer, author and AV artist working at the intersection of contemporary electronic music, speculative fiction and the ecological. Central to her practice is an ongoing investigation of sonic fiction as a generative, theory-making device that operates from within sound.
Read MoreHappy Axe uses violin, musical saw and vocals to create layers of sound that are beautiful, unsettling and cinematic. Organic instrumental sounds are melded with digital manipulation, looping and effecting, and sounds are generated live.
Read MoreAstrid Zeman is a vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist (guitar, trombone, piano) who creates live, ambient soundscapes using a loop pedal. Through recent explorations of her physical self as an instrument, she has learnt throat and harmonic singing alongside body percussion and mouth manipulations including tongue clicking.
Read MoreKristin Bolstad is a Norwegian composer, improviser, singer and electro-acoustic musician. Her works are often conceptual and with an improvisational and playful character, composed more from a practical than theoretical point of view.
Read MoreNatasha Barrett (UK / Norway) is a composer, performer and researcher in the field of contemporary electroacoustic music and sound-art. Her works encompass instrumental and electroacoustic concert composition as well as more diverse forms such as sound-architectural installations and public interactive art.
Read MoreJulia Drouhin is a French artist and curator living in the bush of Tasmania. She often mixes sound, food and fashion during collective mini-FM or online performances in Europe and Australia. She creates radioscapes, installations and performances from field recordings and found objects.
Read MoreLilian Campesato is a Brazilian performer, researcher and curator interested in investigating experimental forms of music and sound art. Her works explore the use of voice and gesture in combination with interactive electronics and audiovisual resources.
Read MoreCecilia Lopez is a composer, artist and musician from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her work explores the boundaries between composition and improvisation, as well as the resonance properties of diverse materials through the creation and performance of non-conventional sound devices.
Read MorePatricia Martinez (Argentina) is composer, improviser, pianist, interdisciplinary artist, researcher and professor. Her works has emerged, in part, from an experimental process of ‘stripping-down,’ which involves a degree of risk-taking, in that the resulting piece is left somewhat vulnerable in terms of its expressive identity.
Read MoreAlexandra Spence is a sound artist and clarinettist from Sydney, Australia, currently based in Vancouver, Canada. She works within the fields of improvised music, electroacoustic composition and multimedia installation. Alex is interested in the relationship between humans and their sonic environments, in the connection between sound and its context, and its relationship to experience, feeling, memory and place.
Read MoreLeah Barclay is an Australian interdisciplinary artist, creative producer, composer and researcher who specialises in electroacoustic music, sound art and acoustic ecology. Her work has been commissioned, performed and exhibited to wide acclaim across Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA, Europe, India, South Africa, China and Korea. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and has directed and curated interdisciplinary projects across the Asia-Pacific.
Read MoreBronwen Williams is a trans-disciplinary artist working with sound as a material to interrogate the nuances of cross-cultural living. Bronwen’s sound work uses psycho-acoustic phenomena and the sonic experience of oscillation and vibration to investigate an experience of cultural hybridity that is underpinned by a state of perpetual flux and tension. Employing a range of minimalist sound art tropes, her work offers an embodied listening experience that speaks to her contemporary cross-cultural reality.
Read MoreAmanda Stewart is a poet, author and composer/performer for voice. She has created a diverse range of publications and performances in Australia, Europe, the US and Japan working in literature, music, sound poetry, broadcasting, theatre, film, dance and new media environments. Within new music and sound art, Stewart has developed a unique approach to composition, improvisation and extended vocal technique where she incorporates her own philosophical, linguistic and poetic formulations/constructions (and abstractions) within music, body and voice.
Read MoreSally Ann McIntyre was born in Hobart, and currently resides in Dunedin. Her creative practice is highly responsive to place, and includes sound art, the creative use of radio, and the the use of field recordings, as well as a concurrent practice in poetry and associated forms of writing.
Read MoreRosalind Hall is an Australian musician and composer who creates performances, compositions, installations and soundtracks. Rosalind’s spatial and expansive work explores the physicality of sound through the use of amplification, microtonal movement, beating frequencies and reverberation.
Read MoreAlexandra Cardenas (born 1976) is a Columbian composer and improviser now based in Berlin, who has followed a path from Western classical composition to improvisation and live electronics. Her recent work has included Live coding performance, including performances at the forefront of the Algorave scene, and she was instrumental in the development of the Live Coding scene in Mexico City.
Read MoreNat Grant is a percussionist, sound artist, composer and teacher from Melbourne, Australia. She works predominantly as a freelance artist and has been employed as a composer and performer in the fields of puppetry, theatre, film, animation, and dance.
Read MorePamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist working with voice, live electronic processing, sampled sound, and video. A pioneer of live looping techniques, she creates works combining extended vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, processing, and gesture-activated MIDI controllers.
Read MoreAna María Romano Gómez. Compositora y artista sonora colombiana. Su interés por la exploración sonora la ha llevado por territorios en los que sonidos y silencios se encuentran con movimientos, lugares, imágenes, materias; con cuerpos, objetos y espacios sonantes y silentes. Le gusta crear en colaboración y le apasiona indagar y transitar por terrenos desconocidos o ajenos.
Read MoreDr. Donna Hewitt is a performer, vocalist, electronic music composer and instrument designer. Her primary interest in recent years has been exploring gesture in mediatized performance environments and new ways of interfacing the voice with electronic media. She is the inventor of the eMic, a sensor enhanced microphone stand for electronic music performance which she has been developing and performing works with both locally and internationally for the past 11 years.
Read MoreTrabajo con el sonido de muy diversas formas. Compongo canciones y piezas electroacústicas, pero también soy improvisadora. Además hago instalaciones en las que distribuyo parlantes en un espacio. Suelo trabajar con otros artistas, también performeando y organizando performances.
Read MoreJessica Ekomane was born in France. She now lives and works in Berlin.
Her practice unfolds around sound installations, site-specific sound interventions and music. Her work has been shown at CTM 2013, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Shangai Electronic Music Week or Ars Electronica.
Read MoreJasmine Guffond is a sound artist and composer from Sydney, Australia, living and working in Berlin, Germany. She has performed live internationally, exhibited sound installations and recorded music for CD and 12inch vinyl releases with the Sigma Editions, Staubgold, Monika Enterprise and Sonic Pieces labels.
Read MoreVillage Spiritual Sounds, Meditating in the analog underground, Disturbing digital drone, Free improvisation – since 2001. Nicola Morton is a sonic kitsune 狐
Read MoreStanier Black-Five is the ex-UK and now New Zealand-based sound artist and writer, Jo Burzynska. Her audio work is largely based on the manipulation of her own environmental recordings, which she uses to create dense soundscapes that use sources such as the pounding rhythms of trains to more recently, the sounds of the earthquakes that have shaken her home city.
Read MoreCooper is a designer, harpist, organiser, teacher and mum. She’s ferocious with strings and sticks, her sound inspired by synthesizers and broken boom boxes. She plays the chinese guzheng and pedal harp – more often than not with drumsticks and violin bows – snapping, crackling, popping and stabbing. Her investigations into context and how it can energise a performance have led her to map spaces and construct situations.
Read MoreMelanie Herbert is a Sydney-based composer, performer and installation artist. She performs in 8-piece laptop orchestra Electronic Resonance Korps, as well as large-scale improvising ensemble, Splinter Orchestra. As resident sound artist for Earthcrosser Company, Melanie has been involved in self-devised theatre works such as Room which was showcased at PACT theatre in May 2014.
Read MoreLaura Altman is a clarinetist, improviser and composer, born and based in Sydney. She has been an important young voice on the Sydney improvised music scene since 2007, playing with groups such as The Splinter Orchestra and Prophets, and collaborating with Australian improvisers including Jim Denley, Dale Gorfinkel, Monica Brooks and Peter Farrar. Laura has toured Australia and Europe with a range of projects including the internationally renowned trio ‘Great Waitress’, featuring Brooks on accordion and Berlin-based pianist Magda Mayas.
Read MoreCat Hope is an accomplished Perth based musician, composer, songwriter, sound and performance artist whose practice is an interdisciplinary one that crosses over into film, video, performance and installation. Her work has taken her on numerous tours around Australia, the USA, Japan and Europe. Her recordings are distributed and published worldwide, and she has written soundscapes for dance and theatre companies as well as commissions for film and pure music works.
Read MoreMichaela is a cross-disciplinary artist working with installation, sculpture, sound, performance and video. A doctor of psychology, her practice is informed by an interest in the role of psychological and physical agency in creative processes and performance.
Read MoreThembi Soddell (b.1980) is an Australian sound artist, electroacoustic composer and practice-led researcher with an interest in psychology, perception, extreme emotion and the subjectivity of experience.
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