jessica gabriel is a multidisciplinary artist, puppeteer, life model, permaculturalist, poet, clown…tay_ploops is an (un)sound sea grit sighed project: an ongooing exp(lore)ation of lo_fyi sketches from handheld casse-tête tape reek or dings.
Read MoreI am a researcher, writer and educator working on sonic communication and geography. Concentrating on shifts in economic and political landscapes, I investigate how these shifts are translated in the sounds that we hear, how we are affected by them, and how we listen and respond. My work is concerned with the ways that sound and communication are shaped by, and shape, our relations to one another, to the architectures and infrastructures around us, to our larger atmospheres and ecologies, and to the forces of power and governance that we experience and intervene in
Read MorePolly Stanton is an audio-visual artist and researcher. Her practice primarily explores listening as a means to navigate and map location and investigate the unseen aspects of place. Occupying the intersection of field recording, sound design, cinema and observational documentary, her work considers how sound can expand our experience of visual comprehension.
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 MoreAshley Shomo is an experimental vocalist who creates unbound compositions with syllables, words, breath and other diverse voice-centric techniques. Cyclopsycho has been Ashley’s primary experiment since 2004. Here, she weaves and manipulates layers of voice, poetry and visual body art to summon adventures into the wild.
Read MoreJenny Gräf (US/DK) is a sound, video and performance artist who explores peripheral places and states through composition, improvisation and participatory works. In Gräf’s music and art she invokes immersion and rupture to explore changing perceptions of diegesis and space, formal choices rooted in a deep interest in social roles and behavior.
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 MoreKatie McMurran is a sound engineer with over ten years experience recording and mixing for public radio and broadcast. She uses field recordings to create music and soundscapes for radio art pieces that explore internal dialogues and contemplations.
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 MoreRiz Maslen, who records as Neotropic and Small Fish With Spine, has been described as one of the most prominent women composers working in post-techno experimental electronics. In addition to her warm electronic programming, Maslen’s music also embraces folk, psychedelic pop and her interest in experimental filmmaking.
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 MoreRuxandra Guidi is an audio storyteller and journalist interested in people and their worlds, especially those coming from Latin America. She’s one half of Fonografia Collective and one fifth of Homelands Productions.
Read MoreVJ DECOY a.k.a Dhanya Pilo, is a Mumbai based Filmmaker and visual jockey who specializes in giving her audience a spectacular visual experience while intriguing their thought process or simply taking them through a fantasy visual journey.
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 MoreChra is the alter ego of Viennese author, DJ, music addict and radio/TV presenter Christina Nemec. After a period experimenting with low frequencies and noise effects, using sinewaves processed through a tape recorder and other analogue and digital tools to allude to landscapes, territories, silence and extraordinary and extreme situations.
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 MoreDominika Ksel is an interdisciplinary artist, psychonaut and investigator of invisible landscapes living in Brooklyn. The work is an ecosystem that gently deconstructs power and materiality while exploring the interstices of consciousness, history, gender & sexual politics, science and sound.
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 MoreBorn and raised in Singapore. Reiki was a vinyl-collector who stumbled upon hard hops and the nu-skool breaks at the tail-end of the 90s. Music curation aside, her production and remixes has gained notable attention with her work featured in different corners of the world.
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 MoreYoujin is a Seoul-based sound artist, composer and performer. Recently, she is interested in exploring the possibilities of sound that exist in every material and focused on sound itself. And she expands the range of sound studies into ambisonics and designing sound instruments.
Read MoreRosie Langabeer is an award winning composer/performer from Aotearoa New Zealand. Her expertise is in developing ensemble musical performance for experimental theatrical settings.
Read MoreI’m a singer who combines beats with performance art and collaborates with producers from around the world. I am a classically trained violinist and also play cello and bass, which I layer to create neoclassical soundtracks for film and modern dance companies.
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 MoreCat Jones is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and curator. Her artworks are realised in diverse forms and include performance, audio, video, photography, immersive and site-specific experiences, visual-tactile illusion and olfaction.
Read MoreAMY_cin a New Zealand musician with a love of dark ambient, industrial, noisy and glitchy music. She works with all manner of electronics, control voltages, midi and pedals.
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 MoreScarlett Di Maio is the executive producer of FBi Radio’s multi-award winning experimental program Ears Have Ears: Unexplored Territories in Sound and the Communications Manager at...
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 MoreSonya’s practice is based around the presentation of exploratory vocal music; from improvisation to pre-composed vocal works spanning centuries, genres and cultural contexts. She utilises a vast range of techniques to highlight the fullest capabilities of the voice, with a particular interest in its capacity to express the inexpressible.
Read MorePulling Out the Light is a dark ambient music project of Briana Jones. Using modular analog synth and loop pedals to create a moody yet lush soundscape. Websites:...
Read Morei am a lo-fi, experimental expressionist; a vocalist and minimal instrumentalist focusing on techniques of improvisation, simplicity, and repetition. i create best when i feel possessed : by my sub-conscious and other muses, but also by my desire to see what is lurking beneath my own layers. i write to create characters, ethereal and haunting experiences, and stories, real and unreal.
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 MoreJannah Quill is a sound and visual artist based in Sydney. Her artworks carve soundscapes through the amplification of everyday technologies. Discarded LCD screens, projectors and consumer...
Read MoreBrilligh is the solo project from Meagan Angus, violinist and vocalist for Thunder Grey Pilgrim. Blending percussion, strings, vocals, loops and the natural chaos of the moment, Brilligh...
Read MoreTerrine is a french solo punk/industrial. Kind of child full of energy and making fun about ‘rock rude boys’, she shows a certain shade of noise around industrial 80’s...
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 MoreJodi Rose is an artist, writer, producer, and creator of Singing Bridges, an urban sonic sculpture playing the cables of bridges as musical instruments on a global scale. Originally from Sydney, Rose travelled from Helsinki to Vietnam, New York to Singapore and Berlin in her quest for bridge music.
Read MoreFrances Dyson is Emeritus Professor of Cinema and Technocultural Studies at the University of California, Davis, and Visiting Professorial Fellow at the National Institute for Experimental Arts, University of New South Wales.
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 MoreSol Rezza (7/4/1982 Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a sound designer and radio producer specialized in radio art, recording, field recording, sound design for media, post-production and audio mixing.
Her compositions are based on the transformation of field recordings and composition using virtual instruments, indigenous instruments, experimentation with voices and foley
Nat 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 MoreMidori Hirano is a Japanese musician, composer, sound artist and producer, born in Kyoto and now based in Berlin, whose work stems across a diverse range of genres and cultures. At the age...
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 MoreLouise Devenish is a percussionist whose practice incorporates performance, commissioning, curating, research and education. Her work with contemporary, world and interdisciplinary ensembles includes co-directing percussion duo The Sound Collectors, directing Piñata Percussion, percussing for electro-acoustic sextet Decibel and curating the annual Day of Percussion.
Read MoreThe Sound Collectors are Louise Devenish (WA) and Leah Scholes (VIC). Formed in 2012 to create a platform to explore our shared interest in percussion theatre, The Sound Collectors delight in music that explores the use of text, gesture and physicality with percussion.
Read MoreNo me siento cómoda con definirme como improvisadora, ni como compositora, ni como intérprete. Ninguna de esas palabras, que para mi entender siguen tendiendo a tener significados taxativos en el lenguaje cotidiano, describe mi trabajo con la música ni cómo me siento con ella. ¿Qué soy? ¿Quién soy? Soy Alma Laprida, e invento mis propios métodos para hacer las cosas.
Read MoreCada vez me seduce más el estado hipnótico que tiene el proceso de composición. Es como un viaje, físico y espiritual. Lo interesante –y complejo a la vez- es que, por lo general, no tiene un destino claro. Sin embargo, lo primero e invariable es delinear algún aspecto fundamental del universo de la obra, algo que me empuje, algo que decir.
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 MoreMi experiencia con la música comenzó a muy temprana edad, casi apenas después de aprender a hablar, escuchando a mi madre cantar y tocar la guitarra en casa. Siempre tuve fascinación por las canciones folklóricas, de diferentes partes del mundo: Sudamérica, África, el blues y los spirituals, Japón y China, por la sencillez y pureza de las melodías y la variedad de ritmos.
Read MoreLa creación como extracción de la mielina hacia el mundo exterior. Teniendo en cuenta que mi inspiración viene del cosmos, podría decirse que la gravedad afecta seriamente mis sentidos.
Read MoreMe gusta cuando la música hace intercambio directo con la vida. En el último tiempo me empezó a interesar la composición desde ciertos fenómenos acústicos, así como también el trabajo con el sonido desde algún tipo de plasticidad: estirar, cortar, aplastar y modelar.
Read MoreSlow Monotone Image Projection and Soundscapes / Experimental – Oscillations/sine waves, Tone/Frequency, Field Recordings, Voice, Samples and Loops.
Read MoreAmbrosia is a sound and installation artist from Seattle. Her pieces aim to subdue the listener into a trance, to provoke thought beyond word. Visually, she expresses intentional...
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 MorePia van Gelder is an electronic artist, teacher and curator who has exhibited and performed widely across Australia and internationally. Van Gelder develops performances and installations by working with media machines, both custom built heirloom technologies like the audio-video modular synthesiser, and common electronic devices which are opened up and hacked to perform in ways that negate their use or assumed design.
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 MoreFrance Jobin is a sound / installation / artist, composer, and curator residing in Montreal, whose audio art, qualified as “sound-sculpture”, reveals a minimalist approach to complex sound environments where analog and digital intersect.
Read MoreIris Garrelfs is a London based composer and artist interested in modes of listening as a way of connecting to the world, exploring interrelatedness, patterns and interaction through improvised performances, mixed media projects and recordings.
Read MoreRachel Devorah Trapp is an American composer, sound artist, and improvising hornist. Her context-specific works for performance and installation crystallize in sound the habits of being: the daily patterns of ineffable exchange that bind our individual lives together.
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 MoreSound and radio artist and senior lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University. Magz runs artist group Radio Arts and Expanded Radio Research Group at CCCU and teaches radio production and theory. Her work often considers the artistic potential of radio.
Read MoreRomy Caen is an event organiser, studio manager and musician from Sydney. She plays harmonium in the Splinter Orchestra and electronics with musicians such as Jeremy Tatar and Melanie Herbert.
Read More.rain.noise.chaos.vøid. Websites: http://www.null66913.net/ Tweets by null66913 https://vimeo.com/null66913/videos https://null66913.bandcamp.com/ Currently based:...
Read MoreIt’s no wonder many confuse Anomie and Sofie Loizou for being two completely different producers/DJs, so prolific are both. In music scenes dominated by testosterone and male bravado, Anomie (aka Sofie Loizou) has worked hard to become a serious force to be reckoned with.
Read MoreAs a vocalist working with extended techniques, Alice builds intimate exchanges with her audience. She creates an array of timbres and textures by controlling tension in her throat and alternating the passage of air and vocalisations.
Read MoreFurchick is a prolific DIY noise-art maker who incorporates making things, punk attitude, noise, science and weirdness into her creations. She often focusses on polyrhythms and vocals. She has taken her other sounds from the natural vibrations created from everyday objects.
Read Morestray cat | vessel of infinite veracity | supernatural repository | sister of Ophelia | L’Enfant terrible | wayward | illegitimate bastard child | rock & roll outlaw |
member of the the Church of overblown firefox tabs, her spiritual animal is the Tasmanian devil.
Australian percussionist Vanessa Tomlinson is active in the fields of improvisation, solo percussion, contemporary chamber music, installation and composition. She is particularly well-known for her improvisational language that incorporates sonic investigations of found objects, nature, and toy instruments…
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 MoreKusum Normoyle is an artist and musician working with voice, feedback and noise for both performance and installation. She is currently a PhD candidate at UNSW Art and Design, Sydney, Australia, under the supervision of Douglas Kahn and is an active member of the Sound and Materials Research Group at UNSW Art and Design.
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 MoreCamilla Hannan is an Australian sound artist who works exclusively with field recordings. She processes these recordings into abstract representations of place and experience.
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 MoreCORIN is the solo project of versatile Sydney pianist Corin Ileto (Alaska Orchestra). CORIN’s 20 plus years of training as a classical pianist are melded with her own blend of glitchy, ambient electronica in her independent 2014 release Deluge,
Read MoreMonica Brooks has modeled sound works, compositions, and improvisations from piano, computer, field recordings, glasses, radio, and accordion.
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.
Read MoreKate Carr is an Australian sound artist based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her work explores the way we shape, reshape and are shaped by the natural and built world. From desire paths, de-population, decay and renewal, she’s interested in exploring the lived sonic realities and histories of human places.
Read MoreGail Priest is a Sydney-based artist with a multifaceted practice in which sound is the key material of communication and investigation. Her compositions exist in a liminal zone between song and soundscape. She is the founder of Audible Women.
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