Clio K
Clio K is a French-Greek harp player, improviser and composer. Clio K is playing the harp with a style and a sound of her own, and her compositions and improvisations sublimates the usual aesthetics of the classical Harp.
Read MoreKathleen Yearwood
Kathleen Yearwood is a vocalist, composer and electric guitar player coming out of folk tradition and immersed in musique concrete and noise. She invented a form called “Filth Opera” which expresses the life of the poor in an industrialized world. Her compositions long for a time of peace and look forward to the victory of the natural world.
Read MoreHelen Svoboda
Helen 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
Hassina 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 MoreJo Truman
Jo (Josephine) Truman is a composer/ performer/improviser and sound artist. She has a BA in Communications (UTS – majoring in sound and writing) and an MMus (Composition – Sydney Conservatorium of Music) with her research thesis on extended vocal techniques in New Music. She has received various awards for her work – a Special Purpose Award and an International Study Grant which took her to Europe where she lived for 19 years, performing in many festivals such as the Le Mans Jazz Festival, the Strasbourg Musica Festival, Heineken Jazz Fest…
Read MoreCasey Moir
Casey Moir is an Australian born, Swedish based vocal-artist, improviser, and composer. Intrigued by unconventional sounds and extended techniques, the investigation into the rich sound spectrum of the voice is an integral part of her artistic practice and endeavours.
Read MoreDenitsa Mineva
Denitsa Mineva is a Berlin based acoustic music artist. She works in the fields of free improvisation, experimental music, avantgarde, real-time composition, Echtzeitmusik, instant composition, sound art & design. She plays violin, piano, cello and objects.
Read MoreFulya Uçanok
Fulya 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
Mareike 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
Sarah 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
Cynthia 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 MorePatricia Dallio
Trained 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 MoreKhabat Abas
Khabat Abas is an experimental cellist and improviser from Kurdistan Iraq. Her work based on sound research, beginning with the acoustic cello, prepared cello and recently with adapted cello; all this is a creation of a place full of fissures and hidden corners, as an environment that was shattered by conflict.
Read MoreChloë Sobek
Chloë 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 MoreMaureen Wolloshin
Maureen Wolloshin is an oboist, improviser, researcher and composer. She is interested in the relationship between sound, colour, touch and improvisation. Maureen combines watercolour graphic score making with practices derived from Scottish and Arabic music.
Read MoreLisa Rae Bartolomei
Lisa 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 MoreNiki Matita
Niki Matita is a record entertainer, selectress, experimental sound artist, improviser, performer, researcher, radio artist & presenter, activist and moderator. She works and lives in Berlin. Her sonic work is based on research-inspired notes and texts, voice experiments, plunderphonics and own compositions.
Read MoreSoizic Lebrat
Soizic Lebrat is a French cellist, composer, improviser, performer and music researcher (research-creation, cultural history). Engaged in an experimental approach in music, she conducts creation and research projects. She is a regular on several international improvised music scenes.
Read MoreDafna Naphtali
Sound-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 MoreTansy Spinks
Artist, photographer, performer, sound and video maker, Tansy Spinks is currently researching ways of listening, materiality in sound-making and site-specific sound as a live, performative practice. She received her PhD from LCC, (CRiSAP), University Of the Arts, London with David Toop, Angus Carlyle and Cathy Lane.
Read MoreDalbergia Duo
Dalbergia Duo (Anna Rutkowska & Julianna Siedler Smuga) is a unique female marimba/percussion duo from Poland, performing various music written for two marimbas/percussion sets. We perform pieces already written by great composers of classical, film and contemporary music. Moreover we cooperate with composers form around the globe who also write pieces for our duo.
Read MoreTaana Rose
Taana 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 MoreDei Xhrist
A multi disciplinary artist using voice to reconstruct language by rearranging its sounds, patterns, and rhythms in to almost-familiar audio vignettes. Language is featured strongly in performances, writings, and sculptures that examine phrase and word meanings on several levels.
Read MoreGretchen Jude
Born 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 MoreMariana Carvalho
Mariana Carvalho is a brazilian pianist, improviser and performer, keen on body, gender and transdisciplinarities. Experiments objects inside the piano and explores corporealities via eutony. Interested in weaving sonic relations in space, installations, expanded sonic bodies, free improvisation, experimental music, theatre, dance.
Read Morecrys cole
crys 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 MoreErica Bramham
Erica Bramham is a vocalist, guitarist and composer from Melbourne, Australia. Poetic, inventive and uniquely personal, her work crosses the boundaries between jazz, traditional folk and experimental art music, showcasing her finesse as a lyricist and a captivating performance style that blends song with spoken word, improvisation and extended vocal technique.
Read MoreKaren Power
Irish 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 MoreSarah Peebles
Sarah Peebles is a Toronto-based installation artist, music improvisor and composer. Much of her work explores distinct approaches to performing the Japanese mouth-organ, shō (笙) , unconventional methods of amplification, and digitally manipulated found sound.
Read MoreKatrine Amsler
Danish 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
Julie 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 MoreKristina Warren
Kristina 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
Laura 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
Diana 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 MoreIvonne Paredes
Composer. 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 MoreLuciana Bass
Luciana Bass is a guitarist who graduated in sound arts & design at the university of the arts london. She is interested in sound exploration and experimentation and her preferred choice is, normally, the electric guitar.
Read MoreJenny Ruth Barnes
Jenny Ruth Barnes has a bachelor of music and a masters in applied linguistics and works in english language learning with refugee and migrant communities in Melbourne.
Read MoreRenée Baker
Renée Baker is a composer and improviser, conductor and musician coordinator from Chicago. She works at the forefront of creative and avant-garde music combining the traditions of classical and improvisation. She is a member of the A.A.C.M.
Read MoreClara de Asís
Clara 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 MoreMariela Arzadun (florconvenas)
Mariela Arzadun is an improviser, experimental musician and visual artist from Buenos Aires who focuses on field recordings, soundscapes, drones, poetry, collage and concrete music. She runs the Amor Loco netlabel and comprises half of the free improvisation duo, Criadero en Seres, both with Leandro Ramírez.
Read MoreJudy Dunaway
Judy Dunaway is an avant-garde composer, free improvisor, conceptual sound artist, transmission artist and creator of sound installations who is primarily known for her sound works for latex balloons. Since 1990 she has created over forty works for balloons as sound conduits and has also made this her main instrument for improvisation.
Read MoreSilvia Rosani
Based 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 MoreEki Shola
Eki Shola is a musical healer, composing music that allows listeners to relax and ease the daily stressors of life. As a physician, she has witnessed how the physical and emotional manifestations of stress and spiritual disconnection can adversely impact the ability to live an enriched and fulfilled life.
Read MoreHanan Hadžajlić
Hanan 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 MoreSylvia Hinz
Praised 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 MoreSIRENS
SIRENS is a duo that uses electronic manipulation and looping to create live improvisations. More than soundscapes, these are songs composed and performed in the same moment. Both vocalists, percussionists, and instrumentalists this duo continues to develop their sound but focus on creating honest, simple, emotive music.
Read Morejessica gabriel (tay_ploops)
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 MoreManja Ristic
Born 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 MoreJenny Graf Sheppard
Jenny 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
isabel nogueira is a composer-performer-researcher that uses voice, synths, field recordings and electronic devices to make experimental music, noise and sound art.
Read MoreJodi Moore (EchoZilla)
EchoZilla 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
Maria 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 MoreEmily Bennett
I 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 MoreZahra Mani
I 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 MoreDominika Ksel
Dominika 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 MoreKristin Bolstad
Kristin 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 MoreRosie Langabeer
Rosie Langabeer is an award winning composer/performer from Aotearoa New Zealand. Her expertise is in developing ensemble musical performance for experimental theatrical settings.
Read MoreLílian Campesato
Lilian 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 MorePatricia Martinez
Patricia 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
Alexandra 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 MoreSonya Holowell
Sonya’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 MoreAmanda Stewart
Amanda 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 MoreBrilligh
Brilligh 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 MoreSally Ann McIntyre / radio cegeste
Sally 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
Rosalind 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 Cárdenas
Alexandra 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
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
Pamela 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
Ana 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 MoreAlma Laprida
No 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 MoreMene Savasta Alsina
Trabajo 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 MoreEves
Slow Monotone Image Projection and Soundscapes / Experimental – Oscillations/sine waves, Tone/Frequency, Field Recordings, Voice, Samples and Loops.
Read MoreAmbrosia Bartosekulva
Ambrosia 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 MoreNicola Morton
Village Spiritual Sounds, Meditating in the analog underground, Disturbing digital drone, Free improvisation – since 2001. Nicola Morton is a sonic kitsune 狐
Read MoreIris Garrelfs
Iris 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
Rachel 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
Stanier 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 MoreRomy Caen
Romy 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 MoreAlice Hui-Sheng Chang
As 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
Furchick 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 MoreVanessa Tomlinson
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 MoreClare Cooper
Cooper 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
Melanie 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
Laura 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 MoreMonica Brooks
Monica Brooks has modeled sound works, compositions, and improvisations from piano, computer, field recordings, glasses, radio, and accordion.
Read MoreGail Priest
Gail 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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