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 MoreMara Schwerdtfeger
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
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 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 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 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 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 MoreAnna Whitaker
Anna Whitaker is a Brisbane based sound designer, composer and audio engineer with a palate for experimental, acousmatic works and surround sound composition. She graduated from Queensland Conservatorium of Music with a Bachelor of Music Technology, and since has designed and composed for productions including Festival 2018, Bleach* Festival, La Boite Theatre Company, tasdance, Brisbane Festival, MELT Festival, and The Farm.
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 MoreMartina Bertoni
Martina 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 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 MoreMuseleon
After 19 years as an electronic musician under another guise, I finally decided to create a project which allows me to break away from some of the conventions that I have used elsewhere. I use a range of field recordings, found sounds and hardware with minimal processing…
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 MoreMuzikačaka (Sara Korošec)
Muzikačaka is one-woman band that does not consider herself inside one specific genre. What is important inside her music, it is the concept. Music was waiting many years for realisation and then first album arose in 2015 in Winter in Haloze, between the frying of a baker’s oven, chopping wood and in virtual and social isolation.
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 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 MoreZłe Oko // Evil Eye 23
A Hydra-headed project (with heads from the UK and Poland) made by a self- taught Polish woman based in Oslo/Norway. It is an imperfect, chaotic, DIY, darkpunk project with noise and industrial/ambient influences. Instruments used are noise machines, bass guitar, vocals. Industrial collages are an illustration to the music.
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 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 MoreThe Woman With No Head
French 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 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 MoreMarie Rose aka Marie e le Rose / MonoLogue / Moon RA
Marie 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 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 MoreHappy Axe
Happy 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
Astrid 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 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 Morelewtrakimou (lauren e walker)
i 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 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 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 MoreLouise Devenish
Louise 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
The 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 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 MoreOctavia Romano
Mi 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 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 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 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 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 MoreCat Hope
Cat 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 Davies
Michaela 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
CORIN 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
Monica Brooks has modeled sound works, compositions, and improvisations from piano, computer, field recordings, glasses, radio, and accordion.
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