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 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 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 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 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 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 MoreElizabeth Joan Kelly
Elizabeth Joan Kelly is a New Orleans-based classical and ambient/industrial electronic music composer. She uses found sounds and MIDI to create lush soundscapes influenced by Zola Jesus, Nine Inch Nails, Portishead, Fever Ray, and The Knife. Kelly’s music, which is primarily instrumental, explores the relationship between technology, industrialization, consumerism, and its effect on society and our natural world.
Read MoreValéria Bonafé
Valéria Bonafé is a Brazilian composer, researcher and music teacher. Her researches and her creative works are marked by issues like the relationship between sonority, space and listening; the notions of image and materiality; the dimensions of memory and experience; the orality and the (auto)biographical space; and the field of feminism.
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 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 MoreAndrée Greenwell
Andrée Greenwell is a composer, vocalist and sound designer who works across mainstream and experimental platforms in performing arts, screen, and radio. Her catalogue of around 100 scores includes credits for Australia’s leading performing arts organisations…
Read MoreKezia Yap
Kezia 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 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 MoreNina Dragičević
Nina 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 MoreGEORGIASWEBB
Composer, cellist and synth coveter, GEORGIASWEBB is a Sydney based musician with an infatuation for complex beats. With her Conservatorium education, she endeavours to apply her music theory knowledge to all things electronic. GEORGIASWEBB is all about using algorithmic processing and intricate immersive development to create otherworldly dreamscapes and music to satisfy your cravings for allure.
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 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 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 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 MoreNatasha Barrett
Natasha 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 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 MoreLeah Barclay
Leah 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 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 MoreJodi Rose
Jodi 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 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 MoreMidori Hirano
Midori 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 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 MoreCecilia Pereyra
Cada 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 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 MoreAgostina Yacosa
Me 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 MoreSofie Loizou / Anomie
It’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 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 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.
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